So were supposed to LOSE in order to be a Champion????

[AnotherCavsFan 0]

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Originally posted by COLOMBIANO:

Last year the Cavs beat the opponents 4-0 on the 1st and 2nd round, but you never heard how easy their opponents were, you just heard how good they were till the lucky magic team beat them.

 

Wrong...I remember hearing everyone talk about how the Cavs were yet to face adversity and if it could make a difference against the Magic...Some said it would, some said it wouldn't...Bottom line is, adversity makes teams play better, like it or not...I'm not saying teams need to lose, but hard fought games, come-from-behind victories, games where your bench needs to come through when your starters aren't, that's adversity...

 

The Magic faced a lot of adversity against the Bobcats even though they swept. Dwight was always in foul trouble, and Charlotte fought hard every game, and most of them were close games.

[Leoben 0]

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Originally posted by AnotherCavsFan:

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Originally posted by COLOMBIANO:

Last year the Cavs beat the opponents 4-0 on the 1st and 2nd round, but you never heard how easy their opponents were, you just heard how good they were till the lucky magic team beat them.

 

Wrong...I remember hearing everyone talk about how the Cavs were yet to face adversity and if it could make a difference against the Magic...Some said it would, some said it wouldn't...Bottom line is, adversity makes teams play better, like it or not...I'm not saying teams need to lose, but hard fought games, come-from-behind victories, games where your bench needs to come through when your starters aren't, that's adversity...

 

The Magic faced a lot of adversity against the Bobcats even though they swept. Dwight was always in foul trouble, and Charlotte fought hard every game, and most of them were close games.

I remember everyone saying that Cavs are best team in NBA, LeBron best player in the world and two sweaps are just prove of that, EFC against Magic will be over after 5 or 6 games.

 

When Cavs lost, they were still better team, it was all those matchups (like they don't make one team better from another) and that two sweaps fault becouse Cavs went cold, had too much rest (bad bad Pistons and Hawks for loosing so easy, it's all their fault), BTW you could use it as a excuse in first game, not in whole series.

Now when Magic are dooing the exact same thing, dominating same way or even more against better teams (2010 Bobcats > 2009 Pistons, 2010 Hawks > 2009 Hawks) they are the team that does that only to choke becouse of it in ECF and lose for sure, and they aren't that good, Hawks and Bobcats are just so weak.

 

Big reason for bringing this up all the time is still the need to justify Cavs last year playoff defeat and look for any excuse to blame it a;; on aything else than Magic just playing better basketball in last year ECF and beeing better team.

 

Cavs choked without adversity so Magic have to repeat this ?

 

As you mentioned Bobcats series was adversity. Dwight for excaple said that during whole Bobcats series he wasn't able to be just happy becouse of beeing back in NBA playoffs. Instead he was just angry and frustraited all the time.

Last year playoffs had enough adversities to remember well for next few offseasons, Cavs had much more pressure last year, Magic don't have and don't rely on player proven to chocke in playoffs (like Mo) and one player that chocked the most in last offseason (Hedu) is gone, last year Magic were without Nelson, this playoffs are showing how much he means for this team he's the true team leader and captain of this ship. All these things say against choking becouse of not enough adversity.

[GhostAnime 50]

Magic went through adversity already: in the regular season.