Gameday: Hawks @ Knicks. The ****...Worked?

[Jamaaliver]

I'm speechless at this F*cked up Defensive effort. WHY IS MELO WIDE F*CKING OPEN EVERY TIME DOWN THE COURT!!!!!!!

Seriously, who's guarding Carmelo Anthony right now?

Josh most of the time.

And sadly, Josh isn't talented enough to at least make Carmelo pay on the other end.

[GrimeyKidd]

nba needs new refs

[ATL Boy]

Get Josh out, I'm sick of him. Just get his ass out already. In the final minute when we were up by 1 he: Commits a backcourt violation after trying to lead the fastbreak like a moron, he commits a moving screen offensive foul, and he just lets Melo blow by him on the defensive end and was called for a foul. (The refs bsd on the foul, Melo wasn't touched.) I can't take 5 more years of this. I just can't

[Hawk4Playoffs]

myrak you still love this guy?

[DirtybirdGA]

So much for the Boston win igniting a spark, back to their usual losing ways. At least they stayed in it.

[Jamaaliver]

But he dunks alot!!!!

And that is more important than winning.

Right, grimey?

[ATL Boy]

nba needs new refs

It would all be the same even with new refs: The NBA is a business, Stern doesn't give a Sh*t about fairness and about the spirit of the game, all he cares about is the money aspect and as long as the Superstars (Like Lebron, Melo, Wade, Durant) are doing good the NBA is making more money so the refs are encouraged to call it the superstars' way.

[Hawk4Playoffs]

Can we please create a new thread for the next game?

[DirtybirdGA]

You may be right since this month hasnt been good to em.

[Rip2137]

I give you guys the benefit of the doubt sometimes because..well...I don't know. I just do. But when a professional basketball analysis points out that A: Melo's threes were because of the Hawks not showing on picks and it stopped once they finally switched at the pick instead of trying to play it straight up and when they got out of the man zone defense and B: That the moving screen was the fault of the ball handler for going before the screener got set

and you STILL come in and blame Smith. Come on, that bull crap.

The backcourt was completely on Smith and it annoyed the hell out of me. But the nonsense in here blaming him for melo being "open" is ridiculous.

We lost the game but the foul calls on Horford were bigger than anything. He had it going (despite the bunch of turnovers) but the refs kept him out the game. Zaza is bringing nothing at this point, as his injury is really messing with him and there were some funky lineups at points in this game where there literally wasn't a scorer on the court.

Its a lost but its not as bad as you guys are making it seem.

[FCNATL85]

Totally agree with Rip on his analysis... only wished that Al had made himself available on the last play as Teague was blowing by Chandler...Good game anyway...too bad that thje refs kept Al out when he had it going not to mention the 4 points play on Teague charge on JR Smith. Should have been going our way...

[ATL Boy]

I give you guys the benefit of the doubt sometimes because..well...I don't know. I just do. But when a professional basketball analysis points out that A: Melo's threes were because of the Hawks not showing on picks and it stopped once they finally switched at the pick instead of trying to play it straight up and when they got out of the man zone defense and B: That the moving screen was the fault of the ball handler for going before the screener got set

and you STILL come in and blame Smith. Come on, that bull crap.

The backcourt was completely on Smith and it annoyed the hell out of me. But the nonsense in here blaming him for melo being "open" is ridiculous.

We lost the game but the foul calls on Horford were bigger than anything. He had it going (despite the bunch of turnovers) but the refs kept him out the game. Zaza is bringing nothing at this point, as his injury is really messing with him and there were some funky lineups at points in this game where there literally wasn't a scorer on the court.

Its a lost but its not as bad as you guys are making it seem.

I agree with alot of this but you can't fully blame Teague for the moving screen, it was partially his fault but Smith needs to abort on that screen when he sees that it won't work, a moving screen is a moving screen, Ik that it's in the heat of the moment but a "max player" wouldn't have tried to force it. The wide open 3s weren't his fault, they were the entire team's fault, noone rotated and there were far too many useless double teams that left many wide open shooters. (Not just Melo, Shumpert and Smith were open countless times) I also Agree that the refs were calling some bs fouls on Horford, especially that 4th one that took him out of the game for 6 minutes.

[Jamaaliver]

there were some funky lineups at points in this game where there literally wasn't a scorer on the court.

Sadly, we no longer have any pure scorers on our team.

Josh made some good plays, he made some terrible plays. He's too little to guard NY's bigs. He isn't quick enough to guard 'Melo.

Foul or not, Josh (our best defender) got burnt by Carmelo for a layup. His man scored the winning basket. Plain and simple.

[Jamaaliver]

Josh really does need to limit how often he tries to lead the fast break. His decision making is...questionable.

It makes no sense that our PF leads the team in turnovers...for the 4th season in a row.

I'm also disappointed that our PF, who shoots 29%, shot as many 3-pointers as Kyle Korver.

[MaceCase]

Can we please create a new thread for the next game?

Do NOT underestimate my laziness.


Actually I had a bet with myself that I'd do a new one for every 20 pages deep we can get......only thing is I was expecting 20 a lil closer to the All Star break


It's a sparse game week so I'll see if I can get on it.