An Open Letter to LeBron James.Dear LeBron,
First of all, thanks for the public nutshot to the city of Cleveland. As if The Drive, The Fumble, The Shot, Jose Mesa, and The Choke weren’t enough, now we have The Decision to add to that miserable list of sports failures. If it was always your intention to [...]
Welcome Home Z.As all of us here in Cavalier Nation know, yesterday brought the return to Cleveland of our old friend Zydrunas Ilgauskas. After being traded to the Wizards, then subsequently bought out and allowed to become a free agent, and then waiting 30 days to return to his teammates, you could see the [...]
65 Down, 17 to Go.So here we are in the midst of the Cavs’ longest non-All-Star-break break since November. The beautiful weather in Cleveland (for early March) has been a welcome thing. And aside from a ton of dog poop in my yard, the warm weather has also revealed a stroke of genius [...]
The Detroit Pistons: An Outsider’s Perspective.This post is in no way meant to intrude on my colleague MoFlo’s excellent game preview work here at NumbersDont. He breaks down the opponent on an every-game basis. I’m merely here to add some views on a once great rivalry that has completely disappeared. And admittedly, it makes me [...]
TV-Stats, Volume 2.As we near tonight’s relatively big barometer game vs. the Magic, I thought this would be a good time to follow up my first TV-Stats piece. The Cavs own TNT for the next three Thursday nights and will be featured exclusively on national TV in 10 of their remaining 30 games (4 TNT, [...]
Frontcourt Brothers Again?The NBA trade deadline is rapidly approaching (Thursday February 18th, 3:00 pm ET). That’s just 24 short days away if you’re scoring at home. And once again, the Amare Stoudemire rumors just won’t go away. Today Brian Windhorst dropped this nugget of info onto Cavalier-Land.
We heard the rumors last hear about Stoudemire, so [...]
TV-Stats, Volume 1.In the comments section to my first Uni-Stats piece, reader Brian asked about the Cavaliers’ performance in nationally televised games. After last night’s heartbreaker in Utah, the Cavs are a pedestrian 7-5 (.583) in games shown on ABC, ESPN, or TNT. Yet they are a stellar 23-6 (.793) when AC & Fred have [...]
Uni-Stats, Volume 1.Here at NumbersDont we pride ourselves in digging deeper than what can be easily found in the nightly box scores. We strive to bring you the hard-hitting stats you really yearn for. In that vein, we bring you our first installment of ‘Uni-Stats’… here we will keep track of significant numbers as they [...]
29-0: A Sunday Run in Milwaukee.I have to admit I was a bit dismayed when the Cavs found themselves in an early 11-0 hole to start yesterday’s game in Milwaukee. They looked disinterested in the rare ‘it’s still football season so why the hell are we playing right now?’ time slot they were handed on [...]
Indiana is Basketball, and Home to the Fieldhouse.First, let me disclose that ‘Hoosiers’ is one of my all-time favorite movies, and it easily beats out ‘Teen Wolf’ as my #1 basketball flick. I enjoy both films for entirely different reasons, but I’m here to talk about ‘Hoosiers’ and Indiana basketball today. There’s something about the [...]
