Anyone who watched the game for more than five minutes tonight (tonight obviously having been game 1) was treated to a borefest combined with some incredibly sloppy play. The Spurs played one half pretty much (hint, it wasn't the one following the open tip) and they still dominated. I'm a Pistons fan and even I got bored rooting for the East rep. (I have much respect for the Spurs though despite them taking us in game seven a couple years back, they are a tremendous team).
This series is going to be a complete joke, and the Cavs will muster one game at most through the help of the inevitable "shaky ref" game that's bound to happen in either game three or four... and even then I'm not totally sure the Cavs will be able to do anything with the help...
Terrible coaching, terrible supporting cast (offensively at least, they aren't that bad defensively, that's where they save themselves), Gibson is the only person who can make an open shot dependably besides Lebron and they don't run hardly any plays for him because Mike Brown is retarded and just now, at this point in the season, realized this kid could do this, and overall, without Lebron, this would be a very average team. Even with him, his support all around is so poor that they're mearly a good team that got a darned lucky run through the crappy Eastern playoffs playing a team in Washington RAVAGED by injuries, and a team as old as the Titanic from the Titanic division (old in play, not in actual age oddly enough, as the Nets do have some players who aren't heinsously old vets who're overrated), and a Pistons team that just could not muster a single good game throughout the entire series and still stole two games (which they were pretty lucky to get)...
I feel bad for Lebron... if it's going to be like this year in and year out, I don't see him ever bringing a title to Cleveland... as good as he is... it'll be a shame... shining for one game against the Pistons doesn't mean you've "come out." It means you've given yourself a chance to come out which he sure didn't further do in tonights game one of the finals. If James had slipped for even a moment in game five against the Pistons, we'd be watching Pistons v Spurs II, and anybody who knows basketball knows this. Lebron can not duplicate on a regular basis that performance, and unfortunately, that's what the Cavs will need... again, I feel so bad for Lebron... Pavlovich and Gibson... he better hope they develop, because the rest of that cast really doesn't have much promise.Â
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