So what to make of these Hawks?
What to make of these Hawks, who lately have faltered while losing games within their grasps and not always in the same fashion?
“Sometimes defensively,” Marvin said. “Sometimes offensively.”
They are well within striking distance of 50 victories at 40 with 19 games to go. Yet the Hawks are 23-19 since Dec. 26. And in the last two weeks, with the Southeast Division title out there as a carrot, they’ve blown leads in two ugly losses (at Golden State and vs. Dallas) and suffered from mental lapses late in two others they had chances to win (at Miami and at New York).
Overall, the Hawks’ offensive numbers are very good, maybe even elite. But lately when it’s time to win tight games, their situational offense often sufferers from poor ball movement, bad shot selection, untimely turnovers and a general lack of focus.
The Hawks are supposed to be a defensive-minded team under Woody. For about the last month, though, they regularly haven’t defended with intensity for more than a few stretches per game (and, again, this is the time of year when they are supposed to be cranking it up). Then again, as they showed Monday in New York, when they decide to get after it defensively the Hawks look very good.
“We got stops when we needed to get stops,” Woody said. “I am trying to figure out how come we just can’t do that the whole game? That’s what’s been mind-boggling to me as the coach.”
So, what to make of the (40-23, capable of scoring on anyone, good on defense when they lock in, inconsistent all around) Hawks?
“We are on schedule to better our record from last year, and that is progress is kind of how I look at it,” Woody said today before the team departed for D.C. “How it plays out in terms of the conference remains to be seen. We are four games behind Orlando with 19 to go. Do we have a chance to win division? Sure we do. But we are going to have to play lights out to get it done.”
They aren’t doing that lately and–cant’ say this enough–this is the time serious contenders do it. That 21-8 start was nice but of course no one will remember that if the Hawks slide down the stretch then flame out in the playoffs.
What’s the problem?
“I don’t know, man,” J.J. said. “We lose focus a lot and that’s something we have to get back to doing (and) really defensively. Once we get our defense going back, the offense will come back. When we need to get stops, we can get them. We know what we are capable of doing. We just need to do it for 48 minutes.”
What’s the problem with the defense?
“We will play five minutes hard, and then (for) two minutes have some mental lapses,” Al said. “We have to be in tune with what we are doing.”
“We seem to kind of not get the defensive concepts down on a consistent, night-in and night-out basis,” Smoove said. “We go good for three or four games and then we slip. We have to be more consistent on night in and night out basis because we are going to score points.”
And which concepts do the the Hawks struggle to grasp?
“Maybe coverages,” Josh said. “But really just the simple principle of keeping your main in front of you.”
Woody said that simple principle is part of the problem. He said the Hawks have been “pretty good” with his defensive concepts but that it might be time to adjust them.
“I think the fact that I am trying to–I don’t want to use the word ‘hiding’ guys–but we switch a lot of things, we try to be proactive,” he said. “Maybe we need to scale back a little bit in those areas. But I don’t want to take our aggressiveness away. I think we are just doing it (defending well) in spurts.”
– Mo Evans (flu-like symptoms) didn’t fly with the team to D.C. today and isn’t expected to play Thursday at the Wizards.
MC
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Melvin
March 10th, 2010
9:36 pm
You didn’t paraphrase anything I said. You simply implied your own meaning to create an argument. There’s nothing to defend. So quit trying to change the talking points…. I said if the ASG sign Joe to a max contract, I wonder what kind of impact that will have on the roster going forward. If the Hawks can build a championship caliber team around Joe with him having a max contract, than great. If not, then they may need to consider a different viewpoint going forward.
This has nothing to do with what other teams are doing or have done in the past. I want to see a championship team here in Atlanta and I think this current team is not far from that level. Some of us do not have a 2nd, 3rd, etc favorite team to cheer for…
The sound of fools spewing ignorance
March 10th, 2010
9:37 pm
THIS WAS AND IS A FORTH PLACE TEAM. PERIOD, FOOLS. JUST LIKE THE EXPERTS SAID.
The sound of fools spewing ignorance
March 10th, 2010
9:39 pm
ACTUALLY THE EXPERTS SAID 4-8 WITH 44-47 WINS, SO ACTUALLY THEY ARE DOING BETTER THAN PREDICTED.
Woodson= COY
March 10th, 2010
9:41 pm
Good points, Hawks are doing better than predicted!
