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Um, Joe should never pass the ball to a wide open Josh in the corner unless he's double teamed and the shot clock is about to run out. Also Josh should NEVER hang out in the corner like that. That's two straight games Josh has hung out in the corner with the game on the line. SMH! If Josh's BBIQ was higher he would understand that if he rotated to the basket he would open a lane for Joe (if by some miracle Joe passes the ball) to receive a pass for an easy basket.

Joe decides to throw up a shot over three Bucks instead of passing the ball to a wide open Horford under basket. It's like he rather shoot the ball over three defenders than pass the ball to an open teammate. Joe has to be the most selfish player in the 4th quarter. The real elite players in the leauge understand drawing defenders than passing to an open teammate.

Who does Acie play for now?

The Hawks lost because they stopped giving Horford the ball in post. He made his last 4 or 5 shots in the post, yet his teammates failed at getting him the ball. Jamal Crawford was to impatient in trying to deliver the ball to Horford in the post.

Why in the world did Zaza even play in the game today. Zaza was garbage in the first half, yet Woody went right back to him in the second half and Zaza continued to stink it up. Not surprisingly the Warriors made their run in the 4th quarter with Zaza in the game. It makes no since that Joe Smith didn't get a chance to play.

What a dumb dumb thread.

Not after the stinker Joe put up in the 4th quarter. Apparently Joe is allergic to passing the ball once it become the 4th quarter. I mean, the thunder had no one that could stop Horford in the post, yet it comes down to Joe throwing up garbage shots.

Joe has definitely been back on his bs during the game today.

It seems like when the hawks get to the 4th quarter all Joe wants to do is go one on one and put up some pansy-*ss shot. No one comes to hawks games to see Joe!!

Via Hawks P.R.Arthur Triche's twitter page Othello Hunter was released today. Now maybe the Hawks will go out and get a veteran backup pg.

Why the Hawks’ protest will tell us much about the NBA 4:05 pm January 4, 2010, by Mark Bradley Were it just one game, the Hawks wouldn’t have been quite so irate. (Still mad, but less so.) But what happened in Cleveland on Wednesday must be viewed with an eye toward what happened on Dec. 19, 2007. History lesson: The Hawks’ stat crew miscounted and ruled Shaquille O’Neal had fouled out when he hadn’t. The Miami Heat protested. The NBA ruled the final 51.9 seconds of that game had to be replayed. And, for good measure, David Stern fined the Hawks $50,000 for “gross negligence.” By the time the replay arrived on March 8, 2008, the man in question was no longer on Miami’s roster, Shaq having been dealt to the Suns at the trade deadline. And the Hawks wound up winning anyway. Still, it was a massive embarrassment for an organization that has known a good measure of embarrassment. And now the Hawks await their day in court, pun only partially intended. They have a strong case. A Cleveland timekeeper failed to reset his 24-second clock after Al Horford gained a defensive rebound. (According to the Hawks, the timekeeper told Mike Woodson he pushed the button twice and nothing happened.) The Hawks led by a point inside the final two minutes. They wound up having roughly 13 seconds to shoot. They never got that shot. When Woodson saw the clock running down prematurely, he called out the code word that means, “Get the ball to Joe Johnson!” But there wasn’t time even for that. The truncated-by-half possession ended with Josh Smith fumbling a pass and LeBron James gathering up the ball and triggering a sequence that wound up with the Cavs taking the lead on Anderson Varejao’s follow. The Hawks would never nose back ahead. Yes, we can fault them for blowing a 17-point lead, but what happened before shouldn’t affect the NBA’s verdict. The bottom line is that the Hawks were undone at a vital juncture not by a bad play or a ref’s bad call but by a systemic malfunction — the failure of the clock to be reset — that should have been corrected on the spot. But Ken Mauer, the lead official, told Woodson he didn’t know what the coach was talking a bout. (This again according to the Hawks.) Indeed, there were three timing errors on the sequence: First, the 24-second clock didn’t recycle; next, the refs didn’t notice that the Hawks , owing to the non-reset, had committed an apparent backcourt violation after Horford’s rebound — NBA rules hold that a team must cross halfcourt in eight seconds, and the shot clock was below 10 when they did — and finally, that the erroneous shot clock had actually expired before LeBron took possession, which should have resulted in a stoppage of play. Why did the refs not notice anything amiss? Why did the timekeeper not use his horn to stop play and correct his mistake? (When Chris Ballard of ESPN.com sought to ask Mauer’s interpretation, he was handed a brusque “no comment.”) And now, if the NBA chooses to let the outcome stand, we’ll be forced to ask an even more pointed question. Namely, does the league — as is widely believed — play favorites? Say the teams had been reversed and LeBron’s side had been harmed by the lack of a reset: Would Mauer and crew have seen it differently? And will David Stern? The Hawks have long believed Miami’s starpower — Shaq and Dwyane Wade and Pat Riley — swayed the issue back when, but here’s where the NBA gets the chance to prove it didn’t. Here’s where Stern gets to say, “We treat all our franchises equally.” If the Heat deserved a replay two years ago — and it did — then the Hawks-Cavs ending warrants one now. And if none is forthcoming, then won’t that tell us all we need to know about the NBA and its way of doing business?

