Hey, Cavalier fans! It's AC, checking in. What's happening?

I felt good about the Cavaliers heading into the playoffs, but I'm not sure I could have seen them sweeping through the first two rounds like they did. They were dominant.

Pretty simply, both the Detroit and Atlanta series proved that we were the superior team. And what I was looking for was the team that started the season to come back - and it's back now. And you can just tell: the focus is totally there. Even the matchups that were not in our favor went our way. You look at the way our guards handled their guards.

A lot of people are talking about inferior opponents, but I don't see it that way. The Hawks played well enough to beat Miami. The Cavaliers just made them look inferior because of the way that they manhandled them.

LeBron was his usual amazing self in the Atlanta series. That was on full display. But I thought Delonte was really sensational. He was lights-out. He was definitely the backbone of the team during that series. Defensively, he pretty much shut Joe Johnson down. And offensively, he was LeBron's alter-ego.

Each player did their own thing against the Hawks. Big Z stepped up when he had to. Anderson was all over the place. (That last sequence in the last game in Atlanta, when Anderson got all those offensive rebounds - that was unbelievable. Those offensive rebounds are back-breakers. You could just see the Hawks wilt.) And Mo has such a flair for the dramatic. He might miss 18 shots in a row, but when they count, he's going to hit them. It's almost like he saves up for that big moment.

The Cavs' goal was to keep Atlanta out of transition and that's exactly what they did. They didn't give them any rebounding opportunities, because Cleveland rebounded the ball so well. They pretty much killed Atlanta on the boards. And the turnovers - they weren't turnovers that led to fast breaks - which was key.

It was scary how precisely the Cavaliers followed the game plan in both series - for eight straight games. That's the kind of focus that wins championships. Coach Woodson even said that - that the Cavaliers are playing championship-caliber basketball. And you can just see it. They're focused. It's almost like they're saying, 'We're not going to let all that hard work we put into the season go to waste now.'

I wrote about this in my last blog, and it's something LeBron talked about before the playoffs started, but the Cavaliers really haven't faced much adversity all season. And they definitely haven't in the postseason.

But I look at it this way: They've been on track all year. They've lost two games in a row only twice all year. So they know how to bounce back after a loss. So I'm not anticipating any problems with adversity. And besides, what's wrong with not having adversity? If you're that good and you're playing that well ... why not, like Moses Malone said, go "Fo, Fo, Fo"?

In the Conference Finals and in the finals, you're going to have some adversity. And they'll deal with it. They understand that. But to sit there and wait for the ax to drop, I don't like that feeling. I don't like that anticipation. If the ax doesn't drop, the ax doesn't drop.

They key is, if it does - when it does - to be able to bounce back. This is the playoffs. And that's where the philosophy of "one quarter, one practice, one game at a time" comes into play. Because that's what it's going to have to be.

Like you, I'll be watching the rest of the Orlando-Boston series to see who it's going to be. I feel like we match up well with either team.

The way Orlando is built - if they stick to their guns and use Dwight Howard properly, they can make it tough on you, because they have the huge inside-outside game. But that's a big IF for that team. They don't have the mental focus that it takes, at all. That's why I'm expecting Boston to come out of that series.

As for the Celtics, it'd be like when a dog sees its prey and its ears pop up. That's how we'll be with the Celtics. That's the team we want. That's the team we owe. And if you're going to go through the playoffs to the Finals, you go through the Champion. You can tell that's what our guys want.

And Boston knows it too. Boston knows that we're not sitting back here waiting for anyone else but them.

And I wouldn't be surprised if Kevin Garnett tries to come back for that. It wouldn't behoove him to come back, because he's been out for so long. It'd take him three games just to catch up to the speed of the game, with the intensity of the playoffs. And I don't know if he would risk the rest of his career going out and trying something like that.

If it is Orlando, the key with Orlando is not to double-team Dwight Howard every time; pick your spots. At certain positions on the floor, you attack him and double team. In certain situations, you don't. That means our big people - Z, Ben, Joe Smith - will have to be physical with him, and don't be afraid to foul. Don't finesse him. Don't let him dunk on you. You have to hammer him and make him shoot free throws. That slows him down.

You want to try to put the Magic in adversity. They don't function well under adversity. You want to jump them quickly and make them chase you. Then they might implode.

The Celtics are much different - they have the experience and they are not going to implode. They're going to keep fighting back. You have to flat-out beat the Celtics, because they're not going to beat themselves. And that's what you're looking for.

That's why our team has performed as well as they have through the first two series. Because they know, when they play the Celtics, they have to play flawless ball to beat them, because they're not going to beat themselves.

The players are going to tell you that they don't have a preference of who they play. They're supposed to say that. You shouldn't be worried about anybody you're going to play. You deal with anyone, because you feel you deserve it and you're ready for the challenge.

But I want the Celtics. I think the team wants the Celtics. And that's how we're geared mentally - to take on the Celtics.

That's the series I'm looking for. I want them. They've beaten us too many times. I want to beat them so bad. And we've come too far - so let's go for it. Let's go for the jugular.