Official Game Preview: Hawks at Wizards

[Plainview1981]

2 minutes ago, NBASupes said:

We avoided Miami. Therefore I am happy 

It doesn't change the fact that this team is still shit.

[Guest]

6 hours ago, AHF said:

If we lose, we get Cleveland in the second round for sure.

If we win, whether we get Cleveland depends on whether Miami wins.

If we are really playing for the playoffs, we need to avoid Cleveland until the ECF.  Play to win.

If our top priority is winning in the first round, then go ahead and rest those players.

Time to get revenge on Boston for all the playoff heartbreak!

[High5]

One day when I really hate myself I'm going to go season-by-season for the Hawks, Falcons, Braves, and Bulldogs since I've been a fan and make a thrilling account of all of their special failures. 

[Plainview1981]

16 minutes ago, Spud2Nique said:

Time to get revenge on Boston for all the playoff heartbreak!

Beating this crappy Boston team wouldn't make up for lousing to those much better Celtics teams.

[Plainview1981]

Damn... With this loss tonight they didn't even take the season series from Washington.

It's amazing at just how little this team accomplished this year.

[Guest]

2 minutes ago, Hotlanta1981 said:

Beating this crappy Boston team wouldn't make up for lousing to those much better Celtics teams.

Ya ur right we should just lay down and die.

1 minute ago, Hotlanta1981 said:

Damn... With this loss tonight they didn't even take the season series from Washington.

It's amazing at just how little this team accomplished this year.

So I guess you aren't a half full cup kinda guy huh...lol

[Plainview1981]

Just now, Spud2Nique said:

Ya ur right we should just lay down and die.

They already did with those efforts against Cleveland and Washington.

The league needs to do something about all of these bad teams making the playoffs. When a team this bad gets 4th seed, the league needs to make changes. They will not because the league only cares about money. So it's quantity over quality. 

These guys will be rewarded with their lousy efforts. Max contracts!

[Plainview1981]

Sorry guys. I'll shut up so you can enjoy the team making the playoffs. 

[TheNorthCydeRises]

2 hours ago, lethalweapon3 said:

Told y'all we want the Cavs! Or at least the Pistons! lol

BRING ON BOSTON!

~lw3

I'M TOLD HEADACHE...

~lw3

He got hurt?

[High5]

Man, Kobe had all the pressure on him tonight, he's had a horrible season, he had an awful start to the game, and that 37-year-old dude goes on to drop 60 points and hit the game-winner. Then you look at what we did tonight...

Edited April 14, 2016 by High5

[LamarHampton]

What a bunch of sh!t.

Yea i'm definitely glad I didn't get the playoff ticket package. If we can't handle the playoff-eliminated Wiz B team, we are headed in the wrong direction at the wrong time for sure. 
Disappointment is not the right word; embarrassment is more like it. And to make matters worse, the first round will have half the crowd wearing green, but honestly the Hawks deserve that. Beantown has been scrappy and overachieving, ... Hawks not so much.

 

 

[LamarHampton]

And damn if Timmy didn't get hurt. FML. Thankfully the lakers game and the gsw game did not let down. At least I have that from tonight.

[AHF]

This is the sort of game that makes it so easy for voters to ignore us.  3rd seed and division title ripe for the plucking against Washington Generals....eh, we can't be bothered to really try.  See you in the middle of the pack!

[lethalweapon3]

48 minutes ago, AHF said:

This is the sort of game that makes it so easy for voters to ignore us.  3rd seed and division title ripe for the plucking against Washington Generals....eh, we can't be bothered to really try.  See you in the middle of the pack!

It's also why folks that were sweating out 3-6 (sweet! Toronto!) versus 4-5 (oh noes! Cleveland!) were as misguided as Jameer Nelson was against us. Never mind that that "destiny" element was beyond the Hawks' control. Win by 60 last night, and Miami doesn't have a epic collapse, and we get 4-5 anyway. Fall deliberately flat on our beaks, and we get 4-5 anyway. As demonstrated last night, the problems the Hawks needed to prepare for aren't the 1 and 2 seeds, but the 5 and 6 (and 10) seeds.

