Cavs Stay Undefeated at Home

The Cavaliers win again with another blowout victory over the Golden State Warriors (5-11), 112-97. With this win at the Q, the Cavs improve to a league best 9-0 at home for the season. This ties a franchise record for the best start at home for a season.

Golden State's "run and gun" style of playing caught the Cavs off guard early in the first. They connected on their first six shots and jumped out to a 15-4 lead. By the end of the first, the Warriors held a 32-29 lead.

"They play a funky style of basketball that we're not quite used to," Mike Brown said. "It gave us a ton of problems."

Cleveland kept the score close and trailed 40-41 mid-way through the second when Lebron James checked back in. He led the Cavs to a 58-52 lead at halftime. The momentum stayed with them throughout the rest of the game.

They led by as many as 28-points in the fourth and Cleveland's bench logged in the majority of the minutes in the final quarter. The Cavs have won their past four games by an average of 18 points per game.

With these big leads, the starters have been able to rest throughout the fourth quarter and the bench has been getting some burn. It is important for the starters to get rest early in the season and for the second unit to get more playing time because it will help this team stay healthy and become more ready for their playoff run. Lebron played only 17 minutes on Wednesday and just 30 minutes on Friday.

"I feel great, the past three games I played 30, 17 and 30 minutes again," James said. "Sometimes you play four of five nights and that fourth game could be bad, but I'm good, I'm great."

Lebron led the team with 23-points on 9-of-13 shooting and also added eight-assists and seven-rebounds. Ilguaskas followed him with 21-points. Mo Williams and Daniel Gibson each had 16, while Delonte West added 13.

"We're playing great basketball right now," James said. "We're flowing the same way every game. We have the confidence flowing."

The Cavaliers improve to 13-3 and hold first place in the Central Division. They will take on Mo's former team, the Milwaukee Bucks (7-11) tomorrow night in Milwaukee.