James gets help sinking Hawks LeBron's 38, Marshall's bench play lift Cleveland By SEKOU SMITH The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Published on: 01/26/06 King James brought the crowd, entertained like a champ and made sure the hometown fans, however many of them were at Philips Arena to root for the Hawks and not the visiting Cleveland Cavaliers, got their money's worth. But the Hawks actually had bigger problems than trying to defend LeBron James Wednesday night. They couldn't stop a member of the King's court, reserve forward Donyell Marshall, who scored 19 points off the bench to help seal the Cavs' 106-97 win before a boisterous and star-filled crowd announced at 16,098. It was James who orchestrated the Cavs' decisive 13-2 run to end the game. But it was Marshall, on the receiving end of timely passes from James, executing the plan brilliantly by drilling two wide-open, backbreaking 3-pointers that sank the Hawks' attempt at a two-game win streak. And that came after the Hawks (11-29) had squandered a 10-point lead late in the third quarter, allowing the Cavs to turn their unforced errors into fast-break opportunities and free throws with the game on the line. "We had our chances to win this game. It was right there for us, " Hawks co-captain Al Harrington said. "It was our game to lose and we lost it. We cannot turn the ball over and give up fast-break baskets. Not in a game that's tight like this and not with a savvy veteran like Donyell Marshall out there waiting for his opportunity." Marshall's first game-clinching 3-pointer came with 3:17 to play, stretching the lead to 97-93, after the Hawks had scrapped back from a six-point deficit two minutes earlier. The second, with 91 seconds to play, was the final dagger and extended the Cav's lead to an insurmountable 104-95. "He was great for us off the bench," Cavs forward Drew Gooden said of Marshall. "He was 4-for-6 from 3-point range and he gave us that spurt. And he was making some backbreakers toward the end of the game." James was everything he was advertised to be, finishing with 38 points, nine rebounds and six assists, this a night after leading the Cavs in a 30-point rout of Indiana. "Coming off a back-to-back it was easy for us not to bring the intensity," James said. "Early on, our team didn't have the intensity and I saw that, so I had to pretty much take over and put my team on my back. "You can't win a big game like last night (Indiana) and then lose a game like this. Because it doesn't mean anything. Even a team like the Hawks, with a not so good record, they're still a good team." James did his work against whomever the Hawks threw his way defensively. But he was most deadly from the free-throw line (15-for-20). In fact, that's where the Cavs gained their most obvious advantage, knocking down 38-of-51 shots from the free-throw line while the Hawks made just 16-of-22. "They're shooting free throws and we're shooting jump shots," Harrington said. "That never works." The Hawks have attempted fewer free throws than their opponents in 16 of the their last 20 games. And their opponents have made 30 or free throws and attempted 40 or more in two of their last three games. "We lost by nine points and the free throw battle was 51-22, there it is right there," Hawks forward Josh Smith said. "Yeah, we blew a 10-point lead but teams make runs. They're almost always going to come back. We just have to weather the storm and make the plays to save ourselves. And we didn't do that. We turned the ball over and allowed them to take this game from us." 資料來源 http://www.ajc.com/hawks/content/sports/hawks/stories/0126hawknot.html --

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