Cleveland: Cavs ravage Knicks, 104-79
"The Cavs, right now, are embarrassing the Knicks."--Mike Breen, ABC/MSG commentator
Saturday's matinee in Cleveland was a debacle, it was a nationally televised debacle when the team desparately needed win. The Cavs won the opening tipoff, sprinted out to a 7-0 lead and never looked back. Although there were a few minutes of the first quarter where the Knicks threatened to make it a game--Houston hit an open three and Tim Thomas showed he could post up the shorter Lebron as easily as Lebron could blow by him--the outcome of this contest was never really contested. The Knicks defense was porous, their transition slow, and their offense stagnant. Lebron and the rest of the Cavs starters spent most of the afternoon as cheerleaders; watching as the back-ups mercilessly tore apart the Knicks. Second-stringers were ally-ooping, high-fiving and swishing threes as the Knicks starters jogged around the court in a fog. By halftime the Cavs had scored 67 points (on 74% shooting), and of those points 36 had been scored in the paint and 31 had come from the bench. It got so bad that Hubie Brown (really a top-notch play-by-play man) and Mike Breen spent most of the second half hyping the NFL Wildcard matchups that were airing later on ABC.
"This is the first time we've ever played this well."--Lebron James
And hopefully the last time the Knicks play this poorly. Enough said.
NY Knicker-Bloggers Player(s) of the Game:
Cavs bench, especially Anderson Varejao
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