Cavs -8.5

Sactown King · May 9, 2009

Cavs -8.5
My original plan was to have a ML chase on ATL in games 3 & 4 but with Joe Johnson out and two other starters not 100%, I just don't think ATL can even get it close. Both Williams and Horford were upgraded to probable but Williams will just become a liability since he can't really do anything with his wrist while Horford will just be conscious about his ankle in my opinion. Joe Johnson is doubtful and he is their best overall player. I think he's the only one that can create a shot on his own in their team. I know that other players will step up when a key player is out as seen in the Magic (twice) and Lakers (once) game but those teams have an above average bench. Atlanta's bench is trash (i hope they don't show up tomorrow) so that leaves Woodson with Bibby, Pachulia, Smith, Murray, and Evans as his dependable players in full health. Lastly, the Cavs have been setting record all season long so they might as well blow the Hawks out to set another record. By the way, CLE is 6-0 ATS (2nd best) behind DEN's 7-0 ATS record in the playoffs. It's either you ride or collide with the L-Train... I rather ride it.

*Referee stats to follow

alx468 · May 9, 2009

GL bro leaning on cavs as well :shake:

Sactown King · May 9, 2009

Bad refs for CLE here...

This season stats are:
CLE is 4-5 ATS on the road
ATL is 6-1 ATS at home

Callahan is reffing the game where he reffed one of the season game between the two teams in which ATL won 97-92 as 4-point home dogs. Plus the fact that he also reffed in ATL's home win against LAL as 3-point dogs and he was part of the crew that reffed in last years first round matchup against the Celtics where ATL won by 5 as 9-point dogs.

alx468 · May 9, 2009

ATL or DAL it is....

Sactown King · May 9, 2009

alx468 said:
ATL or DAL it is....

I'll still stick with CLE as my play. For the refs in the Den/Dal game, here's some stats for this season.

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24-31 ATS when home is favored by 0 to -4.5<o></o>

alx468 · May 9, 2009

im fucked then 24-31 haha

retiredballer · May 9, 2009

Hawks roll

Sactown King · May 9, 2009

alx468 said:
im fucked then 24-31 haha

You'll never know. Since BAR is betting on DAL, i think you have a big shot at winning. Could it be that BAR is David Stern? hmmmmm... LOL.

Sactown King · May 9, 2009

retiredballer said:
Hawks roll

reason?

alx468 · May 9, 2009

please let Bar be Stern please hahaha... Im hoping for the refs to extend this series hehehe

alx468 · May 9, 2009

cavs

First, it was Richard Hamilton.
Now, he's been asked to slow down Joe Johnson.
No matter whom they put before him, though, Cavaliers guard Delonte West will make their lives miserable on the defensive end.
He's wiry strong, has an incredible wing span and has quick hands and feet. It adds up to a 6-foot-3, 180-pound dynamo who is absolutely fearless.
"He's a solid player who doesn't get a lot of credit for what he does," Cavs forward LeBron James said. "He's one of the most complete players we have on our team. These guys have a lot of size on (him). He tries to contain them as much as possible."
Some were calling West an unsung hero of the team.
"In my opinion, he's one of the best (defenders) in the league," Cavs guard Mo Williams said. "He guards the best players on every team. He just harasses the player that he is guarding.
"I think he is an unsung hero. If he doesn't play well and defend well, we struggle. He's a very smart, intelligent basketball player."
If one doesn't buy into West's prowess, just ask Hawks guard Joe Johnson. He was limited to just 11 points in Game 1. He made just 5-of-10 attempts. Johnson averaged a team-high 21.4 points during the regular season.
"I told him, 'You had Rip Hamilton in the first series and you have Joe Johnson now,'" coach Mike Brown said. "'Do what you do.' He's a terrific defender. He's a guy that, hopefully, sooner or later starts to get some recognition for it around the league. He has tough assignments and he takes those on time after time after time."
Brown surprised a few observers when he paired West and Williams in the starting lineup. West is not a prototypical shooting guard. West is undersized when compared to other shooting guards. Johnson, for instance, is 6-7, 240.
CAVALIERS 105, HAWKS 85: The Cavs outclassed the Hawks in Game 2, 105-85, before a sold-out crowd at Quicken Loans Arena. Forward LeBron James finished with a game-high 27 points, five assists and four steals.
Veteran Wally Szczerbiak came off the bench to score 17 points. He made 7-of-9 shots from the field and had a slam dunk on a fast break.
"(Thursday night) it was Wally's turn," James said. "Normally, I would have dunked it. But when you have Wally running the floor with you, you have to give it to him."
The Cavs' defense was suffocating once again. They scraped and clawed and were dominant on the boards, blocked shots, got steals and swarmed all over the hapless Hawks, who shot just 34.9 percent from the field.
NOTES, QUOTES
—G Delonte West was poked in the right eye by Hawks center Zaza Pachulia with 5:23 remaining in the third period and didn't return. He ended with 14 points, three rebounds and two assists. Pachulia is 2-for-2 in this series. He broke swingman Sasha Pavlovic's nose in Game 1 with an elbow. "He's OK," LeBron James said. "He got poked in the eye last year in the playoffs. He'll be ready for Game 3."
—The Cavs' 27-point decision in Game 1 matched the largest margin of victory in the opening game of a conference semifinal series in the last nine years. The Cavs lost Game 1 to Detroit, 113-86, in 2006.
—The Cavs have won each of their first six playoff games by 10 or more points, tying the NBA postseason record. The 2004 Indiana Pacers have the record.
QUOTE TO NOTE: "(I was) just taking pride on that side of the court. (I) want to guard the best players. When you go against those guys in the summer with the Olympic team, that definitely helped. I'm just as locked in on that end as I am on offense." — Cavs F LeBron James, on earning first-team All-Defense honors.
ROSTER REPORT

