NBA Playoff Betting Picks: Atlanta Hawks at Cleveland Cavaliers

NBA Playoff Betting Picks: Atlanta Hawks at Cleveland Cavaliers

“Between the Chalk”

8:30 PM ET, Sunday, May 24, 2015
Quicken Loans Arena, Cleveland, Ohio

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The Cleveland Cavaliers (63-31, 46-48-0 ATS) have the Eastern Conference Final in their hands when they host the Atlanta Hawks (68-28, 55-39-2 ATS) on Sunday night at Quicken Loans Arena in Cleveland. The Cavs went up 2-0 after a 94-82 victory on Friday, after experts using bookie software had them as high as a 3½-point road dog.

Pay Per Head agents like those at Premier Per Head currently have Cleveland a 9-point home favorite with the number at 190. With Atlanta failing to score 90 points in each of the first two games of the series, the UNDER paid those using sites for local bookies supporting it.

I predicted a 99-95 Cavaliers win in Game 2, giving me the right call on the winner, spread and UNDER/OVER again. I said LeBron James looked unstoppable at times in Game 1, and I expected that to continue in Game 2…another correct prediction.

King James finished with a game high 30 points, going 10-22 from the field, adding 9 rebounds and 11 assists, increasing the NBA playoff record he took from Michael Jordan in Game 1 (check my past article).

The Cavaliers, without Kyrie Irving who was out with a left knee injury, finished the game with bench players on the court. They again exposed Atlanta’s major weakness, outrebounding them 47-39. Irving is questionable to play in Game 3, but won’t play if he isn’t ready with the Cavs dominating the series so far.

Pay Per Head agents watched as Tristan Thompson had a game high 16 rebounds (5 offensive, 11 defensive), more than double any Hawk, who’s leading rebounder was Mike Scott off the bench with 7.

The Hawks had an offensive power outage again, being led by Dennis Schroder, who played only 12 minutes off the bench scoring 13. Starters Al Horford, Jeff Teague and Kyle Korver each had 12 in the loss.

Speaking of Korver, the Hawks have lost him for the remainder of the playoffs after he suffered a severe right ankle sprain. He hasn’t looked himself in the post-season recording averages of 11.1 points, 5 rebounds and 2.4 assists per game, but his presence will be missed.

Sports Betting Prediction

Imagine if the Cavaliers had a healthy “Big Three?” They beat the Hawks by 12 points as a 3½-point dog in Game 2 without Irving or Kevin Love, who is out for the season. You could pretty much write their names in as Eastern Conference champs if they were healthy.

Having said that, with the Cavaliers heading home, where they are 35-11 this season, the Hawks have a lot work to do to turn this USA online sports betting series around. With James’ dominance, I don’t see it happening.

Prediction: Cleveland Cavaliers 101 – Atlanta Hawks 92

TV Coverage: TNT
Written by: R Keough Top

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