AJC: Atlanta Hawks at Bucks: Too Much Fun Preparing For Games?

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Woody's mad and Jamal is hurting. (AP Photo)

Milwaukee–Tense scene at Hawks shootaround today. Woody was going over the Hawks’ defensive rotations and he felt some players were taking the lesson too lightly. So Woody told them in salty terms he didn’t see what was so funny considering opponents had been exploiting the Hawks’ in that very situation late in games.

Woody headed for the bus without talking to reporters. Clearly he’s not happy with the Hawks’ focus with game 81 tonight.

“That just comes with having a young team,” J.J. said. “Honestly that’s something we need to work on as players is locking in and having more attention to detail. Because that does come back to haunt us late in games.”

These things happen over the course of a long season, of course, but the circumstances had to bother Woody.

The Hawks are still playing for the third seed in the East. They aren’t a very good road team and have a tough task against the Bucks tonight, especially if Jamal (toe) …

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