The Cleveland Cavaliers finished 2nd in the Central Division with a 50-32 record, 3 games behind the Detroit Pistons. The Cavs really defended their home court well as they were 30-11 at home, but only 20-21 on the road. The Cavs did well in the Eastern Conference with a 31-21 record and they were a very solid 10-6 against their Division. They wound up averaging 96.8 points per game and only allowed 92.9. The Cavs played very well at the end of the season as they roll into the playoffs winning their last 4 games and 7 of their last 10.

The Cleveland Cavaliers are 1/2 a game behind the Chicago Bulls for the #2 seed in the Eastern Conference. Because the Bulls hold the tiebreaker with the Cavs, the Cavs will need to win their last two games (tonight against Philly on the road, and tomorrow against the Bucks at home) and have the Bulls lose their last game tomorrow night against the Nets in New Jersey. The Sixers are without their best basketball player tonight due to injury (Andre Iguodala), so they have no excuses to lose this game tonight. The Bucks should be easy pickins’ tomorrow night as they’ve had big injury problems this season. The Bulls could lose to the Nets tomorrow, because the Nets will likely also be playing for playoff position.

Donyell Marshall is in a huge slump in April. In the 5 games Marshall has played this month he’s only averaged 9.4 minutes, 1.0 point, 1.8 rebounds and 0.2 assists per game. He also is only shooting 13.3% from the floor and has only hit 1 of 10 shots from three-point range. Marshall’s a very important player to the success of the Cavs so he needs to get his act together with the playoffs approaching.

The Cavs have been very pleased with the play of Sasha Pavlovic as of late. Over the last two weeks, Pavlovic has averaged 14.8 points, 3.3 rebounds, 1.8 assists and 1.0 steals in his last 8 games. He also has hit 13 of his last 33 three-point shot attempts. Pavlovic is a very aggressive player that likes to get to the rim and he has emerged as the Cavaliers #2 option on the offense.

The Cavs lost today to the Pistons and fell to 46-32 on the season and they’ve fallen all the way to the #5 slot in the Eastern Conference. Still, the Cavs are only 1/2 a game behind the Chicago Bulls for the #2 slot in the playoffs but the Bulls hold the tiebreakers. The Cavs have 3 home games left out of their last 4 of the season and the Cavs are 27-11 on the season at home so they need to win all of those home games if they want to move to #2, which is very important. If the Cavs remain #5 they will play either the Miami Heat or the Toronto Raptors in the first round, but if they are #2 they will play either the Nets, Magic, Wizards or Pacers and that would be a much better matchup for the Cavs in the playoffs.