Official Game Thread: Hawks at Nets

[terrell]

20 minutes ago, NBASupes said:

Anyone we draft will have to develop. That said, games like today are just awful for guys like Kevin and Cam. Cam literally erased his defensive impact with his awful offensively impact.

Exactly. We need to spend some $ in 2020. SG, SF, and center is a priority imo..TRae is just too far ahead of our other young players..THey might not be good for 2 or 3 more years..If not more..

Edited December 22, 2019 by terrell

[TheNorthCydeRises]

3 minutes ago, JayBirdHawk said:

 

 

 

 

 

I knew it had to be his daughter that wanted to see Trae.

[JayBirdHawk]

Just now, TheNorthCydeRises said:

I knew it had to be his daughter that wanted to see Trae.

Kobe hadn't been to a Laker gane all year until the Hawks played in LA...again for his daughter.

[Gray Mule]

8 hours ago, Gray Mule said:

Perhaps, after tonight's game, it will change.  The 4th quarter blues.  Hawks have a fatal case.  They are tense - tense - tense and it shows.  The closer to the end of the game, the worse it gets.  Shots that would be nothing but net earlier in the game now roll around and jump out.  It's not just one player.  It's every Hawk on the floor.  Here we go again and it's another miss.

Check it out.  I'll guess that our 4th quarter shooting % is much worse than the 1st three quarters.  And, the players want to play "hot potato" with the ball.  "Don't make me shoot it!"  

Love our young starting five!  Hope we're so far ahead in the last half of the 4th quarter, Hawks can play with the guys on the far end of the bench and still win !!

 

Dang!  I hate it when I'm right.

[NBASupes]

They are showing a replay of the 4th QT. It was tough to watch. Everyone seemed to be hitting in and out for the first 5 minutes of the quarter. Everyone! 

 

I honestly felt if Trae made that free throw, we would have had the momentum 

Edited December 22, 2019 by NBASupes

[NBASupes]

1 minute ago, Gray Mule said:

Dang!  I hate it when I'm right.

You called it Gray. With John, it's a lot harder to defend us. That way Cam can just play defense and actually make his 3s. Hunter can play his role and maybe Kevin will get it together 

[marco102]

Yup! I finally agree with this guy for once.

[NBASupes]

Watching the replay and Kevin was getting worked. They made it a mission to attacking him. I wished LP would have forced Cam to not let him switch. This is the 2nd game in a row, Cam locks someone down and they just do screens to get Kevin or Trae on Dinwiddie or Mitchell and of course, we take Ls.

[lethalweapon3]

2 hours ago, TheNorthCydeRises said:

Wow . . . I go to the bathroom with the Hawks up 2 . . and now we're down by 5?

 

After that fourth quarter, Atlanta's new mascot is The Ty-D-Bol Man! "Flushing away leads since 1968!"

~lw3

[NBASupes]

LP really has to realize, Cam is our only lock down defender and that's his best value at this stage of his development. You can't let him switch with Trae or Kevin when he is on their star. Kevin and Trae can't guard those guys.

[NBASupes]

Cam really gotta work on his hands. That ball they called for a miss was really a turnover. He lost it trying to do too much. Cam really is a player that will need an offseason to really work on his game. Some of this shit is just him doing too much. Sometimes I wish he would keep it simple like Hunter. 

My goodness, Trae has such low defensive BBIQ. Watching that cut from Dinwiddie, Trae just fell asleep

Edited December 22, 2019 by NBASupes

[NBASupes]

Hunter and Reddish don't get enough credit for their defense.

[Bonkers]

The only pass that I give Cam is that he didn't get the chance to actually have a summer 

 

Huerter on the other hand, could be used for trade bait

Edited December 22, 2019 by Bonkers

[NBASupes]

Watching that Kevin-Cam turnover is on Kevin. Dumbass Kevin kept zigzagging. Cam redirected once and was going to the corner and Kevin redirected for the 3rd time and Cam ran into the ball. That was clearly on Kevin watching the replay. f***ing idiot. Kevin was beyond awful this game.

[Vol4ever]

47 minutes ago, GameTime said:

Trae needs shooters that can actually shoot. So many wide open missed jumpers.

Crabbe was supposed to be a shooter right?

[NBASupes]

The one thing that is clear is Kevin and Hunter got plenty decent looks. Watching the replay, Cam keeps shooting contested 3s and it's not quality looks but this game those shots looked better than the wide open looks he got. 

[NBASupes]

Watching that wide open three pointer from Reddish. Trae didn't pinpoint pass it but Cam still has to make that shot. Cam was initially shot ready but he had to adjust to the pass which Jordan did a good job to force an unclean pass. It wasn't as bad as it looked live but you still gotta make it Cam

[lethalweapon3]

22 minutes ago, marco102 said:

Yup! I finally agree with this guy for once.

poor Paul Pierce is probably looking at Kendrick sideways right now.

~lw3

[NBASupes]

Watching the replay, yes we missed makeable looks but Brooklyn played much better defense the minute DeAndre Jordan entered the game. He impacted a lot of passes and some shots as well. 

DeAndre Jordan had a tremendous 4th quarter. I would say more than Dinwiddle. If there was a weakness by LP, it was allowing Brooklyn to switch they best offensive players to our weaker defenders and not replacing Huerter for Bembry when it was clear Kevin just didn't have it tonight. 

[NBASupes]

I would have rather we go

Young

Bembry

Reddish

Hunter

Len down the stretch. Kevin by the replay lost us this game.