Believe in this team

[EazyRoc]

I never stop being a fan, but if they keep it up my fandom willows go into cruise control. I won't watch or pay to go to any games. I like the idea that this is the year we put up or shut up. Maybe if it falls apart we can trade Joe to the clippers for expirings and that pretty Twolves draft pick they got.

[Dimesadozen]

This team is much like the other Hawks teams... the players get you excited on the potential due to talent, then they rip your heart out of your chest. Just look at the last two games. INEXCUSABLE. It's been inexcusable for a long time and nothing has changed.

Chuck was on the money. Just blunt, brutal truth.

I'm tired of Joe Johnson's selfishness and ego. He has to go via amnesty to free up some money. Not that this will matter until the team is in a capable owner's hands. Josh Smith needs to pack because he doesn't care to understand team basketball, either. I'd much rather watch a product of overachievers playing team basketball than a ego-driven squad who is satisfied and unmotivated. Joe Johnson and Josh Smith are captains, and from what I've seen, they have no right to be.

I have always been a Hawks fan, and always will be, seeing I have not been able to tear myself away from the team. Being real does not discount being a fan. This team has given me no reason to put my confidence in them. Perhaps they don't have the players to win a championship. They do have the players to make a push, and certainly to beat Miami last night, if they would play with heart, effort, and intensity.

[Buzzard]

I understand everyone's frustration with the Hawks not being able to play up to their full potentials. With that said all teams in the NBA go through what the Hawks are going through right now.

Give this team some time, they showed last year in the playoffs that they don't back down from anyone. It's only our second year and 7 games under coach drew and we just came out of a lockout, guys are going to be out of shape and tired when they play 7 games in 10 days.

We have shown flashes of both brilliance and failure, but champions are not made in the regular season, they are made in the playoffs. We've seen previous Hawks game where they got blown out by both the Bulls and the Heat and were not able to compete at all.

This year I sense something different; we are able to compete with "contenders", but it's going to take some time for everything to flow together. We will find our groove.

You act like we have just started following this same core. A lot here have been following this core since Chilz and Smoove were drafted. The biggest difference with this team from last season to now is Teague is getting a shot. Other than that its the same old same old and maybe a little bit worse, with the way JJ and Smoove have started off.

[Bawse]

Give this team some time,

This is the same team we've had for over half a decade, i'd say we've given it ample time. We all love this team at the end of the day, but drastic changes are long overdue.

[Bahamut]

We've looked brilliant before, everyone knows we could be brilliant if we played as a team... unfortunately after four years everyone pretty much understands that the mental shortcomings of our players are too much to overcome. Too many over inflated ego's who are content with padding their own resumes instead of trying to win ball games. Yeah, if Josh focused 100% of his energy in defending and attacking the basket, Joe accepted that he doesn't have it in him to play 1 on 1 all game, and Horford played as aggressively as he talks we would definitely have a shot in what is IMHO a transition season with maybe 1 or 2 borderline great teams to contend with. Unfortunetely when you are counting on 7-10 year veterans changing the attitudes they have had since coming into the league, well, that seems pretty unrealistic.

Honestly, I'm just sick of this team, just like most fans. They are not even fun to watch most nights. The last two games in particular I seriously felt guilty watching them when I could have been playing with my dog, reading a book, hanging out with a friend, watching a movie, playing videogames, watching online porn, I mean, Anything is better than our team when it plays like that. We are talking about a game on national tv against YOUR DIVISION RIVAL who is decimated with injuries. Any championship caliber team would have annihilated the Heat last night.

Real talk.

Chuck was on the money. Just blunt, brutal truth.

And it's 10x as frustrating because it's both true and it's him saying it.

[sillent]

My problem with Al is when he is extremely aggressive, he gets offensive and defensive fouls too much. I really feel he won't reach his potential with this personnel. He's a movement (PnR) player who is not a face-up or back to the basket player. For that reason, he's expendable for Dwight or Lebron. For anything less than a superstar, no. Since he is that anything less than a superstar player.

This team has been boring for years, I don't know why people feel otherwise. This team needs to be broken up. Them, Philly, Indy, and Milwaukee are teams who are heading down a road of mediocre island. Atlanta has the most talent of the aforementioned teams but the worst fit.

Boring? Are you serious? Have you been watching most of the other teams in the league. Half of them barely even play above the rim. Too many people are conditioned by media. The grass is not always greener on the other side. This is not an attack on you it's an attack on that subject boring. Half of the Christmas games were boring and these were suppose to be 8 of the top teams coming into the season.