No news = good news?
You can bet Matt Harpring, Jerry Sloan and the Jazz will be ready to go against the Hawks tonight at Philips Arena.
HAWKSVILLE – The status of Hawks starting small forward Marvin Williams hasn’t changed since yesterday. He’s still sidelined indefinitely with a lower back injury that could ultimately cost him the rest of this season.
But as of game time Wednesday night at Philips Arena, Williams and the Hawks are still awaiting word from specialists at Duke University before they announce any further information. It still sounds like it’ll be the end of the week, and perhaps even a bit later, before anything certain comes to light in regards to Williams.
What should be a heck of game is being overshadowed by the ongoing story surrounding Williams. The Jazz showed up tonight sporting a 12-game win-streak, the NBA’s longest current streak of the kind.
These two teams also have some interesting bad blood leftover from a couple weeks back, when Josh Smith whacked former Marist and Georgia Tech star Matt Harpring on a hard foul and was ejected from the game the Hawks lost in Utah Feb. 23.
Smith promised before the game that anything that happened that night was in the past. I’ll bet the Jazz coaches reminded Harpring and everyone else in their locker room about what went down. Those are the sorts of things that a hard-nosed bunch like the Jazz won’t forget.
They’ll be ready to rumble. So the Hawks better be as well.
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rms
March 12th, 2009
10:00 pm
I got some good lower level seats for the game tommorow, so I look forward to an up and close look at the home team and watching Woody BWAF in person.
Samuel
March 12th, 2009
10:22 pm
Red Tail,
I gotta agree with you. I haven’t seen many here on Price’s ars like they are Woody. Wonder why?
The Hawks are “again” playing as well as any team in the league right now. Just like the start of the season. The only area where we are lacking is free throws. I believe it’s consentration. All these guys are pros. They’ve heard and seen all the various techniques in the world on “How to shoot a free throw” but until they consentrate and apply it. They won’t get any better.
I am not surprised at all that we are playing as well as we are right now. Why, because I have seen what we are capable of. Sure, we don’t beat the bad teams like we should but I would much rather us play well against the good teams than beat the bad ones by 20. Cause guess what, in the playoffs we won’t be seeing the Bobcats or the Knicks or the Kings.
I told yall Woody was a stretch run coach. Not that he doesn’t care about the regular season but he knows what really counts. Would yall rather win 5 or 10 extra games and peak too early or peak during the playoffs.
We got a chance to do something special this year. Let’s keep it going.
Woody=COY
hawk's hawk
March 12th, 2009
10:22 pm
Yea might as well see what Gardner can do, Evans is really hit or miss, more miss lately. give the young guy a shot, evans defense isnt that good as advertised.
HawksBlogReader
March 12th, 2009
11:38 pm
This Blog has turned out to be really ok. There are a few rowdy ones, but most is good clean opinions. To think that this Blog or any BLOG has something to do with how the Hawks conduct buisness is a stretch. But no doubt this is a court of public opinion. Its nothing to come on here and spread venom about the Coaches Players and Owners. More after losses than wins of course. But still for the most part, the words posted here have some form of Validation. The AJC keeps the place pretty clean being a Hometown paper and a hub for the media. I dont get the Hawks.com website Blog though. Not the actual site Blog, but the LINKs to Blogs that spread enough terd paste to cover Jupiter. Some of that stuff make comments here look like nursery rhymes. On 1 page you have Banners telling you to come to games and re-new season tickets. The other page has links to post that say the Owners GM Coaches and Players are the worst in the league. You think Woody gets trashed here?? Click on a few of those links. All from his TEAM’s Home Site! The only thing I can think that would allow this is that the Hawks are getting paid by these “Blogs” for the linkage. If not that is really sad.
niremetal
March 13th, 2009
12:20 am
Samuel,
I haven’t seen many here on Price’s ars like they are Woody. Wonder why?
Gee. Could it be because one is the head coach and the other isn’t? Nah, that would be too logical.
