Official Game Thread: Hawks at Clippers

[MarylandHawk]

Dag nabbit. We lost the defensive intensity and couldn't get it back. 

[Marvin24Williams]

Nate stuck too long with that lineup... Very Lloydian of him 

[REHawksFan]

So much for elite defense and locking down the 4th qtr. Let a bunch of bench dudes run all over em. Good grief.

Maybe it was the poor competition. 

[terrell]

5 minutes ago, TheTruth said:

Ugh. Nate, you just can't trust Solo or Rondo. Wish Heurter gave us something - anything - tonight.

He gave us nothing.....

[NBASupes]

Rondo and Solo was just killing us

[Atlantaholic]

5 minutes ago, Threezus said:

Nates been great but no doubt he cost us this game by putting Rondo and Hill's sorry assess in the game for so long.  It gave the Clippers all the momentum they needed and it's very hard to stop that kind of momentum when you bring the starters back in cold.   Then you add in the home cooking and we was done for.

Shout out to the Refs with three huge awful calls on us. 

[JayBirdHawk]

The 8 game win streak was fun. Put this game behind us and get ready for the Kings.

On the bright side, glad to have Hunter back, he was solid. Played 20 minutes, 3-6 for 8 points.

[bleachkit]

Go get Zo. F it. Cant watch Rondo anymore, he's had like 2 good games all year. Sometime he's just flat out bad.

[MarylandHawk]

3 minutes ago, Atlantaholic said:

3rd quarter lost us this game, Rondo and Hill, and then a Cap pull in the 4th to ensure the Clippers can score at will was the shit cherry on top.

This. 

[Threezus]

Just now, Atlantaholic said:

Shout out to the Refs with three huge awful calls on us. 

Yeah but im still not putting this one on the refs much as those calls wouldn't have mattered if we didn't keep Rondo, Lolomon, and Huerter in the game so long while others were playing much better.   The closest this game should have been was 10 to 12 at the end with us still ahead.

[hawkman]

Just now, Atlantaholic said:

Shout out to the Refs with three huge awful calls on us. 

Once the Hawks let it get down single digits, I knew that was coming. The bench lost this game in the last few minutes of the 3rd quarter. Lue was all set to sit his starters for the rest of the game. No excuse to not finish this game in the 3rd. They were done. 

[Atlantaholic]

1 minute ago, Threezus said:

Yeah but im still not putting this one on the refs much as those calls wouldn't have mattered if we didn't keep Rondo, Lolomon, and Huerter in the game so long while others were playing much better.   The closest this game should have been was 10 to 12 at the end with us still ahead.

Refs the cherry, but we built that dookie cupcake with poor coaching and effort in the 3rd.

[MarylandHawk]

The one thing the second unit needs to do when Rondo is on the floor is hustle to get open when he has the ball, he will find them. They loaf up the court looking for him to do something or score.   He is always looking to pass and he is forcing it because no one is moving. 

[Buzzard]

It was a good game. One I picked them to lose in the poll about this 8 game road trip. The Hawks need to bounce back against the Kings Wednesday night.

Lue may need to turn in his coaching credentials if he continues to not play and get anything out of Kennard.

Edited March 23, 2021 by Buzzard

[bleachkit]

1 minute ago, hawkman said:

Once the Hawks let it get down single digits, I knew that was coming. The bench lost this game in the last few minutes of the 3rd quarter. Lue was all set to sit his starters for the rest of the game. No excuse to not finish this game in the 3rd. They were done. 

We counted our chickens before they hatched. Letting Mann and Kennard go off in the 3rd was inexcusable. 

[MarylandHawk]

On a positive note Trae busted Kawhi and Paul’s a** and Deandre got in a rhythm. 

[hawkman]

Just now, bleachkit said:

We counted our chickens before they hatched. Letting Mann and Kennard go off in the 3rd was inexcusable. 

That's on Nate. I was waiting for a timeout and/or sub during that 3rd quarter and it never came. I thought that kind of nonsense was over two weeks ago.

[TheNorthCydeRises]

Damn . . . HIll was -12 in just 5 minutes.   Knight should get all of his minutes.

[terrell]

2 minutes ago, bleachkit said:

We counted our chickens before they hatched. Letting Mann and Kennard go off in the 3rd was inexcusable. 

Hopefully Dunn and Cam will help when we need stops..But yeah..

[willthepureshooter]

Once again... Rondo and Hill have caused a drop in momentum. We need Cam back and Rondo shipped out of the city. At this point, I'll take an off the couch Jamal Crawford.