Kent Bazemore: "We're the better team"

Kent Bazemore has insisted that the Atlanta Hawks are the "better team" in the Eastern Conference playoff finals, despite the Cleveland Cavaliers opening up a 2-0 lead.

The top seeds, who beat the Cavaliers in three of their four regular-season meetings, lost 94-82 in game two, with Cleveland yet to play at home in the series.

The shooting guard told reporters: "We played them in the regular season this year and got the best of them. I still think we're the better team. We just haven't shown it yet.

"The bright side is we haven't played well the first two games. We still think we're the better team. We'll try to get two up in Cleveland. We've got to play angry.

"We got a little frustrated. We got a little rattled. There's a lot of basketball left. They came here and got two. No reason we can't do the same thing up there."

The teams play again on Sunday, with the winner of this series facing either the Golden State Warriors or Houston Rockets for the title in next month's NBA Finals.