Blast
March 10th, 2010
9:42 pm
Ain’t no guarantee Boston will win their division. Still a lot of games to play. Toronto has lost some lately, but Celts lose tonight and Raptors only seven games back. Boston has been losing to just about everyone lately. I’m curious to see how they finish down the stretch. Same goes for Hawks, so don’t get it twisted, multi-screen name blogger. You wanna call someone out, use your real name, fool.
Blast
March 10th, 2010
9:45 pm
Experts don’t know sh!t! They’ve been getting it wrong about the Hawks for years! Look it up.
JoeJohnsonisOverratedbigtime
March 10th, 2010
9:51 pm
ummmmm…who cares…bring on the Bravos!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! woohoo
Blast
March 10th, 2010
9:56 pm
It doesn’t matter anyway. If Hawks had won the games they should have won, they would have been pushing Orlando for the division lead. If they’d come up tops in their division, then it wouldn’t have mattered where Boston finished up. Unless Boston tank it up coming down, Hawks gonna end up 4th in the East.
RLP
March 10th, 2010
9:57 pm
If the Hawks and Celtics finish with the same W/L record then the Celtics will be seeded third because they won their division. However, if the Hawks have a better W/L record than the Celtics the Hawks will be seeded third based on being a top four team:
From NBA.COM/standings/team_record_comparison/conferenceNew_Std_Div.html
Playoff Tie-Break Procedures:
TIEBREAKER BASIS:
(-) Tie breaker not needed (better overall winning percentage)
(1) Division leader wins tie from team not leading a division
…
Teams 1 to 4 in each conference are the three division winners and the team with the next best regular-season record, with the seeding of these four teams determined by regular-season record. The playoffs seedings of Teams 5 to 8 are based upon regular-season record. Ties are broken pursuant to the rules set forth below.
JeJe
March 10th, 2010
10:01 pm
Probably better to finish 4th in the East, even though Boston sucks now. We have no shot vs. Orlando or Cleveland. LeBron will get every whistle he wants, no matter how well/how close we play them. Jamison, Mo Williams, and DELONTE (who SCORED AS MANY POINTS AS JOE DID IN LAST YEAR’S SERIES, LOLOLOL) will be enough of a handful. Also shouldn’t forget Ilgaskas, who does not miss jumpshots, and Shaq who will be healthy.
basically, Boobie and Delonte are scary enough with their shooting and penetration, then you add the rest of that star-studded roster and Varejao and it’s going to be an easy sweep.
Orlando, on the other hand, has 3 pt shooters (just like Cleveland) and will own us too. We are not built to make a run.
My only hope for the rest of the year is that we beat the Lakers at home. I do not want Kobe to hit a game-winner in our arena.
Other than that, there’s not much else to hope for.
AG
March 10th, 2010
10:06 pm
Please MC answer my question, in practice does Teague do well? Every pg in the league against Bibby is an instant all-star, so I can imagine how Teague is killing Bibby in practice. Also, some are upset still that we drafted Marvin with the 2 pick. Reading old scouting reports, he should have been drafted between 3-5. How did BK screw up so bad considering he already had several 6′9″ forwards (Josh & Chills). I guess he knew Woody would have put CP or DWilliams on the bench and they would have never become the stars that they are today!
Woodson= COY
March 10th, 2010
10:11 pm
This squad is not a championship team, youd have to be drugged to think this team is going anywhere but out in the second round. It not any players or coach’s fault. This team is playing about as good as it can with this roster and the lack of a center.
Get real.
JeJe
March 10th, 2010
10:11 pm
Please MC answer my question, in practice does Teague do well? Every pg in the league against Bibby is an instant all-star, so I can imagine how Teague is killing Bibby in practice
fire teague!
March 10th, 2010
10:12 pm
Teague is an error in the making. Dude cant play.
Barack Obama
March 10th, 2010
10:15 pm
Who cares about the Hawks? They are a bunch of field hands with foot long ding-dongs that can’t think or speak.
Barack Obama
March 10th, 2010
10:16 pm
Oh- and they can dance. Forgot that.
Barack Obama
March 10th, 2010
10:16 pm
And breed like rabbits. Forgot that, too.
Barack Obama
March 10th, 2010
10:17 pm
And rape white girls. Sorry-missed that one!
fire teague!
