Official Game Thread: Hawks at Rockets

[terrell]

@johnhollinger

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1h

 

Just pretend Nathan Knight was Atlanta's lottery pick

[JayBirdHawk]

Just now, terrell said:

@johnhollinger

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1h

 

Just pretend Nathan Knight was Atlanta's lottery pick

Hollinger is an idiot. He had Huerter starting at SF with Hunter off the bench.

[Dnice]

 

[JayBirdHawk]

4 hours ago, JayBirdHawk said:

I want this game over by mid 3rd quarter - our starters should be able to sit out the 4th.  I say this, and.............I'm thinking this will be me late in the 4th.

 

I didn't tell a lie...this was me in the 4th.

[lethalweapon3]

Give us the hook-up tomorrow on St, Patty's Day, Cleveland!

Go HaWWWWWWks!

~lw3

[AHF]

6 minutes ago, Peoriabird said:

Yeah I want 4 quarter of it but the mere fact that when they need to honker down and play hard nose defense, they can and have every 4th quarter Nate has coached regardless of the personnel on the floor

It won’t stay that way but I’m loving it so far.  We may have been out scored in the fourth or given up 26 points or so but we’ve played both ends of the floor with improved focus under Nate.  
 

@sturt is correct that the level of competition deserves to be factored in, never more so than tonight.  We will have rougher performances against better teams but it is still worth celebrating a streak like this because you don’t always win the ones you are supposed to win. The fact that we’ve done it is worthy of some high fives.  Hopefully it will give us momentum for the tougher stretch up ahead.

[lethalweapon3]

3 minutes ago, AHF said:

It won’t stay that way but I’m loving it so far.  We may have been out scored in the fourth or given up 26 points or so but we’ve played both ends of the floor with improved focus under Nate.  
 

@sturt is correct that the level of competition deserves to be factored in, never more so than tonight.  We will have rougher performances against better teams but it is still worth celebrating a streak like this because you don’t always win the ones you are supposed to win. The fact that we’ve done it is worthy of some high fives.  Hopefully it will give us momentum for the tougher stretch up ahead.

Also, hopefully we can keep that pink hi-liter ready for postgame Thursday! OKC's around #5 IIRC.

 

~lw3

[JeffS17]

35 minutes ago, sturt said:

Observations... for no one in particular...

"On balance" means... well... "on balance."

Two things can be true at once.

Numbers don't care about anyone's feelings.

What your numbers fail to display here is game to game variance.  Also, even if we have a 60% chance to win all of these games (thats actually a little higher than odds makers would have us), the odds we win 6 in a row is (0.6)^6 or about a ~5% chance.  So even by the numbers we should be very happy not dropping a game in 6 straight, regardless of opponent!

 

[bleachkit]

13 minutes ago, Dnice said:

 

He's tied with three other guys for ninth on the 20 and 10 with zero TO under 24 list! Yes!!!!

[AHF]

2 minutes ago, JeffS17 said:

What your numbers fail to display here is game to game variance.  Also, even if we have a 60% chance to win all of these games (thats actually a little higher than odds makers would have us), the odds we win 6 in a row is (0.6)^6 or about a ~5% chance.  So even by the numbers we should be very happy not dropping a game in 6 straight, regardless of opponent!

 

Speaking of consistency, Snell 5-7 from 3.    What a year he is having!

[bleachkit]

10 minutes ago, AHF said:

It won’t stay that way but I’m loving it so far.  We may have been out scored in the fourth or given up 26 points or so but we’ve played both ends of the floor with improved focus under Nate.  
 

@sturt is correct that the level of competition deserves to be factored in, never more so than tonight.  We will have rougher performances against better teams but it is still worth celebrating a streak like this because you don’t always win the ones you are supposed to win. The fact that we’ve done it is worthy of some high fives.  Hopefully it will give us momentum for the tougher stretch up ahead.

Proud of this winning steak, but once we go out West getting ready for some L's. That just how it goes.

[lethalweapon3]

3 minutes ago, bleachkit said:

He's tied with three other guys for ninth on the 20 and 10 with zero TO under 24 list! Yes!!!!

Hey! That's two other MAX guys, dontcha know? Oh, and Vin Baker and Joe Smith.

~jc'sag3nt

[sturt]

[lethalweapon3]

Let's all save a touch of this energy ((knock on wood)) for "WHOO! SEVEN IN A ROW! BUT!," shall we?

If all goes well ((breaks panels of wood like a karate master)), we'll be doing this two days from now.

~lw3

[Peoriabird]

2 minutes ago, lethalweapon3 said:

Let's all save a touch of this energy ((knock on wood)) for "WHOO! SEVEN IN A ROW! BUT!," shall we?

If all goes well ((breaks panels of wood like a karate master)), we'll be doing this two days from now.

~lw3

It won't count anyway because it will be against a bad team even though the same bad team beat LP earlier this year.

[terrell]

How does this guy go undrafted?

 

Edited March 17, 2021 by terrell

[Atlantaholic]

36 minutes ago, AHF said:

Speaking of consistency, Snell 5-7 from 3.    What a year he is having!

It's the most automatic I've seen anyone be since Korver in 2015. I'm literally stunned when he's open and it doesn't go in. 

[kg01]

20 minutes ago, Peoriabird said:

It won't count anyway because it will be against a bad team even though the same bad team beat LP earlier this year.

Daaaang, LP went 1-on-5 that night?

Sheesh, kudos for his effort atleast. 

[Spud2nique]

1 hour ago, TheNorthCydeRises said:

You see the score right?   We were up by 9.  I had the Hawks at ( -11.5 ).    That 3 put us up by 12.

Even though Houston would score on the next possession, that 3 was critical in covering that number.

 

Thank you Trae.

RESPECT the SUPERSTAR and his ability to trust his teammates. Mic drop part deux aka the return of the cocoon  

Trae 13 point/14 dimes

Northcyde aka LP, Spud aka Nate..

(peaceful shots fired)  

[bleachkit]

12 minutes ago, Atlantaholic said:

It's the most automatic I've seen anyone be since Korver in 2015. I'm literally stunned when he's open and it doesn't go in. 

Only downside is we might not be able to make any trades because we have to keep Snell.