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Cleveland Cavaliers News The shot arrived first, a 3-point buzzer-beater with one second remaining that gave the Cleveland Cavaliers a victory in Game 2 on Sunday. The quarter came on Thursday, as James had his had hands on everything, everywhere and either scored or assisted on 32 consecutive points through the end of the third quarter and through nearly all of the final quarter. The Cavaliers will find out Saturday if they can capitalize on James's effort and earn a return trip to Cleveland for Game 7 on Monday. If anything, the Cavaliers arrived confidently on Thursday, then left gleefully. They came packed and prepared for a trip to Orlando for Game 6 and flew there immediately after Thursday's game while James's effort still hung in the air. “I always feel myself, individually, I can always get going at any part of the game,” he said. No one called James meek, and no time better time arrived for him to display it as the Magic pushed the Cavaliers close to elimination. Ultimately, the Cavaliers still face a heavy burden in outlasting the Magic, which maintains a 3-2 margin in the series. The burden may eventually grow too heavy to bear for James as he tries to haul his teammates, an organization's skeletons and a city's hopes to an N.B.A. title and an end to a 45-year professional championship drought in Cleveland . It can be argued that the Cavaliers merely outlasted the Magic for an evening and that Orlando has showed its own steady resolve repeatedly this postseason. “I think we've proven to the nation that we have mental toughness and will fight back,” Orlando Coach Stan Van Gundy said, not on a whim, but with the evidence to back up his statement. But if there is one player fully equipped to defy basketball history — only eight N.B.A. teams have come back from a 3-1 deficit to win a series— and rally his team, it is James. He is still only 24, not old enough to rent a vehicle at many car agencies. But he has driven the Cavaliers this far in what has largely been a solo effort. James is professionally polished and in the midst of one of the greatest individual performances in an N.B.A. playoff series. In five games against the Magic, James has averaged a stunning 41.2 points, 8.6 rebounds and 8.2 assists. On Thursday, he became the first player since Oscar Robertson in 1963 to total at least 37 points, 14 rebounds and 12 assists in a postseason game. Before this season, James had already proved resilient in the playoffs even without a championship ring to show for it. While James pulled Cleveland to Thursday evening's victory, somewhere the Detroit Pistons could only muster an “I told you so.” In the 2007 Eastern Conference finals, James led the Cavaliers from a 2-0 deficit to capture the series. In Game 5, he registered each of the team's final 25 points in a double-overtime victory. In addition, James nearly guided the Cavaliers to an upset victory over the Boston Celtics in last season's playoffs when he scored 45 points in a Game 7 duel of the conference semifinals with Paul Pierce. “He's our leader,” Cavaliers Coach Mike Brown said. “No doubt about it. He has grown tremendously in that area in the short amount of time that I have been with him.” As Brown detailed, the Cavaliers “didn't do anything tricky,” short of feed James the ball with room to roam. Imagine, one of the Magic's defenders, Mickael Pietrus or Hedo Turkoglu in that position, helpless and manned against James as he stands ready to pass, shoot or drive and arrive at the rim one or two short dribbles later. “We just felt like that that would be open the way they were trying to double-team LeBron,” Brown said. “It just gave him an opportunity to make plays minus the double team. And if they chose to double, he was ready to pass the ball.” From there, James stood fully aware of his prowess, both during the game and afterward. “Anytime you are as dangerous as I am or the best guys in this league and have a live dribble, it makes you that much more dangerous because they don't know what you are going to do,” James said. Still, James has been given a heavy weight in this series. “That's a great, great player doing great, great things,” the T.N.T. analyst Kenny Smith said. “But to me, that's discouraging that a guy has to do that much to will a team to win a basketball game.” His fellow analyst Reggie Miller agreed. “They are putting so much pressure on this kid to do so much and he needs some help,” he said. On Thursday, that help was there at some key times, which had not been the case throughout the series. Subtract James's two misses from beyond the 3-point line and Cleveland connected on 9 of 16 3-point shots. Mo Williams scored 24 points, becoming the first Cavalier besides James to score at least 20 points in a game during the series and Daniel Gibson made 3 of his 4 3-pointers. “They know we're a very strong team when they knock down shots,” James said. Indeed. But it has not happened much during the series. What has happened, win or lose, is James adding to his already sterling postseason legacy.
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