Atlanta Hawks at Spurs: Game thread
I’m not in San Antonio and neither is Chris Vivlamore. Bob Rathbun is there and he says Kirk Hinrich will play.
Here is a place for you to discuss the game. I will post my two cents when it’s over.
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Wabe
January 25th, 2012
10:26 pm
lmao @ this randy clown
fail
try again junior
MattP
January 25th, 2012
10:26 pm
Brad,
Hinrich is not trashed but don’t think he should be playing PG right now, he should be playing SG and Pargo should have saw some minutes at PG.
Big Lou
January 25th, 2012
10:26 pm
Zaza is an idiot. This is the worst basketball I’ve seen from the Hawks all season. Later people.
randy
January 25th, 2012
10:26 pm
ITS ALL BIBBY’S FAULT!!! HE IS JUST GETTING ATE UP BY TONY PARKER.
Jase
January 25th, 2012
10:27 pm
Zaza suck.
Wink
January 25th, 2012
10:27 pm
Horrible effort tonight!!
Drew sucks!
Joe sucks!
Marvin garbage!
Kirk very slow & rusty!
Josh did not have the scorers mentality tonight…bad bad percentage!
Pargo DNP
Teague all alone!!!!
Najeh Davenpoop
January 25th, 2012
10:27 pm
“Najeh what you think about kaman or mcgee”
I like both better than what we currently have at backup center, but McGee will require giving up too much in a trade and Kaman will put the Hawks over the luxury tax unless the Hawks give up both Kirk and Zaza.
Wabe
January 25th, 2012
10:27 pm
Nobody’s knockin’ Hinrich’s game…
Just how Drew’s opting to utilize Hinrich.
Brad
January 25th, 2012
10:27 pm
Why are the starters in?
terrell
January 25th, 2012
10:27 pm
Why the fuc. the starters still in the game on this long as road trip?? This game is OVER!!
Donte
January 25th, 2012
10:28 pm
When you have no size, and your go to guys arent stars this is what happens. You people act shocked when Joe Johnson and Josh Smith dont perform against solid teams. No problem people Josh Smith will go for 21 pt, 10 rb, 6 ast, 2 blk against a scrub team like the Hornets and then you can declare him an allstar ready to lead the Hawks to the ECF.
Vino
January 25th, 2012
10:28 pm
KAMAN OR MCGEE PICK ONE AND LETS PLAY BALL
Slimjr
January 25th, 2012
10:28 pm
enter your comments!
Aytunstopable
January 25th, 2012
10:28 pm
I mean really. If i hear drew talking about the quit this time its not there fault its him not being a good coach. there is no way in hell the starters should not have started the fourth. matter fact the bench shouldn’t have been in the game at all. whenever they got in tonight the lead blew up.
SteveW
January 25th, 2012
10:28 pm
I was gone, or I was gonna post, just rest Teague, JJ, and Josh tonite, only play ZaZa 10 minutes, and let the bench have a run. It would have been good for the bench and the starters get rest.
Oh well, enough of my crazy ideas.
Mark
January 25th, 2012
10:28 pm
Amazing how Joe does nothing against GOOD TEAMS OVER 500 on the road. How does Marvin continue to get minutes?
ClassicHawks
January 25th, 2012
10:28 pm
Man its one game. They were hitting every shot imaginable. Yall are the most fickle fans in the NBA! Real talk. I like this team alot.
MattP
January 25th, 2012
10:29 pm
Hinrich should have been playing beside Teague at some point in this game. But the only minutes he got was backing up Teague. I thought Drew was going to playing at SG also? Sounds like Drew wants him back at starting PG, wouldn’t surprise if he does.
Wink
January 25th, 2012
10:29 pm
4 of 5 startes are scrubs…
Melvin
January 25th, 2012
10:29 pm
LD, stop being stupid and take the starters out of the game. This game is over. No need to risk one of them getting hurt.
Slimjr
January 25th, 2012
10:29 pm
Enter your comments here
ClassicHawks
January 25th, 2012
10:29 pm
Wabe go root for the Heat. Get off this blog tho!
northcyde
January 25th, 2012
10:29 pm
Only the 12th shot for JJ
I know Josh was taking a lot of shots in the 1st half ( and especially in the 3rd quarter ), but JJ must look to score the ball more. 12 shots is unacceptable.
randy
January 25th, 2012
10:30 pm
TEAGUE IS A MINUS 3 ON THE OVER AND UNDER. JOSH AND JJ ARE BEING DOUBLE TEAMED AND TEAGUE IS LEFT OPEN. HE SHOULD HAVE 50
HINRICH HAS 7 PTS IN 13 MINUTES.
LIKE I SAID BEFORE THIS IS ALL BIBBY’S FAULT THAT TONY PARKER BEAT US.
Aytunstopable
January 25th, 2012
10:30 pm
@Donte have you watch the hawks at all over the last two years. thats total bs you are talking.
Wabe
January 25th, 2012
10:30 pm
Wabe
January 25th, 2012
10:25 pm
8th seed at best, I’m giving up on the Hawks and cheering for the Heat. Who’ with me?
