Cavs Run Win Streak to Eight Straight
With LeBron James and Shaquille O’Neal in the lineup, its looking harder and harder to beat the Cavs each night.
The two perennial All-Stars combined for 35 points to help the Cavs beat the Grizzlies 105-89 on Tuesday night, boosting the Cavs’ win streak to eight.
For the fifth time in the past six games, LeBron dished out 10 or more assists (he finished with 15 on the night, along with 22 points and six rebounds); his passing excellence comes at a perfect time for the Cavs, while PG Mo Williams remains injured on the sidelines.
But more importantly than the always excellent play from The King… Shaquille O’Neal made his presence felt on the Memphis frontcourt.
Shaq dropped 13 points, grabbed 13 rebounds and blocked four shots in just 21 minutes of action. Extrapolate those statistics to an average 36-minutes/game, and Shaq’s back to his averages from his prime.
“He looks great,” James said. “He’s motivated. When Mo and Delonte went down he decided to step his game up, which we knew he could do. He’s just playing with a little bounce in his step that he didn’t have at the start. But he had a different mindset than we all thought. We all thought he was playing slow, he was just saving himself for the second half of the season.
“He tricked all of us, I guess,” he said.
