:lol Let me admit something, as a looongg time atlanta sports fans, im about as fickle as a fan can be about all atlanta sports team. i mean, we have ONE pro championship in 40 years of atlanta sports. sooo, got that out of the way. the subject: the CURRENT atlanta hawks. i have watched this team since hubie brown coached them in the late 1970s. the hawks, TRADITIONALLY before they traded nique away, always had a good team, but never could get out of the second round of the playoffs. not hubie brown, mike fratello, lenny wilkins, none of those coaches could get them to even the eastern conference championship.
the current bunch, i SEE SOMETHING. i see a team that can sneak into the eastern conference title game against orlando. boston, they just dismantled boston , in boston. boston is too old, cleveland, nah, the hawks bench is better than the cavaliers starters. laugh all you want. the hawks, finally, have a sense of what to do on both ends of the court with all that talent they have. they go TEN deep on this roster. what i have seen is josh smith finally grow up and he is beasting the paint. THAT was the first key. next key, they got a SCORER who can rest BOTH bibby and johnson: jamal crawford. crawford looked like kobe and jordan last night against the celtics. just played with them, and crawford comes off the bench and was killing their starters. crawford not only allows the hawks other guards to rest, he allows them to play possibly the best small lineup in the nba: bibby at the point, crawford at 2 and johnson at the 3, with smith and horford up front. speaking of horford, he, along with pachulia and another big key, joe smith, allow the hawks to finally have a rotation up front that is legit. now, they can get into foul trouble with howard and garnett and dont have to worry. i see the hawks sneaking into the title game againt orlando. woodson surprised me, their coach. ninja actually showing imagination with this group on offense and got them playing defense. they are legit, finally.
the current bunch, i SEE SOMETHING. i see a team that can sneak into the eastern conference title game against orlando. boston, they just dismantled boston , in boston. boston is too old, cleveland, nah, the hawks bench is better than the cavaliers starters. laugh all you want. the hawks, finally, have a sense of what to do on both ends of the court with all that talent they have. they go TEN deep on this roster. what i have seen is josh smith finally grow up and he is beasting the paint. THAT was the first key. next key, they got a SCORER who can rest BOTH bibby and johnson: jamal crawford. crawford looked like kobe and jordan last night against the celtics. just played with them, and crawford comes off the bench and was killing their starters. crawford not only allows the hawks other guards to rest, he allows them to play possibly the best small lineup in the nba: bibby at the point, crawford at 2 and johnson at the 3, with smith and horford up front. speaking of horford, he, along with pachulia and another big key, joe smith, allow the hawks to finally have a rotation up front that is legit. now, they can get into foul trouble with howard and garnett and dont have to worry. i see the hawks sneaking into the title game againt orlando. woodson surprised me, their coach. ninja actually showing imagination with this group on offense and got them playing defense. they are legit, finally.
)....he adds the type of slasher they need to compete with the celtics. i could even see them giving cleveland problems.
