Marvin breaks hand (AJC)

[txsting]

http://www.ajc.com/sports/content/sports/h.../1027hawks.html

Hate to see this, but we'll be ok. More minutes for Smith, Shelden, and Childress early.

[Blunt91]

That sucks, but this more than guareentees Bozeman a spot on our roster. At least until Marv comes back.

[terrynoonan]

I just felt my stomach drop. Aaaagh. I think we need to go small and Chill needs to play over a lesser big man. I don't know. That sucks.

I am still looking forward to opening night at Phillips but without Marvin and Lo it won't be the whole look.

[AHF]

#*$*

[WraithSentinel]

*beats down the Basketball Gods*

Can't give us just a little bit of hope. Always got take it away. Just a little luck is all we ask for and yet nothing.

*continue beat down the Basketball Gods*

[DeacKillsaDevil]

Here's to winning 2 of the first 20.

[macdaddy]

Shinola!

[Nicholasp27]

marvin was poised for breaking out and making the sophomore all-star team and the marvin/smoove forward tandem was gonna prove it could work next to zaza/shelden/lo...now we have to wait until december for that

[gutz]

Just devastating! Can nothing go right for our frigging team. God lord! The Landlord better be ready to bring it for real now. Smoove will be moved to SF for sure now.

[Packfill]

This sucks for Marvin. I hope he doesn't lose his condidence as a result of this.

[Guest Walter]

[Vol4ever]

Well things were looking up. This team is snakebit just like the Falcons! I hope the team won't be disppointing like the Falcons have been this season.

[phx_suns]

*Pumps fist*

Yeah! Hellz yeah!

[lifelong]

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wow, you are a douche. don't you have anything better to do? i hope amare's knee breaks down again.

[Final_quest]

Marvin will be out 6-8 weeks. Too bad we don't have any depth at forward.

[OGRat]

We do have depth at forward, and Marvin will serve as a pick-me-up to the rest of the team when he returns.

This is more an impact on Marvin than on the team. It just means that Chill will get to shine a little more.

A team can't crumble when one player goes down.

OG

[AHF]

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Can the mods ban this guy already? He is the definition of "troll" on this board and actually cheers the injuries of Hawks players.

If Exodus got banned, how is this idiot still around?

[gutz]

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Yeah don't worry Amare's knees are CASHED! This guy won't be around for long. He can barely play anymore like the way he used to. He won't last the season. I will put money on that. Good move by the Suns too to sign him to that huge contract extension right before he has MICRO-FRACTURE surgery on both knees.

[DrReality]

AJC > Sports > Hawks > Blog

A big emotional setback

By Sekou Smith | Thursday, October 26, 2006, 03:55 PM

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Marvin Williams breaking his hand today is as much an emotional setback as it is a physical and logistical one for the Hawks. A jarring injury like this at the end of training camp hurts far more than the one Speedy Claxton suffered five weeks ago, before training camp began. Speedy had training camp to heal while Marvin will have to miss the first month of the season, if not more, before he can get back to business.

It’s beyond bad luck that these things keep happening to the Hawks. I’m starting to wonder if the dooms day crowd that talks about curses and bad karma might be on to something. How else to explain this spate of bad luck?

There is no silver lining here, either. I’ll be the first to admit that. Sure, Shelden Williams moves into a starting role and Josh Smith moves to small forward. One of the training camp invitees might stick around a bit longer (Cedric Bozeman and Matt Freije made the cut by the way, and not Andre Brown or Andreas Glyniadakis), at least to help fill out the playing rotation in Marvin’s absence.

Other than seeing what Shelden or the camper can do early, though, this remains a damaging blow for the Hawks. They certainly won’t be able to play as fast as they would have liked without Marvin and Josh on the floor together for long periods of time. And I expect Marvin to be fine once he heals. Guys suffer injuries all the time and return from them without issue. But the mental blow for this team early will have to be managed. But it changes the way you play not having him for the first month.

To his credit, Marvin’s spirits this afternoon were better than anyone’s. I think the shock of it all will hit him tonight, after he spends the night in Chapel Hill and wakes up tomorrow and realizes that he won’t be able to play in Friday night’s game at the Dean Dome – a game he’s been looking forward to for months.

But at least he’ll recover. I don’t know if I can say the same about the egos of both Brown and Glyniadakis, two guys who had to leave the premises Thursday knowing they played well enough to make this Hawks team. But sometimes, playing well enough (without a guaranteed contract) isn’t good enough to stay employed. It happens all the time in training camps around the league. But I’ve never seen it this bad, where the campers distanced themselves from several incumbents the way these guys did.

That’s just my opinion, of course. Perhaps the people making decisions felt differently (clearly they did). Maybe they saw some things that I did not. Or maybe they know it, too, but were hamstrung by the financial constraints we keep being told are not in place (clearly they, are if a team isn’t willing to eat a minimum contract or two in an effort to get better).

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[mudderfudder77]

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We do have depth at forward, and Marvin will serve as a pick-me-up to the rest of the team when he returns.

This is more an impact on Marvin than on the team

. It just means that Chill will get to shine a little more.

A team can't crumble when one player goes down.

OG

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Huh? I would think even the most optimistic Hawks fan would see this as a blow to the team after the summer league and pre-season Marvin had put together.

Where are the points going to come from? No Al or Marvin, and Shelden isn't really known as a scorer. Hows has Josh Smith looked this preseason?

(edit) Christ, I just looked at Smith's stats - he's played 35 minutes a game in the pre-season? We're they trying to set a preseason record for most minutes played?