Atlanta Hawks: Videos: Wild finish, fight fallout and press conference
Sorry for the lack of the usual post-game writeup last night, blog people. Technical issues threw a wrench in those plans.
Here is my post-game report with CineSport’s Noah Coslov and Josh Robbins of the Orlando Sentinel. Game highlights and press conference also are posted below.
Michael Cunningham, Hawks beat
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Ken Strickland
April 23rd, 2011
3:00 pm
Can you picture the absurdity of JRichardson feeling he had to come to the defense or rescue of Dwight Howard, of all people, against Zaza. What’s even more revealing is Dwights reaction to what Zaza did, but maybe that was because he knew exactly what he did to incite Zaza’s reaction.
Zaza gives Dwight as much physical play as he dishes out, but Dwight can’t take it without some sort of retalitation. If the officials concentrated more on Dwight’s overly aggressive physical play and retalitation, rather than DStern’s protect the Super Stars at all cost policy, Dwight would cease and desist with the overly aggressive play.
There’s no way these officials will make calls against Dwight in the 1st part of the gm like they did with Horford. We are the ones that will be affected most if both players are forced to sit a gm or 2. ZAZA can’t match him physically, but he sure knows how to get into his head and make him do stupid things.
JeJe
April 23rd, 2011
3:02 pm
Joe better drop 35+ tomorrow
If Duhon is activated, I’d play Teague a bit if he gets in so that Hinrich gets some rest
MUST-WIN TOMORROW
If we lose tomorrow, we are !@#$ed
northcyde
April 23rd, 2011
3:25 pm
Sleepy . . that’s good in theory. But the fact is that Collins doesn’t do that. He gets destroyed on the boards. Collins is only good at one thing . . guarding people. He doesn’t box out. He can’t jump. And he doesn’t block shots. Well . . he does have a decent midrange jumper, but he rarely takes that.
You just can’t face guard people. Noah is so much quicker than Collins, that he’d get destroyed even more on the boards, if he tried to use that tactic. In the next round, I’ll even go as far to say that Hilton Armstrong would be a better option to play against Noah and Kurt Thomas, than Collins. Even though Hilton is sorry as well, he will give you a better chance to get a rebound and block a shot while playing center, than Collins will.
During the playoffs, Noah is only averaging 8.3 ppg, while averaging 10.3 rebs and 3 blks. While Kurt Thomas is averaging 3.3 points and 3.3 rebs.
Those guys aren’t going to have any offense ran through them. So the types of centers we need to play against those guys, are the ones who can either rebound with them, or keep them off the boards. Collins can do neither, which is why he shouldn’t play, if we get to the 2nd round and face the Bulls.
Well . . it’s off to Memphis for me. I should get there right as the Griz and Spurs are tipping off. Hopefully the weather will be a little better down there, than it was last night in ATL.
J from the A
April 23rd, 2011
3:29 pm
Lot’s of Bulls fans in Indianapolis … looking a bit like some of those regular season games in Atlanta.
Does Indianapolis have an excuse considering the fact that Chicago isn’t too far away from Indianapolis (e.g., one should expect Chicago fans to travel, it is also reasonable to expect a lot of Chicago fans in Indiana because it is close enough to home)? Or is there simply no excuse? It is the playoffs after all.
Sleepy
April 23rd, 2011
3:30 pm
Sorry Boo! but no one is piling on Teague . The people piling on LD because Teague hadnt played is to blame . They were making it seem as though we had D.Will on the bench or something .
Now you are basically saying that he isnt ready to do his job and somehow no one should say anything about it ?
Sleepy
April 23rd, 2011
3:44 pm
Northcyde are you saying that Noah is quicker than D12 ? I dont think so nor is he more athletic . I think Twin would use that body of his to keep Noah off the boards allowing Al, JOE and Josh to go hard to the boards.
Im not talking about 30 mpg Im talking about the first 5-6 minutes of the ball game . I would most certainly dare Noah to beat us with that jumpshot and straight zone
I just dont see any benefit into taking someone who is playing well out (twin) and putting someone who playing like garbage in (marvin)
JeJe
April 23rd, 2011
3:46 pm
How did Dwight not get suspended for that elbow? He got suspended vs. Philly and Kobe’s elbow suspensions a few years ago were extremely similar.
WTF?
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Does the NBA want Orlando to win game 4?
And why is Collins so ineffective in this series compared to regular season?
O'Brien
April 23rd, 2011
4:08 pm
Sleepy,
Its a tough decision, but hopefully we will get to the second round so we can talk about it some more.
I can see northcyde’s point. But one reason to not start Al at Center is because D-Rose will get to the rim, and Hawks should foul him when he does. I would hate for Al to be the one committing the foul, especially battling Noah for rebounds and trying to cut off Rose.
JeJe,
The refs are going easier on Dwight now than they did during the regular season (one of the reasons he got as many technicals as he did during the season).
Leffty
April 23rd, 2011
4:10 pm
What a HUGE shot from Crawford at a huge time. He’s just the dynamic type of player you want taking that shot with the clock running down. The key in the game, besides Crawford’s 20+-point effort, was the smart and efficient team play all game long. The Magic got 9 points on 8 Atlanta turnovers. By contrast, the Hawks got 15 points on 10 Orlando turnovers. Jamal & Co. did a better job of taking advantage of mistakes than did Dwight & Co.—and that was the difference in the game. Those 6 points made the difference, and allowed Crawford to seal the game. Check out the stats:
http://sportstatistics.blogspot.com/2011/04/nba-playoffs-night-seven.html
Hawks Fan In New Orleans
April 23rd, 2011
4:33 pm
Stern suspends Zaza and JRich 1 game! dayumDayumDAYUM!!!
prison mike
April 23rd, 2011
6:30 pm
Nelson drove hard to his left, teague forces him to pick up his dribble but he finds redick for a open 3. That was on crawford.
The second position he drives hard to his right and gets deep in the paint and finds an open Quentin Richardson for a 3 that was on teague.
Anyway Qrich is more dangerous than Jrich shooting 3s. Hope this guy doesn’t get off in game 4. Horf has to get mentally ready to guard dwight probably half the game.
jack
April 23rd, 2011
10:55 pm
Just one thing to say,, this team would be WAY the flip better if Josh Smith was wearing a different uniform next year.
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