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NBA: Cleveland defeated Toronto in the first round of the East

НБА: «Кливленд» разгромил «Торонто» в первом матче финала ВостокаThe Cavaliers won the ninth victory in a row in the playoffs of the NBA in 2016.

The conference finals for Toronto began optimistic – Canadians took the lead 7:0 and almost to the end of the quarter restrained LeBron James and company. As soon as the “Cleveland” came at the usual speed, from intrigue not gone – after three minutes after the start of the second quarter the hosts took “+14”.

To the big break advantage of Cleveland has reached 22 pips – the further continuation of the match did not matter, looked so weak guests. After the rest of the Cavaliers ” on the autopilot continued to break away in the score and in the end, we came to the biggest victory in the history
franchise.

The key to starting triumph Cleveland in the conference finals has become a solid advantage on the boards (45:23), confident game leaders (James and Irving on two implemented 22 of 30), as well as the attendant failure of the main stars of “Toronto” (Lauri and Derozan scored 13 of 31 games).

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Cleveland — Toronto— 115:84 (33:28, 33:16, 29:23, 20:17), the account in a series 1:0

To: Irving (27 + 5 assists), James (24 + 6 rebounds), Love (14), Jefferson (9 + 11 rebounds), Dellavedova (9), Shumpert (8), Frye (8)
T: Derozan (18 + 5 assists), Biombo (12), Johnson (10), Patterson (8), Lowery (8 + 5 assists).

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