F*ck Chris Broussard--You are not going to believe what he said!!

[QuantumHawkz]

1 hour ago, AHF said:

If he doesn’t appreciate the Dion Glover to Cal Bowdler combo by now, he doesn’t deserve to come around on it in the future!

What y'all know about Ed Gray and Roshown Mcleod

[RandomFan]

18 minutes ago, TheNorthCydeRises said:

 

Slowpez doesn't play down on the block any more.

In fact, what Bud team has featured a low post scorer?

 

If anything, Khris Middleton and Jrue Holiday will be looked upon to be ultra aggressive on offense.  Without Giannis and Trae, they're arguably the 2 best players in the series, with the Hawks arguably having the next 4 - 5 best players.

In a close game down the stretch, the advantage probably goes to Milwaukee, due to Khris' shot creating and making ability.

In the overall stretch of things, the advantage goes to us, because we can sustain a baseline level of play throughout the game.

 

But like I said, let's hope it doesn't come down to a 1 possession game in which we must make tough shots.  At that point, I only trust Huerter and Lou to create something in the midrange to get us a good look.  Collins' post up is a possible option too.

Lopez doesn't play on the block anymore because he has Giannis as a teammate and they don't want to clutter up the paint. That's obviously not the case now. We'll see.

[PSSSHHHRRR87]

Yeah, the talk heads are all going crazy now with nothing but small market teams left. Atlanta is the biggest market left but the sports world hates us. lol

[FrankWhite]

Even if, lord willing, Trae and Clint play tonight, the Hawks are going to go out there missing their starting 3, with their starting center needing an eye transplant, and their starting backcourt playing on two legs total, and if they win, it will be because they got lucky due to injuries, lol.

[JayBirdHawk]

35 minutes ago, QuantumHawkz said:

It's getting to the point where I'm really starting to not understand why the Hawks get so much disrespect. It's almost like the media has this inside joke about Atlanta sports teams.

I've given up trying to understand.  

[Guest]

From an article on Yahoo Sports today (by Frank Schwab):

This might be the ultimate disrespect for the Atlanta Hawks. 

The Hawks are coming off a dominant Game 4 win over the Milwaukee Bucks. The Bucks list two-time NBA MVP Giannis Antetokounmpo as doubtful with a knee injury, and if we're being honest, he's probably doubtful until next season. 

And still the Hawks are 2-point underdogs at BetMGM. 

The line has moved toward the Hawks and it could flip to them being a favorite if Trae Young plays. He sat out Game 4 with a bone bruise in his foot. Even without Young, the Hawks demolished Milwaukee on Tuesday night. And that was mostly with Antetokounmpo. 

It would take an incredible effort for the Bucks to win without Antetokounmpo. Nothing against Young, but what he does is a lot easier to replace. 

[TheNorthCydeRises]

54 minutes ago, QuantumHawkz said:

It's getting to the point where I'm really starting to not understand why the Hawks get so much disrespect. It's almost like the media has this inside joke about Atlanta sports teams.

 

They do.

And they're waiting for the moment that the Hawks crash and burn.

Also, they'll have to explain how a team with Zero 2021 All-Stars, won the NBA Championship.   So despite the Hawks having their top wings injured most of the playoffs, it's the injuries from other teams that enabled the Hawks to advance so far.   That will be the narrative that they'll go with.

Not the fact that we had to beat most of the All-Star team to get here with our "stat padding, Steph Curry clone"  . . as they've always innacurately described Trae . . and his "band of cast-offs, kids, and misfits".

[frosgrim]

FWIW, the guys on First Take yesterday absolutely disagreed with the asterisk comment.  Yes, the NBA had a compressed schedule, but pro sports is about how you weather storms during the season.  Health is part of that storm good or bad.

Kendrick Perkins brought up all the C's injuries when they didn't win the championships, but to Perkins he didn't win so there is no "what if" regarding those injuries (including his own).  His teams simply didn't get it done.   Bottom line, a champion is a champion as all the teams played with the same schedule and number of games. 

[Dejay]

I'll give it a shot...

The sports hate for this city goes back a long way. You have Ted Turner's initial start as an owner of the Braves and even managing the team for a game. You have Rankin Smith and his family (aka the Clampetts) owning the Falcons and running that franchise into the ground. Losing not one but two NHL teams due to poor ownership (see Flames, Atlanta) and negligent ownership (see Thrashers, Atlanta). And do we even need to go there with the misfires of this franchise over the last five decades? And as a side note, we'll get to see one of their biggest misfires on full display in the Finals, starting next week (see Paul, Christopher). Hell, the only local pro teams who managed to win a title until the mid-'90s (and none since) were the Chiefs and Knights, and both of those leagues eventually folded.

