Atlanta Hawks at Pacers: Game thread
Indianapolis–At shootaround Tracy McGrady said he was feeling good. Not so much tonight: He’s a late scratch with back spasms. It wasn’t announced until after the locker room was closed to media types so don’t have details.
- Danny Granger (ill) and George Hill (back) are active for the Pacers after missing Monday’s 96-86 loss at Philly.
- Yes, Larry Drew showed the players clips of Charles Barkley’s criticisms of the Hawks during the loss to Miami. I’ve never liked reacting to what Barkley says because smack talking is his schtick and I don’t think it makes much of a difference. Plus, while the loss to the Heat was a bad one it wasn’t enough to draw a conclusion about this team. Don’t get me wrong: I love Barkley. He’s fun and entertaining. His act is good for fans and talk radio (and Web hits, apparently) but has no real bearing on basketball so I tend to just laugh it off.
- And, sure enough, word is Hawks players aren’t going around talking or thinking about sticking it to Barkley. Nevertheless, Drew thought it might do some good for players to hear Barkley’s barbs, so he replayed some of them before the Hawks played at Charlotte Friday. “I wanted them to know, wanted them to hear what the perception is. Most guys take it for what it’s worth and say that’s what he gets paid to say. Those that want to change the perception, they will step up.”
- However, L.D. extended the lesson beyond Sir Charles’ smack talk into areas I think are relevant: “With the officials, if you whine a lot then people will start to say you are a soft team. If you don’t play through adversity, then you will get the label of a soft team. I want guys to play through adversity, when things aren’t going good. I’ve always said it’s easy when things are going good.”
Michael Cunningham, Hawks beat
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Orange
January 11th, 2012
10:06 pm
On second thought we should have traded his sorry injury prone azz last month. What a wimp, and soft? damn whatabitch.
Fire Al HO ford.
steven A.
January 11th, 2012
10:07 pm
if i were GM, I would offer Al Horford to Denver for Emeka Okafor right now!!!
Slimjr
January 11th, 2012
10:07 pm
Hurt his left shoulder it appears! He may be gone for several games….
Grandmaster JeJe
January 11th, 2012
10:08 pm
Sautee,
I wrote a great reply to your post but the blog monster keeps destroying it.
Pretty much I said our 3rd quarter performance was joke and there cannot be a double standard with Hawks fans when we are hurt/tired
Orange
January 11th, 2012
10:09 pm
Thats right fire that Bettch LD too. He let my ho Al go down and did not fight the ho. Fire Drew
Grandmaster JeJe
January 11th, 2012
10:09 pm
I was worried about a center getting hurt.
Now all we got is Twin (who any logical fan can see is useless. Guy cannot grab a rebound to save his life) and ZaZa.
LOL!
SIGN GADZURIC
steven A.
January 11th, 2012
10:09 pm
Al is “TOO SOFT.” He has a disease called “Scottie Pippinitis.”
Dept. Of Unintended Irony
January 11th, 2012
10:09 pm
“if i were GM, I would offer Al Horford to Denver for Emeka Okafor right now!!!”
The only problem is…well, the rest of the blogs knows.
Sautee
January 11th, 2012
10:12 pm
Jeje,
“Pretty much I said our 3rd quarter performance was joke and there cannot be a double standard with Hawks fans when we are hurt/tired”
Which I agree with. But once again, can you just totally ignore the second CHI game, or the first Heat game? Those showed you NOTHING?
Orange
January 11th, 2012
10:12 pm
Dat beetch Al ho ford is going to milk this injury for 2 or 3 years till his contract is expiring. We aint going to get schit for Al. We should have traded him before the season started. Hes playing like schit then fcks his self up on purpose.
Beetch.
Troll
January 11th, 2012
10:13 pm
I hate Al Horford. I wake up everyday in my Mom’s basement and realize that I can never be him. It’s not fair!!!
He makes 12 mil/year and has a hot wife. I make 20 dollars per week (from my allowance) when I make my bed and all I have is a torn stuffed animal.
I hate Al. Trade Al!!!!!
steven A., are you coming over to play Xbox and spy on the girl next door tonight? My mom said it would be okay, as long as we don’t stay up too late.
Trent
January 11th, 2012
10:15 pm
“if i were GM, I would offer Al Horford to Denver for Emeka Okafor right now!!!”
Okafor doesn’t play for Denver. He play for New Orleans.
Orange
January 11th, 2012
10:16 pm
Damn sautee you do go as Troll. Keep it up.
Trent
January 11th, 2012
10:16 pm
He *plays* for New Orleans.
Orange
January 11th, 2012
10:17 pm
Well offer his sick asz to New Orleans,
Sautee
January 11th, 2012
10:17 pm
steven A, you’re saying Pippen was soft?
SMGDH
10 years on the All-Defensive team, 8 on the first team. Probably the most versatile defensive player in history, but you think he’s soft?
Let me assure you that the players he guarded NEVER thought he was soft.
Orange
January 11th, 2012
10:17 pm
That bum troll stole my forum name too. The majority of those posts are not even mine. I guess he got bored.
Grandmaster JeJe
January 11th, 2012
10:17 pm
WTF @ T-Mac’s back being messed up now. Dude has barely played in the last 6 days. WTF can it be sore from?
