Official Game Thread: Lakers at Hawks

[REHawksFan]

1 minute ago, TheNorthCydeRises said:

This team reminds me of the 2007 - 2008 Hawks.   Hella competitive, but always wilt at the end vs the good teams.

But they give you enough hope to keep rooting for them.

Still don't know how to win. But I have confidence they'll get there. 

[terrell]

We're gonna be pretty good if we can ever get fully healthy..Hunter, Bogi, and Dunn wouldve helped tonight...

[hawkman]

1 minute ago, TheNorthCydeRises said:

This team reminds me of the 2007 - 2008 Hawks.   Hella competitive, but always wilt at the end vs the good teams.

But they give you enough hope to keep rooting for them.

I'm not sure they "wilted" tonight. They just couldn't keep the starters in the game for the full 24 minutes in the second half. The bench dug a hole the starters couldn't overcome. Add in some very biased officiating and you get a guaranteed loss.

[JayBirdHawk]

2 minutes ago, TheNorthCydeRises said:

This team reminds me of the 2007 - 2008 Hawks.   Hella competitive, but always wilt at the end vs the good teams.

But they give you enough hope to keep rooting for them.

this wasn't a wilt though.  That bs foul call on Collins vs AD was bad with 1.4 seconds left and LAL leading by 1 then LBJ hits a 3. 

[bleachkit]

Would have been sweet to get this one. That first 4 minutes of the 4th just killed us. 

[Lurker]

Respectable game. Tough to learn how to win.

[JayBirdHawk]

Just now, hawkman said:

I'm not sure they "wilted" tonight. They just couldn't keep the starters in the game for the full 24 minutes in the second half. The bench dug a hole the starters couldn't overcome. Add in some very biased officiating and you get a guaranteed loss.

the first 4 minutes of the 4th quarter doomed us with the bench. One of Trae, Collins and Capela should have been on the floor.

[Marvin24Williams]

Horford's stench still lingers on in Atlanta. Just won't win against LeBron until its totally gone 

[JayBirdHawk]

Trae played a masterful game. controlled the tempo all game.

[marco102]

If they keep playing defense like this, we'll be well above .500 and the end of the season.  Excellent game by Trae.  IF we get anything out of our shooting guards we may have had a better chance.  Really missed Hunter this game.

[JayBirdHawk]

We really missed Hunter in this game!

[JayBirdHawk]

Last year we get down 10 with under 4 minutes left, we would have lost big, we battled bag to within 1 then refs.

[bleachkit]

2 minutes ago, JayBirdHawk said:

Trae played a masterful game. controlled the tempo all game.

He did have 7 turnovers , but probably only like 3 bad ones. Some were on teammates mishandling passes.

[Peoriabird]

Almost perfect shot distribution.  Trae with 15 shots, John with 17 shots Capela 11.  And only 29  3 point attempts while playing smothering defense. Winning the battle of the boards against a great rebounding team.  This is winning basketball!  I want to see more of this please!!!!

[hawkman]

1 minute ago, JayBirdHawk said:

We really missed Hunter in this game!

He would've been the difference. That's a big, strong SF to keep on Lebron that would make him work on the defensive end as well. 

[Buzzard]

Trae, Collins, Capela played well. The wing play and bench did the Hawks in. Huerter and Reddish were both 3 of 8, Gallinari 2 of 10, and Hill was 2 of 6.

Getting 10 of 32 from your top role players is not going to beat former champs and contenders.

[TheNorthCydeRises]

7 minutes ago, Peoriabird said:

Trae had an excellent game!  The Hawks played well also because they played the right way.  Very impressed!

Normally he would get killed for having 7 turnovers. Especially those 2 at the end.

[JayBirdHawk]

1 minute ago, bleachkit said:

He did have 7 turnovers , but probably only like 3 bad ones. Some were on teammates mishandling passes.

these weren't the crazy live ball turnovers though, like you said some were on his teammates.

[bleachkit]

Just now, hawkman said:

He would've been the difference. That's a big, strong SF to keep on Lebron that would make him work on the defensive end as well. 

I thought Cam was respectable on defense, but unfortunately we cant trust Cam to play under control on offense most of the time.

[hawkman]

1 minute ago, TheNorthCydeRises said:

Normally he would get killed for having 7 turnovers. Especially those 2 at the end.

Not all of those were on him. He made some questionable passes, but the offensive foul(bogus) and him getting passed the ball in a trap at the end of the shot clock by Collins added to the total.