I've never seen more people flip on how good they thought a team is than the way the people are now. "Cavs advance as far as they could?" "LeBron needs more help around him?" Seriously, is that why 99% of the so-called NBA experts picked the Cavs to win when the series started? Is that why after Lebron's miracle three pointer the same experts felt more confident that the Cavs would prevail?

Everywhere I turn I keep hearing and reading more excuses for the Cavs and more excuses for Lebron. Must I remind everyone that the Cavs owned the best record in the NBA, had home-court advantage throughout the playoffs plus the COY, the MVP and another All-Star. They posted the best winning margin, allowed fewest points per game in the regular season and their defense held opponents to the lowest field goal percentage. The Cavs had handled their first two playoff opponents so easily that they had at least a week of rest between each round of the playoffs. Throw in the fact that Orlando had went six games in their first round series and played a physical seven-game series with the Boston Celtics and had one day before they got on a plane to face the rested Cleveland Cavaliers.

Before I move on let's just take this all in: Cleveland was the best regular season team, Coach voted the best in NBA, Lebron voted MVP, had statistically the NBA's best defense, owned NBA's best home record, plus had home-court advantage through out the post season, had more days rest in the playoffs than any team but supposedly not as good as we thought, that all adds up right? May I also remind people that in four games the Cavs were leading by double figures, some of those times were up 20 points or more.

I watched countless experts say Lebron finally has a running mate in Mo Williams or that the organization has finally put a team around Lebron that can win a championship. All the work they did before this series is so easily forgotten. Orlando had a tough series against the Sixers and almost lost to the Celtics who was missing their best player, Kevin Garnett. Had Boston beat the Magic and the Cavs beat the Celtics would we be calling the Cavs over achievers still? Doubtful.

Let's place the blame where it should go... on Dwight Howard and the Orlando Magic. Blame them for being more battle tested as a team, more clutched, more prepared, more determined and more unwilling to surrender than any team the Cavs played. Cleveland started this post season 8-0 with every victory coming by ten points or more. People were quick to call it domination, perhaps it was. While Cleveland was alienating the Pistons, the Orlando Magic were competing with a feisty Sixers team and learned to win without Dwight Howard in a game. As the Cavs had laughed away the Atlanta Hawks, the Magic were in a dogfight against the defending champs and at the end learning what it takes to deal with adversity.

Cleveland rested for Orlando but they did not count on Orlando being tried and tested for the Cavs. Watching this series you saw All-Star Mo Williams outplayed by Rafer Alson. You have Pietras single-handedly outplay the entire Cavs bench. You watch a Magic team go down big three times and comeback three times. The Cavs have been bullies and frontrunners all year. Most teams rolled over and quit when they went down, Magic would not.

Truth be told, Dwight Howard and the Orlando Magics proved the majority can be wrong.  They are the better team and proved it time and time again.  Stop making excuses, they are true winners.  Do you need a witness?  Who won?  Dahhhhh!