AJC: Lakers 101, Hawks 87

[Hawksquawk]

Greetings, all-

I think this is a good time for me to hand the reins back to MC, because I think I felt better about the Hawks’ play than the Hawks did. I thought the Hawks did about as well as they could do, save a handful of bad possessions and getting mauled on the boards. The Lakers are just better and hot and there was no way around either.

“I can’t fault my team’s effort tonight,” Larry Drew said. “We ran against a really good team. We ran against a hot team.”

- I don’t know what the numbers are, but I’d be interested to know how many shots Al Horford and Josh Smith took in the paint. It’s funny – they actually outscored Pau Gasol and Andrew Bynum 33-30 and won the assist category 9-8 – but to me, Gasol and Bynum won the game for the Lakers. They out-rebounded Smith and Horford 27-15 and I think Bynum set a tone in the first quarter when Bynum blocked Horford’s shot for the second time in the first 10 minutes of the game.

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