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Scott is giving us what we need from Horford. Glad we turned it around. 

You aren't going to score when your offense is basically Schröder taking the ball up and either driving/shooting and missing. Other guys are struggling but the PG has to show some patience.

If you can run the recipe of early offense and 48 minutes of D for wins you gotta be happy. It was ugly on TV but beautiful for us who love our Hawks. 

We need one win in Boston and I think we will have to win it with our offense. Millsap has a lot to say before this series ends.

Bradley is a good defender but he doesn't play defense the entire time he is on the court.

Good problem to have! Our previous two head coaches are assistants these days. 

18 minutes ago, rd79 said:

When I think about having home court advantage vs Indiana in 2nd round, I'm even more pissed that we dropped this one...

You are assuming we would beat a team that we went 1-3 against during the regular season. One of those Miami wins was at Philips when they rested Wade and Whiteside.

I'm surprised so many of them actually picked us.

I know a lot of people aren't happy about losing last night but it really isn't that big of a deal to me. Yeah, we didn't win the division but nobody seemed to care that we won it last year. The effort wasn't great but how much did they really want to win this game?  Getting into the playoffs healthy was probably our #1 objective and they probably mentally checked out when they saw the scores in the other games.

Personally, I didn't want to see Miami in the first round. Wade would be shooting foul shots all game, Whiteside would be grabbing 15-20 rebounds and Joe would come back and hit some clutch shots. We wouldn't even get to have our desirable second round matchup. If you want to get out of the East you are going to have to go through Cleveland anyways, so playing them in the second or third round doesn't matter.

Regarding Boston--they won't be easy. It'll be tough playing up in Boston and we will have a lot of Celtics fans in our arena. We went 3-1 against them this year and have better talent so I think we can win this series in 6/7 games.

8 minutes ago, bumpyphish1 said:

We avoid the Heat regardless.  I feel good about our chances in a series vs both other teams, especially having homecourt.  Charlotte is obv the preference.

There is another thread that LW3 created that is talking about this as well. If Atlanta/Boston/Charlotte all win tonight, we would be the third seed playing Miami who would be the sixth seed.

So it seems that if we want to play Charlotte, we need to hope the Heat win the division because I don't think we are going to see them lose to an Orlando team missing a lot of their key players. It might be an easier first round match up but it will have us playing Cleveland in the second round.

I was in the 56ish win camp so I was a bit off. I didn't think we would get swept by Minnesota and have a lot of random head scratching loses to teams like Brooklyn and Phoenix.

One thing we did well when we won 53 under Woodson was defend our homecourt. Can't say we did that this year. 

3 hours ago, AUhawksfan said:

I think he hit one in a Cleveland regular season game, but I can't think of any others and obviously not enough to stand out.

The only game winner I can think of since Joe left is Al's putback against Washington and that was a point blank drop in - albeit after a horrible Schröder attempt at a layup.

Al hit a game winner at home (I think there were about 3 seconds left after he shot) against the Mavericks in the 13/14 season. That is all I can think of after the two you mentioned.

I googled "Paul Millsap game winner" to see if he had any success in Utah and found a video of him missing a wide open layup to win the game. I guess it has been an issue for him for awhile too..

Adding on, we have Phoenix and Washington that are must wins. There is also Toronto and Boston at home. I'd like to win both of those but I can see us splitting it. That puts us at 3-1 and you still have that road game in Cleveland. If we go 2-1 against the playoff teams I bet we wind up #3 assuming we get the win against Phoenix and Washington. 

We hold the tiebreaker against Charlotte. Right now we are 2-1 against Boston. Miami has the edge over us. I'm not sure what happens if we wind up in a three way tie.

We got some help last night with Portland beating Miami. Today the Hornets play in Cleveland and Boston is playing in LA against the Lakers (who did recently beat the Heat). 

On Tuesday night we will host the Suns, Miami is at home against Detroit and Charlotte is in Toronto. The Suns game is a must win if you want to finish third and hopefully some of these other games go in our favor too.

FWIW, LeBron is playing tonight against the Nets. If he logs a decent amount of minutes he might not play tomorrow night against us.

Lowry is in and Scola is out according to Viv.

I'm good with letting Baze walk, we will be fine without him. Hopefully he has a postseason similar to DMC's showing last year and adds a couple million to his pay raise.

One key thing to watch is teams resting players, mainly Toronto and Cleveland. The road games against Detroit and Chicago will be tough because they are fighting for that last playoff spot. 

Yeah, I was thinking it was something like "Dahhhhniiii" which was a nickname for Dennis or Denny. I thought it was a little weird but to each his own. Got heeeeem makes much more sense now.

Michigan State should have been a #1 seed instead of Oregon. Either way though, that is flat out embarrassing!

8 minutes ago, NBASupes said:

His salary is fine, it's just we need his salary for better fits in other areas

Very true and that is probably the biggest reason I think he has been such a disappointment. Not only did he not really help our front court for various reasons, but that 8 million would be nice to have to help our wing depth.

I'm all aboard with wanting the 3rd/6th seed too. The Raptors have owned us recently but lets not forgot their recent playoff history.

Last year they were #4 and got swept by the Wizards. The previous year they were #3 and lost in 7 to Brooklyn. They might be able to win their first round match up this year but if we can win a game up in Toronto, you have to wonder where they psyche will be. Lebron has been to the finals the last five seasons. I'd much rather go against the group that hasn't won a playoff series together.

Great weekend for the Hawks. This reminded me of the game up in Indy at the end of the 13/14 season where we just took it to them offensively and defensively. The Hawks are looking very goodright now--lets hope we can close the season with this type of effort/play and good health as well.

Tough loss, I really wanted this one. It was the end of the road trip and you could tell.  I feel like we played hard D and got good shots. We just couldn't convert on either end. 

We have had a tough schedule but it's our own fault that these games become more important. If we handled business against our inferior opponents earlier in the season this loss wouldn't hurt us as much. This weekend is big..

Go Hawks!