Pretty much sums up how how feel. He makes some great points.
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PPAW4Life wrote:To be fair....we have the best record in the regular season so we get home court throughout.
To be fair the a championship team should not lose 3 road games to a 37 win team either. This is not a championship team by any means. Do you think that Bird would have allowed the hawks to win 3 road games? Celtics should not have to rely home court advantage to beat a sub 500 team.
All these things people have been saying about KG are true. He shows you how great he is in the regular season and true to what people say he chokes in the play-offs. KG is simply scared to shoot the ball when they need him to. KG is a complete fraud when they need him.
Best team record wise vs worse team record wise and the series is going 7 games. Amazing.
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This is an excellent analysis by Bob Ryan. Serious contenders would not let the Hawks series go to 7, and in the 7th games strange things can happen. (Recall the 5th game of the 1990 playoffs when the Knicks beat Boston at home to overcome a 2-0 deficit. Similar feel to this series.)
He mentions the problem with Cassell. It seems like the Hawks are showing all the weaknesses in the Cs armour. One issue that keeps surprising me: why has KG's rebounding plummetted this year and in these playoffs? We sure could use the 12 per game rebounding monster who led the NBA for the last four years rather than the single-digit guy we got instead. Three or four more defensive boards per game would make a huge difference.
Let's hope this is not a sign of decline. If we get eliminated by the Hawks or even the Cavs, and this is as good as it gets for the Garnett era, ouch.
But maybe this is much ado about nothing and the Cs will get back on track.
There is another waty to put it that emphasizes Atlanta, not Boston. The Hawks are a good team. It is brimming with impressive very young talent. This is not 37 win team. I wonder how long it will be before the Hawks are a better regular-season team than the Cs? My bet at this moment: 2009-10.
He mentions the problem with Cassell. It seems like the Hawks are showing all the weaknesses in the Cs armour. One issue that keeps surprising me: why has KG's rebounding plummetted this year and in these playoffs? We sure could use the 12 per game rebounding monster who led the NBA for the last four years rather than the single-digit guy we got instead. Three or four more defensive boards per game would make a huge difference.
Let's hope this is not a sign of decline. If we get eliminated by the Hawks or even the Cavs, and this is as good as it gets for the Garnett era, ouch.
But maybe this is much ado about nothing and the Cs will get back on track.
There is another waty to put it that emphasizes Atlanta, not Boston. The Hawks are a good team. It is brimming with impressive very young talent. This is not 37 win team. I wonder how long it will be before the Hawks are a better regular-season team than the Cs? My bet at this moment: 2009-10.