Impressions from night number 1

[Rondo2287]

A couple that I had watching the game last night

KG isnt all they way back yet
Gilbert is all the way back
Baron Davis has an awesome beard but cant shoot
Clippers very well might have won with Blake
Greg Oden's Stat line is Unique to say the least
The Andre Miller thing may work
Dirk needs a Haircut

[Kwhit10]

A couple that I had watching the game last night

KG isnt all they way back yet
Gilbert is all the way back
Baron Davis has an awesome beard but cant shoot
Clippers very well might have won with Blake
Greg Oden's Stat line is Unique to say the least
The Andre Miller thing may work
Dirk needs a Haircut

Baron did have a swollen foot which is being attributed to his bad shooting night.  Also I think Dirk should keep his long hair.  Maybe cutting it if they make a run in the playoffs only.

[Rondo2287]

I dunno it just seems like exuse after excuse with Baron Davis.  However, all the street cred in the world for looking like a spartan. 

[slamtheking]

for the C's:
-KG looked a little off.
-Ray should not try to be a playmaker.
-Rondo looks better on his jumper but didn't take very many.
-Williams will do just fine in BBD's place---especially when he learns to anticipate passes.
-Sheed, Daniels, House and Williams make for a terrific bench.
-The starters really need to focus.  Their play was much too sloppy.
-Perk's jumper is looking much better

For the Cav's
- It's Lebron against the world still.
- Shaq started well but get him over 8 feet from the basket and his effectiveness drops dramatically.
- Sideshow Bob looked really good.  Can't stand him but he looked really good.

The rest of the league
-->who cares?  seriously, who cares?  They aren't the C's nor were they playing the C's.  Does anybody really care about any other games?

[Rondo2287]

for the C's:
-KG looked a little off.
-Ray should not try to be a playmaker.
-Rondo looks better on his jumper but didn't take very many.
-Williams will do just fine in BBD's place---especially when he learns to anticipate passes.
-Sheed, Daniels, House and Williams make for a terrific bench.
-The starters really need to focus.  Their play was much too sloppy.
-Perk's jumper is looking much better

For the Cav's
- It's Lebron against the world still.
- Shaq started well but get him over 8 feet from the basket and his effectiveness drops dramatically.
- Sideshow Bob looked really good.  Can't stand him but he looked really good.

The rest of the league
-->who cares?  seriously, who cares?  They aren't the C's nor were they playing the C's.  Does anybody really care about any other games?

Well I care.

[the_Bird]

Honestly, LeBron is as good as every accolade he receives.  Those blocks - I yelled at the screen that they were fouls, but looking at them again they were clean.  You NEVER see someone make a clean block like that, and he has about a half-dozen of 'em on us in the past two games.  He's clearly the best player in the league, by a wide margin over Kobe and everyone else. 

Loved that they actually called a carry on him, though.

Rest of the Cavs looked...  meh, like a 25 win team.  Just like in the last preseason game, Shaq looked absolutely dominant early - but look in the box score, he had ten points.  I missed much of the third quarter, so I'm not sure if it was a matter of him getting tired, the Cavs not going to him, or Perk just playing him better, but we can certainly live with that.  Everyone else on the squad, pretty much what we expect, no one I'm worried about beating us. 

I'm loving that, though; with every game like this, more and more rumblings about where LeBron's going.  Not even just losses, every game where it's "LeBron and the J.V. All-Stars." 

C's just looked like a much better team.  LOVE the bench, love Rasheed, love Quisy, love House.  I bet our second unit would beat 60% of the leagues' starting fives. 

I'm no more worried about KG than I was about Tom Brady three weeks ago - which is to say, not at all.  He'll never be the KG of '03 - '04 again, but he wasn't going to be anyway.  He'll be back in full-beast mode by December.

[Kwhit10]

Honestly, LeBron is as good as every accolade he receives.  Those blocks - I yelled at the screen that they were fouls, but looking at them again they were clean.  You NEVER see someone make a clean block like that, and he has about a half-dozen of 'em on us in the past two games.  He's clearly the best player in the league, by a wide margin over Kobe and everyone else. 

Loved that they actually called a carry on him, though.

Rest of the Cavs looked...  meh, like a 25 win team.  Just like in the last preseason game, Shaq looked absolutely dominant early - but look in the box score, he had ten points.  I missed much of the third quarter, so I'm not sure if it was a matter of him getting tired, the Cavs not going to him, or Perk just playing him better, but we can certainly live with that.  Everyone else on the squad, pretty much what we expect, no one I'm worried about beating us. 

I'm loving that, though; with every game like this, more and more rumblings about where LeBron's going.  Not even just losses, every game where it's "LeBron and the J.V. All-Stars." 

C's just looked like a much better team.  LOVE the bench, love Rasheed, love Quisy, love House.  I bet our second unit would beat 60% of the leagues' starting fives. 

