SOS different day

[exodus]

It is a 5 point game right now and it should be garbage time. The Hawks inability to get defensive rebounds and their knack for dumb turnovers is keeping Minny in it.

[DrReality]

Love has been killing us inside. Rebounds out the arse.

[DrReality]

We're doing well without JJ and on the road. Need to hang in there the final three minutes. Gotta find someone who can get hot and take Smoove out to keep himaway from the FT line.

[DrReality]

20 out of 32 FT. Unbelievable. Bibby hits the three.

[exodus]

7 turnovers in the 4th quarter. 19 offensive rebounds for the Wolves. That is just a joke.

The way Bibby, Marvin and Smith were playing this should have been an easy win.

[DJlaysitup]

BIBBY WINS THE GAME !!!!!!! :angel19:

[exodus]

That is a relief. It would have really hurt to lose that game considering the way Bibby, Smith and marvin stepped up on offense.

The Hawks got killed on the boards. They just don't box out for crap.

[mrhonline]

Phewwww....

You could see the Wolves were tired from the back-to-back, and the Hawks were playing a little banged up and short-handed...

An ugly game, but...

[Duff_Man]

Wow...last year at Minny we won 94-87. Odd.

[WraithSentinel]

We got the win somehow. It was ugly in every way possible. Smoove,Bibby, and Marv stepped up and did the job. Glad to have Horford back.

[AtLaS]

That game was ugly as hell. Another blown lead, this time to a garbage team. Can't say it was unexpected.

Once again we choked down the stretch. We only made 2 FGs in the last 7 minutes of the game.

I will say that many of our turnovers were crap, the refs called 2 moving picks (one was terrible) and palming violations like crazy. Where did that come from?

[Plastic Man]

I will say that many of our turnovers were crap, the refs called 2 moving picks (one was terrible) and palming violations like crazy. Where did that come from?

Yeah that was ridiculous. It's like they got a memo from Stern and were trying to reach their quota of those calls.

[crimedog]

I will say that many of our turnovers were crap, the refs called 2 moving picks (one was terrible) and palming violations like crazy. Where did that come from?

It was really annoying. They either need to call the same ish every night or not call it. The players need to know the rules but if they are going to get called for something one game out of four, you can't really blame them. Also did anyone notice that they seemed to call all that nonsense on the Hawks, then realize they hadn't called it on the Wolves and do a couple of quick make-ups... it was killing the flow of the game.

[Admin]

We desperately need a quality backup PF that can come in and clean the glass while he's in there. I know that our starters can rebound and rather than assume that it's because of a lack of focus that keeps them from boxing out and rebounding like they should I'd like to assume that it's because generally speaking they are giving up size to the other team every game and are playing too many minutes.

[LOL_Hawks]

I wouldn't say Minnesota is terrible. They've been playing REALLY well as of late, and that's really an example of a team that's playing above their record, so I knew that playing that team + the fact that we're terrible on the road meant that it was going to be a tough game. I pretty much expected an L, especially with JJ being out with illness.

It was definitely a tough game like I figured it would be, but an ugly win beats a tough loss any day of the week. I'll take any road victory any way we can get em.

[JackB1]

Smoove 3 for 8 from the foul line! What is going on with him and foul shots lately?

Anyone know his career FT %?

[Popeye]

We desperately need a quality backup PF that can come in and clean the glass while he's in there.

I agree, Solo is a joke btw. He goes too soft for a rebound and has some soft hands. There was one play tonight when the ball came off the rim and he kinda leaned back and extended his hand to grab a rebound, Love just took it away from him like a man against a 5 year old. I think Woody took him out after that play.

[Popeye]

Smoove 3 for 8 from the foul line! What is going on with him and foul shots lately?

Anyone know his career FT %?

It was 71% I think, but this year he is at 59%. Shaq is shooting like 62% this year..

[High5]

Minnesota is playing a lot better recently. They have a better record than we do since the new year.

Still shouldn't have blown the lead like that, but I'm not going to look too deep into it considering we were without our best player and our starting center (which is really important against the Wolves) was making his first start in a while.

I really hope Marvin tears it up with Joe out and a light goes off in Woody's head.

[DrReality]

McKale is using the strength of his team, which is the big guys, to score and he tore us up. Their rooking made Za look like a rookie. Largely because he can just quicker. Za was consistently late getting to ball. To that extent I think Solo could have done better.

Good win on the road.