After the Cleveland Cavaliers' season ended Saturday night in an onslaught of Orlando threes and Dwight Howard dunks, drop-step hooks, and again, dunks, the Cavs all responded in different ways. Mo Williams spoke to reporters, the only effective thing he did in the series. LeBron James walked off the floor without speaking to the Magic and left the arena without speaking to anyone. And Ben Wallace was talking about walking away permanently.
Wallace told ESPN that there was a "strong possibility this was (his) last season."
LeBron James didn't stick around Saturday night to speak with anyone about the fall of his Cleveland Cavaliers, leaving the point guard who failed him to speak in his behalf.
King James might not be happy this morning with how he was portrayed -- Mo Williams made him sound like a spoiled child.
Williams meant well when he started talking about the frustration that James was feeling, and why after James showered, he put on his headphones, ignored everyone around him, then walked to the team bus without talking.
Bloggers knee-jerking on the phone + roundtable style = RoundCast.
Okay, we might be overstating it, but the fact of the matter is that a spectacularly played Game 4 of the Eastern Conference final led Moore, Watson and I to discuss LeBron James' future ... both immediate and long term.
After Cleveland managed to take last night's game into overtime, the Magic then reversed the fortunes of this series with a strong overtime period before putting the Cavaliers in a do-or-die situation. Unfortunately, that's a scenario that involves Mo Williams "not being horrible" and "being a man of his word." We take him to task, naturally.
Plain and simple, this is the game that will determine who wins this Eastern Conference final, which is why the intensity level will reach an all-time high.
If the Cavs win Game 4, they knot the series at 2-2 and regain the home-court advantage, turning it into a best-of-three test with two games in Cleveland. The Magic can't pass that test
If the Magic win tonight, it's 3-1 and all but over as the white flag comes out. As resilient as the Magic have been all season, it's tough to see Cleveland winning three straight unless LeBron James can add a twin brother to the roster.
LeBron James chastised his supporting cast, admitting for the first time that unless more help arrives soon, the best season in franchise history will come to a screeching halt in these Eastern Conference finals against the Orlando Magic.
The Magic lead the best-of-seven series, 2-1, with Game 4 tonight in Orlando. The Cavs, who won 66 games during the regular season, are the No. 1 seed. James may be having a fabulous series – averaging 41.7 ppg and shooting 53 percent – but he said that another huge game for him is not a winning formula.
"It would be pretty tough (to win like this),'' he said Monday. "I know they (teammates) can play a lot better. They know it too. I don't want to put more pressure on anyone, but we've got to man up a little bit, take responsibility.''
Magic guard Anthony Johnson responded Monday to the "cheap shot" accusations made by both Cleveland's LeBron James and Mo Williams after Game 3 of the Eastern Conference finals in Orlando.
Johnson got called for a Flagrant I foul on his drive to the basket when he nailed Williams in the face with an elbow, opening a bloody, four-stitch cut on his face. Williams also was called for a personal foul.
"Duck next time," essentially was Johnson's message to Williams. There was no apology, no sense of remorse.
As the NBA Universe tries to adjust to the fact that the team with the best record in the league with the best player in the league faces a 2-1 deficit that would be 3-0 were it not for The Shot Part 11,000, there are some interesting ideas being thrown around as to how the world will right itself, so to speak.
The common reaction is to look to the Cavaliers and ask, "What can they do to get back in this thing?" But instead of attempting to decipher ways to counter the Magic's matchup advantages, or rotation adjustments, or defensive gambles, instead you hear a lot of "Cleveland's shooters have to start making shots."
As if Orlando has had nothing to say about the Cavs' struggles. Just so you're aware, it's not the Fates that have ordained this slump for the No. 1 seed. It's the same principle that got the Cavs that lofty record. Defense.
The bad blood is starting to boil in this Magic-Cavaliers matchup.
Just ask Cleveland's Mo Williams, who left Amway Arena with a four-stitch cut below his left eye and another bandage above the same eye, compliments of an elbow from Magic guard Anthony Johnson.
Williams all but called out Johnson in his postgame rant.
Despite the dramatic finish to Game 2 -- maybe the biggest shot in the career of LeBron James -- the Magic-Cavs series still is tied at 1-1, and Cleveland no longer has the home-court advantage that it worked all season to obtain.
The Magic don't have to win in Cleveland anymore to win this series.
They don't have an answer for James, and how to slow him, but the Cavs also facing facing some glaring problems in trying to contain the inside-out attack of the Magic. This series looks headed for a Game 7 to determine who will represent the East in the NBA Finals.
Were the Cavaliers rusty or simply overrated? Anyone who watched the Magic go into Cleveland and steal home court advantage by winning Game 1 of the Eastern Conference finals is pondering that question today. The answer, as unsatisfying as it may be, is likely somewhere in the middle.
Coming into the game, most of the talk centered on whether the Magic would be fatigued after their grueling seven-game series with the Celtics that ended only after the Magic staved off elimination in back-to-back games. In hindsight, more attention should have been paid to the fact that the Cavs had played a grand total of four games in 24 days entering Wednesday evening, which didn't seem to affect them early but clearly messed with their conditioning late.
After the Cleveland Cavaliers' season ended Saturday night in an onslaught of Orlando threes and Dwight Howard dunks, drop-step hooks, and again, dunks, the Cavs all responded in different ways. Mo Williams spoke to reporters, the only effective thing he did in the series. LeBron James walked off the floor without speaking to the Magic and left the arena without speaking to anyone. And Ben Wallace was talking about walking away permanently. 
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As the NBA Universe tries to adjust to the fact that the team with the best record in the league with the best player in the league faces a 2-1 deficit that would be 3-0 were it not for The Shot Part 11,000, there are some interesting ideas being thrown around as to how the world will right itself, so to speak.
The bad blood is starting to boil in this Magic-Cavaliers matchup.
Despite the dramatic finish to Game 2 -- maybe the biggest shot in the career of 