March 10th, 2010
10:20 pm
ACTUAL PROJECTED ODDS (%)
TEAM W L W L BEST WORST PLAYOFFS DIV NO.1 FINALS CHAMP LOTTERY*
Cleveland 50 15 62 20 67-15 54-28 100.0 100.0 91.3 34.5 19.5 0.0
Orlando 45 20 57 25 62-20 50-32 100.0 95.8 8.6 37.7 23.9 0.0
Boston 40 23 52 30 60-22 43-39 100.0 99.9 0.1 8.1 3.7 0.0
Atlanta 40 23 52 30 59-23 44-38 100.0 4.2 0.0 9.4 4.7 0.0
Milwaukee 34 29 45 37 53-29 36-46 99.2 0.0 0.0 4.8 2.0 0.0
Miami 33 32 44 38 50-32 35-47 95.8 0.0 0.0 3.9 1.5 0.0
Charlotte 32 31 42 40 50-32 34-48 88.3 0.0 0.0 1.1 0.4 0.0
Toronto 32 30 41 41 50-32 33-49 75.5 0.1 0.0 0.2 0.0 0.4
Chicago 31 32 39 43 48-34 31-51 41.0 0.0 0.0 0.3 0.0 0.5
Philadelphia 23 41 31 51 41-41 24-58 0.2 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 3.6
Detroit 22 42 29 53 37-45 22-60 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 5.9
Indiana 21 43 28 54 37-45 21-61 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 5.9
Washington 21 40 28 54 37-45 21-61 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 6.7
New York 22 41 28 54 37-45 22-60 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0*
New Jersey 7 56 12 70 20-62 7-75 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 25.9*
Western Conference
ACTUAL PROJECTED ODDS (%)
TEAM W L W L BEST WORST PLAYOFFS DIV NO.1 FINALS CHAMP LOTTERY*
LA Lakers 47 18 58 24 64-18 49-33 100.0 97.0 71.1 20.4 9.4 0.0
Dallas 44 21 54 28 61-21 47-35 100.0 93.8 8.5 6.0 2.1 0.0*
Utah 42 22 54 28 60-22 45-37 100.0 46.1 8.6 24.5 12.4 7.8*
Denver 42 21 54 28 61-21 45-37 100.0 46.1 10.8 11.9 4.9 0.0
Phoenix 40 25 51 31 57-25 43-39 99.8 3.0 0.5 13.8 6.4 0.0*
Oklahoma City 38 24 50 32 57-25 41-41 97.8 7.6 0.4 8.0 2.9 0.0*
San Antonio 36 25 49 33 56-26 40-42 95.2 6.2 0.1 10.5 4.4 0.0
Portland 38 28 47 35 54-28 39-43 93.0 0.1 0.0 4.6 1.7 0.0
Houston 32 31 42 40 49-33 33-49 11.1 0.0 0.0 0.3 0.0 0.5
Memphis 34 31 40 42 48-34 33-49 1.9 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.6
New Orleans 32 32 39 43 48-34 32-50 1.2 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.6
LA Clippers 25 40 30 52 39-43 25-57 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 3.8
Sacramento 21 43 29 53 37-45 21-61 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 5.6
Golden State 17 46 25 57 33-49 17-65 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 11.6
Minnesota 14 50 18 64 26-56 14-68 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 20.4
Josh Wilkins Jr.
March 10th, 2010
10:21 pm
“as for Woody never calling out Marvin and Bibby, see my blog post from Saturday in which Woody said he told Marvin, Bibby and Zaza in meeings: “Pick it up, and quit succumbing and going through the motions like you don’t want to be out there.”
Woody earns cool points with me for that but he needs to be more stern. Some games I’ll take Tea over Bib, Mo over Aflac, and Rando over Za(they both suck). Send a message with Teague starting a game.
The Bubba Crew @ large
March 10th, 2010
10:21 pm
Barack Obama
March 10th, 2010
10:17 pm
fire teague!
March 10th, 2010
10:24 pm
fire teague!
Looks like the Hawks are 100% to make the play offs but only 4 percent change to win the division and 4% to win the conference and 4% to win the championship.
Got a center anyone?
fire teague!
JeJe
March 10th, 2010
10:35 pm
Anyone else annoyed how Horford or Smoove will post up and NO one cuts to the basket?
I.E. THIS TEAM DOES NOT SCORE EASY BASKETS. EVERY BUCKET IS LABORED FOR
JeJe
March 10th, 2010
10:38 pm
U look at ORL and Cle and see 4-5 deadly 3 pt shooters, not including their superstars.
