We just aren't competing today

[td00]

How can we be so off that absolutely nothing is working?

I don't know what the problem is, as it doesn't seem to be one thing,
Do these guys really need a home crowd behind them to compete?

We saw 2 different teams in this series, so it remains to be seen what team will show up next year.

Its just tough to accept that we look lost out there after all the emotiion this series has brought to the city of Atlanta.

[UGA Hayes]

This has been the case all year though. Atl really executes alot better at home than on the road.

[HoopsGuru25]

They competed they just don't know how to play on the road. We have a coach who is also just as inexperienced as the players. The players play nervous and they just have the worst offensive sets I've ever seen.

[evildallas]

Well put. Inexperience + Inexperience makes the slope even steeper. I would love to see a veteran coach have a chance to impart some knowledge on our young team. Even when Woodson happens to say the right thing it doesn't seem to make it through. Probably a combination of a realization by the players that he's really inexperienced too and his voice being a bit stale after 4 years.

[Skar]

Win or lose, the hawks has put a statement that the hawks are back.

[High 5]

The Celtics were as good defensively as they were all year, we had no chance to win, but we still should have played better. Game 7, you have a chance to complete the biggest upset in history and you get outworked and outhustled from the get go. No way that should happen.

[parson]

I was incensed the entire game for BOS's holding on defense.

Then, when I calmed down, I remembered that the playoffs are played that way.

Shame on us for not showing the energy to break out of those holds and and shame on us for not showing the energy to apply some defensive holds ourselves.

No energy in the 7th game of a playoff series... at Boston ... on national TV on a Sunday afternoon with nothing else for the nation to watch.

Apparently, Woodson thought he'd already saved his job and could just mail this 'un in.

[parson]

This game perfectly displayed the biggest problem I have with Woodson: when the situation is tough, Woodson does nothing to help. He reverts to acting like an assistant and sits there, waiting for the REAL head coach to do something.

Too many times this season, I've watched him just sit there while we sank. We've excused it (I've excused it) by saying his players were too young or the talent differential was too great or he didn't have a center or he didn't have a PG.

Watch. His excuse this time will be he didn't have an all-star at every position and 7 1st rounders on the bench.

When crunch time comes, that man just doesn't act like THE man in charge.