Official Game Thread: Celtics at Hawks

[macdaddy]

15 minutes ago, kg01 said:

Don't try to wet-blanket the moment with all your "facts".

And man, do yall hear that echo.  Really empty in here still.  Super weird .... or not.

Maybe the site's down.  That must be it. 

[kg01]

I forgot to add ....

#RevengeTourMickyFickys

[REHawksFan]

The Squawk's favorite villain is coming up on Friday.  Anyone interested in an Alice reunion as backup center?  Hard pass for me but I hear he's available.  

[macdaddy]

4 minutes ago, REHawksFan said:

The Squawk's favorite villain is coming up on Friday.  Anyone interested in an Alice reunion as backup center?  Hard pass for me but I hear he's available.  

Nah.  I'm good.

[bleachkit]

13 minutes ago, macdaddy said:

Nah.  I'm good.

His contact makes a trade untenable. 

[NBASupes]

3 hours ago, kg01 said:

No, no, nah ... that's not how this works.  What's the show, bro?  Bridgerton? 

Ok, I watched Bridgerton and didn't not like it.  Sue me.

For Life

[NBASupes]

3 hours ago, Gray Mule said:

Hope you thought to tape the game as you didn't get to watch it live.

I usually have multiple copies on deck but I thought JC was out so I just felt this one is okay to sit out. Boy was I wrong. 

[High5]

This win would have felt so much better if we didn't choke away an easy one the night before. But at least it was a nice response to what could have been a backbreaking loss. Gallo just nailing catch-and-shoot 3's was the dream we signed up for. 

[JayBirdHawk]

 

 

How is this possible, lol.

[macdaddy]

2 minutes ago, JayBirdHawk said:

 

 

How is this possible, lol.

[kg01]

13 minutes ago, JayBirdHawk said:

 

 

How is this possible, lol.

Haha.  That means the split-second you run him off the 3, he turns from Cinderella into the pumpkin.

[JayBirdHawk]

Maybe we should wear these MLK Jerseys more often.

 

 

[RedDawg#8]

14 minutes ago, JayBirdHawk said:

Maybe we should wear these MLK Jerseys more often.

 

 

We should go blackout the rest of the season.

MLK or the Statement only. 

[Dnice]

God bless you, Pope!!  It's ok to wear them on the road, despite not having the court to accompany..

I think Nate loves the statements, as they went 2 of 3.. 

[Spud2nique]

On 2/24/2021 at 10:53 AM, lethalweapon3 said:

“HOW YOU LOSIN’ TO THE CAVS AGAIN? DAYYUMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMNNNN!”

 

“There’s No Chemistry!”, we’re told, when something named Lamar Stevens looks like a dadgum DuPont Factory on wheels strolling down the lane untouched in the clutch. Whatever.

In usual Atlanta Sports years, by the time our Hawks had blown their 10^th fourth-quarter lead of the season (as per 92.9’s Mike Conti), we’d be occupied with United fooling around in the playoffs, fretting over the Dawgs getting stonewalled by Saban, and watching Matty Ice waltz for his life behind a slushy O-Line. More often than not, we’re still washing out dandruff after scratching our heads about how the Bravos collapsed in the postseason. This time, that is.

But nothing is usual in this most unusual sports town. The MLS season is delayed, the Flowery Branch Fail-cons are busy swapping out executive office furniture, Uga XVI or whatever is busy with doggie charm school, and members of the Baseball Club are still driving around the Gulf Coast seeking out directions to North Port. That means our Hawks, their beleaguered head coach, and their collective failures are on the A-Block in A-Town sports radio, and they’re trending for the wrong reasons on local anti-social media.

“There’s No Chemistry!”, we’re told, as our young All-Star-on-the-Low is out here looking like Frank Drebin outside the fireworks factory. Alright, Move On! Nothing To See Here! Move Along! Please Disperse! Another Day! Another Opportunity! 100!

I’m not wasting any energy waiting around to find out if Bogdan Bogdanovic is ever walking through that door. Not today, anyway. Instead, while the Boston Celtics (7:30 PM Eastern, Fox Sports Southeast and 92.9 FM in ATL, NBC Sports Boston) pay us a visit, hoping the Hawks will help them lick their own wounds, one night after their two All-Stars (smh) got licked in Lukaland, and help them return once again to .500 ball, I prefer to use this space to praise a local team that can now, finally, legitimately say, “We are a playoff team!” and not induce hearty guffaws.

Your Friendly Neighborhood Bracketologist is here to share the good news. The Yellow Jackets of the Georgia Institute of Gotdang Technology are projected to be bound for Dayton! Wait, what’s that? Oh, okay, Indianapolis, then, fine! Unlike Bawb Rathbun whenever the Hawks are about to shoot free throws, I’m not even halfway jinxing these guys. It’s a Stone Cold Lock ^TM, baby!

No more excuses about those brain-draining nuclear physics professors distracting Tech’s umpteenth-year scholars from standing toe-to-toe with the one-and-doner programs of the Atlantic Coast Conference. The Yellow Jacket Men strode up to Blacksburg and jived those turkeys at Va-Tech last night. It’s their fourth victory in a conference-high seven games against an opponent that entered their contest ranked in the Top-25. And the PR director masquerading as the college’s head basketball coach won’t let you forget it.

“There should be ELEVEN teams in the tournament coming out of the ACC!”, he says. Come home, Josh Pastner, you’re drunk. But they are getting eight, and the crew guided by Monstrous Moses Wright, Trae-Lite Jose Alvarado, and Bell Buckets Michael DeVoe are looking every bit like a top-7 ACC program right now. (By the way, the Lady Jackets are going Dancing, too. As a Top-8 seed, at that. Give ‘em hell, Nell!)

At long last, Pastner has cleaned house of all his creepy colleagues from Memphis, and got his postseason ban out of the way at the perfect time. Finesse! Beating the Hokies last night gave the Jackets their first two-game in-conference road winning streak since 2008. When they beat the Fighting John Collinses in Winston-Salem next week, that’ll be three in a row.

Once Pastner comes down from his high, he’ll have his team ready to run Jim Boeheim and student journalist killer Coach K’s clubs right on out the Thrillerdome over the next seven days. That, and a first-round victory in the ACC Tourney will sew up a spot in the 68-team dance for the first time in eleven (miserable!) years. Even a slip-up or two, at this late stage, would simply mean a “first-round” affair with Directional Kentucky or somebody is in the offing.

These Jackets have come a long way from blowing gimmes at McSqueamish Pavilion, to local lessers Georgia State and Mercer during the Thanksgiving break. At that time, hardly any other sports teams were playing, the heat lamp was squarely on the head coach, and the home fans were disgusted, disgruntled and just flat-out dissed, with no confidence their team would even deserve an invite to the CIT, never mind the NIT, once all was said and done on the 2020-21 season.

What they’ve done since that low point – winning almost all their home games on The Flats, beating ranked and favored opponents here and abroad, beating the remaining teams they absolutely had to beat, coming through at closing time – ought to be inspirational to another Basketball Club dribbling aimlessly just down the road, one that actually gets paid for their name, image, likeness, and, we have been led to believe, their competitive spirit.

 

Let’s Go Hawks! Or Not. At This Point, Just Do Whatever! The Checks Gon’ Clear Either Way.

~lw3

 

[Spud2nique]

You can’t demand respect, you can only control it from your end. (No here).

[Vol4ever]

My man Gallo!

[Spud2nique]

Forgotten to rate. We should really have .5 stars ️ available. @capstone21 is that something we could add cuz it comes into play a lot.