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5:01 pm January 26, 2011, by Ken Sugiura

Greetings, all-

This is Ken sitting in for MC, who’s getting some needed down time. I know it was hard for him to pass up a trip to beautiful Milwaukee (just ask Josh Smith), but discretion is the better part of valor, as they say.

I was going to post a little earlier, but wanted to let the Carmelo thread get more of a run. Interesting, I thought, though, as Mike pointed out, I don’t know what the Hawks have that they’d be willing to give up that the Nuggets would really want. Maybe the Hawks could arrange a three-way trade and be able to use Carmelo like a timeshare.

Anyway, some tidbits from the shootaround.

- Al Horford and Marvin Williams both shot and will be ready. Larry Drew sounded like he was planning on giving Wiliams about 20 minutes of playing time.

- Drew is going with the big lineup to tangle with Andrew Bogut.

- Drew said the team is playing better on the road in part because it’s understanding that you have to play differently on the road than you do at the super-energized Philips Arena.

Drew: “When you look at our team in the past, and when I say past I’m saying years back, we’ve tried to play the same way on the road as we do at home, and the one thing I tried to instill in these guys is the fact that the mindset has to be a little different on the road because you can’t play with the pace on the road like you do at home.”

- Hawks wearing the red uni’s again. They’re 4-0 thus far in them this season.

- Got any questions for Jamal Crawford? Get them to me by the time I get to the arena for open locker room (6:30 EST) and I’ll ask what I can. (Presuming he’s willing and available, which he generally is.)

- Question – as best I can tell, there’s five arenas in the NBA that aren’t named by a corporation. The Bradley Center (named after a local philanthropist) is one of them. Can you name the others? No googling, please.

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Ray

January 27th, 2011
12:49 am

“LD is playing Smoove at SF a lot this year, which takes him away from the hoop and gives him incentive to shoot more jumpers.”

This is not a viable excuse. In crunch time, L.D. usually goes with the smaller lineup with Horford at the 5 and Smith at the 4 and it doesn’t inhibit Josh from chucking up threes. Take tonight as an example. Josh took the majority of his threes during that final stretch during the four quarter, when he playing at the 4. Josh would take those shots regardless of the position he’s playing.

SteveW

January 27th, 2011
1:02 am

Najeh – Smoove was shooting 3’s before LD moved him to the 3 spot (on occasion). Also, as Ray said, Josh is usually at 4 in the 4th quarter.

And I don’t remember Josh taking that many jumpers last season. Every other season, yes. But last season, it did seem that Woody had finally gotten through to Josh. But now we start over with LD. Hope LD has what it takes not to just headline it to the press, but actually get Josh to do something about his shot selection on a regular basis.

Some second team shoutouts:

Props to ZaZa for 8 boards in 10 minutes. That’s good work by anybody’s standards. And 4 on the offensive glass. That’s more than Josh or Al had on the O glass.

And props to Teague for a solid game.

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