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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Mark Bradley
April 24th, 2010
8:25 pm
Hawks staying in it at the foul line. They’ve taken 13 free throws to the Bucks’ four.
Hawks have been outscored by 18 points from the field.
MaryM
April 24th, 2010
8:27 pm
Instead of suffering another half of watching overpaid, overstuffed zombies sleepwalking through the game, change your TV to Weather Channel. With all the storms, I promise you it’s more interesting.
todd grantham
April 24th, 2010
8:28 pm
Mark, how many players are on an active NBA roster?
Mark Bradley
April 24th, 2010
8:30 pm
Fifteen guys on a roster. Twelve get to dress for games.
Mark Bradley
April 24th, 2010
8:30 pm
Bad start to the half. Joe misses in the lane, and then Salmons hits over Marvin.
Dawgs2010
April 24th, 2010
8:31 pm
Does Randolph Morris count as a player?
Mark Bradley
April 24th, 2010
8:32 pm
Chance to cut it to nine. Joe on the line. He has 19 of the 43.
todd grantham
April 24th, 2010
8:34 pm
Ok, 12 times 6 fouls is 72 fouls. all a team has to do to win is foul every time its on defense. if the opponent makes 60% of the foul shots, then that’s 84 points. Most NBA teams can win when holding an opponent to 84.
jcwfalcon
April 24th, 2010
8:34 pm
Smoove- that shot is why you arent an All Star
todd grantham
April 24th, 2010
8:35 pm
I’m not just a great football coach, but a “thinker” as well.
No Effort
April 24th, 2010
8:35 pm
why does the ball stop every time Josh Smith touch’s it?
Dawgs2010
April 24th, 2010
8:35 pm
J-Smoove is now Mr. Bumpy
Mark Bradley
April 24th, 2010
8:35 pm
Bad sequence there. Marvin missed from the lane and Josh Smith forced one from the baseline, and then Carlos Delfino hit a three-pointer. Back to 11. Could have been cut to six.
jcwfalcon
April 24th, 2010
8:36 pm
Horford shoots once the play has been setup…and 3 Hawks are on the screen. Its easy to see why we arent getting rebounds. Half our team is staying around mid court.
Pay Day man
April 24th, 2010
8:36 pm
The hawks have one starter playing for a pay day, Joe Johnson. Who is the only guy producing? Nuff said.
Dawgs2010
April 24th, 2010
8:36 pm
Marvin William is offically a Draft-bust. Time for him to find a new team.
S Uga Fan
April 24th, 2010
8:36 pm
Paul… UGA and Duke grad!!!!!
Hawks a Joke
April 24th, 2010
8:37 pm
Ive been saying all along that J Smith needs to let go. Yea he can play when he wants to, but hes never consistent.
jcwfalcon
April 24th, 2010
8:37 pm
is Horford trying to get it “in the hoop” or throw it “through the hoop?”
Give me the ball
April 24th, 2010
8:37 pm
Why is Josh Smith hanging out at the 3 point line? hehe.
Hawks a Joke
April 24th, 2010
8:39 pm
This kind of reminds me how we played against Cleveland last year in the playoffs. Our guys were so intimidated by Lebron and the Cavs, they just walked around for 48 minutes.
Mark Bradley
April 24th, 2010
8:39 pm
Another Delfino 3-pointer. Back to 17.
The Hawks have 18 minutes to make up 17 points.
jcwfalcon
April 24th, 2010
8:39 pm
The worst thing you can say about a team is that they lost due to a lack of effort. Of the reasons the Hawks will lose this game, lack of effort has to seem like #1. It really is frustrating to watch. It kinda makes you want to slap each of them across the face.
Dawgs2010
April 24th, 2010
8:39 pm
So much for this team taking us to the next level. It is just not going to happen. No wonder there are empty seats for the home games.
D. Ward
April 24th, 2010
8:40 pm
I tuned in to watch this? What a HEARTLESS display of basketball being played by the Hawks right now!
