1st Preseason Game Vs New Orleans

[kg01]

10 hours ago, Peoriabird said:

I doubt very seriously Pop coaches like this.

I doubt, very seriously, Pop would've been a great coach without having multiple HOFers on all his teams.

Boom

Don't @ me.  Or do, I don't care.

I'mma bridge the gap for you, brother, cause I love ya.

Just about every coach I've heard speak on it (turnover issues) has said the last thing they ever wanna do is go out and tell their team to focus on not turning the ball over.  If they do that, it just makes the team play weird and they end up turning the ball over anyways.

Happy?

10 hours ago, lethalweapon3 said:

Bright side: This was the best defense by an Atlanta team versus a N'Awlins team that we'll see in 2019!

~lw3

Haha, it's true.

Failcons suck bonkey dalls.

[NBASupes]

I didn't think we were all that bad. In the areas where you normally grow, we showed bad qualities. But for the areas where you don't, we looked good. 

 

Both teams are low floor, high ceiling teams which can go anywhere standings wise. 

The only area that scares me is starting center and backup center if Len is starting.

[kg01]

4 hours ago, JayBirdHawk said:

 

 

What made the play great was Reddick's arms.  He started waving at imaginary butterflies as Trae went by.

Dude looked like a 75 year-old man tryna catch his 6yo great-grand son or something.  "Get ovah here, sonny .. wait a minute ... my back!"

[Spud2nique]

39 minutes ago, kg01 said:

What made the play great was Reddick's arms.  He started waving at imaginary butterflies as Trae went by.

Dude looked like a 75 year-old man tryna catch his 6yo great-grand son or something.  "Get ovah here, sonny .. wait a minute ... my back!"

He looked like a blind Helen Keller waving those arms. Trae needs to limit the nutmegging though. It’s all fun n dandy till a Karl Malone cat rams his hand 🖐 up ur a$$ for showing him up.

Fun to have Hawks basketball back.

[Spud2nique]

13 hours ago, JayBirdHawk said:

Hey @Spud2nique.....uum, your boy Jones....wa happen 

Sturt’s boy...till he does well, then mine. Ha...ha..ha.

[AHF]

My take:

First and foremost, preseason games matter very little.  We started several guys who are not starters for this team by way of example.  We also have a LOT of new faces on the roster (several of whom did not play) so it will likely take us a bit of time to get into a positive rhythm this season.  So not worth getting overly worked up over this.  I'll care more when the games count and we are working a real rotation.

Second, very happy to see the positive play from Cam and Hunter.  They both looked good and while preseason doesn't matter for a young player it doesn't hurt.  Hunter looked solid throughout while Cam clearly had some rust to shake off but seemed to settle in nicely.  Just one very small step in the right direction for both of them.

Third, our center position looked like garbage on paper and looked like garbage in play.  No real surprise.  It will be an offseason priority to address this.  Len is a rotation piece.  Bruno is a developmental player.  Jones is filling space on the roster.

I enjoyed a few of the highlight plays - none more than that one by Bembry - but pre-season is just glorified scrimmages.  Call out the Falcons if you want but I don't find it especially illuminating particularly because the Falcons didn't look very good on paper before the season started and low and behold they aren't very good.  Color me shocked.  Your expectations should be set based much more on our roster than on what you see in the pre-season.  I'll be dropping my official prediction shortly and it will have little to nothing to do with whether we win or lose our pre-season games.

[bleachkit]

Really sucks we didn't get Kevon Looney, we could really use him now.

[NBASupes]

That center position will be a trorn in our side. 

[High5]

Cam had about the worst start imaginable so it's a credit to him that he was able to recover and calmly sink some jumpers. Had a couple of nice passes as well. Hunter looked nice and composed from the start. Those are the only real positives I took away from that game. Also Bembry. He can do some things that almost no one else can because of how fluid of an athlete he is. Hopefully this game was a sign of him taking another step this season. 

[Peoriabird]

32 minutes ago, AHF said:

our center position looked like garbage on paper and looked like garbage in play.  No real surprise.  It will be an offseason priority to address this.  Len is a rotation piece.  Bruno is a developmental player.  Jones is filling space on the roster.

I'm still mad about this!  I still can't believe posters actually thought that Jones was a starting caliber center.

[kg01]

4 minutes ago, Peoriabird said:

I'm still mad about this!  I still can't believe posters actually thought that Jones was a starting caliber center.

