Cleveland Cavaliers at Washington Wizards (Cavs lead 2-1)
Sunday, 1:00 pm Eastern – ABC

SBG Global Opening Line: Wizards - 4, Total 190

The Washington Wizards are back in their series against the Cleveland Cavaliers after routing them 108-72 on Thursday. They will try and even the best of seven series on Sunday. Thursday’s win by Washington was big in a number of ways. The 36-point playoff win was the biggest in Wizards’ history and ended the Cavaliers’ eight game playoff winning streak against them. “The Wizards scored easy baskets in their transition, whether it was off turnovers or flat out beating us down the floor,” said Cleveland head coach Mike Brown. “Those are things we cannot allow if we expect to win on the road.”

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LeBron James led the Cavaliers with 22 points on Thursday but that is nothing compared to what he usually doe. “Well, we definitely didn’t play well tonight,” said James. “We can’t carry this over to Game Four. They completely dominated us tonight on both ends – they executed, they shot the ball well, they defended us well. We know Sunday we can’t come out and play like this.” The Wizards had five players in double-figures, led by DeShawn Stevenson who had 19 points. Roger Mason had 18 points, Caron Butler added 17, Antawn Jamison finished with 15 and Brendan Haywood added 14.

The Cavaliers know they must play much better on Sunday. “One thing we have to do is continue to take shots and make our shots. They did a good job shrinking the floor and making some of my guys step up and take shots and we need to start knocking those down.” LeBron said, “The lane is going to open up and we need to get Z more touches. We didn’t get him enough touches tonight. That really hurt us. I wasn’t as aggressive as I can be. I need to get better and be a better player on Sunday.”

The problem for the Cavaliers is that they are not a very good road team. They were 18-23 straight up this season on the road and are now 0-1 in the playoffs. Washington was a good home team going 25-16 straight up and 22-19 ATS during the regular season and is now 1-0 in the playoffs at home.

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