The Hawks flamed out in hawk fashion with little fight throughout and minimal adjustment. I feel they were always a step behind all season and they lost to all good teams all season. The Spurs also crashed out after playing poorly along with some suspect late game officiating. I think between San Antonio, Golden State, and Oklahoma City, The Cavs were hoping for the Spurs because I think the Cavaliers do well against teams that have slow guards.
Of course, as we all know, the Cavaliers are already in. Toronto put up an occassional fight but missed too many open shots coupled with some of the most biased officiating I have seen in a while along with having the dufuses of Mark Jackson and Jeff Van Gundy who will always support anything LeBron does. The embarrassing part was that the whole Cavs team was getting biased calls. How many times does Thompson push off on the oppononent who has better positionting (Answer: almost all) and how many times does the whole Cavs team set a pick where the picker either hip checks the opponent or moves with the opponent (answer: almost all the time). Read the full story