I agree that Woody probably will get some COY votes because the award usually goes to the guy whose team had the most “unexpectedly good” year. But he won’t win, and he won’t deserve to win unless he displays some inkling of an ability to make adjustments before his back is up against the wall.
ray
March 13th, 2009
1:50 am
Even suggesting that Mark Price is the root of the problem with free throw shooting is ridiculous.
It’s about as silly as suggesting that Woody is the root of problems with rebounding.
Both things require effor AND technique. In both cases, a coach can tell a player how to do it, but the player himself must do it.
And none of us know what Mark Price is telling these guys in practice, despite some of the absurd suggestions. We’ve heard/read where Mark Price says he’s watched Josh Smith make 90 of 100 free throws in practice. It’s mental. He wasn’t this bad last year, and he wasn’t this bad prior to his struggles. Now he’s improving again. Good for him. Al missed some free throws in one game. Marvin did the same thing several games ago, but few people noticed. Nobody in their right mind is going to run out and try to crucify the 1st year shooting coach just because some guy choked at the line one or two nights.
That being said, any boob (well, ALMOST any boob) with a working brain and pair of eyes knows precisely what Woodson has received the most criticism about. Those lacking the two aforementioned anatomical features need not apply. It’s not rebounding, it’s not shooting, nor defense. It’s been about his substitutions, how many minutes he plays guys, the style of offense he runs, and the use of his bench. All validly debatable topics.
What never fails to amuse me is how some people want to heap the blame on “player execution” when a team is not doing well. Then turn right around and lavish praise on the coach when the team IS doing well. Hilarious.
Look, if you want to go and be a hairy pimple on the man’s a$$, then go do it. Just don’t expect others to do it blindly right along with you.
Woodson did a GREAT job against Utah. I like that the adjustments he made were superior to those Sloan tried, and Utah was on a high, at full strength. I wish there were many more games I could point to like this in his favor. There are a few. But not many. I can only hope for more in the future. And I truly do. Until then…
I agree that Woody probably will get some COY votes because the award usually goes to the guy whose team had the most “unexpectedly good” year. But he won’t win, and he won’t deserve to win unless he displays some inkling of an ability to make adjustments before his back is up against the wall.
Couldn’t agree more.
ray
March 13th, 2009
2:04 am
“Gee. Could it be because one is the head coach and the other isn’t? Nah, that would be too logical.”
Ha! For some, yes.
Sam…
“I told yall Woody was a stretch run coach. Not that he doesn’t care about the regular season but he knows what really counts. Would yall rather win 5 or 10 extra games and peak too early or peak during the playoffs.”
What? So I guess this means he really knows when to turn on the coaching prowess that he possesses…”when it really counts?” Well going by that “logic” I’d say that winning right NOW, a whole 17 games before the playoffs, is peaking too early. Or are these the games that he chose for us to win? I’m confused. I’m now uncertain as to which games were the really important ones that we should be winning. Maybe we could better appreciate him by knowing what the plan was from the get go, and we wouldn’t be disappointed in some of the losses, since we’d know the script already. In fact, when you get done starching his underwear for him, how about going and telling Woody to turn that awesome coaching power down a few notches. I’d hate for us to win an extra 5 or 10 games by accident and flame out before the playoffs begin….
Hawksfan
March 13th, 2009
2:36 am
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Najeh Davenpoop
March 13th, 2009
5:29 am
“I told yall Woody was a stretch run coach. Not that he doesn’t care about the regular season but he knows what really counts. Would yall rather win 5 or 10 extra games and peak too early or peak during the playoffs.”
We are not talking about the Lakers here. The Hawks are only 1.5 games ahead of the Heat for the 4th seed and home court advantage in the first round. If Woody isn’t trying to win every game right now he should be fired. Thankfully, I think you’re wrong, and as much as we all dislike Woody he probably is trying to go all out and win every game right now.
Woody=coy
March 13th, 2009
5:44 am
Ray is a straight up fool who does not know a thing about basketball.
