All season long, it's been said by many a basketball analyst that the Cleveland Cavaliers have the deepest and most versatile bench in the NBA.
During the Cavs' 112-102 victory over the Chicago Bulls in Game Two of their opening playoff series, this depth and versatility were put on display and concentrated in a key Cleveland reserve that—along with LeBron James' absurd 40-point, eight-rebound, eight-assist night—pushed the East's No. 1 seed to a 2-0 series lead.
That reserve? Forward Jamario Moon, a former Harlem Globetrotter who hasn't spent more than one full season with the same NBA squad since his rookie 2007-'08 campaign.
In 20 crucial minutes off head coach Mike Brown's bench, Moon blew up for a 4-for-5 shooting clip from three-point country while snagging three rebounds and registering an admirable defensive performance that included a highlight reel block of the hatred lightning rod that is Joakim Noah.
The Cavaliers' July '09 acquisition of Moon was done (for the most part) to remedy the team's fatal flaw that was exposed by the Orlando Magic in last year's Eastern Conference Finals: lack of perimeter length and ...
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Rising Moon: Journeyman Forward Helps Save Cavs in Game Two
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