U look at the Hawks and u see Jamal and Joe as our only real shooters LOL
fire teague!
March 10th, 2010
10:39 pm
Horford Sucks the dude is ZERO DEFENSIVELY!
fire teague!
March 10th, 2010
10:40 pm
ORL AND CLE will dominate the hawks in the paint!
justahawkfan
March 10th, 2010
10:41 pm
JeJe, you either need a significant other or a therapist. You post wayyy too often.
JeJe
March 10th, 2010
10:41 pm
one thing I did notice from the Knicks game was Josh Smith’s length really altered a lot of shots and caused misses. He needs to stop gambling for passes and just play his man straight up and contest shots. That’s when he’s at his best, besides his transition D
swatguy
March 10th, 2010
10:42 pm
Take the mushroom man out of the locker room. And keep him out.
Joe
March 10th, 2010
10:44 pm
How can such a great team keep losing to the Knicks and Bobcats….can it be they have much better coaches? How many players can you name on the Bobcats?! We need a coach or we will lose this team. J-Chill wouldnt come back as a Hawk and J.J. will leave next year unless we make major changes
JeJe
March 10th, 2010
10:47 pm
justahawkfan,
your mom
kwooden1
March 10th, 2010
11:01 pm
What I see are the starters are a little worn out and can’t play consistent defense or rebound for 48 minutes. You can see it with the poor transition defense and defensive rebounding. Marvin has been picking up his defensive rebounding but it hasn’t made up for the overall slow transition defensive or poor rotations in the half court defensive. Woody has to find a better rotation for the 3rd and 4th quarters of games so the starters can be fresh and perform better. He hasn’t built enough confidence in his bench, so I don’t think their ready to play longer minutes. What I saw in the 4th quarter of the Dallas game was guys with tired legs, hoping they could win. Opposed to guys with fresh legs, attacking Dallas’s defensive looking to win the game. I’m not putting this all on Woody, but I believe minutes are the one area that a coach has some real control of the game. I believe that the bench guys need about 5-8 more minutes a game in the 2nd half for the starters to be fresher for the 4th. I don’t think that is a lot of time, but could have a significant effect on the game.
Overall though, I don’t think winning a lot of games in the regular season is going to matter because we’re going to have to play either Cleveland or Orlando in the second round, Boston isn’t going to get the 2nd seed. We have to get better as a team and really move to that elite level. I see significant improvement from Al and Smoove down in the paint, but right now I think we really need more production for Zaza, Mo, and Joe Smith off the bench. I think if our starters are fresh for most of a game, we can hang with Cleveland or Orlando.
GO HAWKS!!!
b.j.
March 10th, 2010
11:03 pm
JeJe has some vaild points i must say but the team is far from hopeless the said the same 2yrs ago with Boston in the playoffs we didnt win the seris but no sweep like everyone seem to think i think the hawks can beat hang with any1 in the east excepet the cavs because lebron will every call he wants
Wabe
March 10th, 2010
11:32 pm
All the anti-Teague sentiment baffles me. Understand one thing, he’s a rookie. I get that he’ll make his share of mistakes. But, at this point, Bibby is literally giving us next to nothing if he’s not making his jumpshot (which is way too often). What will we possibly lose letting JT0 get PT with the starters? We lack a true PG, and as of now, JT0 offers us much more on both ends of the floor over Bibby IF BIBBY’S NOT MAKING HIS JUMPSHOT. Bibby’s had some good games this season, but it’s become increasingly noticeable that as the season’s gone on, Bibby’s bad games outweight his good one’s. I think that at this point, you have absolutley nothing to lose. It’s likely we’ll end up with a #4 seed, and if we get past the 1st round, we’ll play Cleveland in the 2nd. I don’t know how confident you are in what the Hawks are doing at the moment, but it appears pretty obvious that they need some sort of spark. If that means experiment with the rotation, then there’s no need not to pursue this. Let’s see what our bench guys can do, specifically the rookie. There are plenty of rookie gaurds that have showcased what they can do this season, why is JT0 so different? There’s no need to play a 6-man rotation at this point in the season, because for one, it’s not working. Two, it’s just wearing out our starters legs. We need these guys in top-shape come playoff time.