Samuel
March 13th, 2009
6:54 am
That’s obvious.
RedTailHawk
March 13th, 2009
8:06 am
Ray says: “Even suggesting that Mark Price is the root of the problem with free throw shooting is ridiculous”
Then Ray ays: “What never fails to amuse me is how some people want to heap the blame on “player execution” when a team is not doing well. Then turn right around and lavish praise on the coach when the team IS doing well.”
Double standard for Price, Ray?
I’m not saying that Price is the root of the problem, but the sign of a good coach (freethrow or head) is being able to communicate EFFECTIVELY with the players. If Price tells them what to do 1000 times and they don’t get it then he is not “communicating effectively” and is therefore worthless.
Yes, Price was obviously a great FT shooter, but there is a difference between executing well and being able to teach others to execute well. If being able to do it equaled being able to teach it then Michael Jordan would be a hall of fame coach.
Elijah
March 13th, 2009
9:58 am
Anyone else see Levenson’s remarks in the AJC the other day about the Thrashers? Says that every coach in professional sports is on a day-to-day contract…I hope Popovich or Phil Jackson don’t see this…
Big Ray
March 13th, 2009
9:58 am
RedTailHawk,
What double standard? I don’t recall saying that YOU or anyone else said that Price is the root of the problem. I simply said that it would be silly to suggest such a thing. And it seems that you forgot THIS part:
“It’s about as silly as suggesting that Woody is the root of problems with rebounding.
So again, what double standard are you referring to? And did I not say that a coach can tell a player to do something, but it’s on the player to actually do it?
My second comment that you quoted me on actually has something to do with a double standard. Read it again. It states that some people will blame the players (not the coach) when the team is not doing well. When the team IS doing well, they praise the coach (not the players). What does that sound like to you? And no, I’m not accusing you of being that kind of person. And by the way, I was talking about Woodson, not Price…
And this, by you:
I’m not saying that Price is the root of the problem, but the sign of a good coach (freethrow or head) is being able to communicate EFFECTIVELY with the players. If Price tells them what to do 1000 times and they don’t get it then he is not “communicating effectively” and is therefore worthless.
No, you don’t say that Price is the root of the problem. At least not in those exact words. What you DO say is this:
“Is Mark Price still free-throw coach? If he is, what is he doing for his paycheck? When Josh was not hitting any freethrows (until the last game or so), he did not give Price any credit for helping him improve. Instead, he credited JJ with telling him simply that he was not bending his knees. Very few good freethrow shooters do it without bending their knees.”
“Now I see Al Horford struggling at the line and notice that there is no bend in his knees whatsoever. His motion is all arm and wrist. Doesn’t anyone else see this?”
and this:
“Jhan – I don’t know WHAT Price is telling Josh to do. Neither do you. I do know that Josh said that JOE told him to bend his knees. He did not say that Joe reiterated, confirmed, expanded upon, reminded him of or embellished something that Price had already told him to do. And judging from the team FT percentage, perhaps Price is telling them to shoot like their legs are frozen in ice. …See Al Horford last night.”
And last, but not least:
Jhan – The Hawks are 29th in the league at FT shooting. If their win record were 29th in the league I don’t think you would be defending Woody, even if at one time he had been an excellent “player”.
Sounds pretty straight forward to me. You’re right, you did not once say that Price was the ROOT of the problem. You pretty much insinuated that he IS the problem.
I agree completely that a coach who cannot communicate effectively is worthless. Interesting that you would say something like that. So…the Hawks are 29th in the NBA in free throw shooting, and this indicts Mark Price. Well, they’re also 22nd in rebounds. Who gets the blame for “ineffectively communicating” on THAT one? Uh-oh, they’re 18th in assists. 20th in ppg. 18th in 3-point percentage (Maybe you can tag Price with that one, too). All of those categories in the lower half.
So who gets tagged for all of that? You know, so we don’t have a double standard and all. Wouldn’t want that.
