Watch and React

One of if not the best rivalry in the NBA continued last night with the Wiz meeting up with the Cavs in Cleveland. The Wiz came out scorching hot and opened up a lead of as big as 18 points. Everything seemed to be clicking for them. At the end of the first period, the score was 31-17. However, the Wiz were getting their bigs in foul trouble and the bench seemed to let up allowing the Cavs to come back and by halftime the score was only 54-50 Wiz. In the second half, the Cavs continued to attack and ended up winning 102-90. So the Wizards only scored 59 points in the final 36 minutes of the game. So the Cavs as is there calling card played some lockdown D. If the Wiz are to take the next step, they also need to have consistent defensive efforts because they have the horses to score ponts. Performances of note:
- Arenas and Butler each had 22 points for the game. Arenas also had 7 boards and 5 assists
- Mike Miller was the only other Wizard in double figures with 12 points and he also added 8 rebounds.
- Blatche and Haywood combined for only 15 points, 17 rebounds, and 3 blocks and the Washington "bigs" (Blatche, Haywood, McGee, Oberto) had 16 fouls.
- LeBron was LeBron with 27 points, 8 boards, 6 dimes and he also added 3 steals
- Shaq had 21-8 and Mo had 15 points and also 6 assists
- Varejao was his typical grunt work self getting a double-double with 10 points and 10 boards with a steal and a block as well