Game Thread: Hawks kick off season at Home against Mavericks

[Jamaaliver]

This is new...

Kudos to CC for setting the tone.

[shakes0]

One of my favorite parts the game was the very beginning when Dallas and Jason Kidd came out with the brilliant strategy of having Trae's man post him up 3 straight times to start the game. Posters love talking about this and teams love trying this, but in the end of the day all you are doing is asking a player who doesn't have a post game to go down there and become a bucket getter. DFS and THJ could be guarded by a chair and they still aren't going to score enough points in the post to make that a worthwhile strategy.

All they do when they do that is sacrifice better offensive options to try and pigeon hole a square peg into a circle hole. Just like every other team they quickly gave up on it.

SHows that Kidd is a coach who plays checkers, not chess.

[kg01]

One of my favorite parts the game was the very beginning when Dallas and Jason Kidd came out with the brilliant strategy of having Trae's man post him up 3 straight times to start the game. Posters love talking about this and teams love trying this, but in the end of the day all you are doing is asking a player who doesn't have a post game to go down there and become a bucket getter. DFS and THJ could be guarded by a chair and they still aren't going to score enough points in the post to make that a worthwhile strategy.

All they do when they do that is sacrifice better offensive options to try and pigeon hole a square peg into a circle hole. Just like every other team they quickly gave up on it.

SHows that Kidd is a coach who plays checkers, not chess.

That's embarrassingly bad coaching. Like, there's a plethora of ways to take advantage of a small/bad defender. Telling a non-scorer to go post him up is like ... just dumb.

"Hey dynamic scorer, you go sit in the corner and watch my questionable catch-n-shoot guy go to work in the post." - J Kidd

All I can say is, "Thanks, Jason".

[HMFFL]

One of my favorite parts the game was the very beginning when Dallas and Jason Kidd came out with the brilliant strategy of having Trae's man post him up 3 straight times to start the game. Posters love talking about this and teams love trying this, but in the end of the day all you are doing is asking a player who doesn't have a post game to go down there and become a bucket getter. DFS and THJ could be guarded by a chair and they still aren't going to score enough points in the post to make that a worthwhile strategy.

All they do when they do that is sacrifice better offensive options to try and pigeon hole a square peg into a circle hole. Just like every other team they quickly gave up on it.

SHows that Kidd is a coach who plays checkers, not chess.

Kidd is suspect as a Coach. Dallas should be his last chance as a head coach if he's not successful.

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[jayu70]

One of my favorite parts the game was the very beginning when Dallas and Jason Kidd came out with the brilliant strategy of having Trae's man post him up 3 straight times to start the game. Posters love talking about this and teams love trying this, but in the end of the day all you are doing is asking a player who doesn't have a post game to go down there and become a bucket getter. DFS and THJ could be guarded by a chair and they still aren't going to score enough points in the post to make that a worthwhile strategy.

All they do when they do that is sacrifice better offensive options to try and pigeon hole a square peg into a circle hole. Just like every other team they quickly gave up on it.

SHows that Kidd is a coach who plays checkers, not chess.

All I kept thinking was - no Luka creating offense - good for Hawks.

[kg01]

Stole this from marco ...

Watch on YouTube

... man if we had these wings healthy in the ECF ....

[HMFFL]

Jalen Green scores 30pts for Houston today in a loss to Boston.

Big deal, right? But, he made 8 of 10 3-pointers.

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[Texas Chuck]

Atlanta:

Points in the Paint 468

It certainly felt that bad.