WFNY Live Blog – Heat vs. Cavs
December 2, 2010While We’re Waiting… Cavalier Thumping, Browns in South Beach, New Home for Dunn
December 3, 2010The Cavaliers should have replaced the new uniforms with welcome mats tonight. LeBron and his Heat teammates looked like they were right at home even as the fans screamed and cursed their every move. The final score was Miami 118, Cleveland 90. It really wasn’t that close. LeBron scored 38 points in three quarters, while joking and chatting with members of the Cavaliers bench during timeouts and free throws.
We’ll have full coverage tomorrow, but feel free to post your comments here.
[Update: thought I’d throw in some Barkley quotes from halftime.]
Barkley: “We can be friends after the game. This guy is dissing us he told us we weren’t good enough, but every timeout he comes to our bench laughing and joking with us.”
“The city of Cleveland should take a bow they were angry they were upset there is really nothing profane.”
“These Cavaliers players, they’re not playing with any animosity, they don’t have any chip on their shoulder, and I think they are doing a disservice to these fans and themselves.”
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Yeah, that sucked. Time to start rebuilding.
What a big, fat, honking waste of time for everyone one involved not wearing Heat unis. Eff #6 and the Heat; we need to worry about the Cavs and when they’re gonna blow up this soft roster.
go browns!
For the first time I am honestly embarrassed to be a Cavs fan. And sadly I have to agree with Charles Barkley. First on Barkley. He was almost speechless when trying to get out how the Cavs players were chummy with Lebron. The audacity of him even trying to talk to Cavs players is astounding and even more shocking is the players talking to him! No hard fouls was hard to believe as well. The fans showed up in spirit but the same can not be said for the Cavs. As far as the effort as the article says they should be called the Cleveland Welcome Mats. To be annihilated anytime like this on your home court is awful and shows they aren’t talented enough to compete but in a game like this it also shows how far the Cavs really are from caring. Sad.
At least one of the Cavs’ assistant coaches had something to say to Lebron. http://thebiglead.com/index.php/2010/12/02/cavs-assistant-tells-lebron-to-shut-the-f-up/ And I liked Mo’s cold shoulder. Other than that, that was an absolutely heartless performance by our Cavaliers. I’ve been waiting for this game for a long time and I’m going to bed just so disappointed. And drunk on Christmas Ale!
Ok. I am now willing to accept that the Cavs are in full rebuild mode. Time for bed.
Yay Christmas Ale !!
At least the browns know how to talk trash to their opponents to stand up for their city….Come on cavs…you dissappointed your city tonight. You know as well as anyone else Lebron didn’t deserve encouragement tonight.
Fortunately, I had some exam at 8 tonight, so I didn’t get to watch much of the game, only about 5 minutes. That was… and will be… the only basketball I have seen him play since he left. I couldn’t believe how little contact there was on him, or anyone else for that matter. When you are undermatched against a star player, rough his A$$ up, especially if he’s a wingman. When you have three – OK, two – star players, you rough em up even harder. Quitness or not, get physical.
Granted, I only saw about 5 minutes, but it seems that by some of these comments, it was a pretty soft “effort” by the Wine and Gold
I live in Chicago so I don’t see a ton of Cavs games but is that the normal rotation? It seemed to me that there was no rhyme or reason to what Scott was trying to do. All in all there was no heart and the fact that the Heat shot the lights out didn’t help.
Burn this team to the ground. They can’t even show heart when they know this is the biggest game of the year cavs fans are likely to see?
Don’t get me started on the way they were chumming it up all game.
Thanks to Cribbs, Kosar, Jim Carey, and all the other cleveland natives and adopted sons who showed their support today, though.
On the bright side, we have a chance to go .500 for the week vs miami on Sunday. Here we go brownies!
WOW!!! After being a Cavs fan since the 80′s. This is truly the first time that I have been disappointed in the teams lack of respect for their customers …aka the fans. Welcoming Lebron back with on court hugging and conversation…Talking like he is part of the team. No competitive spirit.
PLEASE LET DAN GILBERT KNOW HOW YOU ALL FEEL ON HIS TWITTER.
We need to show him that this is not acceptable from a competitive team, as promised that he would build in his famous “Letter”
“These Cavaliers players, they’re not playing with any animosity, they don’t have any chip on their shoulder, and I think they are doing a disservice to these fans and themselves.”
Hey… this is the state of the nation in professional sports. I regularly get upset with myself when I let the outcome of a game actually affect my life because of this. It’s not 1950 anymore.
nice repost Hype. Anyway, to my point…
Did it really take till tonight for everyone to realize this team needs to be blown up? We knew going into this year that it would be tough and we had a few (2-3?) young pieces to try to incorporate into the future, but other than that, we had a few guys to make us serviceable against lower to mid-level talent. We have draft picks, a trade exception, and a few old guys who wont be in the league a whole lot longer. Get over it
The team has gone soft. They apparently have taken on the personality of ‘you-know-who’ – no effort, no heart, and no killer instinct. Period. If I’m Gilbert, the fire sale starts tomorrow. Everyone, and I mean EVERYONE, is for sale.
How about that “winning culture….”
We have bad players. Even worse, we have bad players who don’t care. Every single player is on the block, and most of them, including teh fan favorites (Varejao), will be gone by the deadline. JJ Sullinger here we come.
