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		<title>Dwight Howard&#8217;s Thoughts On The Hawks</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Jeff Shultz at the AJC took time out to interview Dwight Howard while he was in Atlanta this weekend.  First of all, Dwight let it out that Josh Smith is getting married this weekend.  Congratulations Josh Smith!  Marriage is a wonderful thing and settling down has a way of taming the wild.  I wish Josh all the best in his new family life and a renewed focus on his basketball game.  Dwight will be Josh&#8217;s best man.  Seeing how close these two are just makes it sting a little more than Atlanta missed out on getting the hometown star back [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Josh Smith&#8217;s Improvement in 2009-2010</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Neil Paine over at Basketball Reference has some good information on Josh Smith&#8217;s improvement offensively in the 2009-2010 season.  Per this blog entry, Josh Smith improved from being a player with a 103.5 offensive rating to a player with a 109.4 offensive rating simply by cutting down his three point shooting.  Josh Smith shot 87 total three point shots in 2008-2009 and cut that to only 7 attempts in 2009-2010.  That&#8217;s a remarkable decline in his shooting attempts and it was needed.   As the article stated, Josh shoots roughly 9% lower on three point shots than the league average.  He [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://soaringdownsouth.com/2010/07/30/josh-smiths-improvement-in-2009-2010/</link>
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		<title>Hawks Resign Jason Collins</title>
		<description><![CDATA[While Michael Cunningham is still out at the AJC and there is no report in the local paper at this point, several media outlets are reporting that the Hawks have indeed resigned center Jason Collins.  The word coming out of the Hawks offices is that Jason has worked very hard this offseason to get his body into playing shape and is a good presence in the locker room.  The Hawks roster stands at 12 right now, with the last two players on the roster being little more than locker room presences at this point.  To me, this is yet another [...]]]></description>
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