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We're going to open the show with a couple of a conversation about a couple of games last

night. Cavs versus Hawks. We'll start there, Mike. Also, we're going to talk about Cade Cunningham

making his return to the Detroit Pistons. But before we get to that, I thought that Cavs-Hawks game

was really interesting for a few different reasons, mostly because it felt like a playoff game, right?

I thought both teams came out with something to prove.

This could potentially be the first round matchup, right, in the Eastern Conference,

depending on how the standings fall.

The Cavs get the win in this one.

Donovan Mitchell just hitting tough shot after tough shot.

You got Dean Wade coming back after an extended absence.

It looks like this is going to be the starting lineup that they prefer that Kenny Atkinson prefers to go with with Dean Wade there and that's as that fits starter for Cleveland. Where do you want to start with this one? Yeah, I think what was interesting was not only did it feel like a playoff game, but the Cavaliers treated it like a playoff game. And there was some chatter ahead of time, right? Like would they want to, you know, sit some guys potentially lose to guarantee that they're the four seed, avoid Boston in the second round? Because a lot of people think Cleveland will match up better with Detroit. And I'm not so sure about that. But Kenny Atkinson company did not subscribe to that theory. They came out. they had a lot of interesting kind of tactical adjustments that you would associate more, I think, with like a playoff series. So you had James Harden guarding on Yeko, Kongu. They're at Atlanta's ostensible center. You know, they did a great job ignoring Dyson Daniels and Jonathan Cumminga on the three-point line. They moved Dean Wade all around to guard both Nikki Alexander Walker and Jalen

Johnson a little bit and C.J. McCollum a lot. And I just thought it was interesting that they were

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