Say what you want about Lebron, but this series against the Orlando Magic proves to me one thing; Lebron is effectively a miracle worker. To get this garbage *** squad a #1 seed throughout the playoffs is absolutely amazing. I sincerely mean it. His team is pure garbage and woefully inept at doing anything outside of watching Lebron. They have midget wings in West and Williams, who unfortunately for Lebron, are not spot up shooters and need to get most of their work done off the dribble. Of course being a midget makes it hard when you're guarded by 6'9+ wings and you still have to turnaround on the other end and guard them. In the middle the Cavs have either an immobile oaf in Ilgauskas or the No-Skils-At-All duo in Varejao and Wallace. The worst part of this scenario is that these guys have to guard an asbolute atheletic freak on the other end.
With all that said, the NBA is about matchups and Orlando matches up extremely well with Cleveland (akin to the Golden St vs Mavs series 2 years back). Other than Lebron the Cavs have no mobile bigs or tall swingmen. They're too short at the wing position with Williams and West. Orlando will probably get trounced by the Lakers or Nuggets and the Cavs would actually give either of those two teams a decent series, but the Cavs can't handle Turkgalou(sp?), Rashard Lewis, or Howard. And Pietras does a respectable job against Lebron (despite the nearly 40ppg average). The Cavs literally have no one on their roster who can adequately guard those 3 guys (outside of Lebron of course).
If it weren't for Orlando jacking 3s at inopportune times(ie. late in games) tonight's game wouldn't have gone into OT and the series would probably be over by now.
With all that said, the NBA is about matchups and Orlando matches up extremely well with Cleveland (akin to the Golden St vs Mavs series 2 years back). Other than Lebron the Cavs have no mobile bigs or tall swingmen. They're too short at the wing position with Williams and West. Orlando will probably get trounced by the Lakers or Nuggets and the Cavs would actually give either of those two teams a decent series, but the Cavs can't handle Turkgalou(sp?), Rashard Lewis, or Howard. And Pietras does a respectable job against Lebron (despite the nearly 40ppg average). The Cavs literally have no one on their roster who can adequately guard those 3 guys (outside of Lebron of course).
If it weren't for Orlando jacking 3s at inopportune times(ie. late in games) tonight's game wouldn't have gone into OT and the series would probably be over by now.
