Cavaliers-Magic: The King and His Court Shine in Game Five Victory

One down, two to go.

That's where the Cleveland Cavaliers season stands after their enormous Game Five victory last night at The Q.

The tone for last night's game was set about 45 minutes prior to tip-off.

LeBron James stood in front of his team mates and made somewhat of a speech. He game his team mates a rundown on the history of teams being down three games to one. He told them how eight teams have come back from this deficit and that there was no reason this team couldn't be the ninth.

Will they be? That is yet to be determined.

That wasn't the only thing LeBron said however. LeBron told his teammates that he was going to take the "backseat" early on in the game to get his teammates involved.

Actions speak louder than words, however—and his actions were screaming last night!

When the game started Mo Williams let it be known to everyone that this would not be another game where he was absent. He was brilliant in the first quarter, burying his first three shots from long distance.

Mo sparked the Cavs through the entire quarter and they looked like they were on pace for a 30-point victory. After one quarter of play, the home team was up by a score of 35-18. Their biggest lead was 22.

However, if you have been watching this series, you knew this lead wasn't safe. You saw the Cavs blow leads of 23 and 17 early on in Games One and Two, respectively.

Again, much like Games One and Two, the Magic came back like storm troopers in the second quarter. They outscored the Cavs 37-21 in the quarter and battled all the way back to a 56-55 half time score.

For on reason or another, the Magic have started all three games in Cleveland at a turtle's pace. I don't know what they need to do to correct this problem, but if they want to win this series, Stan Van Gundy better figure it out quickly.

Maybe he should tell his team to pretend it's the second quarter to start the game?

Like the Cavs did to start the game, the Magic came out firing on all cylinders at the beginning of the third quarter. They scored the first five points of the period after a Mickael Peitrus' three ball.

At the end of three quarters of play, the Magic were up 79-78.

They were twelve minutes away from advancing to the NBA Finals for the second time in the franchise's history.

Unfortunately for them, this is where the tides turned.

On the last Cavs bucket of the period, LeBron James found a wide open Daniel Gibson in the corner for a three ball.

Little did we know, that pass from LeBron would be the start of something historic.

The fourth quarter became the LeBron James show. It was as simple as LeBron James saying "I will not lose in my building, without having a say."

Oh, he had a say, alright.

How about he had a say in 32 straight Cavs points.

That's right. That was not a typo. LeBron James scored or assisted on 32 consecutive points for his team down the stretch. To be exact, he scored on 17 of the points and assisted on 15 of the points.

Unbelievable.

That is what great players do on the biggest stages.

Of course, LeBron is no stranger to performances like this.

We all remember Game Five of the 2007 Eastern Conference Finals versus the Detroit Pistons. LeBron scored the last 29 points for his team, basically ripping the heart out of the Pistons and the entire city of Detroit.

The only difference was that performance put the Cavs up three games to two, where as last nights epic performance put the Cavs down three games to two.

As brilliant as LeBron was last night during that stretch, that wasn't the key to the teams victory.

Nope.

The role players were the reason they won. LeBron could of made all the great passes he wanted too, but if his team mates didn't knock them down, it wouldn't matter.

Finally, they showed up. Each one of the "King's Court" had their hand prints on the victory. Mo Williams had 24 points and buried 6 three pointers, Big Z had 16 points and six rebounds, Delonte had 13 points and three assists, and Varejao had seven points and eight rebounds.

Those were all great numbers for those guys—but the biggest surprise of the game for the Cavs was Daniel Gibson.

"Boobbie" scored 11 points, while burying three three-pointers. All of these were huge buckets.

Whether it's a coincidence or not, the Cavs build their big leads when LeBron is getting his other team mates involved, and they lose their leads when LeBron is playing one-on-five vs. the opponent.

If I can figure that out, I sure hope Mike Brown can.

If not, they may be watching Charles, Kenny and EJ starting their engines after Game Six.