QuantumHawkz

No worries. It's a new offensive system... I'm pretty sure the coaching staff expected this rough start.

I'm sorry, but I gotta sick with Hunter and Reddish.

No, give me JC with the 3 pt shot!

Run it back!!!!!! I want to see this team healthy. I truly believe Hunter not playing and Trae getting injured was the difference. I also would like to see Wu guarding Giannis more the next time they play. 

4 hours ago, sillent said:

I agree and think Trae knows better too. He's broken so many records he has plenty of time to step it up, be even better and do even more. 

I also want to show love for Trae's defensive improvements that I believe many are sleeping on. There's a reason why teams couldn't take advantage of him or his size on a regular. One because of course we hid him but at the same time even the players we hid him on were capable players that get in rotations on playoff teams. The biggest examples though is when he did get switched on guys like Randle and Giannis. He of course still has work to do but he's no longer such a liability on that end of the court.

I'm the type of person that would be a big advocate for Dunn if I believed he was the type of player that would give his all every night for us. So far he's shown me the opposite in his small sample size. I've watched and analyzed the nba for too long to not recognize certain things from players. To the point where I can almost tell from the look on a players face and their demeanor and effort on the court whether they're going to be that dog or just be dogging it. I highly dislike Patrick Beverly but I cannot dismiss his effort.

Solomon Hill shut me up with his effort this past season (before the playoffs). 

Will over skill.

I concur. Trae played excellent TEAM defense. Getting steals by playing the passing lane, closing out on shots...etc. In a perfect world Trae would shoot 42% from three, but since this world is far from perfect I'll settle for 38% consistently. I have this funny feeling that If Trae would just shoot closer to the line, he'll probably be more efficient.

Falcons and Hawks are 1. 

Braves and United are 1b.

UGA and GT football are 2.

"Cam I am" is going to be the truth! The sad truth is that the cap won't let us keep all 5 of our young core. It's a same too....I can only imagine how deadly this team could be if kept together for the next three years. 

Keep fighting and BELIEVING! GO HAWKS!!!!!!!

Too much for the paint to handle because our perimeter defense was non existent. No ball movement and 14 turnovers. The Hawks will play better at home as always, but our defense MUST show up!

11 hours ago, Dejay said:

I'll give it a shot...

The sports hate for this city goes back a long way. You have Ted Turner's initial start as an owner of the Braves and even managing the team for a game. You have Rankin Smith and his family (aka the Clampetts) owning the Falcons and running that franchise into the ground. Losing not one but two NHL teams due to poor ownership (see Flames, Atlanta) and negligent ownership (see Thrashers, Atlanta). And do we even need to go there with the misfires of this franchise over the last five decades? And as a side note, we'll get to see one of their biggest misfires on full display in the Finals, starting next week (see Paul, Christopher). Hell, the only local pro teams who managed to win a title until the mid-'90s (and none since) were the Chiefs and Knights, and both of those leagues eventually folded.

In the sports world, Atlanta was regarded as a joke, a running punchline by comedians, and a city not to take seriously in terms of winning or hosting anything of significance. And with no Georgia Dome being around until 1992, that was largely the case. Sure, we managed to get a Final Four here or an All-Star game there in the '70s when the Omni and AFCS was still kind of new but afterwards? Get real. Unless you was a big pro wrestling fan and loved Dusty Rhodes fighting Ric Flair and the Four Horsemen (see 1987 Wargames), you had to look elsewhere for big time events.

Despite this backdrop, the city still managed to host what was widely regarded as being one of the most exclusive events in the world; the 1996 Summer Olympic Games. It wasn't just that it was the Olympics, it was the Centennial Olympics that our city got that the entire world expected Athens, Greece to host. That put the city on the map not only nationally but on an international scale never seen before. And for whatever reason warranted or not, neither party felt that Atlanta 'deserved' to host such a prestigious event; like pundits today feeling as if the Hawks not 'deserving' to be in the Finals and crafting new and creative ways for the Bucks to win the ECFs. That perception started long before Muhammed Ali lit the torch (BTW, I worked for ACOG and was only 30 feet away from him when it happened).

Ask any international sports columnist and many of them are still salty about the '96 Summer Games to this very day. Even the ones in the US hold a personal grudge against the city and has stopped at nothing to crack on Atlanta whenever something goes sideways (see SBLI, the 1996/1999 World Series). Add that to the fact that this is one of the largest transient cities in the world where most folks move here with their hometown sports allegiances in tow while the locals carry an SEC mentality in terms of winning or staying home because they knew that the local teams would royally eff things up in the playoffs (see Braves, Atlanta) and it gave a different narrative to lazy national columnists who are used to lemmings packing the place to see a bad product in say, Chicago, NYC, or Cleveland.

It never occurs to them that the sole reason why their buildings sold out while ours didn't is because those teams have banners hanging up in the rafters (flags fly forever). Those banners always give fans hope that lightning can strike once again no matter how many games in a row their team just lost. There simply is no track record of that down here, so generations of fans got to see the local teams get rick-rolled every year while Jordan, Lebron, Derek Jeter, Tom Brady, et al win rings and followed their teams instead. Case in point, this explains why the ratings for the NBA Finals are always high here despite the Hawks never going that far in their entire Atlanta existence (hopefully, that changes within the week)...

Wow...I see why now. Great post.

WU's combo of quickness and length is what makes him a good defender against Giannis.

We have plenty to beat this team without Young and Cap. I say let them rest up for game 6. Let Cam give us a spark of the bench.

It's getting to the point where I'm really starting to not understand why the Hawks get so much disrespect. It's almost like the media has this inside joke about Atlanta sports teams.

On 6/22/2021 at 1:25 PM, benhillboy said:

I think I’m gonna fall in line with @aali34 and call him “The Woo/ Wu.”  He kinda favors Inspectah Deck actually.  Inspectah Yek?

WU is what I call him

Today's theme should be ATTACK, ATTACK AND ATTACK some more in the paint. Put pressure on the Bucks. Move the ball and can we please get WU on More than. 14 minutes.

6 hours ago, NBASupes said:

Okongwu was amazing tonight on Giannis. 

Which is why I don't understand the lack of minutes for WU

3 hours ago, Hawkmoor said:

I said immediately after the Hawks beat the 76ers that they match up better against Milwaukee.  They still have to go out and win the series, but so far they have backed up what I felt was gonna happen.  The 76ers were the real test.  They SHOULD beat Milwaukee.  I don't pay attention to the media or fans who didn't think the Hawks could do it.   

Really? I was thinking the Nets would be the best match up. Shed some light on your predicting if you don't mind.

1 hour ago, HawkingAwesome said:

Beings a tear to my eye.

Starting 5 for game 7 

Trae-Bon-don/ Cam-Kev- Collins- Cap 

Defense would be my only message for them. Play tight on every play. No more open jumpers, definitely from deep 

Bon-don???? No, he's not the problem. Matter of fact did you forget that he was the only bone with Trae putting up points in the early games of this series???

Defense wins again!!!! The Sixers last FG came at the 6:40 mark in the 4th!!!!! This is why you don't throw in the towel after a game 3 loss. The Hawks have been doing this every since Nate became HC....Game 6 will be live! BONDON( BOGI) will have a break out game. Give WU some more PT coach!

NBA finals here we come!