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Re: What is going on in this Cavs/Raptor game?
« Reply #30 on: March 22, 2018, 10:12:56 AM »

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Love looks really good.  If they can get Nance and Hood back healthy plus Korver and may be even Thompson, they are going to be tough to beat in the playoffs

That is your takeaway from them getting smoked on their home floor and giving up 79 points? This honestly reads like satire.
it was a 4 point gane when I posted that and they are still missing 5 of their main players.

5 of their "main" players?
Hood, Nance, Korver, Thompson, and Osman.  All players that have played heavy minutes when healthy (or in in the case of Osman once he got more comfortable).  The Cavs played 9 players last night, including Holland who is a 2 way player and Zizic who wouldn't even be dressed if the team was fully healthy. 

Now obviously the Cavs aren't going to play 12 players as a rotation in the playoffs, though Calderon who started last night probably gets out of that mix pretty quickly.  Osman probably does as well, leaving a solid 10 player rotation of Love, Nance, James, Hood, Hill, Korver, Thompson, Green, Smith, and Clarkson.  Of those 10, 4 didn't play last night, including 2 likely starters and they beat the #1 team in the conference when that team shot 54% from the field including 44% from 3 and 87% from the line (the Raptors also out rebounded, out assisted, and had less turnovers than the Cavs).  Obviously Cleveland was on fire from the field, but it isn't like the Raptors played a bad game, they did not, and the Raptors weren't missing a single key member of their team.
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Re: What is going on in this Cavs/Raptor game?
« Reply #31 on: March 22, 2018, 10:33:14 AM »

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Looks like Warriors Cavs...kinda like it's always been.

Re: What is going on in this Cavs/Raptor game?
« Reply #32 on: March 22, 2018, 12:19:12 PM »

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Looks like Warriors Cavs...kinda like it's always been.

What book/site are you using?

Warriors Champ 10/13
Houston Rockets 17/10
Cavs 10/1
Raptors 12/1

To win east
Raptors 17/10
Cavs 8/5

1) The odds you have posted are terrible. If you bet 100 bucks on the Cavs at those odds you would win $600. If you bet them at more reasonable odds you can get $1000. Second, the cavs and Raptors are pretty much deadlocked (they flip flopped after the game last night, Raptors were slight more favored to win east before game, now it is Cavs).
2) Omitting the Raptors from your odds seems pretty disingenuous and saying it looks like the Cavs Warriors is what will happen is a foregone conclusion is not an accurate summary.

The odds of a Raptors Warriors series are 3-1 compared to 2.7 to one for Cavs Warriors. We actually do have a chance of several different matchups this year.