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Round 3, Game 1 | Cavs @ Atlanta | May 20th, 2015 | 8:30pm EST

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Realizing the game isn't until 8:30pm when you had your evening set up for 7:00pm...

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Word...
 
Jalen Rose has picked the Cavs in 6.
This concerns me because he sucks at play off predictions.
He picked the Bulls and Clippers in round 2.
He picked the Bulls in game 6 also.
But he also picked the Warriors, so maybe even a stopped clock is right 2 times a day applies here.

Jalen picked the Cavs, because the Cavs just beat THE GREATEST TEAM IN NBA HISTORY. If the Cavs just beat THE GREATEST TEAM IN NBA HISTORY, then they must be THE NEW GREATEST TEAM IN NBA HISTORY...
 
http://www.nba.com/heat/news/behind_the_name.html



The Miami Flamingos sounds about right.

Miami Palm Trees
Miami Beaches
Miami Floridians

Some damn good entries there, Miami.
I'm guessing the Miami Fidels or the Miami Castros didn't rank highly, although after LBJ left the Miami Castrates seems appropriate.
For Atlanta I would have went with the Snow Parkas, since every time it snows one inch they all park their cars on the interstate and walk home.

Go Cavs!
 
Can't wait to see how many times Barkley pronounces Delly's name wrong this whole series :chuckle:.
 
Not that anyone here will care but my Cavs fandom is about to be severely tested against my intense physical attraction to Al Horford
 
Fact: Kyle Korver is 35/100 from three point range this postseason.

So, this means he will probably catch fire against us this series.

Fact: LeBron James is shooting 15% from three point range this postseason.

So, this means he's due for a breakout as well.
 
Good news again, Cavs fan. Scott Foster has been assigned to tonight's game. I posted about him in the Cavs game four in Chicago, and predicted a win based on his assignment. (we did win, albeit on LeBron's buzzer beater)

To rehash a bit, although Foster was blasted by the media for the 304 phone calls he exchanged with convicted ref Donaghy between December 2006 and April 2007, during which time Donaghy admitted he shared inside information with two known gamblers (Ex-ref Tim Donaghy: "... It seemed like Foster had money on Portland and Salvatore had money on Houston" | CSN Northwest), he came out clean and Foster is kind of the solution to a road team getting screwed by bad reffing.

Donaghy responded about one game in which Foster was helping the road team, Portand:

Tim Donaghy:"Maybe so...But, in that game he was trying to help Portland as the road team because they were getting screwed by Salvatore who couldn't referee a girls 5th and 6th grade game without messing it up..."

In fact, in 9 playoff games this season in which Foster was a referee, the home team won only 11% of the time! This is a pretty incredible stat.

Jason Phillips is also assigned to tonight's game and also reffed the above game four in Chicago, where the Cavs won. In seven playoff games he reffed this season, home teams won only 42 % of the time. Referee Pat Fraher is also assigned to tonight's game in in five playoff games he reffed this year, home teams only won 20% of the time.

The NBA got the memo once again. Cleveland = Finals ratings. The smart money is on Cleveland for a win! The line has move from 1 point in favor of Atlanta to 1/ 1/2, but that tells me gamblers are taking Cleveland, perhaps because of the ref assignments, whose games they are assigned in the 2015 playoffs tend to be won by the visiting team.

Cleveland wins today and gains home court advantage!
 
Hey Atlanta, ya know that soothing light at the end of your tunnel...........yea here comes the freight train..........

 

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