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Quote Originally Posted by melossinglet:
thats a F*#@IN masterpiece once again,scalabrine....
..not much to add,in agreement and was already eye-balling this even before realising wat is truly going on with atlanta...hadnt heard those reports and comments and have been very surprised at just how bad they have been in this stretch.
thats a F*#@IN masterpiece once again,scalabrine....
..not much to add,in agreement and was already eye-balling this even before realising wat is truly going on with atlanta...hadnt heard those reports and comments and have been very surprised at just how bad they have been in this stretch.not sure if anyone else notices this but speaking broadly the hawks seem to more often than not get extremely bloated home lines as favourites...this has stuck out to me for quite a long time and i hardly ever back them as home faves and tho i dont know their ATS record in that spot i dare say it wouldnt be great going back 2 seasons or so....they win their fair share but wudnt be covering the sumtimes absurd spreads they get i wud think....anyhow i just mention this to give weight to the notion that it wudnt be in the least bit surprising(to me at least) if cavaliers were given +4 or even more.
in general,seems awfully strange tho that books arent really catching on to wat the cavaliers have been achieving of late..they still seem to be seen as simply a rag-tag bunch of over-achieving scrappers that just get by on spirit and determination and are lucky to be in most games.........where-as in reality they are performing like one of the hottest tickets around,as detailed in your write-up.and of course being fueled by desperation dont hurt neither.
wat exact point in time do you believe the notion of flagging the season occured to this organisation scalabrine???.....for the longest time they have just been stuck in no-mans land,too good to ever miss the playoffs(and hence have a shot at a good lottery pick)..but yet too incomplete to ever seriously challenge for even an eastern conference championship.and this season seemingly shaped up in pretty much the same way,with a solid sort of squad looking at another playoff berth in the horrible east........with horford intact in the middle and no serious injuries to speak of is there any chance that this would be happening rite now???and so was there a point in time where it was decided-"this is a lost season anyhow,lets try a different route"...and wen was that??they stayed pretty strong after horford went down for quite a while....then the injuries.
pretty safe to say that a core line-up of horford,milsap,antic,korver,teague,lou williams and brand cudnt miss the playoff cut even if they tried in the weak,weak east....so was it simply circumstance and fate in the form of health/injuries that changed the direction of their season and forced their hand as they saw it??
Agree with the hawks lines comment.
They are an above average team these past 7 years and that is all.
Can't fault them for not challenging in the east.
Why? No true big star wants to play in Atlanta (JJ is not a star by any stretch).
Therefore they have to build through the draft and get good but not great free agents.
Result? Get knocked out in the second round over and over and they can't help it.
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