that Le Bron would make Le Shot once the ball was in his hands. David Stern willed it in.

But the more interesting question is, why didn’t the Magic triple team Le Bron and force Mo Williams or Delonte West to beat them? There is no excuse for letting him catch the ball. Put Dwight Howard on him if necessary.

who was standing to far away to be effective anyway and double LeBron. I think the coach realized this after it was all over he had made a mistake. I am amazed Orlando is making this so competitive.

Magic in 6….

Cavs just needed a miracle to avoid an 0-2 hole on their homecourt in a game they were up by 23

is that the Magic have a ligit shot at beating the Cavs…you gotta think that the Magic are a confident bunch heading home…only a “lucky” shot kept them away from being up 2-0

Pietrus has impressed this playoff season and I think he is quicker than Hedo. That being said, Hedo’s D wasn’t bad.
Brickowski’s comment is good in hindsight but both Williams and West CAN beat you with a wide open three. LeBron was anything but wide open. He lifted his bonafides with that shot. That was epic

Of the four teams still alive…Cleveland is the only team that has absolutely NO chance at winning the championship!

Take away LeBron, and they would go 29-53 during a full regular season.

Orlando 33.33%
Denver 33.33%
LA 33.33%
Cleve. 00.00%

It was bad coaching by SVG. He was protecting against the lob, but that was stupid. The lob only ties the game; the trey beats you.

You put your DPOY on LeBron, plus you get ready to double team with a quicker guy like Pietrus.. No way that LeBron makes that shot with Howard on him.

Williams was the inbounder because he was shooting 25% for the game and had missed his last shot. West had hardly taken a shot in the 4th quarter. Who does that leave, Pavlovic? I’ll take my chances letting him have the shot instead of LeBron.

put Gorat on the inbounds, get directly in Mo’s face he wouldn’t even have to jump just stand right at the inbounds line with his hands in the air, at worst Gorat could have been called with a delay of game if he over did it, then their could be an excuse. Didn’t we learn that in the 1972 USA vs USSR Olympic Game with Tom McMillen. Wasn’t that enough of an embarrasing loss to know that you put your tallest player directly at the inbounds line with both hands in the air. Does it really take a genius to figure that out?

People always complain about officiating. To me the Mo non-tech play proves the fact that the intent to influence the game a certain way is there. Most times people argue about a charge, blocking foul, travel call, game or shot clock call, out of bounds/inbounds and those can be argued as questionable because there are two sides to the story. However when it involves a techincal especially throwing a ball at another player it is not a judgement call it is one sided. When you see a player throw the ball at an opposing player it is an automatic reaction to whislte it and call a techincal. The fact that the tech was not called immediately as a reaction to the play proves the fact that the officials knew it was a techincal but in the back of their head they were thinking well CLE is gaining momentum needs to win and just got a steal so if I whistle this play it will break their momentum so I will hesitate to make the correct call because in the back of my mind I’m thinking of any way I can to influence the game so CLE can win. Otherwise the techincal is called immediately. Its a reaction call, not a judgement call.

put it this way. If its a charge, it might be a block. If its a steal, it might be a foul. If its a foul, it might be a blocked shot. If its a travel, it may have only been 2 steps. If it missed the rim, it may have just grazed it. If he’s inbounds, he may have just stepped on the line. If its a game clock issue, maybe the clock didn’t start correctly. With those calls, the ref has to take the split second to anylyze the play to try and make the correct call. If Mo threw the ball at Howard he threw the ball at Howard. Mo didn’t not throw the ball at Howard. So its a reaction call, not a judgement call. CLE was on a 7-2 run and just stole the ball so the ref was thinking about the situation of the game, not the call. Had ORL been on a 7-2 run and just stole the ball they more than likely would have called the T, because Mo throwing the ball would have show CLE was losing their composure. Had the T been called intially and then they rethought about the play and decided for some reason a T should not have been called then complaints about officiatiang would still be questionable. Because the whistle was not blown as a reaction proves the fact that the intent to cheat in an NBA game by the refs is there.

guys whod you want to get his ring first, Lebron or Anthony…. or would you prefer Darko?

Almost every Celtic fan now believes that the Refs have it against us and that the League decides who wins and who loses. Ok. I wonder if the 18 pennants…. no, ……….not worth bringing this up….

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so clutch.