Lil Red Machine

I don’t think the Cavs want homecourt so much as they need it.

Quicken Loans Arena has turned into a madhouse.  Back in the Lamond Murray/Chris Mihm/DaJuan Wagner era, I could go to a game the day of, and get courtside seats off of a scalper for $40, and hang out with a few thousand of my buds, and count by hand the number of people sitting in the upperdeck.  It was a depressing place.

Now, it’s amazing to see the place light up the way it has.  Who cares if the majority of the fans are fair weather?  They are there, and they are making a difference.  The crowd really helped propel them to victory tonight against the Magic 97-93.  Everyone who follows Cavaliers basketball knows that the Magic has given them fits lately.  Only one home loss on the season, and it’s mid-March.  LeBron did his thing, pouring in 43 points.  Mo Williams had 21.  Both men hit clutch shots.

Orlando has a bright future, though, and they aren’t a team I would want to face in the playoffs.  They kept it close, despite a relatively quiet 15-point game from Dwight Howard, who only took 8 shots.  That’s the same number of three-pointers that Rashard Lewis took–and missed.  Both of those occurances are statistical anomylies.