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Cleveland Cavaliers at Portland Trailblazers
Game Date: Wednesday, January 21st, 2009
Game Time: 10:00 P.M. ET
Location: Rose Garden Arena
TV: FOX Sports Ohio HD
Radio: WTAM 1100

Probable Lineups
Cleveland (31-8)
PG- Mo Williams
SG- Sasha Pavlovic
SF- LeBron James
PF- Ben Wallace
C- Anderson Varejao

Cavaliers Team Leaders
Scoring - LeBron James 27.6
Rebounds - LeBron James 7.2
Assists - LeBron James 6.6
FG% - Zydrunas Ilgauskas 51.8
FT% - Mo Williams 93.9
3PT% - Delonte West 40.9
Blocks - Ben Wallace 1.7
Steals - LeBron James 2.1

Portland (25-16)
PG- Sergio Rodriguez
SG- Brandon Roy
SF- Nicolas Batum
PF- LaMarcus Aldridge
C- Greg Oden

Blazers Team Leaders
Scoring - Brandon Roy 22.3
Rebounds - Joel Przybilla 7.8
Assists - Brandon Roy 5.3
FG% - LaMarcus Aldridge 48.4
FT% - Rudy Fernandez 90.1
3PT% - Steve Blake 43.4
Blocks - Greg Oden 1.1
Steals - Steve Blake 1.1

Season Series - Tied 0-0
January 21, 2009- CLE @ POR
March 19, 2009- POR @ CLE

Yikes, another huge front-court to go up against without Big Z.

Will this be the 5th game in a row that Lebron plays 40+ minutes?

Without Big Z, I expect the Blazer front court to have a large impact on the game. I don't see how we can stop lebron though.

I don't expect Oden to have a 20/10 type of game against us even if we are thin at the front. Perhaps, he will get into foul trouble, who knows? Aldridge and Roy may have what they want though.

Another game I am nervous about. Without Z or West, and Ben and LeBron coming off of being sick, we are as banged up as we can be.

I'm not optimistic about this game and the rest of the west coast trip.

If Oden stays out of foul trouble the Blazers have a shot. If not, they are in trouble. We have no one at all that can guard Lebron, so he could beat us himself.

Roy has been struggling too, so that could be a problem.

Good luck to you guys the rest of the year.

Varajao seems like the type of player that Oden might have trouble against, so I'm a little worried about him getting in foul trouble against him. Also, the fact that Lebron can drive to the basket at will certainly doesn't help Portland's chances.

I'm expecting a big game from Mo Williams and LeBron tonight. LeBron will naturally be pretty upset with his performance in LA. Mo is just going to have to look for his shot more, he has seemed a little passive IMO the past few games. Sasha while inconsistant offensively, I do think he'll do just fine on Brandon Roy like he does most of the best players in the league at SG. Obviously our major problem is with Oden/Aldridge/Pryzbilla. It's going to take a great defensive effort from Ben, AV, JJ, Darnell and god forbid Wright gets in the game. I really don't expect much of any offense out of them(AV and JJ with a few buckets here and there). If the Blazers are smart, they'll try to get what bigs we do have in foul trouble. Then it's all uphill for us the rest of the way. I'm confident, but a little worried about this matchup.

I think it will be a better performance from LA. This is a tough one again though because of the size we are missing. Lebron seems to always step his game up in Portland though. I think it will be close with a win for us.

As a Blazer fan I am still looking for the knucklehead that thought talking S*** to James in the 4th quarter when we met last year. Yeah talking junk to James is a good idea

LOL@Wallace.

LeBron is off to a great start with 8 points within 7 minutes.

Sasha and AV need to avoid the early second fouls here. LeBron and Mo doing well to start us off, but Aldridge is wide open of that 12-18 foot jumpshot. Going to have to stop leaving him.

Man that first quarter was fast. Alot of fouls on both teams in the first quarter too. Sasha with 2 for us, Bayless with 2 for them. I liked what I saw out of JJ in that first quarter. Gotta get up on Aldridge some more though, he's killing us. Up by 3 after the first.

We're fouling too much.

I love Mo.

Yea way too many fouls, but the Blazers are breaking us down off the dribble. Aldridge is getting wide open look after wide open look(kinda like Gasol did). Too many unforced errors too. Cavs will be fine if the defense picks it up some here.

As is becoming more common for the Cavs. We are getting killed on the offensive boards.

I jinxed Mo, damn!