October 30, 2009

Cavaliers' Start Has No Defense

Tom Knott, Washington Times

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The Cavaliers look vulnerable after two games, mostly because of Shaquille O'Neal's dead legs and Delonte West's mental-health break.

O'Neal, as always, is pathologically allergic to the high pick-and-roll or any set that requires his defensive attention on the perimeter.

Teams in need of an open look merely have to set a pick at top of the key extended and O'Neal freezes in place, as if there is an imaginary wall blocking his path.

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