European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 10, 2007, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 42 stars and tripes june Cavaliers counting on James to rebound Cleveland needs Lebron to come Back Strong in game 2 by Tom Withers the associated press san Antonio extraordinary in almost every Way imagine Lebron James appears to have one major flaw in his splendid game Hes a slow during the regular and now in the James has developed a pattern of bad begin in Cleveland past three James has followed up a subpar game 1 with a solid game the Cavaliers who shot 4for16 from the Field and scored just 14 Points in his ballyhooed Aba finals has every intention of doing it against the san Antonio spurs in game 2 on sunday the first game i kind of feel my Way through it and kind of make an he explaining his sluggish opening i dont plan to go out there and not shoot the Ball Well or not including thursday nights James is averaging just 15 Points on 33 percent shooting 17for52 in his last three series but he has bounced Back each scoring 36 in game 2 against the cars coach Mike Brown is confident his 22yearold Star will come through it was great for him to go through what he went Brown he struggled a Little bit in the first game against de its just a matter of i when you have a player of his he can figure out the defense and get himself the defending every Grain of Hardwood on their kept Cleveland Star under control and rolled to an easy 8576 James had encountered Gadget defences designed to Stop him be but the spurs were All Over the popping up in front of him like wild Texas this is definitely a different he we dont want to go Down 02 against this with two Days to make adjust ments before sundays game both teams spent time on Friday breaking Down videotape of the series which was some times Tough to watch As the clubs struggled apparently to viewers tuned out Early As the game received the lowest National rating Ever for a game 1 shown in prime for the the critical Challenge is to figure out How to get their marquee player free of spurs Forward Bruce one of the leagues Premier shutdown who led san Antonios a seven time Al defensive team Bowen seemed attached to wherever 12 was right along pestering pushing bumping him and never allowing James to get who averaged Points in the Eastern conference finals against was unable to get Loose for any powerhouse and any time he managed to slither past the spurs were lined up its All a team spurs Forward Michael finely it started out with Bruce lining up on him and just making his looks and his drives and such but at the same Bruce knew he had his teammates behind we just wanted to make it Tough for make him have to take Tough shots and make fortunately for they didst go James has described himself As a Quick hell need to cram for his next test against the following thursdays the 22yearold Star went Back to his san Antonio Cleveland Besto seven san Antonio Cleveland 76 san Antonio leads series 10 sunday Cleveland at san Antonio tuesday san Antonio at Cleveland thursday san Antonio at Cleveland june 17 san Antonio at june 19 Cleveland at san june 21 Cleveland at san if necessary san Antonio Forward Bruce Bowen 12 was right in the face of Cleveland Lebron James for most of game 1 of the Aba hotel room and watched a replay of the he plans to View it hoping another look will help him find cracks in san Anto Nios Complex sometimes its about being More he and then sometimes its about Reading things and mentally trying to pre pare yourself the Best Way to try to counter some of the things they do while the pistons were certainly a handful to the seeking a fourth Aba tide in eight years and third in Are a Superior and what might be scariest of All for Cleve is that san Antonio can play better than it did in game the spurs had been Idle for a week since winning the Western conference and there were times when the rust after building an 18point they relaxed and allowed the Cav Aliers to get within eight Points in the final we kind of let them Back into the said Tim who finished with 24 13 re Bounds and five Lebron hit a couple they got a Layup or they got a wide open shot or those Are just things weve got to clean i think they started to figure some stuff at James was Way too slow in attacking san Antonios his passivity enabled Bowen to get up under his and it allowed the other spurs to Settle Back with one Eye on their Man and the other on James other problem is that he tends to try to make the perfect the one that makes the fans ooh and Ash and the kind that ends up on the lat night to High Light Hes realizing the the in going to have to make the easy pass and rely on my team mates a Little bit which in going to do and have done throughout the said who had four assists and six i do a great Job of adjusting from game to game and i think my teammates do the did final Quarter of game 1 mean anything Eric san Antonio guard Tony drives to the Basket As Cleveland guard Larry tries to Parker scored 27 Points against Hughes during game by Brian Mahoney the associated press san Antonio beaten up for most of the the Cleveland Cavaliers beat the san Antonio spurs in the fourth did the spurs just let or did the Cava Liers show that they could solve san Anto Nios league leading defense i think they started to figure some stuff and so its just about getting Back that focus that we had in those first three Quad spurs Forward Tim Duncan said Fri i dont know that we specifically need to change much of but we just need to make some adjustments and make sure that were not giving those easy shots up in the beginning of the this next Cleveland shot percent and trailed 6449 through three quarters of game with the 49 Points Matching the combined totals of Tony Parker and Manu but the cars made 11 of 18 shots 61 percent in the final outscoring san Antonio 2721 and cutting an 18point Aba finals notes deficit to single i think we started to show what were capable of so hopefully that carries on to the next said Reserve guard Daniel who made All four shots and scored nine Points in the j on Obj j has a Little Friendly advice for lbs simplify and Hall of Famer Julius Erving said the 16 shots Lebron James took thursday night in the first game of the Aba finals had a degree of difficulty of an eight or a nine or a you can be but youre not going to play up to your potential unless you can Erving the spurs successfully contained James in game holding him to 14 Points on 4forl 6 shooting in 44 find the simplest route to what you need to Erving saying James should evaluate his primary defend Bruce to figure out ways to i would let him guard me and bait him to get what i want when i want it and eliminate some of the instead of trying to scoot around the Quick Erving suggested going for 15foot make it a Good shot rather than a hard he on one foot Larry Hughes chose to play through the Tony Parker made him feel even slowed by a Small tear and plan tar Fasci itis in his left was unable to stay with san Antonios speedy Point guard in game 1 As Parker scored 27 Points most of them on layups in the spurs 8576 Hughes elected not to get a pregame injection into his a medical treatment he opted for during the Cavaliers Eastern conference finals against in pretty proud of myself for not ing it the injection and the pain and going out there and trying to help the Hughes