Scout200 Posted August 3, 2010 Report Share Posted August 3, 2010 In your opinion, what's the biggest, most painful loss that the Hawks have endured? -Scout Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pimp Posted August 3, 2010 Report Share Posted August 3, 2010 In your opinion, what's the biggest, most painful loss that the Hawks have endured? -Scout What do you mean by "loss"? Do you mean losing a game. or losing a player through F.A or trade? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators lethalweapon3 Posted August 3, 2010 Moderators Report Share Posted August 3, 2010 eyebrows. ~lw3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dragitoff Posted August 3, 2010 Report Share Posted August 3, 2010 The media's respect Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HawkItus Posted August 3, 2010 Report Share Posted August 3, 2010 Ted Turner Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beelzebob Posted August 3, 2010 Report Share Posted August 3, 2010 Hawks trade Dominique Wilkins to Clippers March 21, 1994 http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1355/is_n20_v85/ai_15235600/ 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Admin capstone21 Posted August 3, 2010 Admin Report Share Posted August 3, 2010 Hawks trade Dominique Wilkins to Clippers March 21, 1994 http://findarticles....85/ai_15235600/ Game 7 vs the Celtics Bird vs Nique That was our year Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators lethalweapon3 Posted August 3, 2010 Moderators Report Share Posted August 3, 2010 ~lw3 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Member niremetal Posted August 3, 2010 Premium Member Report Share Posted August 3, 2010 (edited) Game 7 vs the Celtics Bird vs Nique That was our year Yup. Exactly what I was thinking. Everything else - the trade of Nique (which happened while Turner still owned the team), the 'sale' to Time Warner, the trade for Rider, etc - seemed like a slow, painful death. But somehow, it all felt inevitable after Bird spun around Nique and hit the floater over Willis. The jumper in traffic that Nique hit over McHale was the high point, and it all went downhill from there. Edited August 3, 2010 by niremetal Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Member Sothron Posted August 3, 2010 Premium Member Report Share Posted August 3, 2010 Game 7 vs the Celtics Bird vs Nique That was our year Yep. I think if we game six or seven we go on to win the Finals. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Watchman Posted August 3, 2010 Report Share Posted August 3, 2010 In your opinion, what's the biggest, most painful loss that the Hawks have endured? -Scout Enduring the painful weeks before we knew for sure that we would re-sign Jason Collins. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dejay Posted August 3, 2010 Report Share Posted August 3, 2010 Oh my. How much bandwidth do we have??? Forget about Game 7 versus the Celtics. How about GAME 6 versus the Celtics here at the old Omni? I was there for that one and believe me, it was as painful as the Falcons/Cowboys playoff game in 1980 and Game 4 in the 1996 World Series versus the Yankees. That was our shot to put that old, tired dog of a Boston team down for good, only to watch Cliff Levingston throw up a left-handed hook shot that nearly cracked the backboard. Our team doesn't get it done and become also-rans; the Pistons knock them off, Bird's Celtics never challenge again, and Detroit goes on to win a pair of world titles. Nique for Manning. Too easy. The Lon Kruger era. Too easy. Stan Kasten to Pete Babcock to Billy Knight. Wayyyyyyyyyyy too easy. And the most painful losses of all... Karl Malone. Fat Lever. Rolando Blackmon. Larry Nance. Robert Horry. Latrell Sprewell. Sam Cassell. Andrei Kirilenko. Manu Ginobili. Andre Iguodala. Chris Paul. Deron Williams. Those are some of the names that this franchise has passed over to select (insert stiff here) and make them millionaires. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scout200 Posted August 3, 2010 Author Report Share Posted August 3, 2010 What do you mean by "loss"? Do you mean losing a game. or losing a player through F.A or trade? It can go either way.. either game or player.. -Scout Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tomac Posted August 4, 2010 Report Share Posted August 4, 2010 And the most painful losses of all... Karl Malone. Fat Lever. Rolando Blackmon. Larry Nance. Robert Horry. Latrell Sprewell. Sam Cassell. Andrei Kirilenko. Manu Ginobili. Andre Iguodala. Chris Paul. Deron Williams. Those are some of the names that this franchise has passed over to select (insert stiff here) and make them millionaires. Add: Brandon Roy, Rajon Rondo, Luol Deng, Rudy Gay, Rodrique Beaubois, Danny Granger, Kendrick Perkins, Josh Howard, trading Pau Gasol, etc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lunar Posted August 4, 2010 Report Share Posted August 4, 2010 i've been a fan since the steve smith days so i don't know much about the celtics series in the 80s but for me... game- the one where we let utah come back from over 20 to humiliate us (low point of the season, the dreaded 7pt play) offseason - 2 come to mind, trading the 2nd pick (Gasol for SAR) and letting the world know we were taking sheldon williams (why???) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AmishBoy Posted August 6, 2010 Report Share Posted August 6, 2010 ~lw3 I look at that picture, shake my head, and think "wow, we really did that." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DJlaysitup Posted August 6, 2010 Report Share Posted August 6, 2010 I'm tempted to say the loss to Utah when we started the 4th with a 27 point (if I remember right) lead. That was the night Salim gave up the clearpath on the way to a 7-point play and we folded like Wal-Mart lawn chairs. Still - the biggest loss for our current team was not one game - but 4 games. It was the epic playoff sweep last year. The Hawks had earned some solid respect throughout the year and were thought of as contender-ish. We were finally getting Nat.TV games some. While most would expect the record for massive points-differential in a playoff sweep to be between a #1seed against a #8seed - we did it in the second round. We survived and advanced against Milw. and then were blasted off the face of the earth against ORL (who then lost...to add insult to injury). I think that if we had lost 4-2 in mostly competitive games we would still have some defenders and some national pundits saying stuff like "watch out for the Hawks...an up-and-coming force in the East". All that was lost in those four games.:kickcan: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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