Game 2: Cavs vs Pistons- Tue, Apr 21, 8pm [TNT]

[CzBoobie]

I take three great quarters over one awful any day of the week...

And if anything, it means more playing time for LeBron which is ok with me.

I'm sorry but we are of championship calibur and we should not settle for nothing less than almost perfection. That means playing full games... Not playing 3 qtrs of games

We won, we won easily.

Will we win if we play like the first 5-6 minutes of the fourth? Of course not...but remember, it already was supposed to be a garbage time with bench players playing the whole quarter. They sucked, it happens, I don't expect perfection from our scrubs, even though this was beyond pathetic.

[Snakebites]

It's sad when the Piston's bench plays harder and shows more heart than the Piston's starters.

I was furious with Curry for bringing the starters back in after the bench got it close.

We would have lost anyhow, but at least we'd get to see some players play like they give a damn.

On another note, don't worry about letting up for that one portion of the fourth quarter. Even at the peak of their excellence as a championship calibur team (2004-2006) the Pistons didn't always play hard/to the top of their game EVERY minute, particularly not against marginal opponents.

[TheOUTLAW]

I don't know if anyone will remember this but when we played the Pistons 3 years ago they let up in the 4th quarter and what had been a blowout became a relatively close game. Sure the Cavs lost the series, but it was that comeback that allowed them to believe that they could play with the Pistons. That series went 7 and they actually needed some late blunders by us to get to the 7th game. We really can't afford to have this series go 7 and allowing them to outplay us albeit bench against bench is never a good move.

[prekazi]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z_pR6AxRIzA

This is funny as hell. Two guys grabbing LeBron's shoulders and pushing him. LeBron doesn't fall down, the others do. What is this guy made of????

[kenneth9265]

The game was no wheres as close as the score indicated. I and glad to see Lebron and the started pissed about letting the Piston come back in the forth quarter like they did...

If i was Coach Brown, I would all over my bench players about the mistakes and lack of intensity that the bench players displayed out on the court in the 4th qrt.....