European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 16, 2007, Darmstadt, Hesse                                June 2007 stars and stripes Pace 4 Lebros finals not so memorable by Brian Mahoney the associated press Cleveland King James found the spurs defense to be a Royal Lebron James not through his first Aba which ended in a sweep with Cleveland 8382 loss to san Anto Nio on thursday for perhaps the first time in his basketball James didst live up to his consider Able he came into the finals being com pared to Michael but didst even play like the Lebron James of a week Only James will Likely win a ring some but he knows it wont happen if he plays the Way he did in the last four As an i have to be much bet Ter on and off the James and that will carry our team to higher i think it starts with me first and then it will trickle Down to everybody James had 24 Points and 10 but shot just 10for30 from the Field and had some costly miscues in the fourth he had six finishing the series with perhaps James was tired thursday after get Ting less sleep than he was at the Hospi Tal when his Savannah gave birth to the couples second Bryce Maximus Early thursday so june 14 will always be a memorable Day for the rest of these finals were one to James shot 36 percent in the often struggling to find open shots against the Tough defense of Bruce i think their defensive intensity and some of the things that they did definitely kept me off James the turnovers were definitely uncharacteristic of what it was a lot of unforced me losing the Ball or me making bad All things i can control and i want Able to do James seemed on the verge of taking Over game making consecutive baskets to give the cars a 6160 Lead Midway through the final Quarter their first Lead in any Sec Ond half in the but then Poten tial Victory slipped right through his he turned it Over with Cleveland Down six with under 2va minutes and Al Lowed a rebound to glance off his hands out of Bounds after his three Pointer had Cut it to five with under 2 minutes to he was even unlucky a san Antonio pass with 2 seconds remaining on the shot clock hit off his giving the spurs an additional 12 the spurs ended up getting Fabricio Bertos three Point pushing their Lead to James tried to Lead a late hitting a three Pointer that made it a two Point game in the final but the cars took too Long to and he never had another Chance to win or tie it definitely could have been James said of his play in the it could have been better in order for us to if i dont play our team is not going to have a Good Chance to Ive got a lot of things to work on to get better for next James looked ready to do something special in the finals after his dominant showing in the last four games of the Eastern conference i his 48point performance in game when he scored 29 of Cleveland final 30 Points in a double overtime Victory Over de was one of the most spectacular individual performances in but he never had a Chance to make that kind of Mark on the Aba scoreboard playoffs finals san Antonio Cleveland san Antonio Cleveland 76 san Antonio Cleveland 92 san Antonio Cleveland 72 thursday san Antonio Cleveland san Antonio wins championship 40 thursday spurs Cavaliers 82 san Antonio Bowen 16 00 Duncan 415 Oberto 35 11 Finley 15 23 Parker 1014 25 Ginobile 819 811 Horry 02 12 Elson 11 22 Vaughn 11 00 Barry 00 00 totals 2968 2034 Cleveland James 1030 26 Gooden 512 11 Lugauskas 38 22 Pavlovic 16 00 Gibson 410 Snow 24 00 Vare Jao 33 22 Marshall 26 12 Dejones 25 33 00 00 totals 3284 1116 san Antonio 19 20 21 2383 Cleveland 20 14 18 3082 three Point goals san Antonio 519 Gino Bili Parker Finley Horry Bowen Cleveland 722 Dejones Gib son James Pavlovic Marshall fouled rebounds san an Tonio 57 Duncan Cleveland 53 Lugauskas assists san Antonio 13 Ginobile Cleveland 23 James total fouls san Antonio Cleveland technical Cleveland defensive three Sec Aba finals maps 2007 Tony san Antonio 2006 dwyane Miami 2005 Tim san Antonio 2004 Chauncey Detroit 2003 Tim san Antonio 2002 Shaquille lakers 2001 Shaquille lakers 2000 Shaquille lakers 1999 Tim san Antonio 1998 Michael Chicago 1997 Michael Chicago More details four spurs stifle cars attempt at late rally from the Back Page i to look at James said the final moments were hectic As the spurs needed every last free to hold off the Cava who made a last stand at Home in of seasons for their once Downtrodden fran Chise and for a City still waiting for its first title since Cleveland went on an 110 run to open the fourth taking its first Lead in any second half of the series on James drive with Cleveland went up 6360 on Daniel Gibsons but thais when Duncan and showed Why there Ginobile y scored was fouled and missed his free but Duncan muscled into the Lane and tipped in the miss to make it the cars tied but who didst make a Field goal in game dropped a and when James missed a the spurs re gained control by outworking Duncan and Fabricio Oberto scrapped for offensive rebounds As the spurs kept the Ball for nearly two minutes before Bertos three Point play made it 7266 with Duncan then poked the Ball away from James and Oberto scored under Neath to give san Antonio a 7466 possibly a Little tired Fol lowing the Early morning birth of his second hit another three Pointer but Ginobile responded again with a runner in the Lane to make it Damon Jones made three free throws and James made another but Ginobile made four free throws in the final seven seconds and immediately began celebrating a title that was All but were an old weve been Parker we Cleveland was going to make a so we just let the storm go by never had panic on our who averaged Points on 57 percent had been viewed mostly As a pretty decent player with a prettier fit actress Eva the was an Silvera Niblack blur against the who had no one who could contain him and who looked like they stumbled into their first finals by James had Cleveland fans be Lieving the cites 43year championship drought was about to he had a rough introduction to the leagues climactic one he figures to reach he shot just 10for30 in game 4 and Only 36 percent in these Ries and never figured out How to Rise above or get around the whose defensive schemes were designed to make the other Cavaliers beat James scored 24 and while he took the Cavaliers As far As Treyve Ever he failed to give them new life in this series on the same Day his second Bryce Maximus was i need to get he and once i get our team will automatically get Duncan had Only Points 4for15 shooting but grabbed 15 his arrival in 1997 in san Antonio is the launching Point for the spurs As and while he secured his fourth he helped others like Michael Finley and Jacque Vaughn win their Finley cradled the game Ball during the pos game i might just put it in the bed be tween me and my he