It’s 2-0 Cavs, But Everyone Knows It’s Over
NBA, Video May 8th. 2009, 11:30amMarvin Williams and Al Horford sat out last night. The Hawks were beaten to a bloody pulp, 105-85, but the lead was in the 30s before Atlanta’s benchwarmers out-hustled Cleveland’s scrubs in the fourth. As if things weren’t bad enough: Joe Johnson went down with an ankle injury and may not play in game three.
“I don’t know who’s going to dress on Saturday,” Mike Woodson said afterward. And then: “We’ve got to get our main guys on the floor and see what we’re made of.”
Sounds ominous. The good news? The sooner the Hawks are eliminated, the quicker we can get to the real story in Atlanta: Mark Richt and another round of suspensions (maybe!) at UGA.
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May 8th, 2009 at 11:36 am
I think more people in Atlanta are interested in offseason CFB speculation than 2nd round Hawks playoffs, so why wait?
May 8th, 2009 at 11:38 am
I would pay to see you say that to Sasha Pavlovics face. Dude is fucking crazy.
May 8th, 2009 at 11:38 am
I know everyone is sucking the Cavs dick right now, but keep in mind that neither Detroit nor Atlanta would’ve made the playoffs in the Bestern Conference.
May 8th, 2009 at 11:39 am
Love Tirico’s reaction, talking normally…OOOOOO WOW. Cavs may not lose a game this postseason, 16-0 baby.
May 8th, 2009 at 11:41 am
clown, the fact that the suck-ass Mavs are in the second round makes that statement irrelevant. Cavs are doing what they are supposed to do, destroy a lesser team, not let them hang around, not toy with them, destroy them.
May 8th, 2009 at 11:43 am
False, the Mavs beat up on a better team that suffered major injuries at the end of the season. Sweeping through lesser teams in the East isn’t that impressive.
May 8th, 2009 at 11:45 am
sweeping anybody is impressive, even it it’s the Memphis Grizzlies. Especially if you just continually crush guys, and let your first team rest, night after night.
Whoever the Mavs beat, they do suck. And I’m a Mavs fan, a woebegone Mavs fan.
May 8th, 2009 at 11:46 am
clown is a hater. Its what he does. Go pretend like youre a Lakers fan.
May 8th, 2009 at 11:48 am
There’s no way the Cavs would be doing this without the help of national champion Darnell Jackson.
/yes they would be
May 8th, 2009 at 11:50 am
the cavs were 26-4 against the “bestern” conference.
May 8th, 2009 at 11:51 am
Jackson made the playoff roster, hes actually pretty good. Cavs needed a thug too. He threw a solid elbow at Othello yesterday.
May 8th, 2009 at 11:54 am
That’s a pretty good regular season record.
/for me to poop on
//2000′d
May 8th, 2009 at 11:54 am
Darnell Jackson is one of my favorite players ever. He sucked his first 2/3 years in college and then over one summer he turned himself into a beast and made himself into a future millionaire. Good for him (and his family, who had to go through way more hardship than any family should)
May 8th, 2009 at 11:56 am
yet you have no problem bitching about the cavs regular season record against the celts, magic and lakers.
consistency please.
May 8th, 2009 at 11:56 am
Let’s try this again
Cavs are 6-0 ATS so far
/starts up maserati
//throws cashmere sleeve over shoulder
///puts his arm around supermodel girlfriend
////Drives to the hamptons for the weekend
May 8th, 2009 at 11:57 am
Yeah I liked him in college too. Dante Cunningham seems like a decent comparison in college careers. Always could tell they were waiting to break out.
May 8th, 2009 at 11:59 am
Atlanta didn’t get a chance to play the 6 teams in the Western Conference that won less than 30 games each. Atlanta might have won 50 games by beating up on those guys 4-6 times each too…
The West’s playoff teams look great until you dig deeper. The East had a better record against the West this year.
Cleveland playing Atlanta in the 2nd round is a reward for having the best record in the NBA. This is reason 1 why having the best record in the East this year was so important… avoiding Boston and Orlando in round 2 is huge.
May 8th, 2009 at 12:13 pm
I’m going to need 3 years of data, otherwise this year is just a statistical anomaly.
May 8th, 2009 at 12:45 pm
Lebron’s playing out of his mind right now.
That being said, there’s no way the Cavs would be running through opponents if they were in the West. Beating the likes of the Rockets, Blazers, and (surprisingly) the Nuggets in the regular season is one thing, but 1. playoff intensity is much greater and 2. those teams would not just lay down for the Cavs to roll over.
I still think the Lakers will make the playoffs, but they are being tested early, which is a good thing. I think the difference btwn the Celtics and the Lakers last year was the fact that the Celtics underachieved against inferior teams, while the Lakers continually overachieved against teams that were just as good as them (Jazz, Spurs).
I hope these wins keep making the Cavs cockier; they’re in for a rude awakening in the Finals, a la 2008 Lakers.
May 8th, 2009 at 12:51 pm
I think the Laker will make the playoffs too.
May 8th, 2009 at 12:51 pm
I still think the Lakers will make the playoffs, but they are being tested early, which is a good thing.
I am guessing you mean the Lakers will make the Finals.
May 8th, 2009 at 12:55 pm
However I don’t think they will make the Finals, their front court is weak. Cavs have been un-stoppable at home all year. And whoever plays them in the finals will probably have to win 2 on the Cavs home floor. This will be just one of many titles for LBJ.
May 8th, 2009 at 1:13 pm
Aside from the fact that the Cavs have a leader that wont allow that, and that his teammates actually like, and who won’t completely quit on them in a deciding game, yes, they are just like the 2008 Lakers.
May 8th, 2009 at 1:34 pm
Not in Cleveland.
May 8th, 2009 at 1:43 pm
If you don’t accept a statistic based upon 450 games of samples then is any conclusion from any sports season any more that a statistical anomaly?
May 8th, 2009 at 1:56 pm
Best part of that play? Watching the ball bounce off the head of the poor Hawks player standing under the net.
“Oh, he’s not making that…shot…OW, FUCK!”