Cavaliers 88-87 Hawks (2 Mar, 2009) Box Score

Cleveland Cavaliers

46-12, 20-11 away

	1	2	3	4	T
CLE	30	23	14	21	88
ATL	23	20	25	19	87

Atlanta Hawks

33-26, 20-7 home

Cleveland Cavaliers

starters
LeBron JamesL. James
Zydrunas IlgauskasZ. Ilgauskas
Anderson VarejaoA. Varejao
Mo WilliamsM. Williams
Delonte WestD. West
bench
Ben WallaceB. Wallace
Lorenzen WrightL. Wright
Darnell JacksonD. Jackson
JJ HicksonJ. Hickson
Eric SnowE. Snow
Wally SzczerbiakW. Szczerbiak
Sasha PavlovicS. Pavlovic
Daniel GibsonD. Gibson
Tarence KinseyT. Kinsey
Trey JohnsonT. Johnson
team

MIN	FG	3PT	FT	OREB	DREB	REB	AST	STL	BLK	TO	PF	+/-	PTS
44	8-20	2-7	8-14	1	5	6	11	1	2	0	3	+4	26
36	7-9	0-0	3-3	3	8	11	0	2	1	1	3	+2	17
35	3-6	0-0	1-3	2	5	7	1	1	0	1	3	+1	7
36	8-15	4-5	0-0	1	2	3	1	1	0	3	4	-1	20
41	5-16	0-4	2-2	1	1	2	2	3	0	5	4	+11	12
MIN	FG	3PT	FT	OREB	DREB	REB	AST	STL	BLK	TO	PF	+/-	PTS
0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
19	2-3	0-0	2-2	2	4	6	0	0	0	2	2	-5	6
0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
12	0-1	0-1	0-0	0	3	3	1	1	0	1	2	-5	0
0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
17	0-4	0-3	0-0	0	2	2	2	0	0	0	2	-2	0
0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	33-74	6-20	16-24	10	30	40	18	9	3	14	23		88
	44.6%	30.0%	66.7%

Atlanta Hawks

starters
Josh SmithJ. Smith
Marvin WilliamsM. Williams
Al HorfordA. Horford
Mike BibbyM. Bibby
Joe JohnsonJ. Johnson
bench
Solomon JonesS. Jones
Othello HunterO. Hunter
Zaza PachuliaZ. Pachulia
Randolph MorrisR. Morris
Speedy ClaxtonS. Claxton
Acie LawA. Law
Maurice EvansM. Evans
Ronald MurrayR. Murray
Thomas GardnerT. Gardner
Mario WestM. West
team

MIN	FG	3PT	FT	OREB	DREB	REB	AST	STL	BLK	TO	PF	+/-	PTS
34	4-10	0-0	0-2	1	2	3	1	1	1	2	3	+2	8
36	4-9	1-1	5-6	3	7	10	1	2	1	3	4	-1	14
37	3-10	0-0	4-4	1	9	10	1	1	2	2	3	-4	10
27	3-7	0-3	3-3	0	3	3	2	0	0	0	1	-11	9
39	8-17	1-2	4-7	1	4	5	4	2	1	3	3	-1	21
MIN	FG	3PT	FT	OREB	DREB	REB	AST	STL	BLK	TO	PF	+/-	PTS
0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
23	4-5	0-0	3-4	6	2	8	0	0	0	2	4	+4	11
0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
14	0-1	0-1	0-0	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	1	+6	0
31	5-15	1-3	3-5	0	1	1	2	1	2	1	2	0	14
0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	31-74	3-10	22-31	12	29	41	11	7	7	13	21		87
	41.9%	30.0%	71.0%

+/- denotes team's net points while the player is on the court

Regular Season Series

CLE leads 2-1

Hawks
96
Cavaliers
110

Game 1

23/11

Cavaliers
92
Hawks
97

Game 2

14/12

Cavaliers
88
Hawks
87

Game 3

2/3

Hawks
96
Cavaliers
102

Game 4

21/3

State Farm Arena

1:00 AM, 2 March 2009

Atlanta, GA

Attendance: 19,639

Referees:
Tony Brothers
Eric Lewis
Haywoode Workman

Team	W	L	PCT	GB	STRK
Cleveland	25	4	.862	-	W4
Milwaukee	15	12	.556	9	W1
Indiana	14	15	.483	11	W4
Chicago	13	16	.448	12	L1
Detroit	12	17	.414	13	W1

Team	W	L	PCT	GB	STRK
Orlando	18	12	.600	-	W1
Miami	13	13	.500	3	L3
Atlanta	14	15	.483	3.5	L3
Charlotte	7	21	.250	10	L4
Washington	4	22	.154	12	L1

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