Hms
March 13th, 2009
10:02 am
I’m not saying that Price is the root of the problem, but the sign of a good coach (freethrow or head) is being able to communicate EFFECTIVELY with the players. If Price tells them what to do 1000 times and they don’t get it then he is not “communicating effectively” and is therefore worthless.
Perhaps this logic should be applied to head coach Mike Woodson. Either that or Price should get four more years as Woodson has to prove just how ineffective he can be.
Big Ray
March 13th, 2009
10:16 am
RedTailHawk,
To be absolutely honest, if you see it as a Mark Price issue, then that’s just how you see it. No skin off MY back, because I don’t care WHO is here as a shooting coach. I was just glad we got one. I’d be even happier if we had an effective “big man” coach. Maybe we do, and I just didn’t know it.
Now if there is proof that Price’s teaching is causing them to have problems (which makes no sense, because he has been here all year long, and they weren’t having problems all year long) then get him out of here.
By the way, to become a Hall of Fame coach, you actually have to coach, when I don’t believe Michael Jordan has tried to do yet. But if his coaching is anything like his GM/Team President performance, then somebody PLEASE keep his butt off the sidelines. He wasn’t doing so hot in Washington or Charlotte, though I have to say their moves this year were better than in the past.
Big Ray
March 13th, 2009
10:23 am
Ah, gee whiz, now who would post under the name “WOODY=COY”…..hmmmm….
LOL…
Mychelfromatl
March 13th, 2009
11:12 am
For those not in the Atlanta Area…the Hawks game will be on NBA TV tonight and March 27 when they play the Celtics.
RedTailHawk
March 13th, 2009
11:30 am
Ray,
As for your statement: “What never fails to amuse me is how some people want to heap the blame on “player execution” when a team is not doing well. Then turn right around and lavish praise on the coach when the team IS doing well.”
I guess you are saying that if you blame poor player execution for failure, then you should credit good player execution for success. And if you blame poor coaching for failure, then you should credit good coaching for success.
I totally agree. But it seems that some people want to blame Woody for the Hawks underacheivement but not blame Price for their underacheivement in his area of expertise. Unless of course you think all the blame should be placed on poor execution by the players which I think would be, to use your words “ridiculous” and “silly”.
I have made no comments whatsoever on Woody’s coaching ability except to say that he certainly does not get the “pass” that Price is getting.
That being said, I do think that he is to blame for many of the poor statistics that you quoted earlier. It is my opinion not only that he be fired; but that it should have occured several years ago.
I never said that Price’s teachings were “causing” them to have problems. I said that perhaps his teachings were not helping them improve.
Unlike you, I also do not think that it is enough to have any warm body as a shooting coach. If you are getting paid then you should excel at your job.
In short, if you are going to call Woody out on his coaching, call Price out also. Hence “DOUBLE STANDARD”.
terrell barron
March 13th, 2009
12:00 pm
It’s almost heat check time. lol!!
KevinA
March 13th, 2009
12:17 pm
Even the worst free throwing teams average a higher shooting percentage from the line than from the field. When the Hawks play their best they attack the rim and get fouled. We make up for percentage by the number of attempts.
Drive, Drive, Drive and keep the volume of free threw attempts up.
Shaq is having his best free throw percentage in his career. Were all those other coaches bad? Or should his new shooting coach get hall of fame votes? I think the player has a lot to do with it. Childress shot pretty well, better than Josh, but I wouldn’t recommend that style to anyone. lol
Looking forward to tonights game. Lets build on our own winning streak.
