So, call me a masochist, but I DVRed and watched the entire Cavs/Mavs tilt tonight, knowing full well at the outset that the Cavs had roughly zero shot of winning. And yet, here they kept hanging around... hanging around.
They lost to (by far) the best team in the NBA (who else can go 10 freaking deep??) on its home floor... by 3... with some serious home cooking from the officials (let me get this straight... it's a charge when Pavlovic runs into a Mavs player, but when Jason Terry does the exact same fucking thing to Varejao, it's blocking... alright, got it).
Also of importance, LeBron James not only has looked good since right before the All Star break, but was almost unstoppable tonight.... err, until the last 13 seconds when he missed two free throws and two wide-open 3's that would have tied it.
Even still, they looked like a decent enough team, even though they didn't necessarily play all that well. They still ended up giving the Mavs all they could handle, and almost stole a win on the road from a team that's gone 49-5 since the first week of the season (I mean, 49-5!!!).
And, let's be honest: LeBron threw down one of the sicker dunks that this reporter has ever seen on friggin' DeSagana Diop's mug in the first half. As soon as I can find it on YouTube.....
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