2009 NBA PLAYOFFS EASTERN CONFERENCE FINALS (1) CLEVELAND CAVALIERS vs. ORLANDO MAGIC (3)

12-0 is what the Cavaliers are looking to do en route to their second Finals appearance in four years. That soon to be remarkable run will probably come to fruition, because the Cavaliers are on a path of destruction, and the Magic will just be another victim. There is no way the Magic could win this series, or last beyond five games.

First the rest factor, the Cavaliers have had a lot of it, and the Magic haven’t. The Magic are coming off a seven game series win over the defending champion Celtics, and will have had just two days of rest. Whereas the Cavaliers have had over eight days of rest, and are a well rested machine.

Cleveland’s LeBron James is the best player on the planet right now, and no one can stop or limit him. He is pretty much a perfect player that can lead a team to wins, change the game dramatically with one big play, can pass the ball like a point guard, and most of all he has matured very quickly, and knows what it takes to win. That’s all the Cavaliers have been doing, playing the minimum amount of games, and sweeping both series they have played.

The rest of the Cleveland team have played their part well, and have provided LeBron with strong secondary scoring. Even though LeBron’s team mates know how good he is, they still play at a high level, and want to win as mush as he does. Of course we all know how important LeBron is to the Cavaliers, and without they would pretty much suck. Again, LeBron has entered his prime early in his career, and won’t be stopped until he retires. With that, the Magic are no match for the Cavaliers, and will promptly be ousted in four to five games. If the Magic could pull out two wins, they should be proud of that and take that to the bank.

Now on to the Magic, they are like dead men walking in one of those old prison movies, where you know what is going to happen to the bad guys. In this case, the Magic will be the victim to the beating the Cavaliers will lay on them. The Magic did show a lot of guts beating Boston, which included winning games one and seven on the road. The Cavaliers haven’t lost a game at home in these playoffs, and just two the whole year. So, the Magic will struggle on the road in Cleveland. That swagger they obtained will probably be lost, because the Cavaliers have a swagger of their own, and that is too win, and only win.

Defensively, the Magic aren’t at the same level as the Cavaliers. Dwight Howard will be the only Magic player to actually play solid defense and score for the Magic, consistently. As for the other two big names, who by the way are over-rated to the max, Rashard Lewis and Hedo Turkoglu. They will have night mares about LeBron and how he will run circles around them. Lewis and Turkoglu cannot play defense for the life of them.

Simply put, the Cavaliers are too good of a team with LeBron James at the helm, and the Magic just don’t stack up.

SERIES PREDICTION --> THE CLEVELAND CAVALIERS WILL WIN THIS SERIES IN 4 OR 5 GAMES. GIVE THE MAGIC CREDIT; THEY DID BEAT BOSTON, SO MAYBE THEY’LL SQUEAK OUT A WIN.


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