Let’s get the bench guys some more minutes. I’m tired of seeing Joe Smith and JT0 come in for 5 minute spurts and then not re-enter the game. Joe Smith had a good 6 or 7 minutes against Miami in the 1st half, and hasn’t seen the floor since. This makes no sense, especially considering J.Smith clocked 43 minutes in the last game at NY. Utliize the bench now, it’s obvious Woody won’t use them come playoff time. We get tight way too early, and it’s rooted directly to Woody. You can’t let the starters play out the entire 4th quarter, and the majority of the 2nd half. We’ve had way to many collapses to not come up with a different approach. Get it together.
mgm
March 10th, 2010
11:33 pm
I have been reading the comments on here and sense the frustration with this team and coach. IMO the fans in Atlanta (I am one of them and have been for all my life) are tired of loser franchises and teams. I was a season ticket holder in the Dominique era. Saw all that talent win 50 games a year only to lose in the second round of the playoffs to Boston or Detroit. How many times have the Hawks won the second round of the playoffs? NEVER. NEVER. Until they expanded the first round to 7 games they had never won a 7 game series. It’s frustrating and sad that with some of the talent in the past and the seeming similar talent here now that this franchise is earily similar to those teams. We just want a winner. Not a regular season winner but a playoff winner.
We held a parade for the Braves in 91 for losing the World Series. We are starved for a winner. One world Championship in a major sport with arguably the greatest starting pitching ever assembled is the best this city has. The football franchise is happy that they finally had winning back to back seasons. Forget the fact that they didn’t make the playoffs. Don’t even get me started on the Thrashers. A complete joke.
The bottom line is that Atlanta has no winners, never has, and until it does, anyone who has endured the losing all these years is mad as hell and we’re not going to take it anymore.
GO HAWKS.
Wabe
March 10th, 2010
11:34 pm
By the way, I know my rant is meaningless, because it’s unlikely Woody changes a thing.
b.j.
March 11th, 2010
12:01 am
amen!! mgm lol
what would the hawks score on the wonderlic
March 11th, 2010
12:50 am
we can nit-pick Marvin, Bibby and Woody for sure, but the thing that is consistent about the Hawks is they don’t play smart. They continue to throw up 20 foot jump shots when then have a clear advantage inside. They don’t shorten the game by using clock when they have a big lead in the 4th quarter. No matter how big the lead gets, or how bad the opponent is, they will let a team back in the game.
Is that all coaching, the team is mostly young but those guys are veterans now.
BirdDawg
March 11th, 2010
12:53 am
Schizophrenic team…$66 million. Mentally unbalanced coach…$4 million dollars. Blog posts on AJC…priceless. For excitement and optimism, there are elite teams. For everything else, there are the Atlanta Hawks.
what would the hawks score on the wonderlic
March 11th, 2010
12:53 am
don’t dog me for the typo guys.
JustChillFans
March 11th, 2010
2:10 am
JeJe,
dude seriously can u go to the nets blog or something. U keep bashing the hawks butnu jusy said “we” need to beat the lakers.. Ummm, either u are a fan or not… Geez u people on here make no sense… Damn i wish u could just coach the team for 1 game!
Big Ray
March 11th, 2010
2:26 am
JeJe ,
Sorry, I didn’t know your post about Billy Knight was a joke. By the way, you feel better now that MC has given you some personal attention? No? Well, at least you can wait around for another Hawks loss, which should cheer you up.
Rod ,
You do realize you could just copy and paste your posts from last year and just keep pasting them right? I mean, there’s no sense in typing the same thing over and over…waste of finger energy….
I see we have another Truth Serum sighting …..Zzzzzzzz….
Big Ray
March 11th, 2010
2:27 am
Blast ,
Telling a multi screen name-using blogger to man up and use his own name is like telling a fish to sprout legs and walk. Even evolution can’t help….
northcyde
March 11th, 2010
2:59 am
LOL @ JustChill . . it’s been madness around here since Monday night. They’ll be OK though. I think.
Disappointed a little in Mike Cunningham though. He wrote a great article about the lack of defensive focus, but he’s taking notes from the Bradley/Schultz School of Blogging, with that “Hawks are 23 – 19 since Dec. 26th” stat.
While that stat is true, I just don’t understand why people want to view this team in the most negative light all of a sudden? At the start of that 23 – 19 record, we had lost 4 straight games and had lost 6 of 8 at that point ( the worst stretch of the season )
Since then, we’re 23 – 15 . . haven’t lost more than 2 games in a row . . and is 6 – 3 in our last 9 games.
(( shrugging shoulders ))
It is what it is I guess. Can’t write about the Hawks having problems I guess, unless you frame the season in its most negative light.
