Goldman: Time to simply appreciate, enjoy LeBron
OK, this is getting ridiculous.
I don’t know how LeBron James does it, time after time after time. Heck, I don’t want to know. There are certain things in life that are better not to know – that are better just to observe, and in appropriate circumstances, enjoy.
“Another moment indelibly etched in time for the Cleveland Cavaliers and LeBron James,” television play-by-play announcer Mark Jones said moments after the superstar banked in a running one-hander from a tough angle on the left side to give the Cavs a 105-103 win Saturday night, along with a commanding 3-0 advantage over Toronto in the Eastern Conference semifinals.
Indelible.
Many Raptors fans have learned that the hard way. They have already been trying for hours to delete the shot from their memories.
A few other takes I have following the win:
* It was evident from his post-game comments that Toronto coach Dwane Casey put a good share of the blame for his team’s loss on the officiating. I did see at least a couple calls that seemed to favor the Cavaliers, but I also saw a few that seemed to aid Toronto. One call Casey was especially livid about when it happened dealt with the concept of verticality as it applied to a play on which James was ruled to have been fouled by Serge Ibaka. I guess my definition of the term is different from Casey’s. I always thought that “verticality,” true to its roots, referenced the concepts of being, and/or remaining, straight in an up-and-down manner.
* On a different subject, it seems to me that Jones could use a lesson in subtraction. I’m not just referring to the obvious example, when he proclaimed that the Raptors trailed by one when they had in fact tied the game. There was another instance of a similar error moments earlier.
If Jones doesn’t have time for a lesson, perhaps he could at least look at “The Diff” on the Quicken Loans scoreboard—an entity which, up until now, I had dismissed as being useless.
* Finally, this is not to disparage the Indiana Pacers, who put up a valiant fight in the opening round. But two things that I certainly do not miss about them since their departure are Lance Stephenson and those ugly yellow uniforms.
Stephenson is talented, as was mentioned multiple times during that series. But his negative aspects, which largely involve his mouth and hard fouls, were largely glossed over as a part of his game that you live with if you have him on your team.
That’s just the thing; I wouldn’t have him on my team.
As for those uniforms, they pretty much speak for themselves.
