FrankWhite

He's looking like he was early on this season before the DNPs (coach's decision) killed his confidence. He's still raw, but he pushes the tempo and is a ballhawk on defense.

We need to have that Bibby-Jamal-JJ lineup in during crunchtime, because if there's one thing you want in the waning moments of a game, it's atrocious perimeter defense.

Bibby has been pretty terrible for awhile now and still for some reason we are not giving Teague significant minutes at all. A young player needs minutes to develop and not just against the other team's scrubs in garbage time. Teague has had long stretches where he's looked useless, but he's also had stretches where he was one of the more dynamic players on the floor. A coach needs to let a young player know when he screws up, but he also needs to help build the player's confidence and reward him when he plays well, which Woody does not do (see: DNP coach's decision after Teague played very well against the Lakers early this season). This is the Larry Brown philosophy, always go with a vet over a lowly rook, even when the vet is on one wheel and can't even do the one thing he was brought in for, hit open shots. If we at least managed to get a decent journeyman vet at backup PG, this would make sense, but we didn't and it doesn't. Seriously, how do you reconcile Bibby going 1-8 from the field with a 1:1 a/to ratio and Teague getting 0 minutes? It's not like Crawford was picking up the slack.

The point is those are the only kinds of trades we could make. We're not going to net a significant piece with what we have to offer. Yeah, we could trade Josh or Joe and get someone, but no one wants to do that. That's the type of thinking that gets Dominique Wilkins traded for a 3 month rental of Danny Manning.

g Well, yes, we could throw away Jeff Teague midway through his rookie season to get a player who's marginally better than Mo Evans. Making a trade for the sake of making a trade doesn't really get us deeper in the playoffs.

Are you serious? Steve Nash is still one of the best players in the league. He's a great playmaker AND he's a better scoring PG than Bibby right now. Defense is moot. There's no way we could get him, but this team would be a legit title contender with him in place of Bibby. And I'm not even trying to knock Bibby here. Nash is a first ballot HOFer. Bibby is a guy with a very good career.

The Spurs, not the Lakers, are, imo, the gold standard for the NBA. They are always one of the best teams in the league, regardless of record (and their record in the last 11-12 years has never been "bad"). I'm guessing who said that was Hotlanta.

Link?

This is just stupid.

I'd say he did.

For curiosity's sake, has Diesel ever proposed a trade that doesn't involve Marvin Williams?

Well, JVG also dismissed his own brother's team there, too.

Sorry, but this trade does not work. There were BYC players involved in this trade, so this trade is subject to the BYC provisions of the CBA. Due to Philadelphia and Atlanta being over the cap, the 25% trade rule is invoked. Philadelphia and Atlanta had to be no more than 125% plus $100,000 of the salary given out for the trade to be accepted, which did not happen here (only Philadelphia met the condition). This trade does not satisfy the provisions of the Collective Bargaining Agreement.

Christian Laettner was by no means a bust, and I say this as a Tar Heel who has no love for him and had qualms rooting for him as a Hawk. In his prime, he was an automatic 16-18 ppg, 8 rpg guy. He made the All Star team. So are we arguing about out and out busts (guys who never did anything in the league) or guys who just didn't measure up to predraft expectations? The definite correlation for Marvin right now is Joe Smith, solid player, never lived up to his draft status. But I think it's weird for a Hawks fan to put forth Laettner as a bust. He's one of a handful of Hawks to actually make an All Star team over the last 15 years.

What?

Oh. I didn't realize this is in reference to fantasy bball.

The amount of calls a player gets directly correlates to the size of a player's shoe contract, per NBA rule. They should call it the Nike Basketball Association.

Uh, Dwight Howard should be #2.

We played more than well enough defensively to beat the Thunder last night, but if you don't finish the defense by getting the board, it's pointless. Now you'd think Woody would've emphasized this in practice today, but then the Clips come out and dominate the boards. It's nice to get the win, but come on, you can't beat good teams with constant breakdowns in simple fundamentals like boxing out.

Sweet blog.

We get embarrassed every effing time against this team. WTF?

I agree that if Bibby is not hitting the outside shot, he's pretty much worthless to this team right now, but I do wonder how much of this dropoff is due to the ankle injury he suffered early on. It's clear that Woody has no faith in throwing Teague to the wolves now, so is Bibby soldiering on injured because he has no real choice? I'm not making excuses for the guy, I'm just wondering.

Of all the Celtics, I do actually like Rondo. He's the epitome of the blue collar point guard. His game is almost all effort. Having said that, he really sucked tonight. I must say, though, you have to worry if you're Boston in crunchtime when your point guard is a sub 60% foul shooter.

I really wonder how much crap Crawford must've had to swallow from these guys two years ago when he was in NY. He seems like he has a personal vendetta against the Celts. I love it!

Yeah, I think most fans, not just Hawks fans, have been annoyed by the arrogance of this particular team, which was slapped together with a probably league influenced assist by Kevin McHale a couple of years ago. Prior to that, none of these guys were "winners" in this league, and yet they immediately acted like they were God's gift to basketball. Also Boston has the most annoying bandwagon fans. In 06-07, they were chanting "MVP!" for KOBE BRYANT! at a game in Boston. The NEXT year they were all die hard Celtics fans, outraged that Bibby called them bandwagon fans. So, yeah, sweeping them feels good. They don't have to give us credit as far as I'm concerned. We're better than them.