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Quote: Offensively he just doesn't see the ball much. He is shooting 62% from the field and has good offensive moves but his guards are ball hogs. Defensively he moves well and has good length, I think he just needs to get stronger. Keep in mind the Hawks defensive problems are a result of who is here, not just who isn't here. If the Hawks get Aldridge and then sign Nene/Przy and trade Zaza and Al, their interior D won't be weak any more. Aldridge will most likely split time at the 4/5. Did you guys give up on Zaza ,1 month ago or so he was a steal in free agency and you would get rid of him along with Al(which i have no problem) ITS NOT JUST YOU EXODUS

I wish we draft Bargnani and he turns into next Dirk wow

Quote: I'd do that in a heartbeat! Baron Davis, even with his bad back-attitude, would make this team competitive. Baron Davis - Mikeal Pietrus Josh Childress - Salim Stoudamire Marvin Williams - Some guy Josh Smith - Esteban Batista LaMarcus Aldridge - Zaza Pachulia That team could be competitve... But Billy would never do anything to actually help this team, LIKE FIRE MIKE WOODSON! WHAT HAPPEN TO JJ

I wonder where is Diesel to defend Harrington

freaking Harington

Quote: i dont know that woodie has no potential. this is his first gig, and he's driving a car with major wheels missing. he's made some rookie mistakes, but this is a good situation to learn in. only improves our draft position if he blows a game. same with the refs. if they are extra hard on us now, it will only help us in the long run. anyone who is concerned about the won-loss this year is a masochist. focus on something else this year, guys (and girls). ball movement, player momement, a new strategy to play the pick and roll, defensive rotations, ivey maybe getting more time, anything. the won-loss is a goner this year. hawks are for the most part playing competitive basketball. when we fill in the missing parts, and woodson gains experience, we may change our impressions of him. So you are saying that he has potential on getting us the most losses and good lottery picks and helping us in the long run then y not giving Marvin, Salim, Ivey or maybe even Batista more minutes if he is helping us long term. He made rookie mistakes he is not a rookie anymore.

He does look little older though

Zaza has not been playing well lately but i think he is banged up a little and allstar break will help him a lot and of course all of our guys have potential except Woodson

Quote: Quote: Quote: I was thinking about it while they were playing.. I only have one real answer. Being that this is the first night of a back to back, maybe Woody plans to use Smith more against Chicago and use Chillz less. Truth be known, i think Woody was trying to match Phoenix's speed. I think we did a good job considering. And What I mean is I don't think Matrix broke 20 points. I know Boris had a quiet 25 but Nash and Boris were the only one right. I don't think we had any problem from their frontcourt. I suspect that tommorow night, we will play Chicago with our frontcourt taking C stage. Zaza might get more touches because Chicago's frontcourt can't stop us. once again i hate to come across as a sourpuss but i find it laughable that you are giving Woodson credit for 'strategy.' This is so funny wat is Josh Smith an Old Man he cant play back to back games? This is a poor excuse I dont give this woodson any credit at all! DAMN MAN YOU REALLY ARE OBSESSED WITH J-SMOOVE

Diesel man why are you defending Harrington so much. The guy is our 1 or 2 option for almost 2 seasons now and he never did anything in the crunch time even if he is having a bad shooting night or good he just collapses in the final minutes. Maybe he gets tired

I think Woodson should of give more time to MArvin and Josh when AL was strugling

Quote: When everyone in an internet chatroom agrees on things in a game, you know it is a bad situation. Last night was one of those times when everyong in their living rooms could easily have coached the game better. A few things that irk me about Woody: 1. Ivey/Lue - No doubt we need Lue's offense, and no doubt I feel Lue deserves minutes for this team as it is built right now, BUT yanking Royal Ivey when he is out there playing stellar D, getting boards, blocking shots (!), and shooting well is just unfathomable. Last night Ivey was looking like Mookie Blaylock out there, doing everything and not making mental errors...and he comes out after 4 minutes in each half. It was obvious Royal was giving them fits, and Woody stuck with his guns and pulled him. 2. Josh Smith - When he's hot, he sits him for entire halves. When he's awful (like last night) he gets minutes. WTF? This whole situation is proof that Mike Woodson is not all together with it. 3. The timeouts. Lenny Wilkens had a way of weathering the storm on some runs and not panicking with the timeouts. He felt the way the game was going and used them wisely. Woodson waits until an entire lead evaporates before calling timeouts. Hell, I have seen subs sit at the scorers table waiting to go in and Woody lets time tick away without calling a TO to get the player in the game. Just not smart coaching. Also last night, and I know this won't be a popular opinion, When Zydrunas got #5 and had to sit, Woody pulled Zaza...why? Zaza could have freely banged inside, rebounded, and gotten to the line (and made the FTs). Instead Woody went small and the torching began. I am losing faith in Woody as well. A new direction might be a good way to go IMO. WELL SAID

Quote: If we get him I will call him wookie blaylock BTW, anyone notice that we're ahead of Charlotte now? A lot of us have been taking the top pick for granted, but if our past luck has taught us anything, it should be that we should expect the #3 or #4 pick Exatcly, i dont see us getting that #1 pick

Just trade the damn guy

Greg Oden guys?

Would Sacramento want Al. Maybe, we can get Duhon and NY first round pick from bulls and Al goes to Sac and Peja to Bulls in a three team trade.I dont think Peja will want to return to the Kings and thay will become deperate to trade him before they fall out of playoffs even more. And in the draft we get like 2nd and 5th pick and duhon (can start until our rookie pg gets better whoever it is) You guys think that's possible?

But Portland has a lot of SF like AL, I dont know why would they take him and his contract expires