No hint of any major changes from Babcock

[Blunt91]

Emailed Pete to see what are the Hawks planning to do to change their play. Basically the same was said as usual.

I apologize for our extremely poor play of late....we are dramatically underachieving, but we are working day and night to effect the necessary change to get us back on track.....we are talking to teams daily about trade options, but we are also working behind the scenes to make the internal changes with our guys in how we play and prepare. Thank you for expressing your opinion.

Pete Babcock

-----Original Message-----

From: BluntDavisX@aol.com [mailto:BluntDavisX@aol.com]

Sent: Monday, December 16, 2002 9:28 AM

To: askthehawksgm@turner.com

Subject: Ask the Hawks GM

Mr. Babcock it is hard as a fan to sit at an arena or watch the Hawks play

basketball on t.v. I was reading some post game comments in the AJC by

Newble, Terry, Emanual Davis. Newble was saying that the players for some

reason aren't giving it their all for the duration of the game. I agree with

him in that we need to play with more heart and defend better but then some

of it is that we may have the wrong "mix" of players on the team. We get beat

on the boards because our big man have to give help for poor defenders like

Jason Terry(He and Davis shouldn't have responded in the AJC for they were

some of the culprits who gave a poor effort) and cannot get back under the

basket in time to challenge for the rebound. I think we need more size on the

team(which would possibly help in boxing out and rebounding) and better

ballhandling on the team. I think Jason Terry should look for his shot more,

because we are clearly missing his offense. When Shareef or Big Dog are

struggling with making baskets this is when Terry should be more offensive

minded and quit trying to set up players who are struggling to make a basket

or are just "offensively challanged" like a Darvin Ham or Ira Newble. Thank

you for your time and I hope things turn around soon for the team, because it

is getting pretty hard to watch this pathetic display of basketball.

Jessie Blunt