Devin Brown Saves The Day; Gilbert Arenas Wants a Piece
Forget about the refs huddling up to get the call right in Monday’s 91-90 Cavaliers’ win at Philadelphia.
Forget about the Sixers pulling a Baltimore Ravens and rushing to the showers before letting the fat lady sing.
After witnessing a team that can’t make critical free throws (or any free throws at all, for the most part) send Devin Brown to the stripe and watch him hit two for the money to win the game was something I never thought I’d be able to see as a Cavs fan.
Reviewing field-goal attempts and fouls at the end of games hasn’t been allowed until recently, and the Cavs were able to take full advantage this time with just two-tenths of a second left. But something kept telling me that Brown was going to miss that first throw and possibly both (hey, if you’re a real Cleveland fan, you’d totally understand). Nothing would define this season for the Cavs better than getting the lucky break before failing to cash in at the end.
“You feel like you just got seriously slapped in the face,” Philly forward Andre Iguodala was quoted as saying after the loss. “It was like we had the ‘W’ and it was marked off.”
Hey, Andre: you’re a restricted free agent this summer. If it makes you feel better, demand a sign-and-trade to the Cavs.
Although Philly isn’t exactly a great team (they’re a game below .500), picking up this road victory was huge for a team that had only won on the road twice since the big February trade. It also sealed the deal on the fourth seed in the East along with homecourt advantage in the first round.
Not even Bill Murray’s character in “Groundhog’s Day” can match what the Cavs and Washington Wizards are about to go through. Cleveland and D.C. are going to meet in the first round of the playoffs for the third consecutive year.
The Wizards will have Gilbert Arenas in uniform this time around and, unfortunately for them, his mouth. Agent Zero went on his blog and had this to say last week about the potential of facing the Cavs in the postseason:
“I think everybody wants Cleveland in that first round. They’ve been a .500 team ever since they made that trade and everybody wants a chance at that matchup…We want Cleveland for our own reasons, we don’t think they can beat us in the playoffs three years straight. It’s hard to beat a team three years straight. We want to try our luck.”
Somewhere, Eddie Jordan just went “doh!”
Cut Zero some slack. He wasn’t around last postseason, so his memories of LeBron shredding the Wizards to the tune of 35.7 points-per-game in Cleveland’s 4-2 series victory in 2006 must be fuzzy. That’s 35.7 points…per…GAME. He must not have remembered the 36-point, 121-85 ambush at the Q earlier this season. He must not remember that since on the day after said trade, the Cavs used D-league stiffs to put next to LeBron and still managed to beat the Wizards.
But if it’s three straight years of being the Washington Witnesses that Gilbert wants, then that’s what Gilbert shall receive.
Who said NBA rivalries are dead?
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6 Responses to “Devin Brown Saves The Day; Gilbert Arenas Wants a Piece”
April 15th, 2008 at 7:02 am
“Until recently” … that win should have never been … funny how that gives the Cavs home court … the NBA is woeful.
Even LeBron knew that was wrong.
April 15th, 2008 at 9:04 am
I don’t have a problem huddling up and getting a call right at the end of the game, but that was not the case. Z pushed Dalembert into Brown. It was as if the refs threw out everything leading up to Dalembert’s contact with Brown. LBJ traveled too, although he was fouled on the drive by Lou Williams. Bron was 6-for-12 from the stripe in this game. If he went to the line, now that would have been drama.
April 15th, 2008 at 2:37 pm
What do you Cavs fans think about the Wizards series. I think this should be a crazy series much like two years ago, and if the Wiz can actually play some defense for once and perhaps put a man on Damon Jones, they have a chance.
The trash talk should be flyin! Lebron can come out and say they don’t trash talk and try to put it all on the Wiz, but we all remember Lebron chatting it up with Gil at the free throw line, so I don’t buy that.
As a Wiz fan, I just hope they call it fair!
April 15th, 2008 at 8:14 pm
Hey Gregg-
I think that this could be the best Wizards-Cavs series of them all. Washington looks tougher this year and they’ll be with their two All-Stars, Gilbert Arenas and Caron Butler. Antawn Jamison has also been playing well. To be honest, I think the Cavs’ recent lack of success on the road could haunt them in this series. Washington finished the season strong while the Cavs seem to be limping to the finish line.
April 15th, 2008 at 9:52 pm
“Forget about the refs huddling up to get the call right in Monday’s 91-90 Cavaliers’ win at Philadelphia.”
The right call would of been giving the Sixers the ball back with a couple seconds on the clock. You know… seeing as how LeBron travelled on his drive. (1…2…3 steps, hey isn’t that a travel?)
“Hey, Andre: you’re a restricted free agent this summer. If it makes you feel better, demand a sign-and-trade to the Cavs.”
Why would he want to play for the Cavs? That would mean just standing around watching LeBron pad his stats. Oh wait… I guess since LeBron will be on his way to the Knicks some time, the Cavs are going to need a new star, right?
Seriously, the Wizards will beat the Cavs, say… 6 games. I’m being generous too.
April 16th, 2008 at 10:54 am
“LeBron will be on his way to the Knicks some time.” Yeah, because free agents are lining up banging on the door wanting to play for the Knicks. Classic.
And about Iguodala being a star…he was born to be a sidekick. A star? A franchise cornerstone? Philly will be lucky to win a game in the first round. And about the Wizards winning in six…LMFAO. LeBron owns the Wizards. Didn’t you see him beat the Wizards with a bunch of D-leaguers around him back in February? I mean, if you actually watched the game and followed the NBA instead of throwing out baseless comments just because your Sixers or Wizards get run over by the L-Train all the time, you’d actually know this.
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