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Cavaliers coach Mike Brown praised James for keeping his composure. Not only have the Wizards been physical with the 23-year-old, but James was booed every time he touched the ball and serenaded with chants of “over-rated” by Washington’s raucous crowd.
“It takes a special human being to keep your poise with all that has gone on,” said Brown, who gave his players the day off on Monday.
Haywood, who also got tangled up with James in Game 1, couldn’t remember a player ever saying he felt another team was trying to hurt him.
“But the game has changed a lot,” he said. “Back in the day, you definitely couldn’t have said that with the nature of the game with the Pistons, the Bad Boys, the Knicks. You would have been seen as flat out soft.”
James wasn’t the only one who hurt the Wizards in Game 4. He got help. West scored 21 points (15 on 3-pointers), Daniel Gibson made four 3s and Ben Wallace grabbed 12 rebounds as Cleveland clobbered Washington on the boards 51-31.
The Wizards’ adjustments haven’t worked, leaving coach Eddie Jordan to come up with something new.
“We’ve shown our cards already,” Jordan said. “We have some other things to do, we’ll continue to mix our defenses up and we’ll see what’s best for us. We have to rebound better. We have to make sure that they don’t make the 3s that they made.”
Cleveland has won five straight playoff games at home against the Wizards, and the Cavaliers are 13-3 at home in the Eastern Conference playoffs the past three years. If those numbers weren’t daunting enough for Washington, there’s this: Only eight of 174 teams down 3-1 have come back to win a series.
Still, the Wizards were upbeat and confident following Monday’s workout.
They’re not done playing or talking, either.
“It’s never over until it’s over,” said Gilbert Arenas, playing with a bone bruise in his knee. “They said there are eight teams that have done it (come back from 3-1). We are going to be the ninth.”
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