The last time the Hawks won 2 second round games...

[niremetal]

- Bill Clinton was president

- Zell Miller was governor

- The baseball strike of '94 was still ongoing

- Jeff Teague was 5 years old

REPRESENT! GO HAWKS! SHOCK THA DAMN WORLD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

:superman: :yahoo: :drinks: :boxing: :dancer:

Edited May 9, 2011 by niremetal

[DrReality]

About time. I was still in first grade. Ha.

[TRUEINTELLECTPLAYA]

Those were great years of my life and this is awesome I love the Hawks

[lethalweapon3]

Bread was a nickel...

I think my entire wardrobe was Cross Colours [/TMI]

~lw3

[WraithSentinel]

I hated 1994. . Now instead of the Baseball strike we got the NFL strike going on.

Edited May 9, 2011 by Paladin

[Dejay]

Freaknik would guarantee me a Friday off. The old Omni and Fulton County Stadium was still in use. And you could fill up your car with a ten-dollar bill...

[Wretch]

I had just graduated basic training, had just proposed to my wife, and I weighed 165lbs soaking wet (I'm about 240 right now...).

[lethalweapon3]

Now, when was the last time the Hawks won consecutive playoff games in the second round? Did Berlin still have a wall?

~lw3

[Dejay]

Now, when was the last time the Hawks won consecutive playoff games in the second round? Did Berlin still have a wall?

~lw3

It was a long time ago. The DNC was here the last time that took place...

[Sothron]

1994, we lost that series to the Pacers 4-2 I think. That was the Nique trade year. Ugh. I graduated high school that year and started college. Good times.

[Supporter]

Wish I had watched the Hawks back then...to bad I was just a kid

Edited May 9, 2011 by Supporter

[NineOhTheRino]

ahhh 1994:

Rappin’ 4 Tay, Brady, and Ini Kamoze were a huge stars.

It took forever to download naked pictures of women on the computer.

Gas was cheap but I didn't have a car.

You could buy damn near anything (and I mean ANYTHING) from the downtown flea market.

Other than the downtown flea market '94 doesn't seem all that great to me.

Edited May 9, 2011 by NineOhTheRino

[Dejay]

ahhh 1994:

Rappin’ 4 Tay, Brady, and Ini Kamoze were a huge stars.

It took forever to download naked pictures on women on the computer.

Gas was cheap but I didn't have a car.

You could buy damn near anything (and I mean ANYTHING) from the downtown flea market.

Other than the downtown flea market '94 doesn't seem all that great to me.

Ahh, the flea market. You could get music, porn, bootleg clothes and movies. Not that I would ever indulge, of course...

And remember dial-up internet, when you had to get one of those AOL disks to download on the computer? Or having to pay 5-10 cents a minute for long-distance calling?

Yep, times have changed since 1994...

[buckeye242424]

1994, we lost that series to the Pacers 4-2 I think. That was the Nique trade year. Ugh. I graduated high school that year and started college. Good times.

Me too!

Forest Gump was top grossing movie.

"The Sign" from Ace of Base was biggest hit....

[niremetal]

- Bill Clinton was president

- Zell Miller was governor

- The baseball strike of '94 was still ongoing

- Jeff Teague was 5 years old

REPRESENT! GO HAWKS! SHOCK THA DAMN WORLD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

:superman: :yahoo: :drinks: :boxing: :dancer:

I actually misspoke. The '94 baseball strike hadn't even started yet. That came a few months later.

Our starting lineup in that game (game 5 versus the Pacers) was:

C: Koncak

PF: Willis

SF: Manning

SG: Augmon

PG: Blaylock

Bench: Andrew Lang, Craig Ehlo, Duane Ferrell, Ennis Whatley

DNP: Adam Keefe, Doug Edwards, Snoop Graham

http://www.basketball-reference.com/boxscores/199405170ATL.html

I remember that series, at the end of one of the first seasons that I followed closely. I don't know about y'all, but I like our chances of winning 2 more with these Hawks against these Bulls better than I did with those Hawks versus those Pacers. Comparative won/loss records be damned. It ain't a lock, but we have a shot, and the Bulls don't have a Rik Smits type of frontcourt presence to take pressure off their backcourt star.

The Nique trade has been recast as the Hawks' downfall, but it really had begun well before then. Nique was clearly on the decline and had just become useless defensively, and the last straw was when it became clear that he and Lenny were not in agreement about what his role should be. The Manning trade turned out to be a terrible move because I think we could have gotten more than a half season rental back for Nique, but the Wilkins/Willis core was a team whose best days were long past them. I don't think the same can be said of today's Hawks.

Man, Tuesday can't get here fast enough...

Edited May 9, 2011 by niremetal

[lethalweapon3]

It was a long time ago. The DNC was here the last time that took place...

Yep, May 18, 1988. It was almost here. I was just getting ready for the prom. I was diehard Sixers fan, so anybody other than the Lakers beating the Celtics was great to me, especially three straight and one at the Garden to push them to the brink. Being able to catch a different NBA squad on that Superstation thing was pretty nice, too.

Chris Washburn was on the roster! As was current ref Leon Wood. And Jeff Teague was kicking around in a womb somewhere.

~lw3

[Atlantaholic]

I was playing Super Metroid and Mortal Kombat 2 on my SNES...

[CBAreject]

C: Koncak

PF: Willis

SF: Nique

SG: Augmon

PG: Blaylock

Say what you will, but I loved that team of 93/94, absolutely loved em. They played with tremendous energy and scrambled for loose balls. They used to demolish teams in a way that no other Atlanta team ever had. The night of the Nique trade, he played so passionately in a win over the Sonics (as I remember). After we traded him, the team actually won at about the same clip, but we lacked the fire we'd had. The Pacers had been a bad matchup for us, but I've always felt that if we'd had Nique, he would've had a hunger that Manning didn't in that series--the type of hunger he showed in the epic Celtics battle of 1988. We'll never know, unfortunately. I don't think it's "recasting", though. You had a #1 seed team trading its top scorer and ultimate HOF'er 2/3 the way into the season. That was unprecedented, and it will never happen again...for good reason.