Round 2 Game 1 | Cavs vs. Bulls | May 4, 2015 | 7:00 PM ET

[theSTEREO.]

EASTERN CONFERENCE PLAYOFFS
ROUND 2 | GAME 1
CLEVELAND CAVALIERS VS. ILLINOIS HORNED COWS

Monday, May 4 | 7:00pm | TNT | Quicken Loans Arena

KEY PLAYERS

ANALYSIS

Here's a chart of where the Cavs and Bulls rank in each of these categories amongst the 16 playoff teams. The taller the bar, the better the team is.

If you want a key stat, Net Rating is really the most important stat. That is essentially how much we are outscoring our opponent per 100 possessions. So a high Net Rating means we are succeeding both offensively and defensively.


[PARSEHTML]<iframe width="800" height="450" src="//embed.chartblocks.com/1.0/?c=553ae4a0c9a61d89458b252b&t=8ebe5f8d562928e" frameBorder="0"></iframe>[/PARSEHTML]As a comparison, here is a chart that throws out that


Bucks/Bulls Game 6 which was so skewed that it cause a ton of outliers. This might be a more accurate comparison:

[PARSEHTML]<iframe width="800" height="450" src="//embed.chartblocks.com/1.0/?c=554650c2c9a61d6c52f43e0f&t=0d82e9dde59cd46" frameBorder="0"></iframe>[/PARSEHTML]AS you can see, that Game 6 really hid a horrible shooting and offensive series for the Bulls. They were really bad on offense. And it's not even clear if they were that good on defense because the Bucks are so offensively challenged to begin with, and missed a ton of open shots in that series. Even layups.



GO CAVS

 

[Stark]

Fantastic.

 

[CBR J.]

GPY (Game preview of the year) award nominee.
Great job!

Go CAVS

 

[Joe Henderson]

Stereo, that's amazing. Thank you.

 

[Jscc]

That LeBron/Taj picture is gold.

 

[Ohio]

Yes.

 

[Timofey]

What a great post for my first comment. This is gold.

 

[shoes22]

What an amazing game thread. Much karma to you sir.

 

[tristan+kyrie=$]

WOW

 

[All4One1ForAll]

I've been waiting for this day a long time, boys…

Let's Go Cavs!!!

 

[tocov]

Good job!
If the Cavs play half as good as this game preview has been, we sweep our way to the championship.

 

[The Oi]

Fuckin excellent.

The Boozer nut punch gif remains top 3 for me.

 

[Ohio]

 

[wuck]

Thanks, theSTEREO. Nothing like setting the bar high.

 

[Binkster]

Thought I'd help supplement the thread for the visual learners: