Official Game Thread: Hawks at 76ers -- GAME 1

[Atlantaholic]

1 minute ago, TheNorthCydeRises said:

 

It's because you have to expend a lot of energy to do that.  

You blitz Trae, then have to rotate back to shooters who can knock down 3s, or big men who can roll to the basket.

They're not going to be able to do that the entire game, if a team is properly prepared for it.

Sixers havd the bodies to rotate in and out. *Shrugs* Worth giving it a shot over letting Trae Young pretty much put up Michael Jordan numbers on ya imo. 

[AHawks89]

16 minutes ago, HawkingAwesome said:

Never play prevent defense 

4:40 tiime - "Bob da Bob Don Bog Don Bogdonasjdlfkvich, you know what im talking about." LOL

Edited June 6, 2021 by AHawks89

[terrell]

Hahahahaha Trae won his first playoff series 1st

Luka still winless hahahaha.
 

[MarylandHawk]

My goodness. We are watching something special unfold here. 

[Atlantaholic]

4 minutes ago, terrell said:

Hahahahaha Trae won his first playoff series 1st

Luka still winless hahahaha.
 

Playing the Clips led by Robocop is a little different than the Knicks led by the Julius "Stay Puft" Randle... But I'll take it lol. 

P.S. Doncic had a pretty incredible individual performance that series... KP looking like he has the Julius Randle heart beating in his chest though. 

Edited June 6, 2021 by Atlantaholic

[marco102]

My last post.  

Trae Young continues to cook Ben Simmons and the 76ers. I would say Embiid, but he went out there and performed on a half of a knee.  I can tell these people who don't watch the Hawks when they say Ben Simmons will shut him down.  Trae is too quick for Ben.  Trae also destroys Thybul and anyone else they throw on him single coverage. It'll be interesting to see how Philly guards him from now on.  The one thing that scares me is Ben on Bogi.  If the Trap's release is to Bogi, Ben may give him trouble.

[Atlantaholic]

Just now, marco102 said:

My last post.  

Trae Young continues to cook Ben Simmons and the 76ers. I would say Embiid, but he went out there and performed on a half of a knee.  I can tell these people who don't watch the Hawks when they say Ben Simmons will shut him down.  Trae is too quick for Ben.  Trae also destroys Thybul and anyone else they throw on him single coverage. It'll be interesting to see how Philly guards him from now on.  The one thing that scares me is Ben on Bogi.  If the Trap's release is to Bogi, Ben may give him trouble.

Thybul has frustrated Trae the most. Problem is he is an offensive liability, so Doc has been hesitent to give him big minutes. However, with Thybul actually having a good offensive game I wouldn't be shocked if we see a whole lot more of him and less of Danny Green who straight up got embarassed in the first half. 

[Cwell]

3 minutes ago, Atlantaholic said:

Playing the Clips led by Robocop is a little different than the Knicks led by the Julius "Stay Puft" Randle... But I'll take it lol. 

P.S. Doncic had a pretty incredible individual performance that series... KP looking like he has the Julius Randle heart beating in his chest though. 

being up 2-0 going to your homecourt and losing the series.....there's never an excuse for that, even if they played the damn MONSTARS WITH JORDAN.

[TheNorthCydeRises]

3 minutes ago, Atlantaholic said:

Playing the Clips led by Robocop is a little different than the Knicks led by the Julius "Stay Puft" Randle... But I'll take it lol. 

P.S. Doncic had a pretty incredible individual performance that series... KP looking like he has the Julius Randle heart beating in his chest though. 

 

He was up 2 - 0 . . and had a close out game at home, and his team couldn't get it done.

 

[Cwell]

3 minutes ago, marco102 said:

My last post.  

Trae Young continues to cook Ben Simmons and the 76ers. I would say Embiid, but he went out there and performed on a half of a knee.  I can tell these people who don't watch the Hawks when they say Ben Simmons will shut him down.  Trae is too quick for Ben.  Trae also destroys Thybul and anyone else they throw on him single coverage. It'll be interesting to see how Philly guards him from now on.  The one thing that scares me is Ben on Bogi.  If the Trap's release is to Bogi, Ben may give him trouble.

Simmons guarded him for 3 possessions and said "yeah.... ima head out" lol

[marco102]

1 minute ago, Atlantaholic said:

Thybul has frustrated Trae the most. Problem is he is an offensive liability, so Doc has been hesitent to give him big minutes. However, with Thybul actually having a good offensive game I wouldn't be shocked if we see a whole lot more of him and less of Danny Green who straight up got embarassed in the first half. 

