I've never had a WRITE-UP for 3 games in one week in 8 years here. Tonight that changes. CAVS@NETS!!

It's not about rest or no rest.... this team makes no sense what so ever and absolutely sucks balls on 1 day lay offs. They could have 4 back to backs in a row and play better than having a 1 day lay off. 

1 day breaks are the most common in between game rest days in the league... explains why the Cavs are 20+ games under .500. 

Aside from that Brooklyn has not laid down in any spot they have been in since getting blown out in Portland by 30+ points a month ago. We buried them in Dallas... they come back and abuse them on the road.... buried them in New orleans on a brutal back to back stretch they fight in that one too.... (they had that game locked but let it slip).... Had them losing to hungry Charlotte team that hasn't beaten them in a while.... punched them right back and forced OT with them again.... 

Love all your write ups and as always excellent points.... Brooklyn is a horrible match up for the Cavs to begin with coupled with the spot I gotta go the other way tonight.  

Everyone is a horrible matchup for the Cavs. They are bottom feeders.

And I say the one day layoff doesn't matter because, as I tried to reiterate throughout, something like that would apply to a game in mid-January, but not near the beginning of April with teams scratching and clawing for their playoff lives, verses ones just fighting for seeding, like the nets who are firmly entrenched in the pack.

For me, those 'one day rest' trends fly out of the window tonight and the game will be decided by who wants it more. The Cavs have clearly shown they are making one last desperate push. It almost certainly won't be enough but until the Hawks start winning, the Cavs will continue to gain ground. 

For Brooklyn you are right, they have impressed. But these last two OT games shocked me, and both featured Deron's best performances of the season. That had to be unsettling to the team and him. Now he will have his work cut out for him in a backcourt that is really trying to make up for everything it wasn't all year in Waiters and JJack.

They just had to get themselves to believe.

That happened at the Garden last Saturday.

Now they fly back to the scene of the crime where they stole an 8 game winning streak and had the Knicks reeling before the win against the Kings.

Same city, same situation. Time to steal another. And we are handed 9 (now 8). 

Time to start believing. It looks like they've been doing such that the last 7 days. All we need is another 48 minutes of that to cash. Keep it close and let JJ win it. 

For Nets fans, that JJ better be Joe Johnson because the other JJ, Jarrett Jack is coming to their house and he has a black ski mask on.

Good to know

That would be amazing wouldn't it. 9 would be wonderful to have heading to OT. I'd obviously settle for a 1 - 2 point victory either way I. Regulation though....

Keep it up

Cavs season is on the line and the Cavs have done this going down big 4 of the last 6. This was a bad quarter but this is a bad team and this was not unexpected. 

The foul with two seconds was killer or else we are on the number.

But that is what bad teams do and we have to deal with it. A semi-solid third makes up for it. And with the season on the line we should see that.

This game is supposed to be nothing like the kings Knicks. Totally different landscape and circumstances.