Hey, Cavalier fans! A.C. here - what's happening?

I was really impressed with the Cavaliers' effort on Saturday afternoon. You could tell that over the last 20 games of the season, they were already getting geared up for the Playoffs. They took each game one game at a time and they had the best record in the league after the All-Star break.

They didn't get ahead of themselves. But you could tell that they were ready emotionally for the postseason around 20 games ago and they came out firing on Saturday. They're no-nonsense now.

Their focus is there. Just like Kobe said of the Lakers on Sunday night: This is what they've waited for. This is what the Cavaliers have been waiting for all year. And they're focused now on taking care of their business.

Sometimes, LeBron will get his teammates involved early in the game and then look for his own offense. But on Saturday, he was aggressive offensively right from the start of the game.

He's setting the tone. Because, what he understands about the game is that - the way Detroit is going to play Cleveland - he has to establish himself early. Now, once he gets established, he can play the rest of his game. He can draw the double-team and dish.

The entire team is moving the ball much better now than they were even in the last 10-12 games of the regular season. LeBron is drawing everyone to him, and - BANG! BANG! BANG! - guys are hitting their open shots. And once guys hit two or three shots, instead of the Pistons cheating over to LeBron, they're cheating away from him.  That opens up all kinds of avenues for him to penetrate.

So a lot of things happen when he establishes himself early. Everyone's radar goes off when LeBron starts scoring early.

He knows, everyone knows. All the teams Cleveland's going to face are going to set up to stop LeBron. And I wouldn't be surprised to see the Pistons starting to take LeBron out of the air pretty soon. Sooner or later, they're going to get physical with him. And that's why it's going to be so important to establish the other guys. Get Anderson scoring around the basket, with Mo, Delonte and Z doing their thing. That was beautiful to watch.

The Cavs took Rasheed Wallace right out of the game, because they gave Rasheed the decision: do you want to come out and guard Z or do you stop LeBron coming off the double-team. Every time Rasheed would jump out on LeBron, he would make that pass to a wide-open Z - who knocked down the shot. Rasheed just couldn't get over there in time.

The Pistons don't really like to double anybody. That's how they play Orlando - they don't double Howard. That's not how they do things.  But you look at the other teams the Cavaliers might face down the road - like Atlanta - that's all they'll do is double-team, because they're not a good man-to-man defense. So now you have to decoy yourself and let the other guys soften the defense up.

I'm not concerned about Mo Williams' slow start. It was foul trouble that messed him up.

I've been in that position many times. That first quarter, if you get two quick fouls and they take you out of the game - that kills your whole rhythm and while you're sitting on the bench, it feels like the game has gone past you. You're a passenger. And when you get back in, you have to catch up to the game speed again. It was nothing about nerves.

You saw what Mo was like when he came back in the third quarter - he was attacking the basket, making his jump shots. He did a great job in that third quarter of staying out of foul trouble so he could stay aggressive on the offensive end.

Foul trouble can screw up an entire team's rhythm. That's why you have to have a deep bench in the Playoffs. Mo gets two quick fouls, now right away, that takes a huge cog out of our offense - which probably slowed us down in the first half. But you had Boobie and Delonte do their thing and the Cavaliers had some nice, balanced scoring. Joe Smith was awesome and Wally was solid off the bench.

Detroit's going to have to stop the bleeding quickly. Michael Curry mentioned that they have to figure out a way to stop LeBron. So I imagine it's going to be an all-out war against LeBron in Game 2. They'll be tackling him, double- and triple-teaming him, anything they can do to stop him.

In other words, Curry's basically saying we're going to make someone else beat us besides LeBron. And the way the Cavaliers have played this year, they might just blow Detroit out if they focus too much on LeBron.

Detroit is going to put up a fight during the rest of this series, but I don't feel any trepidation. If the Cavaliers come out and take care of business on Tuesday, the only game that they'll have to be really concerned about is Game 3 on Friday in Detroit. Because then they'll come at us with everything they've got, so they don't get swept. If the Pistons don't get that one, their goose might be cooked.