GT: Hawks (14-6) vs 76ers (2-18)

[Hawk Eye]

PG: Jeff Teague

SG: Kyle Korver

SF: DeMarre Carroll

PF: Paul Millsap

C: Al Horford



PG: Michael Carter-Williams

SG: ?

SF: ?

PF: Nerlins Noel

C: ?

*** I seriously have no clue who is on their roster other than MCW, Noel, and Embiid.***

Game Notes:

There is literally no excuse to lose this one. We are clicking on all aspects, firing on all cylinders, so on and so on. Scott will be out with flu like symptoms. Please Bud for the love of God give Payne some PT tonight!

[DirtybirdGA]

I would go by their last boxscore.

[ATL Boy]

If we're gonna have an off shooting night it should be tonight, we'll win anyway.

[Hawk Eye]

This is crazy. Literally every one of our shots are wide open shots, we just gotta start sinking them.

[WorldBeFree]

You guys should attend more man. Thats sad your team has so much likeable guys, where everyone seems nice, feel bad for them.
With that beeing said i like this team, i hope you guys make noise.

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[ATL Boy]

You guys should attend more man. Thats sad your team has so much likeable guys, where everyone seems nice, feel bad for them.
With that beeing said i like this team, i hope you guys make noise.

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A lot of fans that go don't live in downtown Atlanta, some live 30-40 minutes away. That being said, it's really hard for people to drive through hellish rush hour Atlanta traffic in an attempt to get to the stadium on a Wednesday to watch the 76ers. It's one of the reasons why the Braves are moving to Cobb County: because many fans come from the north metro Atlanta area and it'll be easier for them to get to the games.

[WorldBeFree]

You guys should attend more man. Thats sad your team has so much likeable guys, where everyone seems nice, feel bad for them.
With that beeing said i like this team, i hope you guys make noise.

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A lot of fans that go don't live in downtown Atlanta, some live 30-40 minutes away. That being said, it's really hard for people to drive through hellish rush hour Atlanta traffic in an attempt to get to the stadium on a Wednesday to watch the 76ers. It's one of the reasons why the Braves are moving to Cobb County: because many fans come from the north metro Atlanta area and it'll be easier for them to get to the games.

Ah Ok! Thanks.

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[DirtybirdGA]

Outside of the score, i couldn't tell if the hawks were leading.

[Jamaaliver]

From the AJC Recap of tnight's game:

Turning point: Al Horford dunked for the first points of the game, and the Hawks never trailed nor were tied from that point.

Total dominance from start to finish. Love it!

But man, it's tough to be a 76ers fan these days. I not only feel for the fans, I feel for any guy who gets drafted by Philly, too. That franchise has become a black hole in just a matter of years.

Poor Brett Brown.

[ATL Boy]

We're playing these easy games but hey, you can only beat the teams that are on the schedule.

[atlantabbq99]

Good game, good win. Its hard to evaluate a team when the opponent is so bad, sixers are just weak at every position.

What really sticks out for me is that only Millsap played over 30 minutes. Hawks really had balance playing time for alot of guys on the roaster. Nine guys had over 20 minutes of playing time in the game. Moose even had 20 minutes and put up an impressive 12/7. It was really done by committee and team ball.

[Hawk Eye]

Ugly. Ugly. Ugly.

This game was brutal to watch. 18 turnovers by both teams. MCW had 10+ of those I believe

We had SO many open looks in the first half, just couldn't sink them. Drove me crazy.

I really like some of these pieces philly has.

-Noel the obvious one. The kid is just a pure bread natural shot blocker. So talented.

-McDaniels. Another athletic freak. Looks like he's Mario & Luigi when he jumps up.

-MCW, love the kid even though tonight was a pretty awful showing from him. Really liked that letter he wrote recently to.

Side Note: Orlando nearly took out Washigton tonight. It's gonna be tough to keep this winning streak going against them, I see a split coming.

[azuresou1]

It was a really ugly, turnover prone game. Philly though is pretty awful.

[theatlfan]

That... was sad. Honestly felt like I was watching a scrimmage against a scout squad. We looked disinterested the entire game and didn't seem to give any effort... and still won by 15. The game was very herky jerky IMO and the refs weren't used to it either. I don't think they called a good game, but neither team was flowing like an NBA team anyway. Lots of TOs that were from just boneheaded plays too. As far as the players, I didn't see a legit NBA player on PHI. They were either incredibly athletic and not very skilled or had average skill and very little athleticism.

Noel looked like the FR playing on varsity. Obviously, the kid has talent and he could protect the lane against drivers at an elite level. He single-handedly kept them in the game with this ability through the 2Q (I didn't catch the 1st). OTOH, he looked physically overmatched and was just getting abused by by guys who do very little abusing generally. He should probably be sharpening his game in the D-League... or in Lexington.

Not sure if MCW regressed or what, but he looked like the SR that couldn't understand why he wasn't why he didn't have any college offers when everyone else was wondering why the coach even had him in the game. Again, clearly talented, but he played out of control, consistently dribbled himself into bad situations, and lost the ball at awkward times. There was 2 or 3 plays where I remember thinking that he didn't have a turnover because our D was shocked that a PG would just lose the handle on the ball that we lost the foot race. Teague never blinked when MCW went for a jumper either - basically said "go for it" every time MCW was on the perimeter to which MCW obliged way too often. I mean he's like Josh Smith... without the defense... or the elite athleticism. Sure he got near a 3x 2x, but he also had nearly 9 TOs. Maybe just an off-night, but not impressed with him at all.

As far as the others, I was actually excited to see Shved since I still see him as a prospect - he was terrible. No idea how he is still in the NBA. He did a little better than MCW, but with none of the upside. The peachtreehoops guy looked him so KJ McDaniels before the draft this year, and I thought he looked good. He did have an impressive block (against Schröder?) and I remember him being a general thorn in our side defensively but I can't recall anything he did on O. Don't think he was the #3 (or was it 5?) overall prospect in the draft, but I do think the McDaniels / Noel duo would be who I would be looking to build around in PHI (until Embiid gets on the floor at least) - that could be the basis of an obnoxious defense. Jeremy Evans was another guy that I wanted to see, but I don't remember him at all.

For us, I thought we deserved to lose this game - thankfully they were really that bad. The O was pretty shoddy (although Noel had something to do with that), our shot wasn't falling (except for Korver's 3), and we were just stagnant for extended periods. The stats are against them, but I did think that the Teague / Schröder was a bright spot. Both played heady games and I felt comfortable when the ball was in their hands (On the opposite end of that spectrum, I had no idea what was going to happen if the ball was in Demarre's hands - none). I felt like Teague was about to take the game over at times, but just couldn't quite get into that groove.

One guy that truly stood out to me was Muscala - really like his game. Every time he shot it, I felt like it was going in. He wasn't in the right spot all the time, but wherever he was, he was hustling to get there. Really worked the baseline from arc to arc, but then stepped out and hit from the midrange above the elbow. He might only have role player upside, but I think he could be a very, very good role player in time..

[Jamaaliver]

In a game so horribly bad, against such weak competition...

I'd have liked to see Muscala get more minutes. Maybe even a spot start. Just to see how he looked.

I also wouldn't have minded letting Jenkins (or even Bazemore) get a spot start at SG to see how they look next to a couple of NBA vets.

[Jamaaliver]

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Play smart. Play hard. Play as a team.

[ATL Boy]

Every team is bound to have off nights in the NBA, I'm glad that ours came against this atrocious sixers team.