Joe Johnson to play vs. Charlotte
Hawks guard Joe Johnson will play Friday night against Charlotte after missing the last two games with tendinitis in his Achilles tendon.
Johnson practiced with the team Friday morning at the team’s shootaround at Philips Arena. Johnson said his Achilles had been bothering for the last month and a half or two months.
“I just felt it was time for me to get a little rest off of it and try and let it heal up a little bit,” he said.
Johnson said he won’t limit his minutes on the floor against the Bobcats. In his absence, the Hawks beat New Jersey but lost at Toronto Wednesday night on a last-second basket.
“It’s going to be good to get back out there with the fellas and start us a new streak,” he said.
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northcyde
March 19th, 2010
11:01 pm
This is why I say that the Hawks are mentally tough. When they got down 10 in the 4th, they could’ve easily mailed it in. But they clawed and fought their way back into the game, got a few breaks ( S-Jax missed FTs ), and kept themselves in position enough to win the game at the end.
And what a mentally tough game by the captain. After going 0 – 10, he makes 7 out of 11 . . . all coming in the 4th and OT. And I love the “superstar mentality” he displayed in those final 10 or so minutes in the game. He had made up his mind that, if the Hawks were going to lose, it wouldn’t be because he sat idlely by and didn’t want to take charge.
JJ WANTED to take the game over, and he did just that.
JJ should’ve definitely had about 10 to 12 FT attempts tonight. Somebody needs to go over this game, highlight the non-foul calls, and either post it on youtube or send it to the league office . . . or both.
It’s a shame that you can’t even breathe on Lebron, Wade, and Durant . . . but JJ and Smoove can’t get borderline calls to save their lives. JJ could have bullet wounds and bite marks on his arm, and still couldn’t get a call.
Thanks for hitting that shot JJ . . . because this blog was about to EXPLODE into all out Woody, JJ, and Bibby HATE MODE.
And LOL @ all of you who were constantly pessimistic. Haven’t you guys learned anything about this team yet? Coming from behind in the 4th isn’t the problem. Holding the lead is the problem. We play just fine when we really have to concentrate and execute, to get back into a game.
Damn . . . what a shot by JJ. Ratliff was like 3 inches from blocking that.
Grandad
March 19th, 2010
11:07 pm
Oh, by the way, I wasn’t talkn’ about the regulars on here.
Just the bush leaguers who come on here and rip Al, Marv, Joe, et al.
You fellas that know the game, I apologize, for the previous post
which was w/o clarification. Believe it or not, I wasn’t even referring to you either, TS.
AG
March 19th, 2010
11:07 pm
Great win, but the Hawks must do better on boxing out! After playing great defense the Hawks would let the Bobcats get extra shots because they fail to block out. Watch the games closely – happens almost every night. Do the Hawks have any plays they can run with under :25 seconds that are not ISO? They could run plays to close quarters out. Getting real old. Great shot by JJ, you can only run ISO with 2.2 seconds. Woodson did great with the substitution offense for defense late in the game. (Ironically you may have missed it but West saved the game in regulation as Wallace was about to rebound a put the Bobcats ahead and he swatted the ball to Hortford. I don’t understand why Woody kept Josh in during the final seconds of regulations instead of Evans. Only one big to crash the board should have been enough.
northcyde
March 19th, 2010
11:09 pm
And defense was the key folks. We only scored one more point in the 4th quarter than we scored in Toronto. But we held Charlotte to 15 points.
That’s the key to the 4th quarter blues . . . play some dang defense.
crystal
March 19th, 2010
11:16 pm
wanna see a funny vid that stars your hawks?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ab9aoQkMVls
2 funny!!
nunna yo bizezz
March 19th, 2010
11:20 pm
GRANDAD SAID:
I admit that I do a fair amount of gripin’ about the gentleman who draws up plays while Josh is walking off so that Jamal has to run grab him to tell him what was said in the timeout.
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U KNOW WHAT GRANDAD?
I’VE BEEN NOTICING AS WELL..
northcyde
March 19th, 2010
11:55 pm
And good game Marvin. He was really active on the boards tonight.
J.J.M.
March 20th, 2010
1:11 am
I went to the game and they actually won lol
Ken Strickland
March 20th, 2010
1:23 am
Good win tonight. My only real complaint is the fact Woodson has yet to realize you can’t keep trying to stop teams down the stretch playing his beloved switching DEF. Charlotte gave us all we could handle by consistently taking advantage of us switching everything. PG RFelton killed us by forcing the switch and going to the basket and hitting those runners against either Horford or Smoove.
On the final play in regulation, after successfully using that same switching strategy throughout the entire gm, Woody stupidly had us playing the same switching DEF they’d successfully exploited all night long. As a result, they successfully isolated Felton against Smoove and he took him into the lane and tied the gm.
They killed us on the OFF boards, especially in the 1st half, because we allowed them to consistently isolate our PF and/or C on one of their backcourt players above the FT line, which left our guards under the basket trying to rebound against their Bigs. THAT’S JUST A STUPID STRATEGY TO TRY AND USE THROUGHOUT A GM, EXPECIALLY IN THE FINAL MINS, PLAIN AND SIMPLE.
Wabe
March 20th, 2010
1:31 am
Didn’t catch the game tonight. Watched the last 10 seconds with JJ game-winning shot at the end in OT. It’s great to watch a Hawks win, I just hope they can pull out the next couple of games. Speciafically that Magic game that I plan on going to.
Big Ray
March 20th, 2010
1:32 am
And defense was the key folks. We only scored one more point in the 4th quarter than we scored in Toronto. But we held Charlotte to 15 points.
That’s the key to the 4th quarter blues . . . play some dang defense.
Co-sign that any day….