The Hawks never run any plays for Marvin. What in the world are you talking about. Crawful couldn't hit anything in the 4th and him plus Bibby can't guard anyone (that why the hawks lost). It's ridiculous trying to somehow blame Marvin for this lost!

Personally I would definitely rate the Hawks higher than 14. However, this is on point about Joe's overdribbling and Woody's blank stairs.

NBA Teams "Watchabilty Scale 14. Atlanta Hawks I used to hate watching these guys, because they were (and often still are) squandering so much talent by running an isolation-heavy offense that always ended in Joe Johnson dribbling and shooting a bad shot. But they do play very aggressive defense that leads to transition opportunities, and it's been fun to watch Josh Smith grow from being a headcase that didn't know his strengths to one of the toughest one-on-one covers in the league. The only things holding them back are Johnson's overdribbling and Mike Woodson's stone face (seriously, every time the camera cuts to him, he's staring into space. I guess in-game coaching is overrated). (This also gives me a chance to go on a quick tangent. With all the amazing advanced stats we have these days, how has nobody created a "dribbles per possession" stat? I need to know which players kill ball movement the most. My projected top five: Tony Parker, Joe Johnson, Allen Iverson, Corey Maggette, Earl Boykins. I have my reasons).

This team is not schizophrenic! However the hawks do have a split personality disorder.

This is just nasty! Gotta love that its Varejao that got dunked on.

Its funny how Joe plays more minutes when he's off (first half) compared to the lakers game when he was on fire.

As a part of his rookie initiation Jeff Teague wore the following costume for Halloween.... Now who said twitter was good for nothing!

Williams expected to sign deal soon By Sekou Smith The Atlanta Journal-Constitution 3:15 p.m. Thursday, August 6, 2009 Hawks forward Marvin Williams assumed the paparazzi was just for Hollywood types. That is until the NBA version found its way to his doorstep this summer. There were at least two premature reports about the restricted free agent forward agreeing to and signing a new deal with the Hawks. "It was crazy to look on the Internet and see stuff about me signing with the Hawks or that I was staying with the Hawks," Williams said Thursday. "Yet there was never anyone quoted. It was always some anonymous person saying it was done or saying it was going to happen. "The truth of the matter is, I still haven't signed, yet." That's a technicality Williams expects to take care of this afternoon now that he's agreed to a five-year, $37.5 million contract with the Hawks, a deal that with incentives could be worth as much as $43 million. The official announcement is expected early next week. There are no plans for a re-introduction ceremony like the one teammates and fellow free agents Mike Bibby and Zaza Pachulia attended last month, when they signed their new contracts. But Williams said he couldn't be happier to be free of the summer's free agent frenzy. "I knew from past years with Josh [smith] and Josh [Childress] that this process could take some time," Williams said. "But I was patient. I tried to be patient. And thankfully, things worked out." Williams said the sides were never as far apart as reported and that talks actually "got better" as the summer went on. As a restricted free agent, Williams could have accepted the Hawks' qualifying offer of $7.5 million and become an unrestricted free agent in July 2010. Williams, selected by the Hawks with the No. 2 overall pick in the 2005 NBA draft, said he just never could envision playing somewhere else. Not with seven of the top eight players returning from a team that won 47 games, finished fourth in the Eastern Conference and advanced to the second round of the playoffs for the first time in a decade. Williams averaged 13.9 points and 6.3 rebounds, but missed the last month and a half of the regular season with a back injury. He did return for the playoffs. "We've all grown together," Williams said. "The one thing you hardly ever see in professional sports is that loyalty and teams staying together. When you do see it, like in San Antonio or Detroit when they kept their core guys together, you see championships. "I think that's everybody's goal here. We've all started off together young in this league and if we get a chance to grow old together, I think we can do some pretty special things."

I'm looking forward to season 4! The previous 3 seasons all were very solid; no drop off at all (even though the 2nd season was the best season so far IMO). On a side note, that baby looks mighty creepy in the trailer, a little chucky creepy.

Co-sign! But seriously, Diesel needs some type of psychiatric help so that he can get over his obsession with Marvin Gaye Williams. Its become quite pathetic and disturbing. There needs to be some type of message board intervention for him because he is addicted to "Marvin" like some people are addicted to cocaine. (And you know what "Rick James" said about cocaine.)

Sekou Smith just posted on his Twitter page that Childress is going back to Greece next season. Sekou's Twitter

And the award for the dumbest post of the year goes to..................

Nothing is going to happen with Marvin until after the draft. The NBA hasn't changed; restricted and unrestricted free agents are not signed or traded until after the draft.

Yeah the officiating hasn't been this bad since....... Apparently, David Stern sent out a memo that Howard must receive a foul whenever he comes close to touching LeBron.