Cavaliers-Celtics: LeBron James, Cleveland Slam Boston in Game Four

2. Harping on a point Reggie Miller made during the broadcast but one that bears repeating, Boobie went to the basket a lot more off the dribble tonight than I can remember. If he can do that somewhat consistently, he becomes a viable threat to score 16-20 points a night and be “that guy” LeBron needs.

His ballhandling is still a bit suspect, and I don’t know if he’ll develop into that “true” point guard, but Boobie can put the ball in the hoop, and that’s still an area of weakness for this team.

3. Another solid performance by Wally’s World tonight. He hit the open shots that he needed to, and his defense on Ray Allen has gone largely unnoticed. He’s fought through baseline screen after baseline screen to chase after him, and Allen has shot the ball well in only two quarters (out of 16) in this series.

4. Curious officiating came up in the second quarter, with lots of touchy, ticky-tack fouls that swung the game back towards the Celtics. The two that stuck out in my mind were the calls against Joe Smith (hedging on a screen against Allen) and Varejao and KG bumping down the court (the foul that put Boston in the bonus with eight minutes left.)

Then, with LeBron picking up his third defending Allen—I honestly didn’t see where this took place but it very well could have—the Celtics seemed poised to surge into the lead going into halftime.

The Cavs certainly struggled but held on to take a two-point lead into the break, which was the same margin it was after the first, even though LeBron sat four minutes in that frame.

5. The Cavs won two games on the road in the first round. They won Game Five in Detroit last year. They won in New Jersey. Honestly, if any team in this NBA postseason is going to win a game on the road, it will be the Cavs.

(And they better. They should arguably be closing this series out Wednesday night.)

Finally, one last random rant from Saturday night…who else saw that horrible locker room conversation between Bill Russell and KG that ABC staged? And that cheesy, overly dramatic music ABC had it set to made me want to rip my ears off.

I don’t know why any of that was necessary. I’d rather watch a non-stop loop of LeBron’s Fave Five arenas to play in…

Well, on second thought, maybe I will watch a little more of Bill Russell…

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