Did injuries significantly affect the Hawks last year?

emaxceb · Post #1 » by **emaxceb** » Tue Jul 5, 2011 7:27 am

Supposedly Joe, Horford, and Marvin all had nagging injuries and played hurt for more than half the season.

Is this true or just lame excuses from a bad team?

Without the injuries, would the Hawks have won 50 games, or the injuries didn’t really affect the number of wins, rather, just affected the point differential?

Geaux_Hawks · Post #2 » by **Geaux_Hawks** » Tue Jul 5, 2011 3:56 pm

Honestly, I think we were a 48-52 win team. I think the playoff performance kind of proved that. I think after that overloading January performance, Joe seemed to be bothered by his nagging injuries. Then Al and josh both had small nagging injuries. To top it off, Marvin had a bad back that nobody knew of. An actual healthy team probably wouldn't have been getting blown out..

Ruhiel · Post #3 » by **Ruhiel** » Tue Jul 5, 2011 6:40 pm

Al performed the same as usual. Josh is going to be injured and low energy as long as he keeps the weight which is customary when a smaller forward battles bigger power forwards

Joe was injured, Jamal's excuse? He's been doing the same thing his whole career. Ala JJ needs better D and nonshooters to feed him on offense.

Everyone would get tired of playing that "No you box out" zone defense and no fast break style.

Contradictory to popular belief if you put a 6'8 small forward at center just because your All Star is a tweener then you're going to have massive layup lines, no rebounding and an inconsistent 40 win team.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RS0Juf5gLP0

No cohesiveness