Hawks Halfway Point Report Card

[TexasPete]

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North, I'm not sure if it's occured to you that since 98% of Hawks fans on this board think Woodson is a huge problem and a terrible coach...did you ever stop and think that maybe there is merit to it?

Are people in the huge majority who disagree with you really not objective? Or, is it possible that the one in this discussion who has lost objectivity is you?

Just a thought.

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Pete, all I said that giving Woody an F is not being objective. And it's not. And I think you know that, but don't want to admit it. I refuse to be so emotionally scorned as a fan, that I can't look at something objectively. Most of you hate Woody, so it skews your thought process.

Woody deserves a C or C-. That's an appropriate grade for him this season.

LOL . . almost everyone on this board predicted the Hawks to finish somewhere between 35 - 42 wins. Yet, when we're on that exact pace as a team, he gets an F? LOL @ that.

The same people placing all of the blame on Woody for this losing stretch, are the very same ones that DIDN'T give him credit when the Hawks won 12 of 17 games in Nov and Dec. Talking about how the players were winning in spite of Woody.

GTFOH !!!

You win as a team and you lose as a team. But if you're going to give the players most of the credit for winning, you damn well better place blame on them when they lose. And vice versa.

My bad . . Woody is to blame for

- JJ's erratic shooting

- Not getting JJ rest, even though everything breaks down when he's not in the game

- Shelden playing with 10x less intensity than his future wife

- Speedy being hurt . . again

- Lue still pounding the ball and having no defensive awareness

- Zaza crying for PT when he was shootng 35% FG

- AJ not being able to play like a legit PG every night

- Ish, AJ having to play at all, seeing how Speedy, Law, ad Lue were ahead of him on the depth chart before preseason started.

- Salim supposedy being the "hired gun", but plays more like the "hired slingshot", with all those rocks he throws at the rim

- Horford not being able to guard or score on elite frontline players. After all he is the #3 pick, and supposed to be a superstar by now.

- Law, one of the most clutch players in college b-ball last year, not being able to make 35% of his jumpers nor 50% of his lay-ups

- Chill not being able to create his own jumper

This fan base complains day after day after day after day after day after day after day after day after day after day after day after day after day . . .

about not having outside shootng, or a low post scorer, or a legit PG

Yet Woody is supposed to wave his magic wand, rub he and AJ's beard, and say

ALA-KAZZAAMMM !!!!! WE CAN NOW . .

- be an uptempo team with no problem

- defend big and talented frontlines

- rebound every night

- get great production from the bench

- see JJ play 2006 JJ-like every night

- hit 6 - 8 threes a night

- have Smoove and Marvin be able to carry the team when JJ is on the bench

PRESTOMUDDAFUGGINCHANGO!!!! (( poof ))

That's what you guys want Woody to do . . become a wizard.

Meanwhile, Popovich and the damn Spurs, with 2 all-star caiber players on the floor, but without their PG, Parker-Longoria, can't even beat a team that hadn't won a damn game since Christmas.

Funny how even a good team can look like garbage, without a good PG running the show.

I refuse to be part of the emotional, schizophrenic flock Pete. A lot of you guys act like only Woody is keeping us from being a real good team. I refuse to live that Hawksquawk lie.

Woody gets a C- from me.

The team is better than last year, despite having to depend on 2 rookies, seeing key parts of the bench actually regress as players, and seeing JJ playing un-JJ-like sometimes. I think Woody's biggest mistake, is not starting Acie. And that may keep the team from taking off like it should.

That's objectivty.

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Actually, I think Woody gets an F-...I don't have the time for a War and Peace posts with all of my grievances with Woodson. But, he has been lousy from his first month on the job. I have NEVER seen an offense so without basic movement. There are few screens away from the ball, zero back door cuts, just the same damn play every time down.

There is little involvement with screens for Marvin or running anything through Horford. His defense? I used to SCREAM at his incompetant ass when I was at the games about basic things like having guys show on pick and rolls. I watched Iverson score 50 points one night when not one Hawk dared to show on a high screen. It never occured to dumbass to instruct his team to at least show on a basic screen.

NC, in this matter your DEAD WRONG and you are the one with no objectivity. This is a poorly coached team that is underacheiving badly. And when people were making pre-season predictions NOBODY thought the East was this damn bad. NOBODY!!! Everybody thought the East was improved.

Seriously, you are way off base. LOL at that...

[TexasPete]

Try watching a PTL game sometime and you will see what happens with a free flowing half court offense. The average number of passes per possession is 5 or 6! These guys pass, cut, screen away, and just are always in movement. The result? They get everybody involved and the balls moves constantly. They get open looks, good quality shots almost every time down.

Now go watch a Hawks game. Watch the movement. There is nothing.

Then come back and tell me about Woodson. The way we play offensive basketball is truly a disgrace to the game.