Cleveland's Finest

I appreciate you recognizing that. I only said that because I was responding to Flash, who by this point should be recognized as someone who quite often trolls me regardless if I'm talking about LeBron.

Maybe I'm going off the last few years, but he's more visible in the fourth, and I don't remember him having bad scoring stretches that last a few games, such as when LBJ struggled offensively against Dallas, and against Boston when we played them in 2008 (first four games he shot a combined 20-78). Point is, the distribution of production is uneven with LeBron. With Durant, I know what I am getting. I've seen him make plays when needed on a consistent basis, and that points to his reliability. You really can't argue with that if you've watched the past few seasons.

I don't comment garbage at all. I don't like him, but I don't come in here and troll when he loses.

Going off one game, or body of work? Durant's been more reliable...no denying that. Until he has a lousy playoff stretch especially.

I'm sure you have that opinion any time the two teams play. Very biased statement.

Reason Heat won both games 1 and 4 is foul trouble for Indy. Hibbert and West need to play a full game, and if that doesn't happen, then Indy loses its advantage. This series is over. It was must-win for both teams.

Unbelievable intensity from Indiana to start.

Then why waste two years with him as your coach?

They need to trade Smith, because no one will take Joe's contract. Then build around Teague, Horford, JJ, whatever they get for Smith, and they have some other good players...Ivan Johnson played pretty good during the regular season.

This must be so taxing on Durant.

Westbrook isn't approaching LeBron with any momentum. Wade trucked over Collison while Westbrook actually slowed down to foul a guy twice his size.

That's what came with getting 3 stars and having little around them. Sure, there's Haslem, Anthony, Chalmers, and Miller, but the way this team is constructed is so different from a normal basketball team that stuff like this is bound to happen. The Heat don't have a true center on their team, no playmaker off the bench, etc...the only thing they are really good at when looking at the role-players is rebounding/defense.

Nice picture...but honestly, Danny Granger has underperformed in the first two games. He needs to play at least respectable games the rest of this series. Indiana needs more scoring from him. Also, did anyone else notice the elbow LBJ attempted to throw at Granger's face following the foul? If that connected, we would be talking about something right now. Instead, the ref decided to completely disregard it.

If we're talking team success, I would've preferred getting Gortat if I was a Rockets fan, or getting a center in the draft. They would certainly get a better deal, and having Gortat would give them more offense from the position. Look, Dwight is good, but these past couple of seasons have exposed his free throw problems and his offensive game, which still hard to watch at time. Also, in the West, it would be even more competitive. I don't see him being able to change the type of player he is. As of now, he's a dominant and athletic defensive center with questionable offense due to his occasional scoring droughts and poor free throw shooting.

The difference is one is from a superstar, and another is from a player not many people know of. Wade will get off easy because he can't be suspended for the playoffs. The thing that I take out of this is the continued downfall of Wade's image, at least in my eyes. Ever since LBJ has come to Miami, he just seems like a different player AND person. Steven A Smith had a few good points about this during a First Take episode. A superstar should be above a foul like that, specifically on someone as small as Collison. There's a million other ways to go about fouling him that don't involve carelessly shoving him to the ground like that. A bigger problem is seeing Wade complain. You know what you did was dirty; shut up, and let the Pacers get their free throws.

This atmosphere is gonna be insane.

I was very impressed during his first acceptance when he had the whole team come on stage at his old high school to accept the award...but this below sums up how meaningless his word were.

Rooting for Denver. Love the make-up of this team. They were affected with the superstar plague as the Cavs were, and it'd be nice to see them stick it to Melo with a first round series win over the Lakers. Artest's return is a non-factor imo at least for this particular game. Denver needs Afflalo to play like he did in Game 5. Needs to hit 3s...his offense is needed in a game like this. They also need Al Harrington to finally have a big game, meaning 10-15 points and physical play. I trust Andre Miller to bring it.

Again, you continue to be a hypocrite. Keep trolling.

This is so amateur. Hope it comes back to haunt them in Game 7.

Parker should've won it. How many years now have people said the Spurs have no chance at being a contender in the West? If anything, the Heat played below expectations. Remember all of that 60-6 talk at the beginning of the year? Also, Parker lead 2 double digit winning streaks, which is impressive.

The Lakers won't need Barnes as much once Artest returns. Barnes has shot way too many threes this series. He's been good rebounding and being active, thought. Wish I could watch this game...hope the Nuggets win.

It's so annoying listening to Reggie Miller kiss LeBron's ass during commentary. Same exact stuff we heard from Scottie Pippen last year. Come on, you guys should be above that.

Happy for Denver...they played their asses off and deserve this. Hope they can somehow win this series. And how about Andre Miller and JaVale McGee? Miller continues to fly under the radar, and McGee is shocking the world given where he was a few months ago.

This is what the Nuggets have needed from Afflalo all series. And how many stupid goal tends will McGee have?