ROTATION: Starters — Point guard Mo Williams, Shooting guard Delonte West, Small forward LeBron James, Power forward Anderson Varejao, Center Zydrunas Ilgauskas. Bench — Forward/Center Joe Smith, Guard Daniel Gibson, Center Ben Wallace, Guard/Forward Wally Szczerbiak.
PLAYER NOTES:
—F LeBron James was named to the All-Defensive first-team on Wednesday. James was joined on the first team by Orlando center Dwight Howard — the Defensive Player of the Year — Boston forward Kevin Garnett, Los Angeles Lakers guard Kobe Bryant and New Orleans guard Chris Paul. The team was picked by the league's 30 head coaches. "I thank the coaches who saw that I picked up my game on that end," James said. "It's humbling." James joins forward Larry Nance in 1988-89 as the only players in franchise history to be voted to the first team. He was also just the fifth Cavs player to make the all-defensive team, and the first since the late Bobby Phills in 1995-96.
—It's just G-F Sasha Pavlovic's luck. He's been rarely used thus far in the playoffs. However, he responded with some rare playing time in Game 1 with seven points, three rebounds and a steal. However, he ran into an elbow from Hawks C Zaza Pachulia in the fourth quarter and broke his nose. He was fitted with a protective mask to wear in Game 2. "That seems to be Sasha's M.O. over the last couple years," coach Mike Brown said. "He's starts to get going and he comes up with a leg injury or an ankle injury. The thing I like about him, though, is that he always seems to bounce back from things. I'm sure he will from this." Pavlovic had four points and three rebounds in 17 minutes in Game 2.
—F LeBron James is averaging 31.5 points, 9.7 rebounds, 6.3 assists and 2.3 steals in the series.
—G-F Wally Szczerbiak scored a postseason-high 17 points against Atlanta in Game 3. He even had a big dunk on a fast break.

