Don't press the panic button yet, but the Cavs have lost their 2nd straight game for the second time this season. Last night the Houston Rockets flat-out outplayed the Cavs, who were on the second night of a back-to-back. Shane Battier and Trevor Ariza did an excellent job discouraging LeBron from driving to the hole, effectively making him a jump shooter. "No one guy is going to stop Shaq. No one guy is going to stop LeBron," Battier said. "I thought our big guys did a great job of forming a wall behind the guy guarding LeBron, and just by being there it deterred some of the drives. And I thought we played really good help-side defense on everybody tonight."

In addition to a mundane 27 points on 21 shots, LeBron and the Cavs turned the ball over 20 times.. unacceptable. Mike "Clown" Brown got ejected in the first half for arguing a no-call on a drive by LeBron, and had an awesomely bad freakout. Talking about the ejection, Mike admitted, "I wanted a technical to get my point across," said Brown, whose team finished with five technical fouls, "but I took it a step too far." At least he showed some signs of life, as the Cavaliers did not. Another thing I applaud is that the assistant coaches really stepped their game up after Brown got tossed; They were standing and yelling almost the entire game when the Cavs were on defense. As you can tell there weren't too many positives to take away from this defeat, and the Cavs better get it together and start racking up some W's on this road trip starting in Portland on Friday night. Dear LeBron, you are the leader of the only legitimate professional sports franchise in the desolate city of Cleveland, and the city needs you to produce a winner. No more back-to-back losses please. We have the Indians and the Browns (who desperately need a win vs. Pittsburgh tonight). Think about it. The Cavs are our only shot. LeBron knows this, and I assure you he will end the championship drought in Cleveland. LeBron James is underrated