Celtics at Atlanta Hawks: Game thread
Marvin Williams (hip) and Vladimir Radmanovic (back) are out. Jermaine O’Neal (wrist) and Chris Wilcox (heart) are out for the Celtics.
- Willie Green (hamstring) says he will return after missing eight games. Green says he may have sat longer if not for Jannero Pargo being added to Atlanta’s long injury list: “I told that coaches and trainers it’s a matter of getting on the floor. I’m at that 80 percent range but, the fact of the matter is no one on the team is feeling 100 percent. I feel good enough to get out there.”
- Drew said the crowded injury list means he may use Tracy McGrady on the second game of a back-to-back: “Because we are so limited there is a chance we will definitely use him again tonight. We just take it a day at a time.”
- Drew said Pargo is scheduled to return to Atlanta from Cleveland tomorrow after having an appendectomy Sunday. Drew said Pargo will be out two to four weeks.
- Jeff Teague and Kirk Hinrich are Atlanta’s only healthy point guards. Drew said Joe Johnson and McGrady also can fill in.
- Drew on the Celtics: “This is a game that has a lot of meaning. This is our first encounter with Boston this year. I think both teams are looking to make a statement. With them on the long road trip they are on, we are a little depleted but we feel we are a capable team that still has the ability to win. We are going to come out and approach this game with playoff intensity. It’s going to be a physical game, it’s going to be a war. I think this is a statement game. ”
- Green on the Celtics: “Those guys are very good basketball players. You hear things like they are older and not moving as quickly but that’s a team that is getting ready for another playoff run. We have to come in tonight focused with the mindset that we have to play them like they were a few years back going to the Finals.”
Michael Cunningham, Hawks beat
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jlewis
March 19th, 2012
9:47 pm
LD and teague, he walked the ball up the floor, played right into slow Boston’s hands. You all thought Josh would stay hot forever, this is just bad coaching and strategy. In my mind, this goes on Teague, push the ball son.
heartofdarkness
March 19th, 2012
9:47 pm
Looks like some of the team is taking off early.
Big Lou
March 19th, 2012
9:47 pm
I’m on strike until they fire LD. I’ll be on the blog with the real coaches and owners, the Falcons. I refuse to watch this team that is ran by this horrible excuse for a coach. Adios, my fellow fans.
n-trigue
March 19th, 2012
9:47 pm
Coach Drew takes the blame and I dont wanna here otherwise! NO excuse to sit the starters at the begginng of the 4th this gm is to important! Just doesnt mk anysense! played collins too long too when Ivan was playing well! Coach Drew has to go!
yodaddybrother
March 19th, 2012
9:48 pm
Boston knows how to win….the Hawks still don’t know how to win. That’s what winning championships does
Shaqi M. Bradley
March 19th, 2012
9:48 pm
Josh made Allen mad and Allen torches Hawks.
tyler
March 19th, 2012
9:48 pm
This is an embarrassing piece of @#$@$@. The Hawks- God Bless em- will end up losing this game b/c they don’t have a coach, period. Timeout after timeout Smith shoots 3 pointers. It’s unbelievable how bad we are. Josh Smith wants to be traded???????So do I…..this team is garbage. THE OWNERSHIP SUCKS, THE TEAM HAS NO HEART AND LARRY DREW IS STEALING MONEY.
Luke Cage
March 19th, 2012
9:48 pm
Damn, 3rd seed leaving us
DawgNole
March 19th, 2012
9:48 pm
“Unbelievable,” exclaims Nique. What’s really unbelievable is that anyone would term a Hawks collapse against the Celtics unbelievable.
Sautee
March 19th, 2012
9:48 pm
“In my mind, this goes on Teague, push the ball son.”
Matters not if he can’t finish.
bigdave
March 19th, 2012
9:49 pm
honestly.. i wouldve had Ivan in the game at the 5
DawgNole
March 19th, 2012
9:49 pm
Rathbun: “I don’t believe the Celtics can score again if the Hawks are gonna win this game.”
DUH!
High-sider
March 19th, 2012
9:50 pm
“Jamal Crawford was the difference in the Hawks and the Celtics last year. No Jamal, we are not better than the Celtics. It’s really pretty simple.” – Rod from College Park
Two seasons ago, the Hawks went 4-0 against the Celtics and Jamal [Crawford] averaged 20+ppg against the Celtics in that ‘09-’10 regular season.
Rusty
March 19th, 2012
9:50 pm
LD just don’t want to run the offense through JT.dont blame JT , it’s LD.
dumb mary baetch
March 19th, 2012
9:50 pm
Teague has now played 37 minutes, has 2 turnovers, has his shot blocked twice, 2 assist 3 fouls and 8 points. and is a -10 on the over/under
Rondo has 13 assists and 10 pts
Teague will never understand how to run an offense. Youd think he would have learned something by now.
Donte
March 19th, 2012
9:50 pm
1st round exit
Rob
March 19th, 2012
9:51 pm
Look on bright side. After this year we got 4 more years of Joe Johnson Contract
City Of Atlanta Still Recovering From William Tecumseh Sherman
March 19th, 2012
9:51 pm
lol the whole arena turned on them. play good and that wont happen
EmirS.
March 19th, 2012
9:51 pm
Hawks had an opportunity to take advantage of Pierce and his early foul troubles. They failed to do so. That in itself falls on LD.
It was a good game until the fourth quarter. De Ja Vu?
Shaqi M. Bradley
March 19th, 2012
9:51 pm
Allen & Garnett steppin up in 4th qtr as Josh & Joe disappear….
n-trigue
March 19th, 2012
9:52 pm
Doc wouldnt have sat his starters faced with the same situation no decent coach would!
DawgNole
March 19th, 2012
9:53 pm
FansStink
March 19th, 2012
9:41 pm
I can’t believe how pathtic the fans are. You would think this game was being played in Boston. Embarrassing. Why would any athlete want to play in this town-and I’m a native of Atlanta.
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“Pathic”?? Don’t blame the fans, dope. What have the city’s TEAMS done in nearly a half-century of competition?
Shaqi M. Bradley
March 19th, 2012
9:53 pm
Rathbun pronounces Pietrus Peetreous. LMAO.
The Monger
March 19th, 2012
9:53 pm
FIRE LARRY DREW!!! Or please resign and do the graceful thing Larry…
City Of Atlanta Still Recovering From William Tecumseh Sherman
March 19th, 2012
9:53 pm
“Let’s go Celtics chants” in arena. Hawks turn up music lmfao
Rod from College Park
March 19th, 2012
9:54 pm
“Jamal Crawford was the difference in the Hawks and the Celtics last year. No Jamal, we are not better than the Celtics. It’s really pretty simple.” – Rod from College Park
Two seasons ago, the Hawks went 4-0 against the Celtics and Jamal [Crawford] averaged 20+ppg against the Celtics in that ‘09-’10 regular season.”
I know. Some here won’t admit that. I am very aware. We h who can score the basketball. Take Joe out of the game, and you beat the Hawks. Can’t expect Josh to dominate KG in the post. LOL
Shaqi M. Bradley
March 19th, 2012
9:54 pm
Joe shows up finally with a foul…
jlewis
March 19th, 2012
9:55 pm
Find a way to blame JJ, its the same story, they let Josh shoot and rotate to Joe. If you know anything about basketball, teague is in there to push the ball, he walked it up. Low b-ball IQ, why did josh help off ray allen of all people, just dumb. LD can not coach, Josh and Joe have bailed him out this year, mainly Josh, but the old josh shows up in a slow down game.