———–
please recognize a guy swappin’ names when you see em’…
hittman jamillion
January 25th, 2012
10:30 pm
A DONTE WHEN THE HEAT,LAKERS,SPURS,MAGIC,ECT GET BEAT DOWN ARE THEY BAD TEAMS? JUST ASKING.RHIS GAME WAS MORE ON COACHING AND OFFICIATING MORE THAN ANYTHING ELSE
ClassicHawks
January 25th, 2012
10:30 pm
Half game out in the division and yall want to fire the whole staff and trade away the whole team! Man yall need to get a LIFE, forreal!
Wabe
January 25th, 2012
10:31 pm
ClassicHawks,
The Heat are better than the Hawks, don’t be jealous.
crazy_88
January 25th, 2012
10:31 pm
The Spurs is a well coached team and their players know how to play and their bench really hasn’t changed much. The Hawks are the opposite, they are going to struggle against teams that know what they want to do and how to do it. Like a lot of teams this season their isn’t enough practice days to work out the kinks and get guys more acclimated to one another. Larry Drew is trying to get Hinrich back on deck and guys like Pargo who are on a non guaranteed contract isn’t going to see a lot of minutes and he may get waived so that they can get a big man for the second half of the season.
JaeEvolution
January 25th, 2012
10:31 pm
Joe Johnson – 30 minutes 0 rebounds
Jeff Teague – 30 minutes 0 Assists
Something is very wrong here.
MattP
January 25th, 2012
10:31 pm
ClassicHawks,
We still had a chance even if Bonner was shooting good.
Najeh Davenpoop
January 25th, 2012
10:31 pm
“When you have no size, and your go to guys arent stars this is what happens. You people act shocked when Joe Johnson and Josh Smith dont perform against solid teams. ”
While Joe and Josh could have played better, the Hawks lost this game because a) they have no big man depth and b) LD is a dumbass who prioritized working Kirk into the rotation over winning the game. If they had a viable big coming off the bench and didn’t waste 12 minutes of competitive game time wishing and hoping that Kirk can stay in front of Parker and Joseph in his first game back, they would at least have kept it close with a chance to win.
Vino
January 25th, 2012
10:31 pm
randy get outta here with that name swapping bibby is gone man get over it
randy
January 25th, 2012
10:31 pm
HINRICH SHOULD START OVER TEAGUE. TEAGUE CANT LEAD THIS TEAM. TOO STUPID.
ClassicHawks
January 25th, 2012
10:31 pm
GettaLifeHawksFans.org
ntrigue
January 25th, 2012
10:31 pm
Pargo should’ve been playing over hinrich
Astro Joe
January 25th, 2012
10:32 pm
Marvin almost matched Zaza and Josh in rebounds. Think that is a problem? LD talked about running guys off the 3-point line, that didn’t work out too well tonight. Spurs are better, smarter and smarter. And the kind of boring team many Atlanta fans would never appreciate.
Mark
January 25th, 2012
10:32 pm
Marvin should get maybe 10 minutes a game and VLAD RAD should not play power forward. LD!…..What a Coach!
Slimjr
January 25th, 2012
10:32 pm
Hinrich needs to be jettison asap for a big! We dont need him or Marvin….
Donte
January 25th, 2012
10:33 pm
hittman jamillion – how many of those teams you named get blown out nearly every time they play a good team? Last 4 against relevant teams? Pacers, Blazers, Sixers, Spurs. 1 Squeaker win and 3 Blow outs. The Hawks are average.
MattP
January 25th, 2012
10:33 pm
randy,
And Hinrich can? Were was that this game… He couldn’t lead the team last season.
Wabe
January 25th, 2012
10:33 pm
Wabe
January 25th, 2012
10:31 pm
ClassicHawks,
The Heat are better than the Hawks, don’t be jealous.
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lmao, try again junior…
ClassicHawks
January 25th, 2012
10:33 pm
We did have a chance, but it wasnt our night. Bottomline. Its like that some nights, even for the best. Lets see how they perform against the Pistons on Friday. Were not going to win them all. They was shooting 58% for God Sakes. Every time we lose yall act like the sky is falling. They competed tonight, just couldnt get any momentum.
Aytunstopable
January 25th, 2012
10:33 pm
I have the blame 40-60 players to coach. I mean if we went down like this and its because the starters didn’t start the 4th with fire fine. But we go down like this because the coach put the bench in and wouldn’t take them out once he saw the lead balloon back to 11. I mean it doesn’t take a genius to know my starters kept it close let me ride them.
tb hawk fan i think
January 25th, 2012
10:33 pm
shooting like sissies
terrell
January 25th, 2012
10:33 pm
Out of conference game. No biggie. Move on. Btw, LD did Pargo wrong as hell. Dude been playing pretty good and a dnp just aint right. Bet he’s pissed. Hell, Give Pargo Marvin’s minutes. Move JJ to sf. Problem solved.
rob
January 25th, 2012
10:34 pm
6-2 without Al Horford. Not bad
northcyde
January 25th, 2012
10:34 pm
Damn shame we’re about to lose this game by 30. Not mad that we lost, because it’s always tough to win in San Antonio.
But this was a 50 – 48 game early in the 3rd, when Popovich called that timeout.
Since then, the Spurs have outscored us 46 – 25
randy
January 25th, 2012
10:34 pm
WABE IS A BANDWAGONER!!!