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You mean you think they will try to make the playoffs? I wouldn't put it past Charlotte to try. Philly i think is smarter than that and i just don't see where the Bucks have anything other than a good coach. I've been wrong plenty. Although never about the Wiz. Every year people predict the Wiz will be good and I say they will suck. They've made me look smart on that so far.

Aaron Affalo. Although the Magic may want to keep him but he is ballin this year. He's in his prime. Teague/AA/milsap/horf is a friggin great lineup. You could go KK/Martin or DMC at the 3. I think he's the missing piece

Can we do a google hangout where you just point your phone at the court so we can watch it?

A lot of these players are journeymen. We don't have to be exactly like SA to be successful. We are missing a big 2 who can shoot. In actuality we may be missing a starting 2 and 3 who can shoot. Then we'd have a second unit of Dennis/Lou/Korver. But if we get a big 2 who can shoot the ball I'm ok with KK starting at the 3. Bud isn't going anywhere for a while. You can already tell he's a good head coach.

perimeter defense is a problem but we should have outscored the Knicks. We missed too many shots that Lou could have made. Just looking at that one game as an example. I don't htink Lou's defense would have been that much worse because it sucked anyway. But our offensive options would have been a lot better.

Wow. That would be crazy good luck. Still i see no way they fall out of the playoffs. There just aren't more than 8 playoff teams in the east. Bucks, sixers, celtics, orlando, and charlotte are all a lock to not even try for the playoffs. That leaves Wiz, Cavs, Toronto, and Detroit all 'competing' for the final two lottery spots in the east. I just can't see the Hawks, Knicks, or Nets being able to play bad enough to get in the lottery. This is going to be a crazy season. Still I like the way your thinking. That would be awesome if it pans out.

Gortat and the Wizards are the two most overrated things in the league.

I can't believe he was #7 last year.

It appears to be the case but i don't know for sure. on hawks.com it only lists radio. Guess they didn't realize this would be a matchup of the number 3 and 4 teams in the east.

Co-sign.

Dammit. Tonight's game is not televised? Ahhhh. I don't want to go to the game.

Is this a good place to point out there are 3 former hawks head coaches with head coaching positions in the nba right now.

I think we could have used Brand also. I like that Coach Bud isn't playing this like its game 7 though. LD and Woody played every game like it was their last or like we were in desperation mode. Yeah i would have liked to have won but i'm not convinced playing Horford 40 minutes would have made that happen. We still look like a very confident team, a team that believes it can beat anybody and so far we've been right there with everyone.

I didn't think i'd say this but give Woody some credit. He exploited our biggest weakness which is perimeter D. We didn't do a great job exploiting their's which is lack of defensive bigs. Still a close game could have gone either way. I'm not reading too much into it other than the days of getting embarrased on national tv may be over for the Hawks. We got beat by their other players not by Melo.

The 'business' aspect is getting tired though. This isn't a free market enterprise. They don't play by the same rules that real businesses have to play by and in exchange they should have some responsibilities to the people that have supported them for decades. I feel like they struck now at a mayor who didn't care and didn't have the political clout left to push through more sports welfare programs. They knew this which is why they went at this time. Because they knew they'd have a ton of excuses to lob and no opposition at city hall.

We need a starting 2 that's for sure. I don't want anymore power forwards. I'm not sure Jenkins would get us anything though.

So much blame to go around and i'm not absolving the city or the dumb mayor but you would think the Braves organization would have done something for the area in 50 years. Whatever. Its a terrible move all the way around. If they had moved somewhere sensible i wouldn't be as upset but this will be a typical Atlanta boondoggle and the blame will ultimately be misplaced.

I didn't watch the game but the box score is crazy. Monroe and Jennings have a +/- of around -30 each in 30 minutes. Drummond also played 30 minutes and had a +/- of +1 in a game they got blown out in. Smith of course has a horrible line. Its really starting to seem like Dumars just lucked into that championship team. Smith is untradeable but you have to get him to the 4. Which i guess would mean trading Drummond. I'd be happy to take Monroe off their hands.

Pero: You know Dennis you hava verry thick ahccent.

If Jenkins doesn't get some playing time soon and do well he's going to be looking at garbage time again this year.

I see this was before the game? We outrebounded them by 1 mainly thanks to Brand and DMC.

Bud has exceeded my expectations so far. I would hope that if Melo gets hot he will run everyone we've got at him and force him to drive the ball.

http://www.peachtreehoops.com/2013/11/12/5095046/hawks-vs-bobcats-mike-budenholzer-defense

Oops. Thanks for the correction. Still a home game for the Knicks of course.

As my friend's father used to say "nothing good happens after midnight".