Cavs Sends Detroit Home Early

As coaches and players would say, playoff basketball and regular season basketball season are two very different things. Detroit beat Cleveland 3 games to 1 in the regular season. So we knew that this series would be a well-fought battle between the two conference foes. With the exception of game 2 where the Cavs beat the Pistons by 17. The rest of the games were very close and well-fought games. But, the Cleveland Cavilers still swept the Detroit Pistons 4-0 in round 1 of the Eastern Conference playoffs.


Steve Van Gundy turned a Detroit Pistons team that has been the laughing stock for the past few years to a respected playoff team. The Detroit Pistons gave the Cleveland Cavaliers everything they had but, that still wasn't enough.  The Detroit Pistons didn't have much production from their bench while their starters were sitting, outside of the rookie Stanley Johnson. This offseason the Pistons need to bolster their bench through the NBA draft and free agency. If they do that the Pistons could progress to be one of the elite teams in the Eastern Conference for years to come.


Kyrie Irving averaged 27.5 PPG, 4.7 APG, and 1.2 SPG. LeBron James averaged 22.7 PPG, 9 RPG, and 6.7 APG. Kevin Love averaged 18.7 PPG and 12 RPG. With the big 3 playing like this I don't see any reason why they don't make it back to the NBA Finals if everyone stays healthy. JR Smith, Matthew Dellavedova, and Iman Shumpert have been key contributors to the Cavs success in the first round of the playoffs outside of the big 3. The Cavs will face the winner of the Boston Celtics and Atlanta Hawks series in the 2nd round of the Eastern Conference playoffs.