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This is not how it was supposed to go. It seems as though everyone in and out of the NBA organization had the Finals set back around Christmas. Those plans were only validated when Kevin Garnett went down with a knee strain against the Jazz. Somebody forgot to tell the Orlando Magic and the Denver Nuggets about these reservations.

Denver can be considered an exception (possibly) to beat the Lakers. Not just because Denver is a different team with Chauncey Billups, and they finally got rid of Iverson. The main reason is the Lakers have shown everyone their flaw that they can be a soft team that simply takes off games.

Even in the second round of the playoffs against Houston the Lakers just looked like they did not care about certain games. Well the series is tied at two and game five is tonight. Let's see how much they care.

Back East the time for crisis and panic has come quicker for the Cavs. The team that was supposed to simply destroy every team they face in the playoffs, and they did in the first two rounds, can not figure out how to stop Dwight Howard. A last second shot by Lebron James is the only thing that has them not playing golf for the rest of the summer.

The first thing Cleveland should do is try to make it a 5 on 5 game and not 5 on 1. Besides Lebron no Cleveland player can be proud about what they have done or said this series.

Mo Williams did a great job with the guarantee of a series win. No stutters or mumbling or backtracking at all. Of course it would help if the second best player on the team could help Lebron and make a three pointer, and not force Lebron to have to score over 40 points a game.

There is no reason to doubt that the Cavs or Lakers will come back and win their series. To be honest if at least one of those two does not win I will be stunned. But changes and adjustments are going to have to be made. Pau Gasol is going to need more then 10 shots tonight and not allow Denver to make 20 offensive rebounds. Let's see what happens.