FrankWhite

The 2-3 steps, then bunny hop not being called a travel is the most amusing thing to me.

See the d*ck Bavetta thread from yesterday.

When one team has a big lead, every call starts magically going the other team's way. Add in the LeBron factor and it's doubled.

Scott Skiles is a nazi. I hate that racist f#&@.

WTF?

Skiles made Woody, the most stubborn coach maybe in the history of the NBA, make adjustments. He coached a hardworking team that was outmanned to push a more talented team with a tendency for brain lapses to 7 games.

If the Bucks bring back Salmons with a healthy Bogut and Jennings progressing, they'll be a force to be reckoned with next year and beyond.

What are we even talking about here? Saying that only Zaza and Morris showed up for Jamal's presentation was a "snitch move"? Who exactly is going to prison over this? What "cred" is being lost over this? Did the rest of the Hawks say "Hey man, don't tell anyone about this, but I'ma skip Jamal's 6th man of year presentation"?

Donaghy said Bavetta intentionally calls fouls on the team with a big lead in order to keep games close. He thinks that's his role. I believe Donaghy over Stern.

They need to at least give Orlando a series. If they get swept or beat in 5, bye bye, Woody.

hey thats your opinion, i see it different. Im not afraid to say I believe in God and I think he was there with us tonight. Not arguing with what you think you are entiled to what ever you want to say but if I think praying is the reason we won and I do. Im going to reach out to others to pray along with me.............besides NOTICE I said dont stop praying, keeping faith or WHATEVER YOU DO TO SUPPORT THE HAWKS. If you are one that dont pray thats your buisness Im just asking for you to SUPPORT in what ever way YOU DO and keep doing it cause alot of us are acting like its over but its not we have one game left just cause we are at home means nothing we still have to support by all means.

Okay, moving on...

I by no means think game 7 is in the bag. These are the Hawks.

I agree with everything said in this thread about Thomas. I also wish we had tried to get him when we could.

I'm sorry to be the messenger here but smoove acts childish.

The difference between lebron and smoove is literally betwwen the ears.

Are you really suggesting that LeBron doesn't act like a child? Storming off the court when his team loses and dancing like a jackass when they're up doesn't count, I guess.

Marvin Williams was 7-9 midway through the 3rd and only gets one more shot the rest of the game? Is he the only unselfish person on that team?

John Hollinger

(12:16 PM)

It gets better -- Luke Ridnour guarded him for a long stretch of the fourth quarter. The Hawks basically made a couple half-hearted efforts to get him the rock and then went back to having the guards jack more jumpers.

This is the most damning thing about last night.

Think they'd swap Carmelo for Joe then?

Get a real coach. Woodson has shown consistently for 5 years now that he is incapable of making adjustments. Skiles has embarrassed him.

The game is all about mismatches. Skiles has exploited our bs switching defense to get the mismatch he wants time and time and time again and Woodson refuses to adjust. On the other side of the floor, the Hawks have HUGE mismatches up front and we refuse to exploit them in the 4th quarter.

Newsflash, Woody: Salmons on Joe is not a mismatch. Ilyasova on Al or Ridnour on Marv IS.

Your a moron if you think they are more talented. This a a bunch of players assembled, its not a team. Its a disgrace.

They're much better coached and mentally tougher for sure.

They're mental weaklings. The next time a Hawk steps up on the road in a big game will be the first time in the Mike Woodson era.

This team sucks.

I give up on Marvin.

Yep. I think the Hawks are the only team in the league that looks like the most exciting team in the NBA one half and the most boring team the next. They're so bi-polar.

So the FRANCHISE is destined to never get out of the second round? That's just retarded.

This garbage is getting as tired as Marvin bashing.

Mario would foul out in 5 minutes.

Yeah... and Hakeem's teams won two titles in 1994 & 1995. I guess they didn't make a mistake passing over Michael Jordan.

Actually, they didn't. Hakeem's a top 5 center all time. The Bulls would've taken him over Jordan at the time, too.

It's been 5 years now. Get over it.

I think he has a good shot at making the 2nd team and is virtually a lock for 3rd team.

The Cavs hit 21 more free throws than the Bucks, and I'm sorry, but they earned those 45 attempts. And the Bucks earned those nine free throw attempts. Spun away from context, sure, it appears as if the Bucks got a raw deal. But that isn't the case. The Cavaliers drive and get hit. The Bucks work the drive and kick game. Not the drive and get-slapped game.

That should be "the Cavs drive with their heads down and initiate all contact with zero intention of actually making baskets."

The Cavs get to play by a different set of rules. This isn't news anymore.