In the sports world, Atlanta was regarded as a joke, a running punchline by comedians, and a city not to take seriously in terms of winning or hosting anything of significance. And with no Georgia Dome being around until 1992, that was largely the case. Sure, we managed to get a Final Four here or an All-Star game there in the '70s when the Omni and AFCS was still kind of new but afterwards? Get real. Unless you was a big pro wrestling fan and loved Dusty Rhodes fighting Ric Flair and the Four Horsemen (see 1987 Wargames), you had to look elsewhere for big time events.

Despite this backdrop, the city still managed to host what was widely regarded as being one of the most exclusive events in the world; the 1996 Summer Olympic Games. It wasn't just that it was the Olympics, it was the Centennial Olympics that our city got that the entire world expected Athens, Greece to host. That put the city on the map not only nationally but on an international scale never seen before. And for whatever reason warranted or not, neither party felt that Atlanta 'deserved' to host such a prestigious event; like pundits today feeling as if the Hawks not 'deserving' to be in the Finals and crafting new and creative ways for the Bucks to win the ECFs. That perception started long before Muhammed Ali lit the torch (BTW, I worked for ACOG and was only 30 feet away from him when it happened).

Ask any international sports columnist and many of them are still salty about the '96 Summer Games to this very day. Even the ones in the US hold a personal grudge against the city and has stopped at nothing to crack on Atlanta whenever something goes sideways (see SBLI, the 1996/1999 World Series). Add that to the fact that this is one of the largest transient cities in the world where most folks move here with their hometown sports allegiances in tow while the locals carry an SEC mentality in terms of winning or staying home because they knew that the local teams would royally eff things up in the playoffs (see Braves, Atlanta) and it gave a different narrative to lazy national columnists who are used to lemmings packing the place to see a bad product in say, Chicago, NYC, or Cleveland.

It never occurs to them that the sole reason why their buildings sold out while ours didn't is because those teams have banners hanging up in the rafters (flags fly forever). Those banners always give fans hope that lightning can strike once again no matter how many games in a row their team just lost. There simply is no track record of that down here, so generations of fans got to see the local teams get rick-rolled every year while Jordan, Lebron, Derek Jeter, Tom Brady, et al win rings and followed their teams instead. Case in point, this explains why the ratings for the NBA Finals are always high here despite the Hawks never going that far in their entire Atlanta existence (hopefully, that changes within the week)...

Edited July 1, 2021 by Dejay

[hawkman]

18 minutes ago, LongTimeFan said:

It would take an incredible effort for the Bucks to win without Antetokounmpo. Nothing against Young, but what he does is a lot easier to replace. 

So Trae's 33ppg and 6apg is "a lot easier to replace" then what Giannis was doing in this series? Did whoever wrote this even look at the Hawks' roster? It's like they can't help but to either shade or give backhanded compliments to the Hawks and/or Trae. The Hawks almost need to win the NBA Championship at this point just to shut these guys up. If that happens, they can stay mad for all I care. 

[JayBirdHawk]

I'm not gonna let these fools harsh by buzz for these Hawks!

Let's get 'er done!!

Go Hawks!! Let's win this!

[Dejay]

28 minutes ago, TheNorthCydeRises said:

 

They do.

And they're waiting for the moment that the Hawks crash and burn.

Also, they'll have to explain how a team with Zero 2021 All-Stars, won the NBA Championship.   So despite the Hawks having their top wings injured most of the playoffs, it's the injuries from other teams that enabled the Hawks to advance so far.   That will be the narrative that they'll go with.

Not the fact that we had to beat most of the All-Star team to get here with our "stat padding, Steph Curry clone"  . . as they've always innacurately described Trae . . and his "band of cast-offs, kids, and misfits".

Yup. It was Brandon Marshall (that's the wide receiver I mentioned earlier) who copped by saying that all of them in the national media had it wrong about the Hawks all this time. Admitting that with cameras rolling would be akin to getting a child to admit not doing his homework and facing the music instead of just saying that the dog ate it while continuing to act as if nothing's wrong...

[Spud2nique]

At this point we’ve been hated on for so long that I’m not sure I even want them to like us.  We good we good.  

[Spud2nique]

17 hours ago, warcore said:

dumbasses say dumb ass $hit.

Preach! 

[hawkman]

3 minutes ago, Spud2nique said:

At this point we’ve been hated on for so long that I’m not sure I even want them to like us.  We good we good.  

Agreed. The media was fawning over the Hawks after winning Game 1 of the ECF. That was the first time they received overwhelmingly positive coverage from the major sports media platforms. They then went on to get destroyed in Game 2. Yeah, I'd rather they continue to hate the Atlanta Hawks. 

[Spud2nique]

No new friends.. (I mean the media siding with us not new Hawks fans)..

