BHayley

We will likely lose to Detroit Tuesday, and Wednesday we have to play Charlotte, who wants to beat us after a few close games we played them earlier in the year.

I don't care that Yao is 7"5. We need Horford and Smoove to smother him every time he gets the ball and hope T-Mac still has the flu.

Woodson needs to let Law and Mario and Lorenzen play tonight if we are going to win. Of course, we know that Marvin, Smoove, JJ, and Horford, will all play 37+ minutes.

I expect northcyde to reply, saying something like "LOL. Ish, we don't have to worry about beating teams that are better than us. We don't NEED to win games, but winning is nice."

OK, wtf.

Ilgauskas is out in the 4th, LeBron DID NOT LOOK TO SHOOT THE BALL ONCE, and we KEEP ON DOUBLE TEAMING HIM WITH LUE. WTF?

OK.

1) Lue is 6"0. LeBron is 6"8. Is Lue jumping up and down really going to do anything?

2) This resulted in 20 3's by the pathetic Damon Jones. Did this mohawk clown really just beat our team?

3) Our starters are gonna die tomorrow from logging so many minutes

4) So MANY BONE HEADED turnovers at the end

5) 5 or 6 costly missed FT's by Childress and Smoove

A game we COULD HAVE and SHOULD have won.

I'm fine with splitting the Laker game and this.

Hopefully a win tomorrow

Golden State lost last night to a Chicago team missing its 3 best players, so I am very worried tonight.

I am, however, attending this game (in a 5th row seat), and the Hawks play well when i go, so I expect a close or semi-close victory and some jerseys coming into the stands afterwards

You may find this funny, but watch old MJ clips and watch how high he jumps and his follow-through and then look at Marvin. Both jump about 8 feet off the ground and have beautiful releases.

That being said, we need to trade Marvin.

This trade never existed.

It was just a hallucination of one of our "insiders." Biedrins is a great rebounder though. I'd love to have him next to Horford and Smoove

Anyone know? They work across the street at TNT, and Barkley just said "My Hawks are going to the playoffs."

Never heard him talk before. Coming to think of it, does he do a lot of post-game interviews right after we win?

LOL.

Josh Smith really doesn't speak English well.

The Problem

1) Our core 6 or 7 guys are playing WAY TOO MANY MINUTES.

The Rookie of the Year (Al Horford), has been playing like 35 minutes a game lately. Normally, at this time of year, his season is winding down and he's getting ready for the tourney. However, I have serious anxiety about him playing these types of minutes for the next 2 months.

Guys like Childress and Joe could get hurt any given time because we depend on them so much.

2) We don't have any good backups to help out Smoove and Horford. ZaZa gets worse and worse, Lorenzen is only used against Ilgauskas, Shelden is Shelden, and Solomon is too weak.

The Solution

Trade for a Petro or Aaron Williams who can log some minutes and get this burden off our guys' backs, especially Horford. Maybe try get a trade with Portland somehow.

Winning is nice, but you gotta think about our guys' health in less than 2 months

Lue hogs the ball and hits shots.

He wasn't different than ever before. If you play him good minutes, he will score 16 or so, but he doesn't play defense and hardly stay healthy, so he doesn't get minutes

AJ had 8 assists last night.

We needed that veteran duo last night against Derek Fisher.

Using Lue on Fisher and in the end was a great coaching move.

If anything, Marvin should be getting less minutes, as Childress is a beast lately.

In his post-game interview.

http://www.nba.com/hawks/news/PostGame_PressConf.html

Kinda what Ben Wallace said--needs a 7 footer next to him.

If we could somehow get a a legit 7 foot banger next to Horford, that would be golden. I wish Smoove could develop a jumpshot so we could trade Marvin and put Smoove at SF

Weren't the Mavs hungry last year when the Warriors beat them?

Quit worrying about seedings--if our core guys play together and we can trade for a shooter, our team can play with anyone.

Everybody here knows that.

That being said, I'd rather play Boston

I agree. I noticed that too.

Joe johnson: Clutch

Derek Fisher...??? A missed FT??!??!

These are the two most useless guys on our team. We still have Solo and Lorenzen. Why not go after Kapono (Toronto already has 35 killer 3pt shooters) or someone?

Consequences of waiting a year for a game and beating the supposed title contenders.

Dallas, PHX, Denver, LAL.

We do it all baby

HE JUST COMPLETELY OUTPERFORMED THE BEST PLAYER IN THE LEAGUE IN EVERY WAY POSSIBLE (BESIDES ASSISTS).

GREAT GAME BY EVERYONE BESIDES MARVIN.

T LUE YOU ARE THE F'ING MAN. I AM SO GLAD THE WAY YOU'RE PLAYING

SMOOVE YOU ARE AN F'ING BEAST. GOD BLESS YOU

HORFORD YOU ARE NO F'ING ROOKIE

CHILDRESS YOU ROCK

HELL YES. I WAITED 12 MONTHS SINCE THE LAST TIME WE PLAYED THEM FOR THIS.

GO HAWKS

THERE IS A GOD!

HAHAHAHAHAHAAH

YES

LETS HIT THOSE 2 FTS

GO HAWKLS

NO THREES

DO NOT LET THEM SHOOT A 3

NO F'ING THREES

F*ck these officials. Smoove wasn't even going for the ball.

We play our best game of the year, and the officials want the bigshots to win?

LETS PULL THIS OUT BABY. I CAN FEEL IT

Great foul by Horford. If he lets Odom drop completely, that's a flagrant.

If we lose, its because of Marvin and too much double teaming (LEADING to 3's)

EVERY other player on our tea,m who has played good minutes has played GREAT.

MARVIN DRIVE THE BALL

The Lakers are giving the game to us.

Why won't we capitalize?

No more double teams.

No one on their team is killing us one-on-one, so let's hope Kobe stays cold, and play man the rest of the way.

Jesus.