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Cleveland Cavaliers (20-12) @ Los Angeles Lakers (18-17)

Staples Center (Los Angeles)


Date: Thursday, January 12th
Time: 7:30 pm

Television:

TNT

Radio:

Xtra Sports 570 ESPN 1330

Probable Starters:

E. Snow D. Jones L. James D. Gooden Z. Ilgauskas


S. Parker K. Bryant L. Odom K. Brown C. Mihm

Key Reserves:
Los Angeles Lakers

Brian Cook
Devean George
Luke Walton
Sasha Vujacic

Cleveland Cavaliers

Donyell Marshall
Mike Wilks
Ira Newble
Alan Henderson

Team Leaders:
<table border=3 bordercolor="#9932CC" width=100% ><tr align=center><td>Lakers</font></td><td> </font></td><td>Cavs</font></td></tr><tr align=center><td>Kobe Bryant 34.3</td><td>PPG</td><td>LeBron James 30.8</td></tr><tr align=center><td>Lamar Odom 9.4</td><td>RPG</td><td>Drew Gooden 8.8</td></tr><tr align=center><td>Lamar Odom 5.4</td><td>APG</td><td>LeBron James 5.8</td></tr><tr align=center><td>Smush Parker 1.7</td><td>SPG</td><td>LeBron James 1.7</td></tr><tr align=center><td>Chris Mihm 1.3</td><td>BPG</td><td>Zydrunas Ilgauskas 1.8</td></tr><tr align=center><td>Brian Cook .528</td><td>FG%</td><td>Drew Gooden .527</td></tr><tr align=center><td>Brian Cook .462</td><td>3PT%</td><td>Sasha Pavlovic .500</td></tr><tr align=center><td>Sasha Vujacic .952</td><td>FT%</td><td>Zydrunas Ilgauskas .853</td></tr></table>

Season Standings:
Pacific Division
<table border=3 bordercolor="#0000ff" width=100% ><tr align=center><td>Team</td><td>Record</td><td>Game(s) Back</td><tr align=center><td>Phoenix Suns</td><td>22-12</td><td>--</td><tr align=center><td>Los Angeles Clippers</td><td>18-14</td><td>3.0</td><tr align=center><td>Los Angeles Lakers</td><td>18-17</td><td>5.0</td><tr align=center><td>Golden State Warriors</td><td>17-17</td><td>5.0</td><tr align=center><td>Sacramento Kings</td><td>14-20</td><td>8.0</td></table>

Western Conference
<table border=3 bordercolor="#0000ff" width=100% ><tr align=center><td>Team</td><td>Record</td><td>Game(s) Back</td><tr align=center><td>1. San Antonio Spurs</td><td>27-8</td><td>--</td><tr align=center><td>2. Phoenix Suns</td><td>22-12</td><td>4.5</td><tr align=center><td>3. Utah Jazz</td><td>19-17</td><td>8.5</td><tr align=center><td>4. Dallas Mavericks</td><td>26-10</td><td>1.5</td><tr align=center><td>5. Memphis Grizzlies</td><td>22-11</td><td>4.0</td><tr align=center><td>6. Los Angeles Clippers</td><td>18-14</td><td>7.5</td><tr align=center><td>7. Los Angeles Lakers</td><td>18-17</td><td>9.0</td><tr align=center><td>8. Denver Nuggets</td><td>18-18</td><td>9.5</td><tr align=center><td>9. Golden State Warriors</td><td>17-17</td><td>9.5</td><tr align=center><td>10. Minnesota Timberwolves</td><td>16-17</td><td>10.0</td></table>

CAVALIERS INSIDER
Stars set to align in Los Angeles
Thursday, January 12, 2006
Burt Graeff
Plain Dealer Reporter



Two of the NBA's bright young stars will trade shots tonight in Los Angeles when the Cavaliers face the Lakers at the Staples Center.

The Cavaliers' LeBron James, 21, and the Lakers' Kobe Bryant, 27, figure to dazzle courtside ticket holders with acrobatic moves to the basket and fallaway jumpers.

Bryant took a string of four straight 45-point or more games into Portland on Wednesday night, where the Lakers faced the Trail Blazers. The last player to score 45 or more in four straight games was Wilt Chamberlain, who did it during the 1964-65 season.

"We're just going to try to contain [Bryant] in some way," Cavaliers coach Mike Brown said, "and hope he doesn't go for 50 or 60 [points].

"Opposing teams are doubling, sometime tripling him, but he's got that killer instinct thing going right now.

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Quote of the Night:
"When you have guards like Dixon and Blake basically having career nights, that really sets you on edge as a team. That's not the thrust of their scoring. We didn't come out with the intent to play defense tonight."
- 1/12: Phil after POR loss

Cavs Forum Game Thread
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PauloCatarino

Tough, tough game.

I don't think the Lakers have much of a chance...




EDIT: On the other hand, just went and spent all my vcash bucks on a Laker win.

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Pioneer10

LOL I'd be very very surprised if the Cavs win this one.

Hughes was basically the glue that kept our offense together w/o him we lose our best perimeter defender and more importantly another guy who can create his shot. With D. Jones starting there is no movement and the Cavs basically sit and pray Lebron does something really great or passes to the guys on the outside. Pretty easy to defend: keep Brown on Z, have Mihm always double Lebron when he gets the ball. Snow definitely can't create offense so as long as Brown can do a decent job on Z the Lakers should hold the scoring down

On D there is no way in hell that D. Jones can guard Kobe so Snow will be on Kobe: Parker should have a good game because of this. WHile Snow remains still a decent defender (lousy offense aside) he doesn't have the length or hops to prevent Bryant scoring from over him. Newble can come in but again he really has no offensive abilities what so ever so the offense will struggle even if he does a half way decent job on D

With Hughes and a healthy Anderson, I would have said we probably would have won this one. With Anderson just getting back and Hughes out, this would be a bad loss for the Lakers IMO: the Cavs are ripe for the taking.

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BBB

Hopefully, the Lakers will come out strong after the loss against Portland.

Win it!

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thekid

This is a Laker win. Guaranteed. If not, I'll stop watching Lakers basketball until Saturday.

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Lynx

Ronny Turiaf will be at tonight's game.

GO LAKERS!

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Bartholomew Hunt

I would like to see Smush put forth a strong effort tonight. I'm really tired of Damon Jones. With our perimeter defense lately, I would not be suprised if he scores 30 tonight. Another poster pitched the idea of having Kobe guard Lebron from start to finish, forcing him to concentrate more on defense instead of scoring every possession. We need Cook's jumpshot in the worst way tonight.

DANNY

me too they better win

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thug_immortal8

Heres a crazy prediction, Lakers win by a couple of points, maybe 2-5, and Kwame will have the biggest shot of the game.(Sound crazy? I know, but we'll see)

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Cris

a laker game in HD i drool now

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HuntDizzle

Seriously. KCAL and FuxSportsWest are killing me. They have terrible coverage. It's always interesting to hear nationally televised games be announced by other announcers too. Even though they always hate on Kobe. Doesn't matter, should be awesome to see KB8 and LBJ in HighDizzle.

Werd.

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SF QRICH
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CubanLaker

Odom seems to have brought his pair today. Lets hope it stays that way throught the whole game.