 

[kg01]

27 minutes ago, Spud2nique said:

At this point we’ve been hated on for so long that I’m not sure I even want them to like us.  We good we good.  

You tell 'em, spud!

If'n these eggsperts start to sniff 'round like they been here the whole time, I'm contractually obligated to tell them to GTFOHADCB (ADCB = and don't come back)

[JeffS17]

Broussard is a clown.  He's the clown of all clowns. 

The Suns, if anyone, deserve the asterisk if that's something you're going to entertain... playing the Lakers with no AD, playing Denver with no Jamal Murray, and then playing the Clippers with no Kawhi, and possibly the Bucks with no Giannis or Hawks with no Trae.  Everyone they have faced has been without a max/supermax level player lol...

The Hawks rolled through the Knicks after the media circle-jerked them and their fans for 2 weeks straight, then we took out the 76ers who were healthy and the unanimous picks to go to the ECF... and now we're playing the Bucks who were at full strength for 3 and a half games (of which we were up 10 when Giannis went out) AND we didn't have Trae or Hunter... AND Bogi is playing through a knee injury... not to mention Cam Reddish has been unavailable most of the playoffs and Solo has been getting heavy minutes... but we're still winning.

Also, I'm so tired of the push for a "feel-good" story around CP3.  Why is this a feel-good story?  Because he never made the finals in 16 years as a good player? O.K.   Feel-good story is someone like Giannis and his brothers who are wholesome good people off the court.  Feel-good story is Capela who grew up in a Swiss orphanage and left his family to pursue basketball.  CP3 is an arrogant ass and he plays dirty and constantly flops.  Nothing about him or his personality is feel-good.  He's really competitive and wants to win really badly?  O.K. so does everyone else, who cares.  It's even more annoying this narrative is being pushed because Booker has a better "feel-good" story than CP3.  He was actually on the Suns teams that were garbage and stuck with it and didn't complain or demand a trade.  Or how about we talk about Ayton who has been playing his ass off despite the entire media wanking Luka for 3 straight years and ignoring the #1 pick.  But nah, let's keep talking about the guy who has hour long flop compilations on YouTube and is constantly getting into petty disputes with players and has had countless dirty plays.

 

[macdaddy]

2 minutes ago, JeffS17 said:

Broussard is a clown.  He's the clown of all clowns. 

The Suns, if anyone, deserve the asterisk if that's something you're going to entertain... playing the Lakers with no AD, playing Denver with no Jamal Murray, and then playing the Clippers with no Kawhi, and possibly the Bucks with no Giannis or Hawks with no Trae.  Everyone they have faced has been without a max/supermax level player lol...

The Hawks rolled through the Knicks after the media circle-jerked them and their fans for 2 weeks straight, then we took out the 76ers who were healthy and the unanimous picks to go to the ECF... and now we're playing the Bucks who were at full strength for 3 and a half games (of which we were up 10 when Giannis went out) AND we didn't have Trae or Hunter... AND Bogi is playing through a knee injury... not to mention Cam Reddish has been unavailable most of the playoffs and Solo has been getting heavy minutes... but we're still winning.

Also, I'm so tired of the push for a "feel-good" story around CP3.  Why is this a feel-good story?  Because he never made the finals in 16 years as a good player? O.K.   Feel-good story is someone like Giannis and his brothers who are wholesome good people off the court.  Feel-good story is Capela who grew up in a Swiss orphanage and left his family to pursue basketball.  CP3 is an arrogant ass and he plays dirty and constantly flops.  Nothing about him or his personality is feel-good.  He's really competitive and wants to win really badly?  O.K. so does everyone else, who cares.  It's even more annoying this narrative is being pushed because Booker has a better "feel-good" story than CP3.  He was actually on the Suns teams that were garbage and stuck with it and didn't complain or demand a trade.  Or how about we talk about Ayton who has been playing his ass off despite the entire media wanking Luka for 3 straight years and ignoring the #1 pick.  But nah, let's keep talking about the guy who has hour long flop compilations on YouTube and is constantly getting into petty disputes with players and has had countless dirty plays.

 

This is truth.   If we get to the finals CP3 will probably replace Randle and Embiid as the most annoying players we faced in the playoffs.   His flop against Cousins last night shows what a joke the NBA is.   They watched it on replay and should have given CP a T for flopping.  

But we have to get there.  Facing the trap game of all trap games tonight. 

[Spud2nique]

3 minutes ago, kg01 said:

and don't come back)

 that’s for clarifying the end.

Bro I just went over to realgm and it makes me sad. Threads like “is this the weakest champion since 2004?”

Man, these guys are hating hard. Every year when your team ain’t in it, it’s the weakest year and pull out the asterisks. 
 

I might join Gramps and get a strike there, more like a coach getting a T for his guys lol.