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All hopes and dreams of a championship, should have stopped when we hired Drew. We have not had a proven coach since Lenny Frickin Wilkins!

Only a FOOL would trade Al right now; this dude couldn't make a post move without traveling his rookie year. Look how much his game has improved since then. If his game grows just as much as he has the past two years he will be unguardable in two more years. Losing Al would be a big mistake, especially since there are really no centers out there.

Exactly, this is why we won't compete for the east, we simply don't have a deep enough team. No way we can compete with the backup 3-4-5 we have. This team is the all time leader in mediocrity.

This s*** is sad, we haven't had a proven f***in coach since Lenny Wilkins; and they won't spend money on a bench either. If I live to be a very old man; I don't think I will ever see this franchise win it all.

In two years Al will be unguardable and will command double teams, why would you get rid of a player like that. Plus, he is a very good defender, no way I would trade Al Horford. But, if this franchise wanted to; I guarantee the list of teams wanting Al would be long.

If this team doesn't go out and get a proven coach, it will just be another mistake in a long line of mistakes. This team has under performed for over a decade; we need a real coach, not someone learning as they go.

Great day! I won't have to see that brand of ball anymore in ATL, just hire JVG and let's get on with it.

Doesn't matter, Marvin and Mo give us nothing. Smoove at the three would at least help us rebound and would be good for weak side blocks on Howard.

I suggested after game 2 this starting lineup..... C- ZZ PF Al SF-Smoove SG - Craw PG -Joe I still believe this lineup is the only way we compete against the Magic. Smoove and Al offer real help for ZZ and I think their length closing out on 3 pt shooters disrupts shots or chases them off of the 3 pt line. I rather give up 2s than 3s. Al is mobile enough to closeout on Lewis and would punish him in the post. Since we have not shot well, this lineup would also help us rebound.

I am so sick of hearing about Woodson; he should have been fired years ago. We would be so much further along with a proven vet coach by now it is sickening. It is a given the Woody can't coach and will be fired at the end of this season; nothing left for discussion.

I mentioned JVG half way through this season and was laughed at; but I would take JVG right now if we could get him.

Total bullsh*t. Smoove is a 6'9 PF with 167 blocks and 128 frickin steals! If gettin over 100 in both of those categories was easy, somebody else would do it. Plus, Smoove has more defensive rebounds. lol I guarantee you this: if the media hadn't decide to go ape s*** over Lebron's chase down blocks this year (something Smoove mastered as a rookie), he would be no where near 1st team D. And, oh yeah, he was runner up in DPOY voting. Total bullsh*t.

It depends, if we want to make Barnes beat us, then put Bibby on him. He can shoot over the top of Bibby and will probably get a few O rebounds. If we can live with that I say do it. Does Barnes posting Bibby without help scare you. We cannot afford to help Bibby in the post against Barnes. I am tempted to say lets just play straight up and see what happens in the first game. That is, Bibby/Nelson JJ/Carter Marvin/Barnes Smoove/Lewis and Al/Howard. Fight through screens, minimal switching.

That may be true...but I rewatched two games earlier....we are being pushed damn near to the three point line on our post ups. By smaller players at that. This screws up the spacing, Josh got pretty deep position twice last game and they doubled, leaving Joe wide open for three, he made one and missed one. We have to get deeper postion, that means we have to run the floor and do work early in the clock to establish position. We have to be stonger on the block. They can't defend us when we are deep on the block and they know it.

This is a positive thread....meaning, if we can get lower in the box in game seven, we actually have a chance of winning. I guess you want more threads like: Greatest team ever! Joe Johnson for Mayor! Let's go Hawks! Yeah, let's not actually talk about basketball here.

They are not fighting hard enough before the post catch. Sometimes they are catching the ball way out on the floor; this is killing the spacing and either turning their post into a faceup Iso or them taking too long to back down their guy. We fix this and the game becomes easy for us. Let's get to work fellas!

This is the bullsh*t that pisses me off. That bastard let those guys play that way all year, now that it doesn't work so well in the playoffs (no s*** Woody) he now wants ball movement. If you would have made this team move the ball all year in the 4th qtrs, it wouldn't be so hard to do now. Please let this dude get fired.

My point exactly, if they can't run with us going small, then they are better off to go big and at least try to contain our halfcourt post ups.I mean, what other choice do they have, except shooting lights out from three.

I don't understand why Skiles just doesn't put Gadzuric on Al and Kurt Thomas on Smoove. Thomas has a better chance of frustrating Smoove than he does Al.Gadzurics length is th only chance they have against Al.But hey...let's hope Skiles doesn't figure it out any time soon.Post Al and Smoove all night long!

Actually, we are getting a lot of help from the cats....they are showing us how to attack the Magic. That is....to attack the paint with reckless abandon, driving, rebounding and being aggressive in the paint. Besides Dwight and maybe Matt Barnes, the Magic is not a very aggressive, tough team. We would have to turn up our aggressiveness to beat them. Teague and Mo could help, because both can get in the lane and get in the chest of Dwight and if they got a few offensive fouls it woudn't hurt us.

Yep, stick to the post with Al and Smoove to start the 3rd and we don't let them back into the game.

This team just does not have enough quality bigs to get to the finals.

No way we could beat Cleveland with the bigs we have, we need another prime career big coming off our bench.

I think the difference is; Joe takes tto damn much time in his Isos. When Craw goes one/one it is usually a quick move or jumpshot. Joe pounds and pounds to the clock is down and we are sometimes left with bad shots or turnovers.

Here is what Mo had to say about that so called pride: “Don’t act like you’ve got all this pride when you are (7-60), you know what I’m saying?” Evans said. “If y’all have got a no-layup rule, then you wouldn’t be in this predicament. You’ve been getting disrespected all year. “To his credit, [Williams] came up and apologized.”