Live from Hawks-Bucks Game 3: The weather outside is …
Even this Milwaukee dance team, shown warming up, has seen sunnier days. (Photo by M. Bradley)
Milwaukee — I’m sitting in the Bradley Center. There are two things good I can say about the Bradley Center: First, it has a nice name; second, it has a roof. Other than that …
It’s raining in Atlanta. I know. It was pouring when Airtran Flight 420 departed — 75 minutes late — from Hartsfield-Jackson this afternoon. From the forecasts, I wasn’t sure we’d depart at all. So I guess, in that sense, I’m glad I’m here.
Then again, “here” is Milwaukee. Where it’s 45 degrees — 45 degrees! — and windy and foggy and raining. It might be possible to find a bleaker setting in April in the Northern Hemisphere. Then again, it might not.
I mentioned the weather to Dominique Wilkins. “What do you expect?” he said. “It’s Milwaukee. It’s just … dreary.”
Students of history will note that I, M. Bradley, was in this city last month to cover Georgia Tech in the NCAA tournament. And it snowed then. But somehow you expect snow in a Midwestern city in March. It’s now spring. And it’s a balmy 48 degrees. Give me a break.
About the series: It has been a bore. The Hawks won the first two games easily, and at issue tonight is whether the Bucks can win the game that keeps them from getting swept. They’re passing out red towels at the Bradley Center that read, “Fear the Deer,” but I don’t believe the Hawks arrived shaking in their sneakers. (Shivering from the cold, perhaps. But not from terror.)
The Hawks’ dressing room is scheduled to open in five minutes, so I’ll duck down there and see if anyone appears to be suffering from a phobia of antlered beasts. I’ll check back momentarily. And send some hot chocolate, would you?
Update from the Hawks’ locker room: Not much to report. (At playoff time, no news is always good news.) Mike Woodson said: “I like the way we handled our business at home. Now we’ll see what we can do here.”
Woodson also had this observation: “It was 39 degrees when we got on our bus this morning [for shootaround].” Then he laughed. Or maybe he just shivered.
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Bat Masterson
April 24th, 2010
7:10 pm
Chipper to first, after today it looks like Chipper to the DL.
MaryM
April 24th, 2010
7:10 pm
Go ahead and gripe about the Hawks, it’s allowed. Their highlight film of the almost fifty years since they came to Atlanta from St. Louis would be depressingly slim, especially the last decade or so.
So gripe. Anyway, Milwaukee wins at home tonight.
Mark Bradley
April 24th, 2010
7:12 pm
Carlos Delfino misses a layup. Drove on Bibby. Nobody drives on Bibby!
Bat Masterson
April 24th, 2010
7:12 pm
I’m pretty sure I saw Yunel Escobar hung in effigy on BOD’s blog today, too.
Mark Bradley
April 24th, 2010
7:13 pm
Josh makes one of two free throws. Hawks lead 1-0.
Not for long. Luc Richard Mbah a Moute scores.
Mark Bradley
April 24th, 2010
7:13 pm
Brandon Jennings with a three-ball.
todd grantham
April 24th, 2010
7:14 pm
Mark, wondered where you wandered off to. You missed the NFL draft blogging rendezvous.
Mark Bradley
April 24th, 2010
7:15 pm
Another trey for Jennings. Bucks up seven.
todd grantham
April 24th, 2010
7:15 pm
You must have a program in front of you to be able to spell those names.
MaryM
April 24th, 2010
7:16 pm
I haven’t seen anything all year from this bunch that makes me think they can win the third game in a row while they’re on the road.
Shane
April 24th, 2010
7:16 pm
Falcons with some curious picks I thought.
Mark Bradley
April 24th, 2010
7:16 pm
Bucks by nine. Woodson takes timeout.
todd grantham
April 24th, 2010
7:16 pm
What is the fare provided in Milwaukee? Bratwurst?
RB
April 24th, 2010
7:16 pm
Another, “meanwhile” – everybody get off Jon Dwyer’s back! Do the names Terrell Davis AND Doresey Levens ring a bell? Bothe went in late in 5th and 6th rounds. Bothe have Super Bowl Rings. Dwyer is a class act and will get his money in a couple years.
Mark Bradley
April 24th, 2010
7:17 pm
I did miss Day 2 at Flowery Branch, Coach Grantham. I had a health issue.
todd grantham
April 24th, 2010
7:18 pm
Shane, was there a Falcons’ pick you didn’t like? It looks like they addressed some needy positions.
Mark Bradley
April 24th, 2010
7:18 pm
That’s part of my health issue, Coach Todd. I have to eat a bland diet this next month. No bratwurst.
todd grantham
April 24th, 2010
7:19 pm
Hope you’re fully recovered. It wasn’t a malady caused by anxiety of the Bradley-Live-Blogging-Streak being ruined was it?
Mark Bradley
April 24th, 2010
7:20 pm
But enough about me. Hawks are switching everything on defense, as per usual, but the Bucks are exploiting the switches.
todd grantham
April 24th, 2010
7:20 pm
Do the Cheeseheads make appearances at Bucks games?
Shane
April 24th, 2010
7:20 pm
Smith should have just kept his mouth shut.
Mark Bradley
April 24th, 2010
7:20 pm
Bucks by 12. Salmons three-point play.
todd grantham
April 24th, 2010
7:21 pm
The Hawks’ bench will eventually sink them as the playoffs progress.
S Uga Fan
April 24th, 2010
7:22 pm
Fire Woody!!!!!! He is clueless again!
Mark Bradley
April 24th, 2010
7:22 pm
Joe Johnson cuts it to eight.
todd grantham
April 24th, 2010
7:22 pm
Chick fil-A can be pretty bland sometimes.
Shane
April 24th, 2010
7:23 pm
Shane, was there a Falcons’ pick you didn’t like? It looks like they addressed some needy positions.
The safety from Montana I found curious.
Mark Bradley
April 24th, 2010
7:23 pm
Smith blocks a Delfino dunk.
Mark Bradley
April 24th, 2010
7:24 pm
Another 3 for Brandon Jennings.
todd grantham
April 24th, 2010
7:24 pm
Did Smitty make some off color remark about the draft?
Mark Bradley
April 24th, 2010
7:24 pm
And now Stackhouse. Bucks 27, Hawks 11.
Shane
April 24th, 2010
7:24 pm
Another, “meanwhile” – everybody get off Jon Dwyer’s back! Do the names Terrell Davis AND Doresey Levens ring a bell?
To paraphrase the late Lloyd Bentsen …. Jonathan Dwyer is no Terell Davis.
Mark Bradley
April 24th, 2010
7:25 pm
Hawks are being badly outplayed. Of course, the score might be a hint.
Shane
April 24th, 2010
7:26 pm
This is the old we’ve got home court in our hip pocket so were not going to show up for Game 3 play.
todd grantham
April 24th, 2010
7:27 pm
Franks in the 5th round? things get pretty dicey by then and i think Smitty and Company took a bet on that pick.
todd grantham
April 24th, 2010
7:27 pm
Me thinks the Hawks just want to close out in Atlanta.
Mark Bradley
April 24th, 2010
7:27 pm
On the one hand, you had to expect Milwaukee to start fast. The Bucks had had four days to recover and adjust after Game 2. But the Hawks have showed no real interest so far.
That said, this is the NBA. Sixteen-point leads can go away.
NoShamSam
April 24th, 2010
7:27 pm
No answer for Jennings yet…
S Uga Fan
April 24th, 2010
7:29 pm
If we had a quality coach ….. this would not happen! The Atlanta Spirit group will somehow find this poor showing to be acceptable and in the master Woody plan! Amazing what we settle for in Atlanta sports!
todd grantham
April 24th, 2010
7:31 pm
I’m so humble several buildings, arenas, schools, streets and stadiums are called “Anonymous” because I simply wont have things named after me just because I pay for them.
Hawks vs. Bucks
April 24th, 2010
7:32 pm
My guess is also that the Hawks weren’t quite truthful with themselves, “Hawks like rest, dismiss rust”
that … and the Bucks are at home / the Hawks are on the road
Mark Bradley
April 24th, 2010
7:35 pm
Ridnour hits a fadeaway over Zaza Pachulia to end the quarter. Milwaukee by 17. Whoa.
Dawgs2010
April 24th, 2010
7:36 pm
I wish someone on the Hawks had to guts to lay a good hit into Jennings.
Just knock his little hide to the ground with authority!
Mark Bradley
April 24th, 2010
7:37 pm
This was not the way you want to start Game 3. It’s one thing to fall behind. But by 17 points?
Chipper Jones
April 24th, 2010
7:37 pm
Mark, I just want to reassure you and the fans I’ll be in the lineup tomorrow night.
Sid
April 24th, 2010
7:37 pm
they MIGHT win one game on the road in this series. Doesn’t really matter though. The Magic will eat them up and spit them out.
NoShamSam
April 24th, 2010
7:37 pm
They can’t miss and we can’t hit or rebound…hence 17 behind
hawkfan
April 24th, 2010
7:37 pm
Let’s see Josh & Al both 1-3 fg and less aggressive. Typical road showing, the Hawks need JJ more than ever.
Mark Bradley
April 24th, 2010
7:38 pm
Someone would have to get near Brandon Jennings to hit him, Dawgs2010.
todd grantham
April 24th, 2010
7:39 pm
when chipper goes on a streak
and is playing at his peak
all of a sudden he begins to limp
with that all to familiar gimp
oh no, its another oblique