Atlanta Hawks vs. Washington Wizards game thread

daSwami · Post #1 » by **daSwami** » Fri Jan 11, 2008 11:10 pm

Dig my zen thread. wiz will win by 146 points.

gsuteke · Post #2 » by **gsuteke** » Fri Jan 11, 2008 11:20 pm

http://www.realgm.com/boards/viewtopic.php?t=749143

Stop by for some back and forth discussion with us Hawks fans.

SHould be a good game tonight!

Post #3 » by **miller31time** » Fri Jan 11, 2008 11:29 pm

Should be an interesting game. I assume Smith will be guarding Caron, which will be a tough task for Butler. I do expect Jamison to have a good game, though.

On the other end, Stevenson should be able to contain Joe Johnson.

Expecting a good game.

JonoMike13 · Post #4 » by **JonoMike13** » Fri Jan 11, 2008 11:30 pm

daSwami wrote:Dig my zen thread. wiz will win by 142 points.

Arenas is out. Fixed.

gowiz999 · Post #5 » by **gowiz999** » Fri Jan 11, 2008 11:36 pm

I just hope we don't get owned on the glass like the last time we played Atlanta. That was bad.

hands11 · Post #6 » by **hands11** » Sat Jan 12, 2008 12:26 am

I feel good about this one. CB and AJ should come out motivated.

The youngs being separated should help the Vets get them ramped up for a rebound form a tough loss.

Hopefully Haywood comes in confident after a great game against Yao.

The rest will come down the same thing it always does, EJ, line ups and rotations.

Will he give us the best chance to win or get in the way?

Oh, I've been wanting to post this for a while. I always notice that Haywood hardly hardly ever wins the tap. He is just a slow leaper. That means we get one less possession per game just on the tap alone. One other reason in a long list to starting

AD, CB, AJ, AB, BH would be nice. We could let AB do the jump.

I also noticed Yao came out at like the 4-5 min mark in the first. Not sure if this is what Houston usually does or it was just foul trouble. I wish we would stagger our rotation more instead of playing all the starters the whole first quarter. I had when EJ bring in 3 bench players all at once. Id rather it be 1 or 2.

I'm going to start the count of opening taps won and lost by Haywood.

gsuteke · Post #7 » by **gsuteke** » Sat Jan 12, 2008 12:35 am

Josh Smith will jump for us so Haywood will have a 4 inch height advantage.

closg00 · Post #8 » by **closg00** » Sat Jan 12, 2008 12:41 am

gsuteke wrote:Josh Smith will jump for us so Haywood will have a 4 inch height advantage.

You know how many times I've seen much shorter players out-rebound BTH?

gowiz999 · Post #9 » by **gowiz999** » Sat Jan 12, 2008 12:56 am

Nice to see the 20th ranked rebounding team in the league dominate us on the boards yet again. God we are a dumb team. 7-0 ATL run.

gowiz999 · Post #10 » by **gowiz999** » Sat Jan 12, 2008 1:03 am

Good play to end the quarter. Haywood with 2 early fouls. Not sure why Darius is playing instead of AB. Not a bad first quarter. Hopefully we get to see Opec in the 2nd.

MJG · Post #11 » by **MJG** » Sat Jan 12, 2008 1:14 am

OPec's first two plays are a defensive board and a score. Huzzah!

I_LOVE_DC · Post #12 » by **I_LOVE_DC** » Sat Jan 12, 2008 1:14 am

PECHEROV!

no D in Hibachi · Post #13 » by **no D in Hibachi** » Sat Jan 12, 2008 1:17 am

my gosh, Pech and Blatche are beautiful together.

gowiz999 · Post #14 » by **gowiz999** » Sat Jan 12, 2008 1:24 am

D$ keeping us in the game :clap:

Post #15 » by **nate33** » Sat Jan 12, 2008 1:31 am

Wow. The Wizards are playing like crap yet they're still up 6.

gowiz999 · Post #16 » by **gowiz999** » Sat Jan 12, 2008 1:33 am

At least our D hasn't been too bad. We have to play much better on offense if we want to win though. Atlanta will surely hit more shots in the 2nd half.

RMJ · Post #17 » by **RMJ** » Sat Jan 12, 2008 1:34 am

hopefully we can blow this lead out to 20 by the end of 3rd

Post #18 » by **miller31time** » Sat Jan 12, 2008 1:35 am

Yeah, Pesh and Andray make a nice 4/5 tandem. Both active rebounders and defenders with Blatche controling the inside and Pesh covering the outside on offense.

hands11 · Post #19 » by **hands11** » Sat Jan 12, 2008 1:43 am

Wow, now that was interesting.

BH gets a stupid 2nd foul, we play Songaila for a while and then we get an OP appearance. Then it's OP and AB.

The feeling of having that one extra big body is very comforting. It kind of changes everything. We have so many more options now. Lots of big combinations.

So EJ looks like he is mixing it up which I like. We look kind of out of sync and disorganized in some of those new line ups but that is to be expected.

I love that we are keeping their scoring down. +/- is all that matter to me. Well, that and the W that follows.

I'm excited to see how this team grows with the additional of OP. It may be ugly for a little while but we should see some better rebounding and better D while we are getting their. I think AB playing along side another big will allow he to play his game a little more. He isn't a straight up center so the extra big allows he to get from under the post more and even when under there he doesn't have to bang as much so he can slash.

I look for more AB follow up dunks.

hands11 · Post #20 » by **hands11** » Sat Jan 12, 2008 1:44 am

gowiz999 wrote:At least our D hasn't been too bad. We have to play much better on offense if we want to win though. Atlanta will surely hit more shots in the 2nd half.

I thought I heard them mention the 4th is their hot quarter.