Archive for April, 2010

(Source: Yardbarker.com) Full Recap coming tomorrow. A 29-11 third quarter propelled the Atlanta Hawks into a Game 7 back in Atlanta on Sunday against the Milwaukee Bucks. Both teams struggled offensively but the Hawks did enough defensively in that third quarter and controlled the boards to finally take control of the game. The Hawks were able to keep the Bucks out of the paint and limited the amount of easy shots, instead forcing them to take long contested jump shots. In the process the Hawks limited the Bucks to only eight offensive rebounds for the game.

(Source: Yardbarker.com) Friday April 30, 2010 Atlanta Hawks (2-3) Milwaukee Bucks (3-2) First Round NBA Playoffs Game 6. Venue: Bradley Center Time: 7:00pm ET TV: ESPN, Fox Sports South Radio: 790TheZone, NBA Audio League Pass

(Source: Yardbarker.com) After having 24 hours away from the debacle that was the fourth quarter of game five, my head is clearer. It still may not have a clue about what is going to happen or should happen in game six but I can at least come up with some thoughts that aren’t fueled with emotion. Yesterday I put up a mock draft post and was immediately called out on twitter by @DrtySouthSports asking if I was looking ahead already and if the season was over. Just for the record the mock draft post had been planned for a couple [...]

Listed in the DC Pro Sports Report NBA Mock Draft, Hoopdoctors NBA Mock Database, and the Football Fanspot NBA Mock Draft Database # Team Player Pos. School 1 New Jersey John Wall PG Kentucky 2 Minnesota Evan Turner SG Ohio State 3 Sacramento DeMarcus Cousins C Kentucky 4 Golden St. Derrick Favors PF Georgia Tech 5 Washington Wesley Johnson SF Syracuse 6 Philadelphia Al-Farouq Aminu SF Wake Forrest 7 Detroit Cole Aldrich C Kansas 8 LA Clippers Ed Davis PF North Carolina 9 *Utah Greg Monroe C Georgetown 10 Indiana Hassan Whiteside PF Marshall 11 New Orleans Paul George SF [...]

(Source: Yardbarker.com) I have watched Atlanta Hawks Basketball for a long time and seen a lot of tough losses. In today’s AJC, Mark Bradley reminds us of 1989 game 5 where the Hawks lost to an undermanned Bucks team. The year before that you had two excruciating losses to the Boston Celtics in games six and seven. Through all of those losses, the bad trades, and 13 win seasons, I don’t know that I have ever seen a loss as tough as last night’s.

Game recap is coming tomorrow. I am speechless. What a painful loss. I don’t have the words to describe this one right now. The Hawks lost all composure down the stretch. Hats off to the Bucks and Scott Skiles. If this was happening to any other team out there then I would think it was a great story. Game Recap tomorrow, Game 6 Friday.

We got a new face lift around here and we are really excited about it just in time for Game 5. This setup has all kinds of new features that we will be using so keep checking back.

Preview This series is down to a best of three with each home team holding serve on their respective home courts. Questions abound for both teams coming into this one. Can Milwaukee continue to play that they showed at the Bradley Center? The Hawks better believe they can and they had better come out focused and ready to compete at a higher level than they have the entire season because it is that season that hangs in the balance. Due to the Hawks road woes (1-10), Game 5 is a must win. They have to go back to Milwaukee in [...]

(Source: Yardbarker.com) Today Jamal Crawford was overwhelmingly selected as the NBA Sixth Man of the Year. Crawford came to the Hawks in a trade with the Golden State Warriors for Speedy Claxton and Acie Law. The trade proved to be one of the best moves of the NBA’s offseason. To Jamal’s credit he came to a playoff team having one of the longest playoff droughts for an active player. He didn’t come in expecting to start but instead accepted his role as sixth man and finished the season as the top sixth man in the NBA. For the Season Jamal [...]

(Source:Yardbarker.com) We now have a series. What momentum was built during games one and two is long gone and the Hawks are searching for answers. No mistake about it, the Bucks have made adjustments. Those adjustments have been huge and now have the Bucks looking like the three seed poised to close this series out. I admit it, I looked at the game three blow out as an aberration. A result of an over confident team going on the road and not giving good effort. Lost in that was the credit that was due to the Bucks and Scott Skiles.