tb hawk fan
March 19th, 2012
9:55 pm
two little two late
Walt Frazier
March 19th, 2012
9:55 pm
The Hewks, the Haeks, the Heoks, lead this thing at toward the end of the third quarter; I go to shower and thangz, then come back and it’s the 4th quarter with about 5 or 6 minutes left and the Haqks are down by 12 points. There are more Celtic fans at the Phillips than Hawks fans. Here is the majik question: why am I not surprised that this has happened. Let’s go to school for a minute. Doc Rivers knows how to coach the skin off an orange; LD can’t coach his way out of a paper bag. That’s the difference. Doc Rivers let his team hang around all game long, because he knew that his team would come out superior at the end of the game. So, instead of LD pushing his guys like crazy, he was just happy to have a slim lead at the end of the third quarter. The Hawks need a new coach, because they will not get out of the first round in the playoffs, no matter who they play. LD is a joke of a coach-that looks like an ole man chewing peanuts with his mismash mouth. He’s a passive no good doormat of a coach that has no clue about where his team is and where they could potentially go. He should have been animated (I don’t care if that’s not his style) on the sidelines and been mindfull and aware of what the Celtics are capable of doing. This is a clown in a suit that doesn’t need to be coaching in the NBA.
Najeh Davenpoop
March 19th, 2012
9:55 pm
Willie Green DNP in this game. He ain’t Jamal but the Hawks could have used a scorer. I thought he was supposed to be active?
High-sider
March 19th, 2012
9:56 pm
After tonight’s loss, the Hawks will only be 1.5 games ahead of Boston. If the Hawks fall to the 7th or 8th seed in the Eastern Conference at the end of the regular season, the Hawks will lose to the Heat or the Bulls in the first round of the playoffs this year.
Shaqi M. Bradley
March 19th, 2012
9:56 pm
Nice game by Pukechulia toinight.
DawgNole
March 19th, 2012
9:57 pm
yodaddybrother
March 19th, 2012
9:48 pm
Boston knows how to win….the Hawks still don’t know how to win. That’s what winning championships does
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You nailed it there, buddy.
bigdave
March 19th, 2012
9:57 pm
it aint over!
Rusty
March 19th, 2012
9:57 pm
We saw how good the Knicks are doing after replacing Antonio with woodie,just imagine how goo we could do if we replaced LD with a real coach.
Shaqi M. Bradley
March 19th, 2012
9:57 pm
Where the hail is Josh Smith at ?
NBA = WWE
March 19th, 2012
9:58 pm
You couldnt play Denzel and Crowe to do a better job than these guys on the court
FansStink
March 19th, 2012
9:58 pm
Dawgnole-dope? Wow-so hurtful. Oh, and so sorry for the incorrect spelling – PATHETIC.
yodaddybrother
March 19th, 2012
9:58 pm
No Show Joe definitely showed up
NBA = WWE
March 19th, 2012
9:59 pm
So now Woodson is a real coach?
dumb mary baetch
March 19th, 2012
9:59 pm
Rondo has 14 assists and 5 steals to go with 10 pts.
Teague has 1 assist to go with 8pts
tb hawk fan
March 19th, 2012
9:59 pm
waited to late
Shaqi M. Bradley
March 19th, 2012
9:59 pm
Sloppy azz game man. Poor shooting all night.
High-sider
March 19th, 2012
10:00 pm
Instead of “Hail Mary,” I think ‘Nique said “Hail Meryl.”
The Monger
March 19th, 2012
10:00 pm
Can someone please explain to me why the Hawks always mount a comeback when it is too late?
dumb mary baetch
March 19th, 2012
10:00 pm
Woodson Al ways was a real coach. shame on the the owners for listening to the idiots haters on this blog page.
Luke Cage
March 19th, 2012
10:00 pm
Cmon Hawks!!!
Donte
March 19th, 2012
10:01 pm
Hawks Blog Nation is comfortable living with Josh Smith 3 pointers in clutch situtions though.
Najeh Davenpoop
March 19th, 2012
10:01 pm
They should have fouled Rondo before they could call timeout. Rondo is a 60% free throw shooter.