Just a mere 6 days ago, MC was gushing about Marvin and Zaza:
Marvin says he has his “mojo” back. I knew something was up when he bucked up on Kirk Hinrich . . . . Zaza was in a bit of a funk for a minute. Now he’s back to being energetic and efficient.
2 losses later, it’s . . .
What to make of these Hawks, who lately have faltered while losing games within their grasps and not always in the same fashion?
LOL @ MC . . don’t fall into the trap man. Keep giving us the good stuff, but don’t fall into the negativity trap until this team gives you a REAL REASON to believe that something is terribly wrong.
KevinA
March 11th, 2010
3:09 am
When looking at the looking at the scales of opinion concerning the Hawks let me jump into the cup that seems almost empty. If you had never watched a game and simply looked at the standings you would probably think that the Hawks were doing pretty good.
If you had watched every game you can easily see where we could have won 5-6 more games. At the beginning of the year would you have taken this record? I certainly would have. The Hawks are exciting and entertaining to watch and will be even better next year. What’s not to like.
northcyde
March 11th, 2010
3:40 am
KevinA . . think about the games we could’ve lost?
The Houston game ( Smoove’s tip in at the buzzer )
The Phoenix game ( Crawford’s 3 at the buzzer )
The game @ Dallas in which we played horrible offensively, but pulled out
Shoot . . the Milwaukee game
It all usually balances out.
But you’re exactly right. Would I have taken 40 – 23 at the beginning of the season? No doubt.
Coach D
March 11th, 2010
6:10 am
The sky is falling, the sky is falling, the sky is falling~~~!!! When the Hawks win a few in a row most of us will be all good except, of course, those who end their blogs, “Fire Woody”. This is an extremely dysfunctional team who obviously won’t win the ’ship…. Fire Woody!!!
serbian
March 11th, 2010
6:11 am
hi hawks fans, greetings to all of you from a hawks fan from serbia, who watches almost all hawks games… i guess we all agree here on one thing, this team has some limitations, but the biggest one being its coach… when it comes to defense, well this switching thing looks so bad… when it comes to offense you just don’t see any coaching there… and then the utilization of players, especially bench… i agree with JeJe, team core should be refreshed and improved each year… but on the other hand i think you can blame woody also for bibby’s and marvin’s play… bibby can still hit the open shot, but then there are games when he shoots just one or two shots… marvin is a young guy, he could thrive with joe and jamal, spotting from outside or sneaking behind people’s backs in the paint… kind of a game that paul millsap has, moving well without the ball and hurting opponents when they are focused on joe, smoove and jamal… jamal could play better also… guy has an unlimited potential… he struggles sometimes with his shot, but has a great court vision… good coach would find a way to use that as well… and what about the rest of the bench? it’s been 60 and something games, and besides jamal woody hasn’t managed to get anything from any other player… look at joe smith… i personally like that guy very much… he is a no-nonsense player, he has a very good mid-range jumper, he looks skinny, but rebounds pretty well… still he plays limited minutes, and when he does, as far as i could notice, he always plays with the rest of the bench… don’t remember joe playing with the starters too much… jamal is the only one who plays minutes with the starters… woody should ease bench guys into the game by having them playing with starters… actually he should ease them into the season finally… playoffs are coming, and yet hawks have only 6 players to count on… and 2 of those 6 have been up and down… mo evans used to play much better… teague is a rookie, but i guess if he could have played extended minutes with starters, it would benefit both him and the team… great team needs to have more bench weapons to rescue them when needed… not every night, but on the nights when starters are struggling… look at the lakers bench… farmar, brown, lamar… these guys come into the game confident, hungry and with a purpose… playing few minutes per game, like mo, joe smith and teague lately do, doesn’t make you too confident… to summarize, i love these hawks very much, but this direction is good enough for the second round of the playoffs only… to go further they need little more talent, and lot more coaching… greetings to everyone from belgrade, serbia.
Coach D
March 11th, 2010
6:13 am
Last 19 games = 10-9. Play-off loss in the 2nd round if we’re lucky.
hawk fan since 1983
March 11th, 2010
7:47 am
get rid of woody and the problems will be solved the hawks need a real play calling coach this two man game with joe on the wing is old and predictable with all this talent the hawks should be leaps and bounds ahead of where they are at but as long as woody win 5 or 7 games more than last year we will be stuck with him for another years and 2nd round playoff ouster
sucks!!!!