Atlanta Hawks Pre Game 1 Talk

JoshB914 · Post #21 » by **JoshB914** » Thu Apr 17, 2008 8:17 pm

That's true. And I think we saw Horford's "championship experience" show during the last month of the season. How often do you see a rook step up his game in a crucial situation? I've always thought the NCAA Tourney experience was overrated but it clearly wasn't in Horford's situation.

I worry about Marvin regardless of his tourney experience. He has just never seemed to be there mentally, if he loses his focus in this series we are in big trouble.

HoopsGuru25 · Post #22 » by **HoopsGuru25** » Thu Apr 17, 2008 8:29 pm

Marvin sucked in the tournament with the exception of having a monster game in a blowout of the 16th seed.

Rip2137 · Post #23 » by **Rip2137** » Thu Apr 17, 2008 8:43 pm

Oh come on now. He played great against Oakland, Iowa State and Villanova. He was bad against Wisconsin, was good on the boards against Michigan state and played a pretty good championship game.

Thats is far from sucking.

evildallas · Post #24 » by **evildallas** » Thu Apr 17, 2008 9:07 pm

Marvin hasn't been that effective driving the ball during the year and I would expect it to be worse against a tough defensive team like Boston. It seems to me (going off memory) that with few exceptions Marvin would fumble away the ball or force an ackward shot on the lion's share of his drive attempts. These negative outcomes sadly well outnumbered his finishes, dishes, or foul drawing outcomes.

Perhaps to be most effective he needs to augment his spot up attempts with moving without the ball (not something the Hawks do a lot). If he can slip coverage a little bit maybe Bibby can hit him with a pass in scoring threat position. I just think that's more likely to be successful than Marvin driving the ball in traffic.

JoshB914 · Post #25 » by **JoshB914** » Thu Apr 17, 2008 9:20 pm

Marvin has shown the ability to get to the bucket consistently. It's just a mental/execution thing with him. Something needs to click with him in this series, kind of like for Matt Barnes last year for GSW. I doubt it happens, but if it does, we might be able to hang with Boston.

Retrovision · Post #26 » by **Retrovision** » Thu Apr 17, 2008 11:30 pm

Im tired of the assumtion that since you played a lot of NCAA Tournement games you have that "next level" experience.

Rip2137 · Post #27 » by **Rip2137** » Fri Apr 18, 2008 1:28 am

No one said next level. But big game experience. Playing in a championship game, no matter what level lets you know what its like. Playing for a Naional championship with millions watching and thousands in attendace is certainly big game experience also.

cfan79 · Post #28 » by **cfan79** » Fri Apr 18, 2008 2:26 am

Congrats

I was hoping either Atlanta or Charlotte would make the playoffs. The NBA needed some fresh blood.

HoopsGuru25 · Post #29 » by **HoopsGuru25** » Fri Apr 18, 2008 4:12 am

Celtics fans will be talking themselves off the ledge after the Hawks take game 1.

I just watched the Hawks/Celtics again on DVR and it was strikingly similar to the week 17 Giants/Patriots game. The Hawks played even with the Celtics starters only to give the game away in the last 4 minutes. The Giants were not just inferior to the 18-0 Patriots...but they were also considered the worst team in the entire playoffs which the Hawks can relate too. It seems like people are actually asking themselves "how bad will the blowout be" as opposed to asking themselves "who is going to win" ala the SuperBowl.. I'm picking the Hawks in 6.

LOL I'm J/K of course but it would be awesome if the Hawks managed to get the series back to Atlanta for a game 6 somehow.

cfan79 · Post #30 » by **cfan79** » Fri Apr 18, 2008 4:24 am

HoopsGuru25 wrote:Celtics fans will be talking themselves off the ledge after the Hawks take game 1.

I just watched the Hawks/Celtics again on DVR and it was strikingly similar to the week 17 Giants/Patriots game.

LOL, no way my friend. Celtics played their bench a lot in the last 25 games or so. Besides the NBA playoffs has 7 game series not 1 game series like the NFL.

evildallas · Post #31 » by **evildallas** » Fri Apr 18, 2008 6:23 pm

cfan79 wrote:Congrats

I was hoping either Atlanta or Charlotte would make the playoffs. The NBA needed some fresh blood.

Congrats to you as well, for contributing to the new, well different, blood in the playoffs. It's been a few seasons since Boston was in the playoffs as well. I know it was forgone conclusion, but it has been a while for a lot of your players. I believe that Garnett last went in 2004 and Allen, Pierce and Perkins last in 2005 with Rondo on his 1st trip. Some of your free agents on the bench were in the playoffs last year.

cfan79 · Post #32 » by **cfan79** » Fri Apr 18, 2008 6:45 pm

evildallas wrote:
Congrats to you as well, for contributing to the new, well different, blood in the playoffs. It's been a few seasons since Boston was in the playoffs as well. I know it was forgone conclusion, but it has been a while for a lot of your players. I believe that Garnett last went in 2004 and Allen, Pierce and Perkins last in 2005 with Rondo on his 1st trip. Some of your free agents on the bench were in the playoffs last year.

I didn't think of that, Thanks. You guys are going to be amazed how loud the crowd can get in Boston during the playoffs. Its going to be fun to see how Atlanta reacts to it in game 3 and 4 also.

Post #33 » by **HMFFL** » Fri Apr 18, 2008 7:46 pm

Marvin Williams is going to be a key piece to how far we go during the playoffs or if we even manage to win a game. Marvin guarding Paul Piece does both me a bit. I just hope Marvin can find away to get Paul into foul trouble and most of all take Paul out of his game.

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