Blazers vs. Cavaliers - Preview
Ezra Ace Caraeff | Saturday, January 9, 2010 at 10:22PM 
Wait, Brian Scalabrine's little brother is a Cavs fan?In playing their finest team game of the season, the Blazers vanquished Kobe Bryant back to the city of Los Angeles. But what's it going to take to rid the Rose Garden of one more Nike-approved hoops superstar? The Cleveland Cavaliers are 10-3 against the Blazers since the team passed on Darko Milicic for some reason and drafted LeBron James instead. This includes their current five game winning streak, and a pair of recent heroic games for LeBron on the Blazers' hardwood.
In case you drank these painful memories away, let me refresh them for you: There was January 30th, 2008, where a King James' layup with .9 seconds on the clock gave the Cavs a 84-83 victory. James took out his frustration on being blocked by commoner Joel Przybilla, and completely took over that game. Well, at least the Blazers won't have to worry about that happening again. Your second scariest (non-clown) nightmare comes from January 21st of last year, where James dropped a beastly 34 points and 14 assists, and Mo Williams punished the home team by shooting six-for-nine beyond the arch and netting 33 points on the night. Cleveland won by a score of 104-98.
So how to do you beat the Cavs? Keep them under 98 points. Cleveland is 23-1 when they top the 98 point mark, but a mere 5-9 when they fall short of that magic number. Curious to what they scored in their loss in Denver on Friday? 97 points. Of course, for Portland there is the issue of defending big players—Zydrunas Ilgauskas, Anderson Varejao, and the beached remnants of a creature known as Shaq—with a lineup that lacks Przybilla, Greg Oden, and the medical oddity we shall refer to as Pryzboden—two injured centers seemed too risky, so the team's surgeons melded the two players together to form one super tall center. Pryzboden is over 14 feet tall and weighs 505 pounds. So, basically it's as tall as Ilgauskas, and as round as Shaq.
The Blazers will need Juwan Howard to keep up his solid play, and Jeff Pendergraph to pretend he's not a rookie and throw some of that muscle, and crazy, around. And if that wasn't enough, Portland will require another spectacular defensive night from Martell Webster, who will get a ticker tape parade down Burnside if he can shut down Kobe and LeBron in the same weekend.
And don't worry about Shaq. If Aaron Carter can beat him, anyone can.
Reader Comments (20)
Well TELL Martell about the parade ok??!! Maybe the Blazers will win. Maybe Cleveland will not take them seriously and just come into the RG thinking..."we got this going down"..."no problemo" or something along those lines. And The Blazers will launch their sniper PDX attack...start and play uptempo and agressively. Get the Cavs into foul trouble...make SURE Bayless knows this is a NATIONALLY TELEVISED GAME (see Phoenix game). Remind BRoy that his ALL STAR game is still in the future and he needs to continue to play like one. Especially after the Clippers game (no need to remind him that his other performances have probably already SEALED his being in the game!!!) And let Nate know that he needs to CONTINUE to give Miller the reins if he wants to keep his (job)boss KP happy!!!!
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I think you may have hurt Joel's feelings by spelling his name wrong. Przyboden probably doesn't care.
RunBLG, you are right. I fixed it, but my apologies to Joel. He is the last person on earth I want to upset.
Sometimes a middle name is so good, you pay a disservice to your parents not to use it, no matter how big a douche bag it makes you.
Story of my life.
Unless of course you are not talking about me, and instead referring to Marcin Polish Hammer Gortat. That's his full name, right?
I'm all over the place with our team still. I am amazed they keep winning big games like Friday night, but then are guilty of playing down to the likes of Memphis, the GSWs and the LACs. I seriously feel like the have as much of a chance to beat the Cavs as lose to them, and I think it will have a lot more to do with Cleveland being one dimensional and pounding the rock to LBJ without concern for an actual offense than anything Portland does. If it comes down to a close game in the last 90 seconds, I give PDX a huge advantage simply because Nate McMillan actually coaches instead of appeasing to his superstar.
Wait....that whole starting Blake because he was B Roy's favorite running mate over Miller even though Miller is CLEARLY a much better PG comes to mind. Maybe there are more similarities than I'd like to admit.
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