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Drew doesn't even need to do that. All he needs to do is show Josh the segment on TNT when Barkley put on a crash test dummy helmet to describe Smith and his love for taking long jumpshots. However, that still probably won't get through to Smith. He seems to think that he's smarter than everybody else, and everybody else is wrong. He has this silly notion of not wanting to be known as "just a dunker."

When the heck was Kenny Smith on the Hawks??? :scratchhead:

LOL. That was pretty good one. ---- "We improved in wins every year." --- I got so sick of hearing that garbage. Mike Woodson was not a coach for the playoffs. He just isn't smart enough.

Yeah, I've been pretty hard on Joe. He balled tonight. I wish he played like this on a more consistent basis.

LOL. I was a little slow to get it, but once it hit me, I couldn't stop laughing for a couple of minutes

LOL. Since when is Josh Smith a post player??? He thinks he's a 3-point assassin. Deng will have the easiest defensive assignment of his life. Unless something happens to make Josh Smith angry, all he is gonna do is stand around at the 3-point line hoping that somebody passes him the ball so he can prove to the world that he's one of the best shooters in the league.

You forgot to mention that Marvin would probably get the ball stripped from him several times too.

????? :scratchhead:

There is no longer any justification for Larry Drew to not give Teague consistent minutes. If it were up to Woodson and Larry Drew, Rajon Rondo would still be riding the bench if he played here and we'd all be wondering if Rondo belonged in the league. These guys are confidence killers for young players. They let veterans screw up left and right and give the young players the quick hook or a DNP-CD for making a couple of mistakes. I can't stand our coaching staff any more. You don't develop young talent by not letting them play and crushing their confidence.

Unfortunately, that just might be the best thing that the Hawks could do to get out of this mess that they're currently in. Unless Dwight Howard desperately wants to come back to Atlanta and play, I see no hope for this team. Its most talented player, Josh Smith, is a delusional fool, and its highest paid player doesn't have the guts/intelligence/attitude/drive to do what it takes to win. I have completely given up on the Hawks. I've never seen a team that refuses to stick with what works. They'd rather lose doing what they want instead of winning by doing what they might not necessarily want to do.

I know. They have GOT to be brothers, but just don't know it. They need to have a DNA test done.

Signing Joe to that contract was a very, very bad decision.

As I looked at Josh Smith's shot tonight, it appears to me that he has changed his shooting motion slightly. It seems like he used to pull the ball way back behind his head and then launch it like a catapult. Now, it seems as if he's not cocking the ball back as far, and this has seemed to help his stroke this season. Has he changed his shooting motion, or am I just imagining things?

I disagree!!!! The Bobcats OWN us. It seems like we NEVER beat the Bobcats. I think I've been to 4 games where the Hawks played the Bobcats, and the Bobcats won every time. I'm SICK of losing to the Bobcats!!

Ugh....... That song was AWFUL!!!!!!!!!!!

Joe singled himself out when he made those stupid remarks about not caring one way or the other if the fans show up. The team was getting booed for a terrible performance. Joe should have either acknowledged that the team deserved to be booed or he should have just kept his mouth shut.

OMG. If this happens, I'm going to cry. Chris Paul will haunt us for years to come. That's the only thing that would make drafting Marvin Williams even worse than it already is.

I guess it's better to have Joe Johnson than to lose him for nothing. However, he's not worth a max contract. Joe Johnson isn't a player that's going to get you over the hump, and he's not a player that's going to bring fans to the game. If Johnson is signed to a max contract, I have a feeling that the Hawks will end up regretting it.

+1 :smile:

I'd have to choose option #2. I remember Woody saying something about how his staff wanted him to play his bench more and how he decided to do what he wanted instead.

I've got a feeling that Sund is absolutely going to botch this coaching hire. If Dwayne Casey is selected as the coach, I'll go into months of deep depression.

The last person I want to see hired is Casey. From everything I've read, it seems as if he's another Mike Woodson. It sounds as if he just focuses on defense and doesn't focus too much on the offensive end. I absolutely do not want another coach that is not a good offensive coach. I want a coach that cares about both aspects of the game. I want him to be very good on offense and at least decent with defense.

Mike Brown, Jeff Van Gundy and Doug Collins.

I don't want Jeff Van Gundy anywhere near this team. He thinks that Woodson did a good job and said that the Hawks just maxed out with their talent. If he's not smart enough to realize that Woodson maxed out as a coach and that he didn't get the max from this team, then he's not smart enough to be the head coach of this team.

Well, it appears that our prayers have been answered!!!!! :thumbsupsmileyanim: