Scenario: Your team down by two, one second remaining on the clock, who do you want to take the final shot? Everyone in the building last night knew exactly who was gonna take that shot. As Mo Williams said post-game, "Option one was LeBron James, option two was Lebron James, option three was Lebron James...". But still, even without any uncertainty of who was gonna take that shot, James still couldn't be stopped.
This begs the question, how do you stop someone who is unstoppable? We could sit here and pretend to come up with ways to stop LeBron James but none of it would be accurate. The honest truth to that question is you can't. You can't stop him, period. After the game, Magic coach Stan Van Gundy took the blame for the final shot, saying he should have devised a different defensive formation. What Van Gundy failed to realize was that no defensive formation in the world could have stopped him. He could have put all five guys and all his assistant coaches on LeBron and it still wouldn't have made a difference. The only way to even slow him down would be to makes sure he does not have the ball, keep the ball in your team's hands. He is too strong, too fast, and too good, to be stopped any other way.
So who has the momentum heading into game three? On one side, Orlando appears to. They went into Cleveland where only two visiting teams had won the entire year, stole away home court advantage, and were a miracle shot away from sweeping the Cavys out of their own building. On the otherside, the Cavaliers may seem to have the advantage after King James single handedly demoralized the entire city of Orlando. Cleveland has also been very good on the raod all year. Game three will be pivotal in deciding the rest of the series.
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