Big Ump
March 13th, 2009
12:42 pm
Ray
True some people blame the player and not the coach. And it’s true that some people blame the HC when they lose and no credit is given to him when they win. I always look at both sides of the pictures…
KevinA
March 13th, 2009
1:06 pm
The players play hard for Woody. The team has it’s eye on the prize. The team is better than last year. Playing a short rotation keeps more continuity on offense and defense. We might not like the minutes or developmental style of Woody’s coaching but it’s hard to argue with his success.
terrell barron
March 13th, 2009
1:15 pm
NBA TV is showing the 1996 1st rd series (game 5) between Atlanta and Indiana right now. Check it out fellas. We won the series that day. Check out those uniforms. lol!!
terrell barron
March 13th, 2009
1:16 pm
Is that Chris freakin Laettner? lol!
terrell barron
March 13th, 2009
1:22 pm
And there’s the plastic man with the nice spin move. Oh, the memories. lol!! And btw, the Josh Smith dunk contest is at 5:00.
terrell barron
March 13th, 2009
1:28 pm
Sean Rooks played for the Hawks in 96? Hmmmm????
terrell barron
March 13th, 2009
1:43 pm
Alan Henderson sure was a dissappointment.
niremetal
March 13th, 2009
3:17 pm
terrell,
The sad thing is that Alan Henderson, along with Stacey Augmon, was one of the 2 best draft picks we had between 1984 (when we picked Willis) and 1999 (when we picked Jason Terry). And the really sad thing is that #3 was either Adam Keefe or Chris Crawford. After 1999, the Hawks didn’t have another decent draft pick until Billy took over.
I know that people love to bash Billy for picking Marvin and Shelden (and I still have a plausible but unsubstantiated theory as to why Billy reached for Shelden), but even the harshest critic has to acknowledge that his draft history (Diaw, Childress, Smith, Marvin, Shelden, Al, Acie) is not half as bad as Babcock’s (Rumeal Robinson, Doug Edwards, Priest Lauderdale, Ed Gray, Rosheon McLeod, Dion Glover, Cal Bowdler, DerMarr Johnson). Hell, a few of Billy’s second round picks (Ivey, Solomon, Salim) have had more productive NBA careers than most of Babcock’s first round picks.
I ain’t saying that Billy was great. Just putting him in context.
A Thinking Fan
March 13th, 2009
4:09 pm
Doc, AJ, TB, Ray, KS, Clyde, Sam, etc. are these the Hawks’ Blog fans of 4/5 months ago before I went on travel? There are some positive vibes going on in here, who would of thunk-it!
doc
March 13th, 2009
4:13 pm
nire, care to share your theory as i have mine and expressed it as an apologist for bk? no, he wasnt a total bust as an architect of what we have, the proof is in the pudding; 4th place on a rebuild. the way it was done is almost impossible to achieve. chicago almost made it the same way but have fallen back. i dont think any other team has really done it that way where they put it all in the hands of college kids essentially.
A Thinking Fan
March 13th, 2009
4:22 pm
I think part of BK’s issues were management. The question in BK’s mind was “do I build this for someone else to profit from my efforts?; or “Do I leave it as it is now, where I have built it to this point?” He left…
doc
March 13th, 2009
4:24 pm
yeah atf, pretty amazing isnt it. wondered where you been as i tried to connect more than once with you.
what did you learn while away?
BA
March 13th, 2009
4:25 pm
nire, what’s your theory?
A Thinking Fan
March 13th, 2009
4:31 pm
doc, there nothin’ like “home sweet home!”
niremetal
March 13th, 2009
4:33 pm
Doc,
The short version of my theory (and this looks long, but believe it or not it’s the short version) is that the owners were nervous about making any FA signings during the summer of 2006 due to the then-exploding litigation between Belkin and ASG – remember that one judge initially barred the Hawks and Thrashers from signing *any* FAs to multiyear contracts worth more than $1M. Thus, my guess is that the owners put a quiet cap on Billy Knight’s FA spending for the summer of 2006. Knight knew that the Hawks needed both help in the lane and a quality point guard. Given Woodson’s hesitance about playing young PGs, he probably figured that the best use of his money was signing a FA point guard (especially since there were zero projected franchise point guards in the ‘06 draft) and getting the best defensive big man he could in the draft. He probably tried to trade up or out, but given the horrible depth in that year’s draft, no one was willing to trade down from 1 or 2 to 5, and no one was willing . Thus, Knight held his nose and drafted Shelden, with his eyes on signing either Speedy or Sam Cassell in the FA period.
