free run of the paint the way he did against Atlanta. He only missed 5 of 32 shots. Cleveland's interior defense is better than that. (That is, if Cleveland gets by Boston.)

Mariannas Trench-Howard is a super star in the middle-only negative is free throw shooting-Jameer Nelson is one of the league's top point guards, Lewis and Pietrus are deadly 3 pt shooters and both are clutch, Carter is playing well and can score from anywhere-Gortat is a good backup for Howard and Redick and Williams are good off the bench-Shaq is limited in quality minutes he can give you, is worse at the line than Howard and can't defend the pick and roll-with the exception of LBJ, Orlando has a talent edge on the floor and off the bench-and coaching wise, the good looking Van Gundy brother is vastly superior to Mike Brown, whose coaching skills rather escape me-I expect the Cavs to get by Boston, and will be putting my bucks on the Magic when the time comes-too many weapons-1rob...Magic's for real, Gang....OUT