Sullivan

The Cleveland Cavalier’s dominance has carried over from the regular season to the first game of the playoffs. The Cavs played the Detroit Pistons at home for Game 1.
Celeveland has the best home record in the NBA and they continue to show their dominance by winning 102-84. Now Detroit is one of the best teams in the east but had a rough couple games during the regular season which caused them to come in last place.
There is only one reason that Cleveland was able to beat this team the way they did. The reason is Lebron James. Lebron James had 38 points in this game. Along with his 38 points he had seven rebounds and a steal.
Every defense that was thrown against him just seemed to make him play better. If he didn’t like the shot that the defense was giving him then he would pass the ball to one of his teammates who were cutting to the basketball.
This is not the first time the Pistons have had trouble with Lebron. Some say he single handedly beat the pistons in the last game of the playoffs in 2005. Even if he didn’t beat them by himself the Pistons know what can happen if they allow Lebron to score at will.
Cleveland made sure they kept the tempo of the game high. Constantly looking for fast break trying to never give the Pistons a chance to set up a press or a solid perimeter defense they had run of scoring and not allowing the pistons to score.
Pistons that are much older then the Cavs were not able to keep up which also led to many uncontested lay-ups and dunks which always give more energy to you team.
The Pistons need to find away to stop the one who has been dubbed the Chosen 1 or there playoff experience will end in five games instead of moving on to the next round.