Of course, both the pick and the signing turned out to be disasters. But my totally unsubstantiated impression is that Billy felt he didn’t have much choice.
niremetal
March 13th, 2009
4:35 pm
Whoops, cut off sentence:
“He probably tried to trade up or out, but given the horrible depth in that year’s draft, no one was willing to trade down from 1 or 2 to 5, and no one was willing to give anything of value for the #5 pick.”
A Thinking Fan
March 13th, 2009
4:38 pm
And remember the internal politics of ASG, who was going to eventually be BK’s “BOSS”?
Melvin
March 13th, 2009
4:55 pm
Good points Nire in reference to the circumstance in which BK had to work under in order to do his job. I think he (and now Sund) was at a disadvantage in comparison to other GM’s. I didn’t complain when he took Marvin but I knew Shelden wasn’t worthy of being selected #5. However, I think he did a decent job with his draft picks. Just about all of his draft picks (9 out of 11, 8 if you include JChill) are still in the league. Not too many GMs can match his percentage…
terrell barron
March 13th, 2009
5:01 pm
A chance to go back to 10 games over 500. tonight.
terrell barron
March 13th, 2009
5:04 pm
Is the game on Sportsouth tonight?
Big Ray
March 13th, 2009
5:18 pm
RedTailHawk,
The whole “I don’t care WHO we have as shooting coach” comment was to illustrate that I don’t have a vested interest in Price himself (as you seemed to suggest that I did), and have no reason to create or maintain a double standard for him….NOT that “just being there” is sufficient.
And NO, I did not say or even think that all the blame should be placed on poor execution by the players. That is TWICE that you have more or less teetered on the edge of putting words in my mouth.
I think your posts pretty much summed up what you feel about Price. Your comments are quite suggestive and very clear, with no need to read between the lines. I find it odd that while you are willing to insinuate that Josh Smith’s recent issues with free throw shooting are not helped at all by Price’s teaching, yet you are unwilling to give him any credit for Smith’s apparent improvement in that area. And oh yes, you DID suggest quite clearly that Price may be telling them something that would be detrimental to their performance. I believe “perhaps Price is telling them to shoot like their legs are standing in ice” was the comment. Hmmmm. I guess Josh needed to specifically say that Price helped him, or we assume that it was only Joe (whom Smith mentioned as having said something, but he didn’t say Joe “taught” him) who helped? And what if Horford shoots at the line tonight, and does well? I’ll be we won’t hear a peep from you about Price having done something right.
Conversely, while calling Woody out multiple times, I have given him credit when I felt it was due. I was impressed with his performance during the game against Utah, and said so more than once, on both blogs. So unlike some, I can give credit as well as criticism.
I agree that Price should excel at that which he is getting paid for. I see your point about the team being 29th in the league in FT%. Maybe he should be fired. I don’t know if I’m willing to hang the whole thing on him. I certainly don’t hang all of our problems on Woodson.
But hey, if that’s still a double standard to you, then that’s just what you think, and I’m not worried about it. But hey, don’t worry, if the ASG wants to trim payroll a bit, I’m sure “fire the free throw shooting coach” notes in the suggestion box will do the trick for ya…..heh heh heh.
Clyde
March 13th, 2009
5:40 pm
A Thinking Fan we are staying positive until the summer.
Ken Strickland
March 13th, 2009
5:43 pm
Tonights gm is one where we could really use Marvin to help neutralize Granger. I don’t think Evans can neutralize him with his OFF or his DEF. Bibby will have to step up and JJ will have to continue his current roll. It should be a very entertaining gm.
DOC-to further expand on your point about BK. You have to consider what BK accomplished after hiring a HC that was philosophically opposed to almost everything he envisioned for the type of players and team he put together. If Woodson hadn’t been so adamantly opposed to BK’s plan, we’d currently be more successful as a team and BK would still be the GM, as well as a candidate for executive of the yr.
