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Glass-half-full approach for Cavs

By John Hollinger
ESPN.com

Wednesday, May 27, 2009

Let's start with the Master of the Obvious stuff: It's not looking good for Cleveland. Historically, teams that are down 3-1 in a best-of-seven series have been screwed -- only eight teams have come back to win in 190 tries, a 4 percent success rate. Even if you want to include two other near-misses where teams came all the way back only to choke away late Game 7 leads (San Antonio against Dallas in 2006 and Portland against LA in 2000), that just gets you to 5 percent. But 5 percent is bette ...

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