Game Thread #10: Cleveland Cavaliers at Indiana Pacers
by Tom Lewis on Nov 20, 2009 4:30 PM EST
in Indiana Pacers News
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PrintCleveland Cavaliers at Indiana Pacers, Nov 20, 2009 7:00 PM EST
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| Novermber 20, 2009 - 7:00PM EST | ||
| Conseco Fieldhouse | ||
| Radio: 1070AM WFNI TV: Fox Sports Indiana | ||
| Probable starters: | ||
| Mo Williams | PG | T.J. Ford |
| Anthony Parker | SG | Brandon Rush |
| LeBron James | SF | Dahntay Jones |
| J.J. Hickson | PF | Danny Granger |
| Zydrunas Ilgauskas | C | Roy Hibbert |
The Indiana Pacers try to start up a fresh winning streak when they take on LeBron James and the Cleveland Cavaliers tonight at Conseco Fieldhouse. Yes, one can be a winning streak.
The Pacers should have no problem getting up for this one, with a capacity crowd electrifying the joint they'll need to tap into that energy to keep Mo Williams in check and then make sure LeBron doesn't just take over the game and single-handedly carry the Cavs to a win. Last year, Danny Granger was real feisty with LeBron and seemed to relish the challenge. Even got the better of him for a win in one of the games. I'm expecting much of the same tonight.
LeBron will be playing with a minor wrist injury and without Shaq and Anderson Varejao in the front court. Now I'm not advocating dirty play here, but if JOB simply lets Tyler Hansbrough play for a few minutes with LeBron on the court, there's a pretty good chance that Bron's wrist may be left worse for wear after a few minutes. Just a thought.
For a Cleveland perspective check out Fear The Sword and Cavs: The Blog
Please leave your comments and observations on the game in the comments. As always, pop open an extra browser to follow Bruno's live blog. Also, after the jump, an update from the Tweet-Master General of the Pacers locker room, T.J. Ford.
Earlier today, T.J. Ford tweeted about he and Dahntay Jones.
False statement about @tj_ford @dahntay1 having beef.. We're family headed for the same goals.. My man since college..
Personally, I never thought the two players had a beef based on the failed fast break in question early in the Knicks game on Wednesday. I just didn't like T.J.'s public dramatics over Dahntay making a poor judgment on the break.
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guarding LeBron
JOB plans to start with Dahntay but expects Danny and Rush to spend time on him as well. As he put it, they have 18 fouls to work with and hopefully they won’t need them all.
Murph is available tonight
off the bench. Foster remains out but expects to play on Sunday. Plans to use Murph plenty off the bench and has no problem playing him with Hansbrough at the same time.
OK
Now Murph is starting along with TJ, Rush, Danny and Roy according to the just-released lineups.
So apparently, JOB is not planning to begin with Dahntay on LeBron. Hmmm. Guess we’ll see at tip time.
Seriously, tip time for the starters
Despite what’s been submitted, there may be late change with Dahntay starting which wouldn’t be a change at all since JOB just talked about it 40 minutes ago.
No no no
LeBron throws a behind the back pass for Hickson, takes two bounces and hits Parker in the corner for a three.
Big Z
Crazy that this guy is still rockin it in the NBA. If only Smits could have had that durability.
He was well past half court giving it to the ref
was T’d up once and just kept going. Ref sent him packin’.
JOB
so will he come on here and chat during the rest of the game? I mean, what else is he going to do?
Hansbrough
just stunned LeBron by knocking down an 18-footer in Bron’s face. Bron literally stopped dead in his tracks for a second. Classic.
Hansbrough enters
Hope he exceeds the 20-minute mark from the other night. Love seeing his minutes continue to rise.
Exciting and fun
Let’s see if we can keep this intensity up for a sequential quarter. That would be phenomenal.
Backcourt
Pacers starting backcourt has 15 combined points tonight. Big B-I-G improvement over the New York game. Gotta get good performances out of Ford and Rush to have chances in these games.
Ack
Dahntay stripped LeBron but took off without the ball. Bron missed the jumper but guess who, cleaned it up (Varejao).
Survived
Quarters of scoring 23 and 21. lets not tempt fateby going for the teens in the fourth ala the knicks game
odd lineup right now
probably haven’t played togegther before. Need to find some offense until Danny returns.
Pacers can't make a shot or commit a foul
at least the ref wouldn’t call one on TJ and Danny as they tried to slap the ball out of LBJ’s hands.
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