Confucius
April 24th, 2010
8:40 pm
Confucius say Hawks will win this series and get blown out by Orlando. The same lack of intensity on the road will result in Orlando in 6.
Dawgs2010
April 24th, 2010
8:40 pm
This is truly disgusting.
Mike Modell
April 24th, 2010
8:41 pm
64-47, 3Q-600, 10-2 Milw run….
Atlanta fans deserve better…And, don’t try to make
sense out of anything Mike Woodson does because
he is a third-tier coach at best…This game was
lost in the lockerroom….
An absolute embarrassment to the franchise…I hope
none of you have wasted money on season tickets…
There’s a very succinct phrase for the type of basketball
the Hawks are zombieing through tonight but it’s
connotation is too negative to say here…
kurula
April 24th, 2010
8:41 pm
hawks moving at half speed tonight….
D. Ward
April 24th, 2010
8:41 pm
They will not make up 17 points in eighteen minutes. How’s that for a bold prediction?
jcwfalcon
April 24th, 2010
8:41 pm
Yeah “Hawksajoke.” But the bad thing is this Bucks team is full of scrubs. LeBron is intimidating. None of the players on the Bucks team should intimidate the Hawks…yet they are. Its sad to watch.
hawks vs. bucks
April 24th, 2010
8:42 pm
sweep isn’t looking possible right now, but maybe they’ll finish the 3rd strong and have a great 4th …
jcwfalcon
April 24th, 2010
8:42 pm
Confusious, Orlando will take it in less than 6. Did we beat Orlando at all this year?
Confucius
April 24th, 2010
8:43 pm
Hawks a Joke
April 24th, 2010
8:39 pm
This kind of reminds me how we played against Cleveland last year in the playoffs. Our guys were so intimidated by Lebron and the Cavs, they just walked around for 48 minutes.
At least Cleveland has the best player in the league, and is a pretty good team. There is zero excuse for the performance of Josh Smith, Bibby, Williams and Crawford.
Mark Bradley
April 24th, 2010
8:43 pm
Horford finally getting going.
jcwfalcon
April 24th, 2010
8:43 pm
Jim Neidhart just schooled Smoove. Time to call it a night and go back to the hotel. 3 games in 8 days is too many for these Hawks to take.
kurula
April 24th, 2010
8:43 pm
this is not a team that is gonna beat orlando or cleveland. why do all the teams i love seem to play their worst in the biggest games?
Jo Bling
April 24th, 2010
8:44 pm
You people need to calm down. This game has a long way to go.
Mark Bradley
April 24th, 2010
8:44 pm
The Hawks beat Orlando in March. Josh dunked home Joe’s miss at the horn.
todd grantham
April 24th, 2010
8:44 pm
has horford finally crossed the fjord?
jcwfalcon
April 24th, 2010
8:45 pm
I want to hire Jo Bling to follow me around and whisper positive nothings to me from the time I awaken til the time I fall asleep.
S Uga Fan
April 24th, 2010
8:45 pm
Announcers really hard on Hawks! Wait… they deserve it!!
jcwfalcon
April 24th, 2010
8:45 pm
What was the series record Mark? Is that the only one we got? A buzzer beater?
todd grantham
April 24th, 2010
8:46 pm
I guess the Hawks are taking lessons from watching the Braves’ game. Apathy.
kurula
April 24th, 2010
8:46 pm
jcwfalcon–hilarious.
jcwfalcon
April 24th, 2010
8:46 pm
Are they getting close to a playoff team record for 3’s in a game?
todd grantham
April 24th, 2010
8:47 pm
turn out the lights on this game.
hawks vs. bucks
April 24th, 2010
8:48 pm
hawks start to get close but then they can’t defend the 3. I think Orlando will know the shot to use in order to eliminate the hawks
Miss Bradley
April 24th, 2010
8:48 pm
Mark, did the Hawks victory against Orlando in March make them 1-6 over the last 7 games?
Steve Holman
April 24th, 2010
8:48 pm
this really sucks!