I'm no more worried about KG than I was about Tom Brady three weeks ago - which is to say, not at all.  He'll never be the KG of '03 - '04 again, but he wasn't going to be anyway.  He'll be back in full-beast mode by December.

Yea I'm the same way.  Especially when I saw that Jamario Moon alley oop from LBJ.  KG went to intercept the pass but he just didn't get up like he used too.

[moiso]

Honestly, LeBron is as good as every accolade he receives.  Those blocks - I yelled at the screen that they were fouls, but looking at them again they were clean.  You NEVER see someone make a clean block like that, and he has about a half-dozen of 'em on us in the past two games.  He's clearly the best player in the league, by a wide margin over Kobe and everyone else. 

Loved that they actually called a carry on him, though.

Rest of the Cavs looked...  meh, like a 25 win team.  Just like in the last preseason game, Shaq looked absolutely dominant early - but look in the box score, he had ten points.  I missed much of the third quarter, so I'm not sure if it was a matter of him getting tired, the Cavs not going to him, or Perk just playing him better, but we can certainly live with that.  Everyone else on the squad, pretty much what we expect, no one I'm worried about beating us. 

I'm loving that, though; with every game like this, more and more rumblings about where LeBron's going.  Not even just losses, every game where it's "LeBron and the J.V. All-Stars." 

C's just looked like a much better team.  LOVE the bench, love Rasheed, love Quisy, love House.  I bet our second unit would beat 60% of the leagues' starting fives. 

I'm no more worried about KG than I was about Tom Brady three weeks ago - which is to say, not at all.  He'll never be the KG of '03 - '04 again, but he wasn't going to be anyway.  He'll be back in full-beast mode by December.

Those blocks are crazy.  Sometimes it seems like he's running behind the guy at the exact same speed, but when he jumps, its like he goes into warp speed.  Rondo is one of the fastest guys in the league and James just exploded by him.

[Rondo2287]

Anybody else care that the lights were on at the Cleveland Football and baseball stadiums with nobody there.  Talk about not being, "Green."

[Schupac]

Anybody else care that the lights were on at the Cleveland Football and baseball stadiums with nobody there.  Talk about not being, "Green."

If Cleveland didn't turn the lights on when no one was there the Indians would play in the dark.

[Kwhit10]

Anybody else care that the lights were on at the Cleveland Football and baseball stadiums with nobody there.  Talk about not being, "Green."

Haha I thought the exact same thing when I saw that.  I was like do they have those lights on every night even when no one is playing.  Or did they just do it so the Blimp can get a nice aerial shot of the Cleveland sports parks.

[Fafnir]

Anybody else care that the lights were on at the Cleveland Football and baseball stadiums with nobody there.  Talk about not being, "Green."

Haha I thought the exact same thing when I saw that.  I was like do they have those lights on every night even when no one is playing.  Or did they just do it so the Blimp can get a nice aerial shot of the Cleveland sports parks.

I'm sure it was so the blimp could get a pretty shot of Cleveland.

[Rondo2287]

Talk about an oxy-moron, "Pretty shot of Cleveland."

[the_Bird]

Talk about an oxy-moron, "Pretty shot of Cleveland."

What, there's nothing more gorgoeus than Lake Erie when it's glowing with a petroleum fire!


_{(yes, I know they've cleaned up the lake)}

[ma11l]

for the C's:
-KG looked a little off.
-Ray should not try to be a playmaker.
-Rondo looks better on his jumper but didn't take very many.
-Williams will do just fine in BBD's place---especially when he learns to anticipate passes.
-Sheed, Daniels, House and Williams make for a terrific bench.
-The starters really need to focus.  Their play was much too sloppy.
-Perk's jumper is looking much better

For the Cav's
- It's Lebron against the world still.
- Shaq started well but get him over 8 feet from the basket and his effectiveness drops dramatically.
- Sideshow Bob looked really good.  Can't stand him but he looked really good.

The rest of the league
-->who cares?  seriously, who cares?  They aren't the C's nor were they playing the C's.  Does anybody really care about any other games?

Well I care.

Me too.  I think the NBA as a whole is going to be very entertaining this year.  There are 5 teams at the top who are incredibly talented and stacked with all-stars.  There is also a second-tier who will push these teams.  The Nuggets, Hornets, and Jazz out west, and the Hawks and Wizards in the East. 


I'm looking forward to an awesome year out of the NBA.  After this year it'll be interesting to see how the free agency and collective bargaining changes thing.




Getting back on topic I thought it was an interesting opening night.  It was just one of numerous good games between the Celts and Cavs.  I'm glad we won this one because they don't play again until February.  I thought the Lakers were okay on a night that we know from last year is a difficult and emotional one to play a game.  The Wizards proved that they are back as a playoff team in the east with Arenas.  Portland's win against a team with a 6-6 starting center wasn't too inspiring, but you have to play who's on the schedule.