Game 31: Cavs @ Heat - Tue, Dec 30, 7:30pm

[BugsBunny]

^^No, cause they ended up playing a zone for a large part of the 2nd half, which is pretty much weak sauce..

Then why didn't any Cav shooter broke the "weak sauce" zone?(even tho West was ballin)

Man, stop it, "oh they played zone, that why we lose!" The Cavs lost because the Heat D(sorry i mean weak sauce zone)was better than the Cavs D tonight.

The Cavs are a good team, but i'm not sold on them making it past Boston.(in my opinion) So, enjoy the Cavs having a great season(Lebron could win MVP) while i watch my Knicks get owned by every team in the NBA and hear the GM and the Media talk about us getting Lebron in 2010.(which is not going to happen)

[RevMan26]

We lost tonight cause the Heat did step it up on D. They wanted it more than us. Also, they couldn't miss from downtown. That was some ridiculous shooting from Chalmers and Cook. When we were wide open for threes, we couldn't hit nothing.

[Benedict_Boozer]

We lost tonight cause the Heat did step it up on D. They wanted it more than us. Also, they couldn't miss from downtown. That was some ridiculous shooting from Chalmers and Cook. When we were wide open for threes, we couldn't hit nothing.

Yup. Heat wanted both games more to be honest with you. They outhustled us in all but 1 qtr of the last game too.

Chalmers had the same looks last game and missed. He hits a few threes in the last game we prob lose.

[HotPot]

http://it.youtube.com/watch?v=Por_gWYTwTw&fmt=18

[B Mac]

It would have helped if a bunch of the guys weren't out until 5 AM the night before the game partying the night away. Its tough to win when half of your guys are hungover and low on sleep. LeBron was able to win with a hangover against the Wizards on Christmas, but barely. You play even a decent team in Miami and you see the cost of your night of fun. I said it before the game, but come on LeBron... You have 3 days off after the Heat game, you're telling me you cant wait one more night to go party?

Weak. I was hoping this problem would go away when we traded guys like Damon, Larry, Drew, and Donyell. Unfortunately it looks like it is back. Look at all of our worst losses over the last few years, and then look at what went on the night before... Direct correlation. Until these guys decide that winning is more important than partying then we are always going to have bad losses like this one.

[Gordon Bombay]

the varsity blues complex ^^^^

[rjgraca]

Not sure why some Miami posters have to post like Miami's win was impressive or something ... it wasn't any better than when the CAVs beat the Heat in Cleveland on Sunday. The season has a long way to go yet and one game here and there doesn't make or break it at this point.

[miamiballer]

as your record indiactes you guys have a great team with solid role players, lebron and solid d...the thing is, i honestly dont think were that far away from you though...in fact, out of bos, orl, cle, id take my chances going against your team and think it goes 7 games, but regardless you have as good a chance as any to get to the finals IMO

[B Mac]

You know what they say opinions are like, dont you?

[Harry Heinous]

It really is silly when people say that Wade is better than LeBron. it's really not close.

Just read through this thread, and no offense, but all you did was whine about the refs and belittle Wade.

Almost everyone in the world agrees that Lebron is better than Wade. But to say they're not close is ridiculous and silly. Even Lebron would tell you that.

[TheOUTLAW]

They aren't close and the fact that I was complaining about the unbelievable calls that were being made eary in the game is irrelevant. The fact that you are using it as justification is actually quite juvenile and irrelevant.

I consider "close" when you can rationally argue to the contrary. I don't think you can in this instance.

[Harry Heinous]

They aren't close and the fact that I was complaining about the unbelievable calls that were being made eary in the game is irrelevant. The fact that you are using it as justification is actually quite juvenile and irrelevant.

I consider "close" when you can rationally argue to the contrary. I don't think you can in this instance.

Funny and ironic that you call somebody juvenile. I could of sworn some of your earlier posts in this thread were typed by a baby.

It's too easy to argue that they're close since their stats are equal yet Wade already has a ring.

So the bottom line is that Wade's done something Lebron has not been able to do yet, and that's win a championship. He's got that on him. Wade took his game to another level in the Finals and forced his way to a championship, Lebron didn't (he will I assume). Any attempt to refute that is simply an excuse (spurs having tough D - ). You can keep trying to fool yourself that Lebron and Wade aren't close. I mean did you not watch the olympics? Lebron and Wade were clearly on another level from the rest of the world but not each other.

Stats, head-to-head matchups, success, and achievements all prove that they're very close; I don't know how any rational/competent individual could possibly argue otherwise.

But hey, cheers to having the 2 best players in the league on our teams. I'm happy, I'm sure you are too.

[TheOUTLAW]

I'm not fooling myself or anyone else. Just having a ring means little since one could argue that alot of people are better that are not just because they have a ring. You guys lucked up by still having Shaq and facing a team that flat out collapsed while the refs help Wade a ton. Fact is I'd roughly guess that 90 percent of all GM's would take LeBron before they would Wade and that flat out means he's viewed as better.

Wait, are you trying to argue that the Spurs didn't have tougher defense than the Mavericks (the friggin mavericks?). Okay whatever.