Hawks Fly Over Cavaliers 90-81

Joe Johnson scored a team high 29 points, and the Atlanta Hawks held the Cleveland Cavaliers to just 36.4% shooting from the floor for the game as the Hawks defeated the visitors from Cleveland 90-81 Wednesday night. The win? snapped a four game skid for Atlanta, and put a halt to the four game sinning streak that Cleveland had coming into the contest.

This game was not a thing of beauty, in fact it got downright ugly especially in the early going.?Cleveland limped to the early lead at the end of the first quarter 14-13, Atlanta had wrested the lead back in the second?quarter as they were ahead 36-32 at the half. Atlanta seemed to wake from their comatose state in the third as they led 65-52, Cleveland finally started to get into sync during the last quarter, but it was too little too late.

Johnson shot 9-19 from the floor 11-14 from the line for his 29 points, 7 rebounds, 5 assists, 1 block. Josh Smith scored 19 points, 2 steals, 2 rebounds, 1 block, 1 assist,?Marvin Williams scored 12 points, 8 rebounds, 3 assists, 2 steals. Josh Childress came off the bench to score 12 points as well, 5 rebounds, 3 assists, rookie Al Horford had a double-double 10 points, a game high 15 boards, 2 blocks, 1 assist.

LeBron James?had a double-double?for Cleveland, shooting 13-22 from the floor, 5-9 from the line for a game high 31 points, 1o rebounds, 6 assists, 3 steals,?1?block. Devin Brown scored 12 points, from the bench, 5 rebounds, 1 assist, Drew Gooden also had a double-double for Cleveland 10 points, 11 boards, 2 assists, 1 steal. Atlanta with the win improves to 16-16, while Cleveland is back at .500 at 18-18.