The Hawks are coming off an absolutely humiliating loss in Game 2 as they allowed Cleveland to make a NBA-record 25 three-pointers and wound up trailing by more than 40 points at one point. Now being down 0-2 in the series I expect them to come out strong here in game 3 at home.

I'm pretty confident that Cleveland will not shoot the ball as well tonight as they were 55.6% from three-point range on 45 attempts and 75 of their points came from beyond the arc.

.Atlanta has the #1 defense in the NBA the last part of the season and after being embarrassed they will clearly do a better job defending the three point shot.

The Hawks are a good home team (30-14 straight up) and they are outscoring visitors by an average of 6.6 PPG this year. They won all three first round home games, two of them by double digits and I look for the HAWKS to get a win here on Friday night.