Official Game Thread: Hawks at Nets (Game 2 of 2)

[REHawksFan]

1 minute ago, JayBirdHawk said:

This. Trae also was on the injury report with a bad calf, might have affected him some.

Good call. He looked off late in the game as all his misses were short. 

[ATLHawks3]

This team is f***ing good.

[JayBirdHawk]

Just now, Final_quest said:

He was averaging 15 FTs per game, tonight 4 FTs.  The shift happened after a few public stories came out questioning how he was drawing cheap fouls.  
 

I think Trae changed and the publicity got to him.  Just my opinion.  

The Nets changed, look at how much space he got from the Net defenders coming off the screens. 

[HawkingAwesome]

Just now, JayBirdHawk said:

The Nets changed, look at how much space he got from the Net defenders coming off the screens. 

This

[Dnice]

Oh there yall are....lol

[terrell]

16 minutes ago, Final_quest said:

He was averaging 15 FTs per game, tonight 4 FTs.  The shift happened after a few public stories came out questioning how he was drawing cheap fouls.  
 

I think Trae changed and the publicity got to him.  Just my opinion.  

I doubt it.  Trae dont care..lol

[TheTruth]

Quick! Someone give Jarrett Allen the phone number to Sam Darnold's therapist because after the posterizing and victimizing he faced at the hands of our Hawks tonight, he's going to be seeing ghosts for a LONG, long time!

 

[HawksNWaffles]

I think Collins put a dent in Allen's afro

 

 

 

 

[marco102]

Me on realgm tomorrow.

[aali34]

Words from LP

[marco102]

John's full quote!

 

[Sothron]

I love watching this team beasting out there. Keep in mind we still haven't seen a fully healthy squad yet! Unreal! This team is so deep. 

[High5]

The Hawks are making a lot of people look really stupid. Hopefully they avoid the letdown against Cleveland. That backcourt can drop 60 on you if you're not careful. 

[Final_quest]

I think we are approaching 60 win season, undefeated January excitement level.  The timing of getting free agents when our draft picks are blooming is like drinking champagne.  

[gurpilo]

Wow, fantastic effort against one of the Eastern Conference favourites. Two games, we lost one by a close margin with unbelievable percentages from his bench, Shamet and Prince, and won the second easily even though we had a bad game from Trae and key injuries in Gallo, Rondo and Okongwu. Our 2nd unit got the revenge today and finnally we were on single digit TO. There are a lot of positive things with already 5 games in the season.

We are the best offense on the league, the best at FT line, the third best 3pt shooting team, the 2nd best rebounding team and surprisingly the 10th in TO. This is ridicously good considering where we were last season.

Of course we need to improve defense, we are top 10 of worst defensive teams although we are one of the best 7 teams on opponent shooting percentage, best defense is Philadelphia and BKN. We are also top 8 on worst defense on Point per possesion, something I am failing to understand, how we are 22nd on opponnet points per possesion and 7th in opponnent shooting percentage.

Overall is fair to assume we cannot keep our offense the way it is but it will be really improved this year. Hunter, Young and Collins are making a good year and we will have good contributions from Bogi, Gallo, Capela, Rondo, Huerter and Cam but not consistently as we are extremely deep. On defense we have shown good improvement thanks to contribution from Hunter, Cam and overall team effort but we need to continue improving. Capela's presence need to be noticed and I expect Okongwu to give some help as season goes on. If Collins and Trae can sustain their level of effort on defense, I think the goal should be to be an average team and I think we can get it. We will have bad games on defense every now and then but the effort yesterday against BKN give me hope we can also get some good defense games.

With a top 8 offense and average defense we should be a playoff team, I am not expecting 60 wins as someone was suggesting, we are going to have some ugly losses but I expect us to be an above ,500 win team and that is huge considering how young we are. In a year or two if we can keep the team together we could be serious contenders, we are not there yet, enjoy the ride, is going to be fun.

Edited January 2, 2021 by gurpilo

[TheNorthCydeRises]

8 hours ago, ATLHawks3 said:

This team is f***ing good.

And the way you can tell it, is in the win differential.  Forget that talk about a "weak schedule". If you're comfortably beating "weak teams", that's a sign of true team strength.

Our win differential is +10.3, which is 3rd in the NBA and 2nd in the East behind Milwaukee.

[Gray Mule]

To me, one sign of a really good team is their ability to adjust.  Lloyd and the Hawks played a much better game.  Not that the original wasn't good.  Great offense - poor defense.  We adjusted.  Good!!

[JayBirdHawk]

The Hawks limited the Nets role players this game...that was the biggest defensive adjustment.

[JayBirdHawk]

 

 

[JayBirdHawk]