Thybul didn't really frustrate him.  Trae just shot some terrible shots.  Trae did create space for those shots though.  I believe Thybul caused one turnover whenever Trae was trying an outlet pass out of the Trap.  Other than that, he was getting cooked too.

[Atlantaholic]

Just now, marco102 said:

Thybul didn't really frustrate him.  Trae just shot some terrible shots.  Trae did create space for those shots though.  I believe Thybul caused one turnover whenever Trae was trying an outlet pass out of the Trap.  Other than that, he was getting cooked too.

Well, whatever the reason fact is Trae did not have much sucess with Thybul on him, and it isn't the first time.  If I'm the coach i'm sticking with the guy that is on Trae when he is missing the shots and not making them. 

[aali34]

 

[marco102]

3 minutes ago, Atlantaholic said:

Well, whatever the reason fact is Trae did not have much sucess with Thybul on him, and it isn't the first time.  If I'm the coach i'm sticking with the guy that is on Trae when he is missing the shots and not making them. 

For sure, I'm just thinking if Trae makes the right play there, it's not noticed. He played hero ball and took a couple of tough off the bounce shots.  I mean yeah maybe Thybul sped him up, but I don't see Doc playing Thybul single coverage on Trae.  They tried that in the first half with no success.

Edited June 6, 2021 by marco102

[HawkingAwesome]

11 minutes ago, MarylandHawk said:

My goodness. We are watching something special unfold here. 

Its really awesome to be witnessing history, its great that its the hawks 

[MarylandHawk]

7 minutes ago, Atlantaholic said:

Playing the Clips led by Robocop is a little different than the Knicks led by the Julius "Stay Puft" Randle... But I'll take it lol. 

P.S. Doncic had a pretty incredible individual performance that series... KP looking like he has the Julius Randle heart beating in his chest though. 

 

9 minutes ago, Atlantaholic said:

Playing the Clips led by Robocop is a little different than the Knicks led by the Julius "Stay Puft" Randle... But I'll take it lol. 

P.S. Doncic had a pretty incredible individual performance that series... KP looking like he has the Julius Randle heart beating in his chest though. 

I knew that was coming. The whole west coast is so much harder. The champs will be coming out of the East this year. 

[Atlantaholic]

2 minutes ago, marco102 said:

For sure, I'm just thinking if Trae makes the right play their, it's not noticed. He played hero ball and took so tough off the bounce shots.  I mean yeah maybe Thybul sped him up, but I don't see Doc playing Thybul single coverage on Trae.  They tried that in the first half with no success.

Nah, no one in the world can stop Trae in single coverage. But put Thybul on him and help aggresively. That's the obvious strategy if I'm the 6ers, and it's what I would have done from the tip. 

1 minute ago, MarylandHawk said:

 

I knew that was coming. The whole west coast is so much harder. The champs will be coming out of the East this year. 

Just being objective. You don't think the Mavs beat the Knicks? Also, outside of a 100% healthy Nets team there isn't an Eastern conference team that is getting past the Jazz, who I'm fairly confident will make it out of the west.

Edited June 6, 2021 by Atlantaholic

[Dnice]

 

[Atlantaholic]

3 minutes ago, Dnice said:

 

This is glorious "hang it on the louvre" comment +1

[Dejay]

1 hour ago, Sothron said:

I am so glad we won that despite the refs wearing Sixers jerseys underneath their zebra shirts. That game was officiated so badly I had to walk away before throwing the remote through the tv. It was BLATANT in how biased the officiating was.

I have friends that are fans of other NBA teams and even they were texting me about how bad the refs were. 

Now we have home court advantage. Now we need to go up 2-0 on Tuesday to break their confidence.

This isn't your dad's Hawks out there. This team not only believes they can win but we have the TALENT from the top guy to the 13th guy to actually win playoff games. 

If I was a Sixers fan, I'm beyond concerned. If you had told me before the game that not only would Embiid play but hang 40, Hunter wouldn't play, and the refs had Iverson jerseys underneath their uniforms, I would've been hard pressed to believe a way for the Hawks to keep the margin within single digits. 

Despite getting their best shot from their best player, including the refs all but throwing a chair into the ring to help, they still lost. I have utter confidence that Nate Dogg will have them ready for those traps come Tuesday. And if Hunter returns, well...