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Cleveland Cavaliers Game Analysis

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All season long we were hoping for a team out east to emerge as a potential challenge to the Cleveland Cavaliers. While the east has gotten much more competitive than in years past, with parity throughout, as shown by two game sevens in the first round. The parity has been from seeds two through eight and Cleveland is still the class of the east. At the beginning of the year we thought the Chicago Bulls had the best chance of challenging them, well they didn't even make the playoffs. Followed by the the Hawks, Raptors and Heat. The Hawks were coming off a 60 win season last year and lost to the Cavs in the Eastern Conference Finals. Surely if given another chance they would put up a fight and at least challenge them. It hasn't quite worked out that way in these conference semifinals. The Hawks have been demoralized in this series. In Game 1 coming back from 18 points down only to lose in the fourth. Then getting absolutely crushed in Game 2 after a historic shooting performance by Cleveland where they made an NBA record 25 threes. Despite the blowout in Game 2 the Hawks regrouped at home and held a nine point lead in the fourth only to be outscored by 19 in 4th and lose. At this point with the way the series has gone I can't see the Hawks winning Game 4 this afternoon. …show more content…

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