Cavs vs. Spurs 7:00 p.m.

• wildcats20

  

  Big time FT's from Mo.
• wes_mantooth

  

  Yay...Telfair was on tv.
• SQ_Crazies

  

  NO SHOT ROG!
• wildcats20

  

  Damn nice execution, just couldn't knock it down.
• wes_mantooth

  

  damn, you couldnt ask for a better shot. Thank god he missed.
• SQ_Crazies

  

  OMG get Manu out of the building.
• Pick6

  

  good inbound play by the spurs.. honestly i dont know how we pulled this one out of our ass tonight.
• wildcats20

  

  A nice 38 for Manu..lol
• SQ_Crazies

  

  That's a big win right there.
  
  Maybe the most exciting game I've watched all season.
• ytownfootball

  

  Cavs are deep.
• karen lotz

  

  Cavs might be better without LeBron
• SQ_Crazies

  

  Duh.
• Hb31187

  

  Cavs are obv better without LBJ
  
  Nuggets are obv better without Melo, I mean we squeaked out a win vs Cleveland with Joey Graham instead of Melo playing...get him more minutes
• pkebker

  Any word if Jamison's injury could cause him to miss more games, or is it just soreness?
• devil1197

  Jamison will be fine. He was battling some knee soreness before and it just got stiff on him tonight.
  
  Cleveland has almost a week off so he'll get plenty of rest.
  
  HUGE win tonight with Cleveland having 3 of their top 4 scorers out.
• hoops23

  

  Big win and definitely one of the more exciting games of the season..
  
  Love seeing other guys step up and getting a big win vs SA. Come playoffs this will only help the Cavs.
• wes_mantooth

  

  devil1197 wrote:
  
  HUGE win tonight with Cleveland having 3 of their top 4 scorers out.

  False.
  
  Cannot have big wins, when the season has been over for months.
• Pick6

  

  There are no big wins in the regular season guys.
• Footwedge

  Pick6 wrote: There are no big wins in the regular season guys.

  Then why watch? Every game is important.
• Pick6

  

  (sarcasm)
• SQ_Crazies

  

  This conversation went down awhile ago, and I don't remember who I had it with, but here is a good example of how LeBron makes any team in the league a playoff team.
• devil1197

  Jamison will have a precautionary MRI tomorrow but he knows its just swelling/tightness. He expects to play Friday.
• Footwedge

  Pick6 wrote: (sarcasm)

  Sorry Pick..should have caught it.
• SQ_Crazies

  

  SQ_Crazies wrote: This conversation went down awhile ago, and I don't remember who I had it with, but here is a good example of how LeBron makes any team in the league a playoff team.

  Oops, forgot the link haha
  
  http://www.cavstheblog.com/?p=1657
• hoops23

  

  Danny Ferry and Dan Gilbert, as well as the coaching staff with Mike Brown have helped to create, not only a championship roster, but also a championship attitude. Part of the reason I love Mike Brown.. He's a great coach and doesn't get recognized for it...
  
  Greg Popovich after the game:
  

  You pray the house of basketball that general manager Danny Ferry and coach Mike Brown have built here in Cleveland isn't made of balsam. You hope the frame and the foundation are pieced together with mortar and brick and not driftwood and rusty nails.
  
  Plans for building a basketball team from floor to roof aren't as exacting as the architectural renderings for a five-star hotel on Mars. Talent goes a long way in the former, but talent alone isn't always enough, although an NBA team is never hurt when it has a bright light like LeBron James illuminating the project each night.
  
  A team like the Cavs can follow that shining light until the final brick in the NBA championship is laid.
  
  So far, what Ferry and Brown have built is an impressive structure, coach Gregg Popovich said Monday night before his Spurs lost to the Cavaliers, 97-95.
  
  Popovich could look out onto the arena floor and see how strong that house was. "Pop" could see a team with the NBA's best record, a team 12- or 13-men deep in talent, a team with LeBron to rely on in the clutch, a team with the ability to do something extraordinary.
  
  "Great, great opportunity to get it done this year," Pop said.
  
  And Pop should know.
  
  He has a couple of NBA titles on his mantelpiece, plus he mentored the brain trust behind these Cavs. Ferry and Brown have histories tied to Pop and the Spurs, and much of what the two men have learned about the administrative and coaching sides of pro hoops have come from Pop.
  
  What they have built here is a carbon copy of what the Spurs have been. Like Pop's Spurs, Ferry and Brown's Cavaliers are a team that plays stifling defense and unselfish offense. They are like Pop's team in one other respect; they have a star, too.
  
  Here's where they now differ: Pop's team is NBA past.
  
  True enough, his Spurs can serve as a template for the present. What franchise wouldn't want to mimic them and their decade of success? Their days of winning NBA titles, however, vanished two seasons ago but not for any reason other than great teams get old.
  
  In front of people's eyes, the Spurs aged. Star forward Tim Duncan is an old 33; forward Manny Ginobili is an old 32; and point guard Tony Parker is hurt. So the future isn't theirs; the future is here, in Cleveland, with the Cavaliers, a point Pop stressed.
  
  Pop didn't hide his admiration for what this Cavs team has become under the hands of his two mentees. He praised how Ferry and Brown have done it - how they've collaborated with owner Dan Gilbert to build what is now one of the glamour teams in the NBA, a team with global appeal, a team that can rival the recent NBA champs in talent.
  
  "The results are what you see," Pop said.
  
  What people see is a team that Ferry and Brown have hanging on the precipice of greatness. They have issues still that they are looking to sort out, including what to do if center Shaquille O'Neal is unable to return from his thumb injury. They must fret some about what to do if center Zydrunas Ilgauskas, despite what he's telling everybody, decides not to re-sign with the Cavaliers.
  
  Can Ferry and Brown, Pop's pupils, win a championship without a legitimate force in the middle? Can LeBron be enough?
  
  That seems not to matter much in mid-March, the winter thaw in Cleveland not yet complete. Besides, the journey to an NBA title is littered with obstacles, foreseen and unforeseen.
  
  What does matter is that the house is in good order. It's strong and sturdy, made with the best materials, made using a foolproof blueprint that Ferry and Brown borrowed from Pop.

  I hope some people finally begin to realize what we actually have here in Cleveland..