Hawks starters good for 20 hot minutes

  Get a good early look at Joe Johnson and the Hawks' other starters in preseason games, because they won't be in there long.  HAWKSVILLE – So this is what the preseason looks like when your team is good enough to know that it means nothing. The starters play sparingly. You don’t really care if your team wins or loses. And you get to know the free agent campers and rookies a little more than you probably want to in some cases. But until we get closer to the “real” games, this is it. With a group of reporters in his office 90 minutes before the opening tip of Monday’s game against Charlotte at Philips Arena, Hawks coach Mike Woodson admitted as much, when asked when he was going to unleash his starters for more than 20 hot minutes (by time you finish here they should be done for the night). “When we get to Washington (Oct. 19), Miami (Oct. 22 in Jacksonville) and Orlando (Oct. 24 in Dwightlando on ESPN),” Woodson said. “Those ...