Who saw our opening night game?

parson · Post #1 » by **parson** » Sat Nov 3, 2012 5:10 pm

I did not - wife and I were out.

From the FT disparity, it looks as if I'd have aged even more if I had watched. Replays seemed to indicate that Harden got the superstar treatment. Putting Smith's ZERO FTs beside Harden's 17 just makes it more extreme.

Question: are we as small as it seems on the box score?

NeZoRiL · Post #2 » by **NeZoRiL** » Sat Nov 3, 2012 5:13 pm

No, not really. Horford didn't box out well, Smith was grabbing rebounds though. We didn't match up well against Harden and suffered mightily, it wasn't anything to recap. Smith's zero FT's were mindbogglingly bad. Harden got a ton of calls, though.

To answer, no. We just....sucked.

Geaux_Hawks · Post #3 » by **Geaux_Hawks** » Sat Nov 3, 2012 5:40 pm

Actually we need a perimeter defender, which I figured would become a problem after Marvin left. That, and Harden just showing how legit he is. Man I wanted a shot at him in the offseason.

Post #4 » by **dms269** » Sat Nov 3, 2012 6:23 pm

To those who saw it:

Who defended Harden most of the game?

parson · Post #5 » by **parson** » Sat Nov 3, 2012 6:41 pm

NeZoRiL wrote:No, not really. Horford didn't box out well, Smith was grabbing rebounds though. We didn't match up well against Harden and suffered mightily, it wasn't anything to recap. Smith's zero FT's were mindbogglingly bad. Harden got a ton of calls, though.

To answer, no. We just....sucked.

Not meaning to argue, since you saw the game and I didn't, but Asik got 19 rebounds while Smith had 10 and Zaza 8.

NeZoRiL · Post #6 » by **NeZoRiL** » Sat Nov 3, 2012 8:10 pm

parson wrote:
NeZoRiL wrote:No, not really. Horford didn't box out well, Smith was grabbing rebounds though. We didn't match up well against Harden and suffered mightily, it wasn't anything to recap. Smith's zero FT's were mindbogglingly bad. Harden got a ton of calls, though.

To answer, no. We just....sucked.

Not meaning to argue, since you saw the game and I didn't, but Asik got 19 rebounds while Smith had 10 and Zaza 8.

Zaza played well. Smith wasn't boxing out Asik.

PandaKidd · Post #7 » by **PandaKidd** » Sun Nov 4, 2012 3:04 pm

They switched off on Harden, Stevenson seemed to guard him the most from what i remember when he was in the game.

Hawks just looked rusty, some bonehead jumpers by Smoov. I remember 1 sequence where they switched on a screen and he had Harden on him and elected to shoot a jumper over the top. WHY WOULD YOU NOT BACK DOWN HARDEN?

SMith needs to get his ass on the block, same with Horford. I dont remember very many low post up moves.

D21 · Post #8 » by **D21** » Wed Nov 7, 2012 1:23 pm

What I saw is that you need a good team defense to stop Harden and we ATL didn't have this.
Something that surprised me is talk between Williams and Smith at each timeout call, and they didn't look to be agreeing on anything... maybe someone finally starts to tell Smith something when is not playing the way he should.
Now, it's hard to know what they were really talking about.