The Cavaliers and the San Antionio Spurs will pla each other tonight in Cleveland in which each team will look to win without a key player to their rosters.San Antiono's Tony Parker strained his left calf in Sunday's win against the Memphis Grizzles, is expected to miss 2-4 weeks.
On the other side, Cleveland's leading scorer at 18.0 points a game will most likely miss the rest of the season. Antawn Jamison broke is left pinky finger in the lose against the 76ers.
San Antonio will look to avoid losing consecutive games for just the second time this season. The last time they lost consecutive games was back in January when they lost to Boston and New York.
The Spurs immediately felt the impact of missing Tony Parker in their starting lineup. They had 21 turnovers against the Grizzles and the defense was awful, something the Cavaliers should take notice.
For the Cavaleirs, their road without their starting forward Antawn Jamison starts tonight. The injury will allow younger guys to log more minutes including Samardo Samuels.
Samuels was named the starting center yesterday, allowing JJ Hickson to move over to power forward.
Coach Scott wants JJ Hickson to continue his recent succes at his natural positon and that being the power foward spot. Jamison's injury will also allow younger players to step-up. Newly aquired, Luke Harangody will be the only player available to play tonight of the three that were traded to Cleveland.
Baron Davis is still nursing a Knee injury and Semih Erdan will be out for another week will his own injury. However, Luke Harangody will look to improve his game and show his potential with more of an opportunity to play with Cleveland.
Tip-off is at 7:00pm at Quicken Loans Arena.
No comments:
Post a Comment