[Eaglesfan27]

1st play of the game: Cowen drives into the lane... finds Perkins for a corner 3... Swish!

Irving comes right back with a 3 of his own. Cowen isn't a great defender and he is having trouble with Irving quick as Irving scores 7 quick points...

We close the gap on a few nice baskets inside by Embiid.

9-9 game early.

LeBron starts going to work with a powerful drive and the dunk.

LeBron finds Irving for an easy 3. We can't let him get that open...

Embiid doing big time work inside.

6:00 - We are tied at 14. Embiid is tired. Noel into the game.

They go on a 6-0 run behind LeBron finding open men and making shots.

Perkins with a nice move inside for a little layup to end their run.

LeBron finds Goodwin for an open 3.

At the end of 1, we are down 29-21.

Embiid back into the game and he goes on a tear again to close the gap. Down 31-29.

LeBron comes back from his brief rest and goes to work making plays. Quick baskets to Goodwin and Waiters.

None of my guys are able to effectively guard LeBron. I'm going to try Perkins on him as he has great speed and length...

Perkins alters a LeBron shot.

Cowen with a few nice baskets. We close the gap again. Down 39-37 with 7:45 to go...

Cowen finds Embiid for a great alley-oop.

Irving comes back and goes to work all over the court. Irving having a huge game...

Cowen needs a breather. So does Embiid.

Suddenly, we are back down by 8.

That margin holds through until halftime.


Halftime: We are down 57-49. Cowen can't guard Irving who has 19. I'm going to try MCW on him. MCW is one of my best perimeter defenders.

LeBron has 11 points and 4 assists (which leads their team.)

Goodwin with 10 points.


Embiid leads us with 16 points, 4 boards, and 2 blocks at the half.

Cowen with 9 points and 3 assists.

Robinson with 7 points. Perkins with 5 points and 5 boards at the half.

7:20 - LeBron rests. Our chance to make a comeback... we are down 72-60 right now.

5:15 - LeBron returns and we haven't cut the lead at all. We are down 78-66.

Too many turnovers. Too many bad passes. They build the lead to 87-70 by the end of the 3rd.

We close the gap to 8 a few times, but then LeBron makes an incredible play or two and the lead is back to double digits. We can't get it below 10 again and we lose 112-100.


Irving is the player of the game with 33 points and 8 assists. He shot 12 of 19 including 5 of 7 from the arc.

LeBron also with an incredible game - 28 points, 8 boards, and 6 assists. He shot 9 of 16.

Goodwin added 16 points. Waiters added 12.


Embiid led us with 22 points, 9 boards, and 2 blocks.

Cowen with 20 points and 8 assiss.

Perkins with 14 points, 8 boards, and 2 steals along with 2 blocks.

Robinson wih 11 points.

MCW had a very rough game with 8 points, 5 assists, and 5 turnovers.

Cowen had 5 turnovers too.


We need to take much better care of the ball in game 2.