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7:00 PM EST. The Tyronn Lue era is over in Cleveland, as he found out the hard way what happens when you remove the greatest player of all time from a lineup full of scrubs and Kevin Love (who's hurt by the way). The fall for the Cavaliers without LeBron James wasn't unexpected, but a 0-6 start was enough to make Lue the scapegoat and he's now the fourth coach in history to get canned after making it to the Finals. Funny enough, this is the second time the Cavs have fired their bench boss after a Finals appearance, as David Blatt was axed in 2015. The other two coaches in case you were curious were Brian Scott with the Nets in 2003 and the 76ers gassed Gene Shue in 1977.

Back to the present day, where Cleveland's stock is falling faster than Amazon and the WWE combined. Who wants to spot points with a winless team that just lost its franchise player (again) and fired the coach? That very unappealing proposition combined with reports that Love will miss at least a month also have tempered any interest the market may have had from looking at Cleveland today.

Trae Young's coming out party on opening night against these Cavs was a real eye opener, but the former Sooner hasn't been nearly as impactful since, after posting just 13.7 points per game in the three games since that 35-point breakout. The Hawks have some market appeal after a high scoring start to their season, but they have quickly regressed. You may hear about how Atlanta is leading the league in Pace (which is a metric used to measure how many possessions a team will have per 48 minutes), but it also is dead last in Offensive Efficiency (points scored per 100 possessions). The Hawks are an inconsistent team and the goods under the hood support that, as they are 25th in the NBA in Consistency, which is another advanced stat based on game-to-game efficiency differential variation. Basically, the Hawks are one of these "new age" teams that run down the court and chuck up three-pointers. If they land, they'll win, if they don't, they’ll get buried. When they posted 133 on the Cavs in the opener, the Hawks went 22/47 from beyond the arc. Here's how Atlanta has shot the long ball since that first game. It was 15/38 against the Mavericks and while the Hawks won, Dallas blew a 20-plus-point lead in that game. The Hawks shot a paltry 12-of-40 in a 97-85 loss to the lowly Bulls and were even more miserable after going 8-for-37 in a 19-point loss to the 76ers. Finally, consider this. The Hawks were an eight-point pooch at home to the Cavs just over a week ago and now they are spotting points on the road, which is a role they are not well suited for, as we saw in ChiTown. Tonight is the night the Cavs get off the schneid. Big time.

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