HAWKS @ THUNDER, WE ARE BACK ON THE ROAD

[hussamga]

the smaller lineup of horford+marvin isnt working on the boards

[dalamchops]

guess the real hawks showed up. 0 offensive execution, everyone's doing isolation

[mrhonline]

Surely they won't shoot that poorly in the 2nd half.

A lot of "rimmed out" kind of shots that half.

[Highpozt2]

I agree we should win --- the best defense (Hawks) against the worst offense (Thunder)

should translate into a convincing win

[exodus]

Man it sure looks like there is a lid on the rim. The Hawks actually took good shots in the 2nd quarter but nothing went in.

The interior defense really went downhill when Solo went to the bench.

[Highpozt2]

I agree we should win --- the best defense (Hawks) against the worst offense (Thunder)

should translate into a convincing win

[DrReality]

How many times did JJ try to take the smaller guard to the basket without success. Give me a break!!!!!!

[dalamchops]

playing so selfish

[Deeman]

I hope Smoove make a miraculous recovery like he did 2 years ago. We definitly can't play like this against Boston and Chicago. Hell we can't even afford to play like this against New Jersey. We have got to pull this win out. 1 good sign is Marvin is starting to get it going.

[DrReality]

Finally started to make some defensive plays. Horf's block was terrific.

[DrReality]

We owe them one from last year when they beat us in the last second.

[DJ_Money]

I'll take all of these ugly road W's that we can get.

Another excellent defensive showing and another game that we outplayed the opposition in the 4th quarter. :beer:

[DrReality]

There is no such thing as an ugly win on the road. They are all pretty.

5-0

[LOL_Hawks]

I would come on here and start complaining about how it wasn't a blowout and how it wasn't impressive...but this is not the BCS, and the Hawks are not playing for the selection committee: They are playing for Ws and Ls and they got the W tonight. And I DEFINITELY won't complain about a road win since this team loves to make every road game more dramatic than it should be.

So I could care less how ugly it was, every win is beautiful. :beer:

P.S.: Thank God for Flip.

Edited November 10, 2008 by LOL_Hawks

[tonegully]

Ugly win, ill take it. i was so nervous with that game but the team stayed in it and didnt let the crowd scare them or anything. Hit the big FGs at the end. it was ugly but we are undefeated and held them to under 90 pts once again. Bring on CHI

[oiatlhawksfan]

I love how versatile these players are, they may be off at one aspect of their game, but they'll find a way to contribute.

[buckeye242424]

I agree. Any win on the road is big for the hawks. A win without Smoove even better. I look at it as we're 5-0, who would have thought, and it's just more time to get Smoove healthy while winning at the same time.

In addition, I would take Flip Murray and Mo Evans over Chillz any day of the week. Not hating on Chillz, loved his hustle and what not...but I believe those two more than make up for the loss of fro man.

[DrReality]

Winning tough games like that on the road builds some moxy. We didn't play well and still pulled it out, that's not something we did a lot last year.

So we have three road wins???? Amazing.

[Atlsportfanz]

5 games into the season and we already have 1/4 of our road win total from last season. Things look good in the ATL so far.

[Plainview1981]

5 games into the season and we already have 1/4 of our road win total from last season. Things look good in the ATL so far.

Tough win. I don't think the Hawks would have came back last season. Flip Murray was so huge. He did tonight what Childress can't do. Overall, tonight is what is going to happen when the jump shots don't fall. You will lose games like this against better teams when you get nothing in the post and are forced to take a billion jumpers.