Call me what you will but I watched the pregame, watched the intros, watched the tip off, watched Mo get picked for the first play of the game, watched Mo call a timeout on the second possession of the game
then turned my T.V off. I could tell what was in store.
Team’s gotta be blown up. Shed Jamison’s contract, a contender somewhere will likely pick him up (though a 2- year contract is much harder to move than an expiring).
I worry that Dan Gilbert is too proud/involved to make the right move.
Jamison doesn’t like Chris Bosh. He’s about the only one who showed any fire, at least early on.
why we suck so bad??
@19 because you have a team of misfits who were brought in to be final pieces around one player. Now that one player is gone and all you have is misfits. I agree that everyone on this team should be available. Guys like Gibson, Varejao, Mo and Hickson will never be more then role players. Mo Williams had a chance last night to step up and just like in the playoffs he disappeared. People around here put everything from last playoffs on you know who well after last night I can understand why he may have gotten tired of carrying them all. Everyone says he didn’t respect or was endulged well if the Cavaliers had anyone with some stones or talent equal to him maybe it’d been different. Fact isvthey didn’t. Add in the personal weakness of Ferry and Brown and there you go.
Lastly I don’t hate on Byron Scott unlike Brown he’s actually coaching unfortunately he doesn’t have the players, again. He certainly doesn’t have a player who will step up and lead by example. He has a team of spare part misfits who’d rather slide by then fight for a win. Gibson personifies it and not just because he was loving on his former teammate but because he’s always been an overrated hair cut do one thing can’t even dribble player.
I think LeBron knew exactly what he was doing last night. He spent a lot of time in past seasons with those guys and knew that they would bow down to him as soon as he hit the floor, which is why he spent half the night over at the Cavs bench talking.
Brian-
I don’t think he had some ulterior motive. I actually believe he didn’t think he was doing anything wrong.
I am done with the CAVS until they get guys that will fight and scrap, even in defeat. These clowns don’t care, all they know is that they’re getting paid the same either way. I am even more glad now that I dropped FSO and I haven’t purchased any tickets this season because what the heck for? Who wants to pay to watch a bunch of millionaires who don’t really care about competition act like they’re competing. That little class reunion with the CAVS bench and Lebron that we watched mid game on TNT last night was a joke. I will spend more time this year at local HS bball games with my son and less on my cable and trips to the Q. Gilbert… if we’re just outmatched I can accept the loss if our guys are trying…. if we’re gonna get the same crap like last night, you should just go scoreless like my little girl’s Tball league so everyone feels good in the end…. I guess this is why these guys are professional athletes and not professional competitors.
This is just another lesson in the long, long textbook called “The Players on the Teams You Root For DON’T CARE ABOUT THE GAMES AS MUCH AS YOU DO”. Seriously, should we be surprised? I mean, I suspect some of the Cavs’ players were hurt by The Decision, but not for the reasons that Barkley posed. That’s a fan’s perspective. I don’t think guys like Jamison and even Mo Williams believed James’ leaving was him saying, “You’re not good enough!” The looked at it from their own perspective of: “Where does this leave ME?”
Pro athletes of this generation almost to a fault respect other pro athletes, especially when it comes to free agency and “getting theirs,” because at the end of the day it doesn’t really matter to them. They’re all getting paid, and a rising tide lifts all boats.
So, am I surprised that so many of the guys who played EVERY DAY with LeBron for so many years were friendly toward him? Nah. Am I surprised that LeBron fed off the hate of the crowd? Absolutely not (I was telling friends before the game he would go for 50).
What I am surprised about is how many people thought this would be a close game.
More than anything, I’m just glad it’s over. As Andrew said, let this be some of the closure we need, and as many of you have said here–and have been saying since The Decision–let this be the sign that it’s time to start over with this team. LeBron is a good basketball player, maybe the best in the league. We all knew this. So, was anyone really surprised at how he played last night?
My favorite part about this post is that it’s filed under Cleveland Gladiators. lol
Agreed with u DP
This just goes to show that Browns fans are way rowdier than Cavs fans. Browns fans ENDED a playoff game after a ref made a bad call and are notorious for throwing crap at players that get too close to the DAWG POUND. Cavs fans… #6 threw his powder in your face and there was no retaliation. What happened to throwing your shoe at him when he did that? The cops probably would’ve given you an “atta boy” and let you go to your car after they escorted you out. You don’t need the team to do well to be violent, the Browns have been bad since the 90’s.
@Nicky – haha, but who would pay for seats close enough to #6’s powder toss only to intentionally get kicked out before the tip. Although, if someone did throw a shoe, I would imagine it would go a lot like this…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_RFH7C3vkK4&NR=1&feature=fvwp
Actually, Nicky, that wasn’t even a playoff game. It was a regular season game against Jacksonville in a season in which the Browns finished 7-9.
Who throws a shoe? Honestly!
@DP
Good call on the Jaguars game, I guess they were just fighting for a playoff spot. Still, HUNDREDS of Browns fans intentionally attempted to PHYSICALLY HARM the refs for simply making a bad call… #6 is essentially Cleveland’s Darth Vader – “You were supposed to destroy the Sith, not join them!” I expected a lot more. But, basketball is not football… the chants were pretty creative though I guess. I guess I can’t say that I wouldn’t exactly want to be charged with assault for hitting #6 in the face with a shoe, but you have to think someone who did that would become a Cleveland sports legend… after he got out of jail.
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