by Cee_em_bee on Fri Dec 24, 2004 11:21 pm
The season started off with a back to back against arguebly the 2 toughest teams in the East, Indiana and Miami
The 1st game was against Indiana at the Gund Arena, The Cavs came out hot scoring 33 points while the Pacers scored 25, The Cavs unfortunately were held to 21, 20 aand 17 in the next 3 quarters, Lebron James was virtually unstoppable through the 1st 3 quarters scoring 23 points but was kept scoreless in the last period.
Lebron James was quoted in the post game conference saying "Wow, they really are good at hitting contested shot after contested shot in the 4th quarter. "
Indiana 103 - Cleveland 91
Lebron James 25 pts, 9 reb, 5 ast, 6 stls
Zydrunus Ilgauskas 18pts, 11 reb, 4blk, 4to
Vladmir Radmanovich 18pts, 7 reb, 4 blks, 4to
Ron Artest 23 pts, 7reb, 1stl
Reggie Miller 22pts, 7reb, 4stl
Player of the game: Reggie Miller
The 2nd game was at Miami against Shaquille O'neal and the Heat.. It was a very tight contest with the lead being no larger then 9 to either team, By the time the 4th quarter had come Miami was only down by 3 and started off the 4th hot getting as far as 6 points ahead, But then Lebron turned into mr clutch Scoring 14 points to give the Cavs a 117-110 victory.
Shaquille O'neal was quoted as saying in the postgame conference "Unfortunately I was unable to rehearse any witty catch phrazes this week so I'll have to pass up on this interview.
Cleveland 117 - Miami 110
Lebron James 35 points, 7 rebounds11 assists, 1 stl
Vladmir Radmanovich 18 pts, 11reb, 2 blks
Mike Miller 27ts, 3reb
Damon Jones 16pts, 4reb, 1stl
Shaquille O'neal 30 pts(14-17fg) 12 reb, 7blk
Eddie Jones 31 pts, 2stl
Dwyane Wade 32 pts, 10ast
Player of the game: Lebron James
Cleveland Cavaliers 1-1.