Basketball New predicts:37-45

[Guest]

http://www.nba.com/hawks/news/Hawks_Previe...s-53690-33.html

We won 33 games last year and appearently

Big Dog/Theo/Ham are only worth 4 extra

wins.

[beav]

well you have to factor in the heart-breaking loss of bowdler...

[Guest]

Yeah instead of bring in guys like Bowdler/Mark

Strickland/Email/Hanno we will bring in Ham/Nazr/

Glover/Hendu...Those four might not be great,

but it doesn't take a real smart person to see

the difference.

[Gray Mule]

Theo is ready to play. Big Dawg is here. Ham is here.

We have Newbie for the full season. Jason Terry has

all that experience being point guard in the last half of

last season and we have Dickau to back him up.

Kruger has another year's experience as an N.B.A. coach.

Our veterans are finally healthy. Henderson is ready to

play meaningful minutes, for example.

I know we suffered a blow when DerMarr went down for

the season and we replaced him with Ham, but I thought

that, all things being considered, we were in pretty good

shape for the coming season.

N.B.A. General Managers voted the Atlanta Hawks the

most improved team this season and we guaranteed

the fans that Hawks would make the playoffs this year.

Will a four game improvement mean that we will be in

the playoffs?? I sure hope so because I am looking

foreward to seeing them there.

If the Hawks are the most improved team in the N.B.A.

and we gain four games over last season, where does

that leave the rest of the teams?

Gray Mule