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( 4 ) Cleveland Cavaliers (45-37) vs. ( 5 ) Washington Wizards (43-39)

Link to game thread 1
Link to game thread 2

Game 1 - Sat. Apr. 19 - WIZARDS 86 @ CAVALIERS 93 FINAL
Game 2 - Mon. Apr. 21 - WIZARDS 86 @ CAVALIERS 116 FINAL
Game 3 - Thu. Apr. 24 - CAVALIERS 72 @ WIZARDS 108 FINAL
Game 4 - Sun. Apr. 27 - CAVALIERS 100 @ WIZARDS 97 FINAL
Game 5 - Wed. Apr. 30 - WIZARDS 88 @ CLEVELAND 87 FINAL
Game 6 - Fri. May 2 - CAVALIERS 105 @ WIZARDS 88 FINAL

REGULAR SEASON SERIES
Series tied 2-2
Dec 5, 2007 @WAS 105, CLE 86
Jan 23, 2008 @CLE 121, WAS 85
Feb 22, 2008 @CLE 90, WAS 89
Mar 13, 2008 @WAS 101, CLE 99


Projected Starting Lineup



PG - Delonte West
SG - Wally Szczerbiak
SF - LeBron James
PF - Ben Wallace
C - Zydrunas Ilgauskas


Projected Starting Lineup



PG - Antonio Daniels
SG - DeShawn Stevenson
SF - Caron Butler
PF - Antawn Jamison
C - Brendan Haywood

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The Cavs have a commanding series lead at 3-1. They can end the series on Wednesday against the Wizards when they play at home for game 5. Can the Cavs prevail or will the Wizards have an answer for them?

I definitely have to own up about the Cavs...

They're defense and rebounding has returned to like it used to be, and while still definitely offensively limited in general, along with their defense, they've had enough offense to be better than the Wizards.

Washington I think has gotten some too into the trash talking, and Gilbert ultimately not being what he usually is because of injury, and not quite adapting - has effected their play. They just need to kinda calm down, and get back to what they were doing in the season.

Pre-series, I didn't know if the Cavs would have enough overall to compete consistently, and liked how Washington improved.

Cleveland's probably going to win this series, in at most 6 games.

I feel like if the Wizards win this game, then it will go 7.

Call me a psychic but I also feel like if the Wizards lose this one, then the series is over in 5.

Per Comcast Sportnet.....

Gilbert Arenas has shut himself down for the rest of the playoffs, no matter how far the Wizards get (which doesn't appear to be that far).

He said that he wanted to help his team, but realized that because of the injury, he wasn't helping them when he was out there.

Good move for Agent Zero. Come back next season, healthy.

wow i really hope Gilbert comes back healthy, its really tough seeing him injured

Overall for the best by Gilbert.

Ballings7 wrote:Overall for the best by Gilbert.

Agreed. You saw it earlier in the season as well. When he isn't healthy, he isn't effective.

Washington fans like myself hoped that any Gilbert would be better than no Gilbert, but that just isn't true or how it happened.

The only way he can be effective is if he's absolutely on-point from the perimeter (as he was in game 1), but when his outside shot wasn't falling in the 4th quarter of game 1, then the rest of the series, he became useless, with the exception of a few really nice passes.

Z with that high arc shot.

is AV seriously (Please Use More Appropriate Word)?

WHAT IS GOING ON!?!?! This is hilarious!

Songaila has been known occasionally to have kind of a temper

Indeed, miller31time... I thought he might be able to be fine off the bench, but didn't work out right.

FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT!

So Songaila isn't ejected?

ZOMG, LeBron didn't swing back, he got punked LOOLZZZ

Here comes the Ref giving technicals to everyone for no reason. Egomaniacs.

Wow that was a great flop by Lebron, that was a little love tap by Songalia and Lebron flys back like that, uh okay...

Lebron might be overrated but he's definitely not weak so how the refs bought that flop is beyond me.

Wizards have to get right mentally here... just turned on the game a few minutes ago.

Wizards-Cavs should be even better next year in the 1st round.

This is just getting ridiculous. Can we get through one freaking quarter without this?