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But Phil Jackson won 11 titles with the triangle! Nevermind the fact that he also had Jordan, Pippen, O'Neal, Bryant, and Gasol, they are irrelevant!

First game of the series is finally here! This will be a feeler game as teams get use to one another.

Pretty nervous actually. GO CAVS!!!!!

I'm nervous too but not for the reason I thought I would be. I went into this thinking that the Cavs (without Love) had no chance against the west if they made it to the finals, the more I've watched of the west, the more beatable I think they are... I'm honestly starting to believe that even without Love, the Cavs can win it all...

I just hope we play better defense and take it to them away. Rooting for the Super Subs to show up. Get after them hard early. Bring the bad tonight. Go, Cavs, go!

I really don't have a feel for how this game tonight is going to go.

This is going to be like going from hot wheels to indycar in terms of game speed, as far as this series from last. I think the Cavs can slow down the Hawks, but I think it may be a bit of a load off for the Cavs to play fast at times.

Would really like to see Mozgov have a good offensive series, because he's gonna be running around all over the place on defense. Tough draw with these bigs plus helping out on dribble penetration.

If only our "star" players could step up their game like our role players have ...

Thompson already killing them on the boards.

Millsap is going to kill Thompson if he continues to guard him. James would do much better on him, but that puts Thompson on Carroll.

Atlanta is switching on most pick and rolls. They are able to do this because of Carroll and Schroeder's ability to guard multiple positions.

If James gets in the paint the Hawks can't stop him. I'd expect them to just blitz him and force him to give the ball up.

If Teague and/or Schroeder get going, no one on the Cavs can guard them on the perimeter.

J.R. Smith on fire.

This is going to be a fun series. Neither of these teams can stop each other.

Hawks will die if they keep switching Teague/Schroder onto LeBron.

LeBron getting whatever he wants in the paint.

Delly not playing well today. He must be recalibrating his averages after that last game.

Regression to the mean is a female dog.

Unfortunately, Kyrie isn't playing much better.

But, MORE of THIS Lebron please.

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JAY ARR!!!!

Lebron going ISO is basically prevent defense

Oh man, that does not look good for Carroll.

I hope that it's not too bad .... but that looks bad.

The slow motion replay of Carroll's injury makes MY knee hurt..

It's prevent offense.

I hope that guy from the Hawks is alright. I'd hate to see anybody lose a guy like that.

Wow...I so love King James!!......Hate to see that injury though.

I still don't like our Navy uniforms.

I can't believe we are giving them a chance. Ugh.

I feel like Lebron is going to lose this game again for us.

Longest. Replay. Ever.

Uhhhg. We let them back in....

Hawks got one there.

Man, James can't hit anything right now.

Come on Lebron.....

This is a wonderful offensive scheme we have going currently.

James is going to lose this game for us

No reason for Lebron to be playing hero ball when we're up like this.

Can we bench Lebron at this point? I'd much rather JR Smith hold the ball for 23 seconds and launch a contested shot.

Good God Lebron. How the hell are you letting Milsap guard you 30 feet from the rim? This is as bad as what Boris Diaw did.

ISO is like prevent defense in the 3rd qtr.

Lebron is faster. Every time Milsap came out like that, Lebron should have ran around him.

Kyle Korver bailed out of that poster big time!

If Lebron is just gonna ISO Milsap. Somebody needs to set a pick and just let Lebron charge full steam.

Good win men. Game ball to JR.