None of the so called experts are now claiming BK made a mistake drafting Smoove. Fans are no longer saying drafting Marvin, or drafting Horford over Yi or Conley, was a mistake. There are still those with hangovers from the DWilliams, CPaul saga. However, I’d really be disappointed, and the NBA would have suffered a terrible loss, if either of these 2 extremely talented PG’s had to endure what SStaudamire and ALaw have had to endure under Woodson.
ray
March 13th, 2009
7:21 pm
Niremetal,
I guess that’s an interesting theory. Any way you could cloak that in invisible ink? I sure hope Ando doesn’t see it. I just don’t want to hear the NOISE.
As for Knight, when the coach gets the vote over you, that says a lot of things, and not just about Knight. Shelden Williams, Donta Smith, and Salim Stoudamire were the only picks he made that I didn’t care for. I like Marvin, but didn’t care for him picking him over two great pgs. But guess what? Woody had input there as well. Who cares anymore? The guy doesn’t work here. The ASG is still here. And we’ll find out if they’re going to micromanage Sund as they did Billy. I’ll leave all the “Billy was good but misunderstood” stuff for Terrence Moore….
Ken,
We can keep saying that Woody would’ve ruined Paul Or Williams. Maybe he would have. But I don’t think so, as they were/are clear pg talents of a different level.
In fact, picking either one of those pgs, without there being a GOOD veteran pg in front of them, would’ve forced his hand. I think Law was a good pick. He got good decent minutes last season. Why? Because even the combo of Lue/AJ was not great, and Speedy couldn’t stay healthy. Why did Law’s minutes decrease this season? Simple. Woody had Bibby. And since Bibby is a good enough pg, that’s what Woody went with. I swear, Woody’s never better than when he has his hand forced.
Watch Bibby not get re-signed and Woody (assuming he’s here) get stuck with Acie and Flip. Acie suddenly looks better (because he’ll actually get to play more minutes and therefore gain confidence), and Woody will get credit from his usual sycophantic accolytes for the development of Law. Heh. I can see it now…
The problem with your comments is they actually make Knight look worse in the end. Knight hired Woodson, who either already was, or simply turned out to be philosophically completely opposed to what Knight wanted to do. Then Knight went and said that he laughed when people said we needed a pg. Um…not good. And, he listened to Woody when Woody said Deron Williams was too slow, and Paul was too short. I’m having a hard time understanding how any of this excuses Knight, but I’m over it. Dude doesn’t work here anymore and I don’t know WHY people keep bringing this all back up….
Fact is, he was great at picking forwards. He gave us some really good ones, Shelden and Donta being the exception. And I think Law was a good pick too.
ray
March 13th, 2009
7:36 pm
Heh. Watched some of the highlight plays from yesterday and the day before.
Block of the Night was Turiaf rejecting none other than Sean Williams…at the rim, no less.
rms
March 13th, 2009
7:37 pm
I agree Ken, no way CP3 gets the playing time he got with the Hornets under Woodson. Nobody liked him because he is small, so I dont know who does the scouting for our team, but maybe thats who we need to fire instead of Woodson. Whoever is whispering in the coach’s and GM ear as far as scouting players is concerned need to go
ray
March 13th, 2009
7:39 pm
Ken,
I think Granger will have his hands full trying to guard a resurgent JJ. He may not have as much energy on offense. Or so we hope, anyway.
infamouskrs
March 13th, 2009
7:40 pm
4th game of a 7 game homestand ! HOW IMPORTANT IS THIS….lol Granger just getting back from injury is huge for the Pacers. hope that this isn’t one of those “trap” games we could let slip!
LEAD US TO THE PROMISE LAND (again)….JJ !
infamouskrs
March 13th, 2009
7:43 pm
hope traffic is REALLY BAD….the arena, at tipoff, is pretty THIN !