alx468 · May 9, 2009

hawks

Things went from bad to worse for the Hawks late Thursday night.
They were already in the midst of being knocked silly by the Cleveland Cavaliers for a second straight game.
And that's when Hawks' captain and All-Star Joe Johnson turned his right ankle on a lay-up attempt with 3:32 to play in the third quarter.
Johnson limped to the bench with a severe ankle sprain and the Hawks trailing by 32 points, both of them done for the night long before the final buzzer.
While the Hawks' reserves were on the court finishing up — the Cavaliers' biggest lead was 36 points — Johnson was in a wheelchair being pushed by one of the team's doctors.
They were leaving the Cavaliers' locker room, where Johnson's right ankle was being X-rayed.
The results were negative. And Johnson was upbeat on his way out of the building, leaving in a walking boot and with his team in an 0-2 hole in a best-of-seven series against the best team in the league.
"I've got a boot on but (I'm not) walking out of here on crutches," Johnson said. "I can't see me not playing in Game 3 (Saturday at Philips Arena). I'm looking forward to getting back out there with guys. And we've got 48 hours to get some treatment and try and get better, and we'll see what happens."
Johnson isn't the Hawks' only injured starter. Al Horford (ankle) and Marvin Williams (wrist) both sat out Game 2.
With the series shifting to Atlanta for Games 3 and 4, Saturday and Monday respectively, the major question is whether or not the Hawks will be able to field enough healthy bodies to compete.
"We were in the same situation last year with the blowouts in Boston," Hawks coach Mike Woodson said. "And we were able to go home and make a series out of it. Sure, we're a little banged-up right now. But we have a couple of days to try to regroup physically and get ready for Saturday's game. But we do have to go back and nurse some injuries and see if we can get some guys ready to go on Saturday."
CAVALIERS 105, HAWKS 85: The white flag went up early for the Hawks this time.
They didn't wait until the second half to surrender to LeBron James and the Cleveland Cavaliers.
It took 31 minutes in Game 1 for the Cavaliers to establish their dominance over their visitors.
But with the Hawks ailing and LeBron James at his MVP best early and often, the 105-85 score Game 2 of this Eastern Conference semifinal was never in doubt.
James knocked down a step-back 40-footer over Mario West at the halftime buzzer, stirring up a sellout Quicken Loans Arena crowd of 20,562 as the Cavaliers pushed their early lead to 24 points and eventually 36 before finishing off the Hawks.
"They ate us up inside and out," Hawks forward Josh Smith said after his foul-plagued night. "When a team is beating you like that, from all over the floor, it's tough to get a lick in."
It was another dazzling showing from James and the Cavaliers, who have yet to be challenged for an entire game in six playoff appearances — they swept Detroit in the first round.
Guards Mo Williams and Delonte West, before he took a Zaza Pachulia elbow to the face in the third quarter and did not return, worked the Hawks' on the perimeter, shooting over the Hawks' guards and anyone else that got in their way.
James assaulted the Hawks in transition, in the half court, at the rim and from beyond the three-point line.
He finished with a game-high 27 points on 9-for-14 shooting from the floor. He also had five assists, four steals and three rebounds, igniting the crowd and his team with his every move.
"It's not just LeBron," Smith said. "Any time you let a team shoot 60 percent on you throughout an entire game, you're just not giving yourself a chance to win."
NOTES, QUOTES
—Marvin Williams has an injured right wrist that just won't allow him to work the way he needs to. Al Horford's injured right ankle is doing the same thing right now.
Both players went through Thursday morning's shoot-around practice at Quicken Loans Arena but neither one of them was in a uniform at tip-off.
"You hate to get to this point and have to go out there when you're not at full strength," Hawks coach Mike Woodson said. "But this is a part of it and it's something we just have to deal with until they get better."
Horford re-injured his ankle in the Game 1 loss to the Cavaliers Tuesday night. He wore a sweat suit and sat on the sideline during practice Wednesday, still bothered by an injury suffered in Game 5 of the Hawks' first-round series against Miami.
Williams sprained his right wrist in Game 2 of the Miami series and has played sparingly since then, including just 13 minutes in Tuesday's loss.
"It's tough right now," Williams said. "We're just trying to get through it with all these injuries the best we can."
Game 3 is also when they might see Williams and Horford back in uniform, Woodson said.
"They are day-to-day right now," he said. "We've just to get everything we can out of the rest of our guys until they get back."
—F Josh Smith joined Marvin Williams and Al Horford on the bench with nearly eight minutes to play before halftime.
He picked up his third foul with 7:42 to play in the second quarter and promptly took a seat on the bench for the remainder of the first half. The Hawks' energy source early on in Game 1, Smith went to the bench with four points, on 1-for-6 shooting from the floor, and one rebound.
QUOTE TO NOTE: "This thing will be over early if we don't figure some things out and get our act together." — Hawks swingman Mo Evans, on the Hawks' struggles through two games against the Cavaliers.
ROSTER REPORT
ROTATION: Starters — Point guard Mike Bibby, Shooting guard Joe Johnson, Small forward Marvin Williams, Power forward Josh Smith, Center Al Horford. Bench — Guard Flip Murray, Guard Acie Law IV, Guard Mario West, Guard Mo Evans, Guard Speedy Claxton, Forward Thomas Gardner, Forward Othello Hunter, Forward Solomon Jones, Forward/Center Zaza Pachulia, Center Randolph Morris.
PLAYER NOTES:
—G Thomas Gardner saw plenty of mop-up minutes in Game 2 and made the most of them, scoring 12 points against the Cavaliers. That's one point better than Marvin Williams' playoff high this year.
—C Zaza Pachulia fought his way to seven points and 12 rebounds against the Cavaliers. But he fought a losing battle the entire night, as it was clear he wouldn't have any extra help with Al Horford injured and Josh Smith in foul trouble.
—F Solomon Jones saw extensive minutes in a relief role as well, but he didn't fare nearly as well as some of his teammates. Jones seems to have taken a step or two back from where he was earlier this season, when his minutes were much more consistent.
MEDICAL WATCH:
—F Marvin Williams is out with a sore right wrist.

CappingCrunch · May 9, 2009

retiredballer said:
Hawks roll

?? rolling their ankles...

cavs in 4... BOL today bro

Sactown King · May 9, 2009

Thank you Pachulia and Lebron for making this happen.

:cheers:

Cheesesteak · May 10, 2009

Unreal performance. Nice Hit

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