REHawksFan

14 minutes ago, macdaddy said:

Should have won the skills if his teammates had been better.  Barely losing to Dame in the 3 is nothing to hang your head about. 

He's an ELITE player.  It's just a shame that [some people] spend so much time trying to convince everyone that he's not.  

15 minutes ago, benhillboy said:

Luka just qualified for Basketball Reference’s HOF probability tracker.  He’s at 36.8%. Trae is at 9.4.

The Mavs have an all time winning percentage of .567 when Luka starts, .424 when he’s out.  The Hawks are .451 and .450 with Trae, respectively.

 

46 minutes ago, JeffS17 said:

IMO it's very dumb that you can get kicked out of the lottery from winning two best of 1s, but that is how they structured it.  I'd rather root for my team to win, but honestly, getting swept by the Celtics and going from 10th pick with lottery chances to 15th pick is probably the worst way our already-disappointing season could end.

I don't know.  I wouldn't trade the 15th pick and series against the celtics for the 10th pick and a loss in the play in.  The playoffs are way too much fun AND I don't believe for a second they will get swept (if healthy).  

2 hours ago, Final_quest said:

We’re locked in to 10th in the east and #10 draft slot in the league.  Not really anything to play for in the final two games at this point.  

Quin can treat these games as practice.  

If they win the play in, doesn't that bump them to 15th in draft? 

Didn't get to see any of the game as I was out and the stupid Ballys app wouldn't work. Anyone care to give cliffs? 

Vid dropped today, hopefully as a precursor to playing in the final home game of the regular season.  Let's Go!! 

8 hours ago, TheNorthCydeRises said:

DJ with a triple double.  But took 31 shots to score 29 points.

Bogi 4 - 17 FG.  But 1 - 11 from 3 and ( -22 ) for the game

Dre 24 shots to score 23 points

 

Between those 3, they were only 5 - 6 from the line.

Ugly inefficiency from our top guys tonight.

Bruno and JJ were only efficient guys tonight. As a team they scored 111 pts on 113 shots.

They took 25 MORE shots than Miami and made only 3 more. Were -8 on 3pt makes. Just ugly.

And I get a lot of the ugliness was in that 2nd OT, but that's all the more reason to sub in Bruno and Garrison. 

7 minutes ago, kg01 said:

If you can watch the late 4th through OT and still don't see they need Trae, I'm not sure what to tell you.

The resident know it all disagrees. You won't hear it tonight but just wait til they win again. 

7 minutes ago, kg01 said:

 

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Bring in Bruno and Meth Bogi. Clint and Bogi bricking everything. But Q sticks with them the whole time. Come on. 

Pathetic. 

How the F do you not sub at all?!?!

Hawks playing good D for sure. It's also true the Heat offense is hot garbage. 

Put Bruno in. Damn.

Can the Hawks finish? 

And of course Herro is going off. 

4 minutes ago, terrell said:

75 points with less than 2 min left in the 3rd is pretty good Defense..

Finish that shit Dre!!

Played much better in the 3rd. Only allowed 21 pts compared to 30 in the 1st 2 qtrs. 

May sound crazy but I'm starting Bruno in the play in and playoffs. Bring Clint off the bench. But Brunos energy and activity is an asset. 

1 minute ago, hawkman said:

Welp. That sucks for JJ. He's going back to the locker room. Sigh.

It looked bad but he wasn't limping much once he got up. Hopeful for the best. 

Heat with 30 pts in the 1st and 29 in the 2nd. Shooting 56% and winning the TO battle 8-4. 

I thought we were supposed to have a good D now? Miami ain't exactly a killer Offense. 

Nice moves from Bruno. 

Get in. Get the 8 seed. Have fun watching the bos fans lose their minds when Hawks win a few games. That's my plan anyway. 

2 hours ago, AHF said:

This is such strange framing.  There has been extensive discussion from a lot of different people on this thread and even Edey's most zealous advocates admit his physical limitations.  The real debate is to what extent they will affect his outlook in the NBA.  They are different players and will likely have very different careers but this is kind of like with Trae.  Everyone admits his limitations but his biggest advocates thought he would be strongly positive in spite of them while his biggest detractors thought he would be a bench player because he wouldn't be able to get off his shot or defend anyone.  

So I'm fence riding on Edey.  I see the offensive upside and hear the different views on whether his defensive limitations will make him unplayable or whether they will be something the team has to deal with but can deal with since the positive outweigh the negatives.  But to say that anyone refuses to admit he has any athletic limitations is just strange because I literally can't think of anyone who hasn't raised their hand and admitted to him being limited in some important ways in mobility.

Seems a lot like an "agree with me or you're wrong" position. IDK

Seems to me that for those who don't like him, nothing he did or will do will ever be good enough to sway your opinion.  And if you do like him, it's easy to see his dominance and the things he does really well and use that to justify liking him.  He's that polarizing prospect that has a lot of fans and a lot of haters and not much in the middle, imo.  

I still don't get the hesitation with Edey. If he would juat catch and go he would be nearly unstoppable.