I can't disagree here.  I thought Jones would at least be a body.  It appears he's less than that, even.

We should look to acquire Baynes from PHX.  They're not gonna know how to use him.  He'd actually help us.  He gonna be in PHX like, "Wait, we're gonna work to get Booker 40 instead of winning?  Where dey do dat at?"

[Spud2nique]

My biggest concern from last night was the whole Celli/last name/nickname thing.  

[kg01]

5 minutes ago, Spud2nique said:

My biggest concern from last night was the whole Celli/last name/nickname thing.  

 "I don't need no preseasoning.  I walk in da door on my game."

[kg01]

Another observation, Parker looks like he's gained a few (hundred).  For a guy with knee issues, you'd think he'd try to trim down.

He looks like he was on that @Spud2nique see-food diet.  Eat all the food you can see.

[Spud2nique]

8 minutes ago, kg01 said:

Another observation, Parker looks like he's gained a few (hundred).  For a guy with knee issues, you'd think he'd try to trim down.

He looks like he was on that @Spud2nique see-food diet.  Eat all the food you can see.

Actually I thought he looked slimmer...(than he usually does). The girlfriend watched the game with me and we got into it a bit.

I think I said ..”look at Hunter he looks so tight”...” one too many times and I think it had gotten to her by the second half she was imitating what Trae would sound like everytime he got fouled in a whiny little kid voice..  

Then she tells me comon, you know you’d hate Trae if he was on another team. 
 

ps Horford was her fav Hawk. It’s like I’m dating Supes in my own personal crying game.

 

[kg01]

13 minutes ago, Spud2nique said:

Actually I thought he looked slimmer...(than he usually does). The girlfriend watched the game with me and we got into it a bit.

I think I said ..”look at Hunter he looks so tight”...” one too many times and I think it had gotten to her by the second half she was imitating what Trae would sound like everytime he got fouled in a whiny little kid voice..  

Then she tells me comon, you know you’d hate Trae if he was on another team. 
 

ps Horford was her fav Hawk. It’s like I’m dating Supes in my own personal crying game.

Haha, can we start calling you Mrs. Supes?

And if that's Parker looking slim then that's a problem. 

And when do you get to change your avatar?  What are you gonna go with next?  Another L*k* pose?

[Spud2nique]

Just now, kg01 said:

Haha, can we start calling you Mrs. Supes?

And if that's Parker looking slim then that's a problem. 

And when do you get to change your avatar?  What are you gonna go with next?  Another L*k* pose?

She said Horford was the cutest. I’m not sure it has anything to do with basketball skills but she does know a bit. Mrs Supes? Wtf  

No Luka for my next avatar but Soth gives me a c-note I can get a Jokic or KAT pic up there real quick.  

[kg01]

5 minutes ago, Spud2nique said:

She said Horford was the cutest. I’m not sure it has anything to do with basketball skills but she does know a bit. Mrs Supes? Wtf  

No Luka for my next avatar but Soth gives me a c-note I can get a Jokic or KAT pic up there real quick.  

Haha, don't take her to any 6er games.  You might mess around and leave alone.  It's ok.  That's why you won't find me taking mrs. kg to any of the Rock's wrestling matches.  If ya smelll what I'm cookin'.

I would definitely auction my avatar off.  How much would @JayBirdHawk pay for me to switch to a pic of Kawhi's hands?

[JayBirdHawk]

1 hour ago, Spud2nique said:

My biggest concern from last night was the whole Celli/last name/nickname thing.  

My biggest concern was Ingram wearing girls twinbead bubble ponytails on the ends of his hair.

Those things can take an eye out our break your teeth. I think I should contact the NBA 

1 hour ago, kg01 said:

Another observation, Parker looks like he's gained a few (hundred).  For a guy with knee issues, you'd think he'd try to trim down.

He looks like he was on that @Spud2nique see-food diet.  Eat all the food you can see.

Just a few?

36 minutes ago, kg01 said:

Haha, don't take her to any 6er games.  You might mess around and leave alone.  It's ok.  That's why you won't find me taking mrs. kg to any of the Rock's wrestling matches.  If ya smelll what I'm cookin'.

I would definitely auction my avatar off.  How much would @JayBirdHawk pay for me to switch to a pic of Kawhi's hands?

 

[JayBirdHawk]

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