Hey, Cavs fans! It's AC here - what's happening?

Those were a pair of nice wins over the weekend. The Cavaliers are keeping it rolling, but they have another tough week - four games in five nights - ahead of them.

Right now, our will is so much stronger than other teams; it's worth at least 10 points right there. We know what we're doing, we have confidence in what we're doing, and we believe what we're doing. That's the whole thing. What you have with other teams - they're not quite sure what they're doing and they don't have confidence because they haven't won anything with it.

And that's the major difference. Other teams have just as much talent as we have. But the difference is we're utilizing our talent at a much higher level than they're utilizing theirs.

Look at the two games in the back-to-back - the Pacers and Charlotte. In previous years, when we played against Charlotte, you almost had this feeling that they had the edge on us. Now, we play Charlotte, you're waiting for them to get the game over with. Even if they have a good quarter, you know this isn't going to last forever. The mindset is so much different now.

Look what the Cavs did to Indiana. The first time they came in here, Danny Granger went off. On Friday night, LeBron didn't give Granger room to breathe. He shut him down in the first quarter and it changed the whole complexion of the game.

And now we have other guys contributing. The bench is strong now - Wally, Boobie, Anderson, all coming in with positive minutes. Then you have Sasha, J.J. and even Darnell Jackson in the background. When they come into the game, they're giving you positive minutes. The starting unit is functioning well offensively and defensively, with Ben out there, man, they challenge every shot.  You don't see teams getting anything up the middle against us anymore.

Our whole team now is focused on dominating the opponent. They're not worried about little petty stuff. The petty stuff is gone. I'm not knocking anybody we had on the team before, but the petty stuff bothered us. This team is focused on one thing: we have this one goal and the question is, how do we get there? They're not worried about the little stuff. There was always a bottleneck there that hurt a good flow. And that's not there anymore.

I just think the individuals we have on the team now, they're mindsets are different. A lot of the guys we had before were set in their ways and some of them didn't know how to be happy. I'm not going to mention any names, but they just didn't know how to be a positive team member. Their whole careers they had been in negative situations. They didn't know how to be positive.

All that has changed. That positive energy is great, and the team is feeding off it. It permeates through the whole team. Now, they have like a college spirit - and that's really refreshing in the pro game.

LeBron has been dominant lately - and he's not even scoring like he has in the past. His defense has been incredible.

LeBron has more energy to play both ends of the floor now. He's a triple-double player - points, rebounds, assists - that's the first premise. He focuses on all three areas during the game. In the past, he had focus on just one - usually scoring - just to keep us competitive. Now, he can play his game and we can win with him playing his game.

That's where we're strongest - when LeBron can play his game and not have to worry about scoring 40 points. That should be the aberration - when he's having an especially hot shooting night. If everything else is constant and LeBron has a night like that, we're really going to blow a team out of the water.

On the defensive end of the floor, whoever LeBron is guarding is going to have a tough night.

The team defense has also been spectacular. What we do now - because we're small in the backcourt - we understand that ball pressure is very important. It keeps our guys from getting posted up so much. That's very important. As long as we concentrate on getting good pressure on the ball out there, then Delonte and Mo won't have problems with consistent post-ups. That matters a lot, because you saw what happened in the Pistons game. Detroit got us into foul trouble immediately.

I know some people are concerned about all these blowouts - that maybe somehow the Cavaliers could lose their "edge."

But I think this is where Coach Brown's style of coaching comes in handy. Because he won't let them get too low when they lose or too high when they win. So they'll still work to get better. In other words, they don't look at the score, they worry about how they played. They know if they play "the right way" - as Coach Brown says - the score will take care of itself.

It's like being in the desert and you don't have any water. Then you find an oasis and you have more water than you can handle. You're still cautious because you might run out. They've seen the downside, so they don't want to get too elated on the upside, because it could go back. And that fear is just enough to keep them level-headed.

As good as they've played, the statistics in December are even better than they were in November. So this team is actually still improving. They're starting to get that swagger. They get offended when they lose a quarter, now. And that's when you know you have a winner. When you see that they're embarrassed any time a team does well against them - that's when you know they have the mentality to win a Championship.

One big thing I wanted to write about before I leave is to say a few words about Zydrunas Ilgauskas - who should break the franchise all-time rebounding record on Tuesday night at The Q.

I have a certain closeness in my heart for Z because I went through almost the exact same thing. Sports medicine was so much better when Z was going through his rehabilitation. He was able to bounce back, whereas I really couldn't.

I have a special feeling in my heart for Z because I understand what it takes to rehab. There are those days where that little man on your shoulder is telling you, "Why don't you just quit? It's not worth it." And then after a while, the little man on the other shoulder is saying, "There might be a chance. There might be a chance." And you go through that battle day-in and day-out.

It's amazing how Z has hung in there, and it's a testament to his individual makeup as a man.

When people ask me about my situation, my most exciting thing after my injury is that I was able to become a starter again after all those major operations. I started for another two years after I came back. And that was one of my proudest accomplishments. I was stuck rehabbing while everyone else was having fun. And that's what Z was doing.

To go through all the operations he's had and all the ups and downs he's had and still be able to produce, and do what he's doing now, it's a testament to him as a professional and as a person.

He'll be the leading rebounder for the Cavaliers, and nobody deserves it more than him. One day, his number will be hanging in the rafters and I'll consider it an honor to be next to him.