LeBron James pulled out the full arsenal of maneuvers scoring a "double nickel" Friday night. James filled up the highlight reel with something contrary to what we are used to seeing him do. Make three's. James hit 8 three point bombs, 4 of which came during a 3 minute span where he notched 16 points. LeBron may have borrowed Stephen Curry of Davidson's touch and forgot to give it back. Zydrunas Ilgauskus summed up the performance best saying, "It was almost like watching a video game." That's exactly how James looked, hitting fade-away three point baskets and running jump hooks down the lane. Surprisingly, we weren't granted any high-flying dunks from James.
On a side note Anderson Varejao's flop sparking a small skirmish in the second half was classic Varejao. I thought the NBA was supposed to fine and penalize excessive flops? Varejao is one of the worst in the League with this. I'm all for the Cav's being so team oriented that they back each other during scuffles and even go as far as as a team physically checking on injured players when they are down on the court. However, Ilgauskus had no business making his way toward Charlie Villanueva after he knocked down Varejao. It led to the domino effect of emotion. I can see this creating future problems that the League will have to deal with especially in the playoffs. Issues similar to the ramifications of the Steve Nash/Robert Horry charge attempt/ body block (depending on if you're a Suns or Spurs fan). The league should set a standard distinguishing the difference between a peacemaker and an instigator in a situation. Possibly penalizing the instigator more heavily. I didn't see the game live so I don't know if it happened but Ilguaskus should have been awarded a technical at least.
Lebron was killin them! Some of those shots were crazy! Almost like he was practicing at home and figured out that he could hit from anywhere on the court!...have to disagree on the scuffle tho. Only thing Ilgauskus did wrong was steppin to Villanueva w/o smackn him for that sh!t. he was dead wrong.
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