Official Game Thread: Pacers at Hawks

[terrell]

38 minutes ago, Peoriabird said:

Easy @JayBirdHawk He has an agenda against John Collins!  Sorry @AHF  I had to do it!  LOL!

ALL of the starters were in the minus besides DJM, but whatever...

Bench won the game like I said...

Cant believe yall are so butthurt about this.. lol

Wasnt a jab at JC or CC at all... Geez.

 

Edited March 26, 2023 by terrell

[Peoriabird]

The Starters were in the minus because they were playing with Young.  Not because of their play.

[TheNorthCydeRises]

52 minutes ago, FL_BRYANT said:

Great ball movement.  Hawks are much better when they are moving the ball as opposed to one guy with a lot of assist. Just saying! 

 

So why were they 0 for their last 5 when Trae didn't play?

The bench played a great game today.  But this has not been the norm.

[terrell]

1 hour ago, TheNorthCydeRises said:

Murray padding those stats at the end to ice the game.

MVP is Holiday though.  His minutes on the floor is virtually the difference in the game.

This...

 

[kg01]

7 minutes ago, TheNorthCydeRises said:

 

So why were they 0 for their last 5 when Trae didn't play?

The bench played a great game today.  But this has not been the norm.

Why can't people just be happy the bench and others stepped up and we won a game?

It's always gotta be weaponized.

There are more games where the bench and others play like absolute dawg shish and they get bailed out by Trae.  But folks just see through those nights because those are off-message. 

[sturt]

35 minutes ago, Peoriabird said:

Mathews is shooting 35% from the field and 34% from 3 this year.  That game was an abortion!

 

 

[JayBirdHawk]

 

 

[sturt]

42 minutes ago, Peoriabird said:

The answer for Mathews is to play better defense...He is an atrocious defender

Haven't looked at any of his defensive stats, but Mathews does a really good job of anticipating opponents moves, hence his penchant for drawing offensive fouls. Not the quickest guy, certainly, but his effort is exceptional

 

[Peoriabird]

The way to become the darling of this message boards is to hit a bunch of 3's in a game. LOL!

[sturt]

47 minutes ago, Peoriabird said:

That game was an aberration!

Been down this season, but his career numbers assert that he's more than capable.

 

[terrell]

1 hour ago, Peoriabird said:

But John led the team in scoring Mister offense 1st @terrell

Peo came out of hibernation when JC finally started playing better.. lol

But Im the one that has an Ag...da.. smh

[StonedDogs]

Damn I missed the game watching FAU vs Kstate

[JayBirdHawk]

 

 

[TheNorthCydeRises]

2 hours ago, Diesel said:

Can't believe that Trae has 15 Technicals. 

He's like Draymond right now. 

 

16

Next one and he's gone . . . and that's on top of if he doesn't get a suspension for this action.

 

[sturt]

8 minutes ago, JayBirdHawk said:

 

 

"He doesn't put up with anything, and that's the kinda guy I respect."

How long til that gains the reaction among fans, "Damn, Quin doesn't bend enough. He's too married to his own philosophies. He needs to be willing to listen to his players more. It's not like it was when he was playing the game."

Hopefully never. But what've you done for us lately is a pretty clear theme of NBA fans, and ours are no exception.

[sturt]

54 minutes ago, terrell said:

Im the one that has an Ag...da..

Agriculture dagree?

[TheNorthCydeRises]

2 hours ago, JayBirdHawk said:

Can we win tomorrow? Back to backs have not been kind to us.

 

 

The big question is . . . will Trae and Dre be available tomorrow?

[TheNorthCydeRises]

2 hours ago, Peoriabird said:

The answer for Mathews is to play better defense...He is an atrocious defender

 

The team as a whole are atrocious on defense.  Even in a win, we gave up 130 points tonight.

Hawks were 1 - 10 before tonight, in games in which we've given up 130+ points.

 

We're 2 - 25 in the past 4 years, when we give up 130+ points 

[givemesome1ce1]

It wasn’t a perfect game….but it was a game we needed to win and we handled business (something this team has a hard time of doing). The bench has been much better than the starters lately. Shout out to Matthews who played great and played better defense than Bey lol…he has more potential right now than Bey honestly. The starters gotta figure out how to get going for these last few games. The Trae tech was inexcusable, and Trae has to control himself because if he gets suspended during this period, we will be out the play-in.

 

special shout out to Aaron Holiday who has been awesome these past few games on his defense and scoring when he can.

Edited March 26, 2023 by givemesome1ce1

[benhillboy]

The Hawks’ depth is great based on the original “vision” when your owner is hell bent on staying under the tax.  Jalen and Aaron are too impactful for DNPs in the regular season, both have positive on court +/- per 100.  So many starters in the league on decent teams or better who don’t.  And I assure you AJ (+2.1, only second to Bey’s small sample on the team) is the best player in the league slotted on a third unit.  I give Quin a pass as he’s trying to do a lot in a short amount of time and Bey did come on like gangbusters.  It’s just that I personally wouldn’t dream of sitting AJ’s elite open shot and feel, Aaron’s insistence on keeping his man in front and turnover avoidance, and Jalen’s heavily-needed auxiliary playmaking as a Big and his hops.  I’ll live with their shortcomings thank you.
 

Bench is near-elite, similar to the Gallo-led Bench Mob that was arguably the best.  For example they’d totally smoke Denver’s second unit.  OO is making up for his slow start to the season.  I’ll enjoy him while I can, the trade requests are gonna be on fire by next season’s deadline. 
 

Edited March 26, 2023 by benhillboy