There's the unexpected beatdown the supposedly soft Hawks gave to the Magic, despite the magnificent series Dwight Howard had.
There's the yawner of a series between the Celtics and the Knicks, which was supposedly a match up made in heaven.
There's the rough-and-tumble series between the Bulls and the feisty Pacers, who made every game a fight to the death.
And there's the Cinderella Grizzlies totally demolishing the top seeded Spurs, dominating basically every game of that series.
And now, in the second round, another set of upsets.
Even before the series started, the Atlanta Hawks already lost top defensive guard Kirk Hinrich, thought by many as the only Hawk with a chance of containing soon-to-be MVP Derrick Rose...but no one thought about which Bull could contain Joe Johnson.
So Johnson scores 34points, grabs 4 rebounds and gets 3 assists and 3 steals and Jamal Crawford scored 22 points . Rose, on the other hand, explodes for 24 points, 5 rebounds and 10 assists while Luol Deng had 21.
But in the end, it came down to better contributions from the rest of the team and that is how the Hawks came away with the series lead, with a 103-95 victory over the Bulls.
More of the story here.
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