IF we were continuing to play well, knocking off the Cavs in the second round would have only strengthened our resolve against whoever in the ECFs. But if we're playing like bird crap heading into the postseason, which particular round we plan on immolating ourselves on a national stage in front of LeBron and Friends needs to be the least of our worries.

~lw3

[AHF]

11 minutes ago, lethalweapon3 said:

It's also why folks that were sweating out 3-6 (sweet! Toronto!) versus 4-5 (oh noes! Cleveland!) were as misguided as Jameer Nelson was against us. Never mind that that "destiny" element was beyond the Hawks' control. Win by 60 last night, and Miami doesn't have a epic collapse, and we get 4-5 anyway. Fall deliberately flat on our beaks, and we get 4-5 anyway. As demonstrated last night, the problems the Hawks needed to prepare for aren't the 1 and 2 seeds, but the 5 and 6 (and 10) seeds.

IF we were continuing to play well, knocking off the Cavs in the second round would have only strengthened our resolve against whoever in the ECFs. But if we're playing like bird crap heading into the postseason, which particular round we plan on immolating ourselves on a national stage in front of LeBron and Friends needs to be the least of our worries.

~lw3

I still think the Cleveland matchup is a big deal.  Bron has gotten to the finals for half a decade.  Toronto hasn't been to the second round.  If our management believes we are contenders, we should have been worried about playoff matchups.  At least enough to show up against scrubs.

[Hawkmoor]

lmao............Georgia sports, i tell ya.................

[lethalweapon3]

1 minute ago, AHF said:

I still think the Cleveland matchup is a big deal.  Bron has gotten to the finals for half a decade.  Toronto hasn't been to the second round.  If our management believes we are contenders, we should have been worried about playoff matchups.  At least enough to show up against scrubs.

Oh, playing Bron "would" be a huge deal... which "would" make handing him the dreaded second-round exit just as thrilling (for us, anyway). Somebody other than the Raps awaiting in the ECFs would have made the prospects of an NBA Finals trip even more exciting. But all of that looking ahead is predicated on us playing well, and not thinking we can just Turn It On when we feel like it. If we were just going to perform the way we have in the final seven quarters of the season, the stars to worry about aren't LBJ or Lowry/DeMar, but Isiah and Kemba.

If 3 seeds and division titles and avoiding LeBron in the second round was the plan, we should have thought about that before blowing games against Phoenix and Minnesota and the Knicks and the Magic and the opponents missing a veritable All-Star Game's worth of players. Like Miami, we almost backed our way into it anyway.

~lw3

[AHF]

1 minute ago, lethalweapon3 said:

Oh, playing Bron "would" be a huge deal... which "would" make handing him the dreaded second-round exit just as thrilling (for us, anyway). Somebody other than the Raps awaiting in the ECFs would have made the prospects of an NBA Finals trip even more exciting. But all of that looking ahead is predicated on us playing well, and not thinking we can just Turn It On when we feel like it. If we were just going to perform the way we have in the final seven quarters of the season, the stars to worry about aren't LBJ or Lowry/DeMar, but Isiah and Kemba.

If 3 seeds and division titles and avoiding LeBron in the second round was the plan, we should have thought about that before blowing games against Phoenix and Minnesota and the Knicks and the Magic and the opponents missing a veritable All-Star Game's worth of players. Like Miami, we almost backed our way into it anyway.

~lw3

No argument with that.  Wish we would have put ourselves in a position where we weren't depending on others ala Phoenix, Orlando, etc but still wish we cared enough to prop the door open yesterday.  The only guarantee was getting that 1-8 winner in round 2 if we lost.  Which, of course, we not only did but did in embarrassing fashion.  As you say, if we keep playing like this none of it matters but we are inconsistent enough that I don't assume we'll keep playing too well or too poorly for very long so I'd like to think Bud still believes in this group.

[Guest]

I feel like our season is already over after that display last night.

[Dnice]

It's kinda Ike an extension of the regular season, and not 0-0.