Orange
January 11th, 2012
10:19 pm
Sautee,
Why are you feeding the troll? Don’t even waste your time responding. It’s clear that he has no idea what he is talking about by his comments. That Scottie Pippen comment was one of the dumbest comments he’s ever made.
steven A.
January 11th, 2012
10:20 pm
Enter your comments here
OH BOY
January 11th, 2012
10:21 pm
“Damn sautee you do go as Troll. Keep it up.”
Thats true sautee, keep it up, its like you are a natural.
steven A.
January 11th, 2012
10:22 pm
If I were GM, I’d offer Al Horford to Los Angeles for Bill Russel right now. Heck, I’d even offer take an aging Tim Duncan from Golden State for Horford.
Grandmaster JeJe
January 11th, 2012
10:22 pm
Sautee,
I GUARANTEE you we would’ve gone the same record in that stretch ANY of the last 3 years.
We won in Miami last year. Where’d we end up?
We beat Chicago last year after a huge rally. This year we blew them out (no homo).
I promise you last year or the year before’s team would’ve blown that CHI lead and lost to MIA at home sans LBJ/Wade.
This team is so predictable. I almost perfectly predicted that entire stretch of Houston – CHI (last Sat night). I had us losing to Chicago in that game.
That Houston game told me everything I need to know. We lose to the same f’ing teams every year. We are owning NJN (who beat us twice last year) and Charlotte, but we will lose to teams like Indy, Milwaukee, get swept by Texas, OKC, and split all the teams out West, BECAUSE WE HAVE THE SAME TEAM EVERY DAMN YEAR AND WE ARE MENTALLY FRAGILE
OH BOY
January 11th, 2012
10:22 pm
Damn, Sautee talking to his self !!!!
now at that some Schit!
Trent
January 11th, 2012
10:24 pm
Is there ever going to be moderation on this blog or some sort of registration required? I can’t even get through 5 posts before finding spam. I’m guess I’m done for tonight. Better luck tomorrow.
OH BOY
January 11th, 2012
10:27 pm
Damn Sautee, how many name you going use tonight? that fcked up schit Al pulled got you all fcked up.
Grandmaster JeJe
January 11th, 2012
10:28 pm
I can’t believe T-Mac has these injuries already.
We’re not asking him to do THAT much. We are f’ing spoon feeding him. He hasn’t played major minutes
He said he feels great. He feels healthy. He talks a lot to the media and about other players.
F’ing get your @$$ together and get back on the court.
SMH
SlimJr
January 11th, 2012
10:32 pm
Hey boys.
Sautee
January 11th, 2012
10:33 pm
Jeje,
OK, man, LOL. I guess you can go ahead and wallow in your misery. I just can’t go there. The 13 win season is still too fresh. Yeah, we’re less than elite, and have an awful management group, but I’ll find solace in being competitive most nights. Is that all I want? Hell to the naw, but I’m old enough to realize that we don’t always get what we want.
brigadierjerry
January 11th, 2012
10:39 pm
Wow, i see a lot of trolls on the board tonight and there are some hate for Al Horford tonight some happy that he is hurt.
Slimjr whats up.?I still have a bet with you you said Derrick Williams of Minnesota will have a better career than Horford and Pierce and will shoot a better three point % than Ray Allen. You still keeping the bet cause I like Williams but I dont see it. He will be a nice player
steven A.
January 11th, 2012
10:41 pm
Sautee…….. I once saw Scottie Pippen get punked out by Charles Oakley. Oakley just glared at Pippen and pippen scurried away.
steven A.
January 11th, 2012
10:43 pm
I saw Derrick Williams play the other night, Dude looked like a SCRUB!
Dezz Nuttzz
January 11th, 2012
10:43 pm
Horford pulled that schit on purpose with his lazy sorry azz.Then you want me to feel sorry tor the MF.
Shoulda traded that beetch last month. Now watch him string the schit out for 3 or 4 years.
Damn ho.
steven A.
January 11th, 2012
10:47 pm
By the way, Horfords’ wife is not that Hot..PLEASE.. No back scrubs…
Rusty
January 11th, 2012
10:51 pm
I guess tmac taught ld a lesson tonight. Going to sit my ass ,well I can tell you fk you.this is the second time this season you sit my ass down ,a you dumb fk how many times is this going to take,you dumb ass
Grandmaster JeJe
January 11th, 2012
11:03 pm
Marvin is supposed to miss 2 games but I bet he is out 5 weeks since he is soft.
JaeEvolution
January 11th, 2012
11:12 pm
Zaza, Vlad and Phx 2nd rounder for Mozgov and Faried.
If they say no to Faried ask for Brewer, reunite Al and his buddy…
KevinM
January 11th, 2012
11:14 pm
JeJe, they aren’t hungry enough for a title. You will never see this roster doing pre-Finals hugs with the LOB trophy. They probably have little interest anyway. The sense of urgency is not there folks. But there are some who will always say this schedule is so tight, you’re gonna have nights like this….true, we saw in Houston already this year.
And the Houston game convinces you this team isn’t much different than last year’s team.
I spent the rest of my night watching lil Teague, who is a carbon copy of his sibling…..not perfected, but he does help his team in spurts.
KevinM
January 11th, 2012
11:15 pm
Marvin has my blessing to take all the time he wants to rest that injury. No sense in him coming back less than what he normally gives us..it would be like robbing the ASG of their money.
Michael Cunningham
January 11th, 2012
11:20 pm
new blog posted. shutting down this thread.