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Initial Feedback: Homecourt Advantage Is Huge This Season
By James GoedersInitial feedback: A completely subjective and immediate response to the events of tonight's game, featuring a comment and rating, the latter on a scale of 1 to 10, on every player who saw the floor and the head coach, along with ephemera and miscellany as the author deems necessary.Your ratings and commentary, dear reader, are welcomed in the comments to this...
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18 days ago
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SI.com: Robson: Hawks hang tough without Horford
Britt Robson bucks the trend of ranking the Hawks on the basis of what is expected to happen in Al Horford's absence rather than on their body of work: The Atlanta Hawks should be folding any day now.That's been the dismissive conventional wisdom about the team from the "Highlight Factory" for more than a year. It's not fashionable to like Atlanta's chances...
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18 days ago
Initial Feedback:
By Buddy GrizzardInitial feedback: A completely subjective and immediate response to the events of tonight's game, featuring a comment and rating, the latter on a scale of 1 to 10, on every player who saw the floor and the head coach, along with ephemera and miscellany as the author deems necessary.Your ratings and commentary, dear reader, are welcomed in the comments to this...
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20 days ago
Fun With a Small Sample of On/Off Numbers
Everything courtesy BasketballValue.comThe Hawks are almost 11 points better per 100 defensive possessions with Jason Collins on the court so far this season (96 minutes, 188 possessions). Which would be great were the Hawks not a hair more than 17 points worse offensively with Collins on the court. Putting that latter number into context covering Collins' time as a Hawk:CollinsOff...
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20 days ago
Assessing the Hawks After the First Quarter of the Season
[Ed. note -- Matt Tanner is going to check in with his perspective on the Hawks approximately once a quarter this season.]By Matt TannerThanks to the lockout-abbreviated schedule, we are less than a month into the season but already the Atlanta Hawks have played 17 games, or roughly one quarter of the regular season. While players across the league bemoan the fact they occasionally...
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20 days ago
NBA Playbook: The Art of the Thief
Brett Koremenos on Jeff Teague's five first half steals in Philadelphia: Any good thief has either quick hands or great instincts. The special ones, like Jason Kidd, have a combination of both. Against Philadelphia, Teague showed he may be in that elite category.
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21 days ago
Initial Feedback: Cleveland Rocked
Initial feedback: A completely subjective and immediate response to the events of tonight's game, featuring a comment and rating, the latter on a scale of 1 to 10, on every player who saw the floor and the head coach, along with ephemera and miscellany as the author deems necessary.Your ratings and commentary, dear reader, are welcomed in the comments to this post.BoxscorePlayers...
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22 days ago
Larry Drew Bandwagon Update: The Wheels Fall Off
By Buddy GrizzardIn Wednesday's home win over Portland, Jamal Crawford tried to put on a show and steal one from his former team. The Hawks built several leads down the stretch but Crawford kept shooting the Blazers back into it. I was at Phillips and I kept expecting the Hawks to fold in the face of challenge after challenge.It didn't happen.Josh Smith and Joe Johnson played...
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22 days ago
Quote of the Day -- January 21, 2012
Larry Drew: "It got tough for us in the third quarter and we quit. That’s what happened."Strong words following a game where your team allowed just a point per possession on the road against a team that ranks in the top five in the league in offensive efficiency. The Hawks shot the ball poorly and rebounded worse (or vice-versa, I wouldn't argue the particulars) but...
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22 days ago
Initial Feedback: Those Shots? They're Not Efficient.
Initial feedback: A completely subjective and immediate response to the events of tonight's game, featuring a comment and rating, the latter on a scale of 1 to 10, on every player who saw the floor and the head coach, along with ephemera and miscellany as the author deems necessary.Your ratings and commentary, dear reader, are welcomed in the comments to this post.BoxscorePlayers...
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23 days ago
Bad Wheel on the Bandwagon: A Look At Larry Drew's Asset Management
By Buddy GrizzardLast season’s trade of Mike Bibby, Jordan Crawford, Maurice Evans and the Hawks’ 2011 first round draft pick to the Washington Wizards for Kirk Hinrich and Hilton Armstrong has been the subject of much controversy and speculation. One side of the discussion holds that trading consecutive first round draft picks (Jordan Crawford and the 2011 pick the Wizards used...
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23 days ago
Initial Feedback: Welcome Back
Initial feedback: A completely subjective and immediate response to the events of tonight's game, featuring a comment and rating, the latter on a scale of 1 to 10, on every player who saw the floor and the head coach, along with ephemera and miscellany as the author deems necessary.Your ratings and commentary, dear reader, are welcomed in the comments to this post.BoxscorePlayers...
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25 days ago
Blazers Pose Hazard To Early Bandwagon Riding
By Buddy GrizzardAfter Atlanta Journal-Constitution columnist Jeff Schultz, caught up in the euphoria of the Hawks current win streak, decided to launch an early Coach of the Year campaign on behalf of Larry Drew (and I suspect the euphoria would be greater if Drew hadn't charitably donated a game to the Heat earlier this season, I thought I'd better chime in about the importance...
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25 days ago
For More Than 10 Days Now, Josh Smith Has Been Making Jump Shots
Last season, despite it not making him a more effective offensive player, I became convinced that Josh Smith had improved as a jump shooter. He made 39% of his long two-point jumpers, almost one-third of his three-point attempts, and 72.5% of his free throws. Broad evidence of an improved stroke, that.So far this season, Smith is making 42% of his long two-point jump shots. That...
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26 days ago
Initial Feedback: A Win Is a Win Is a Win
Initial feedback: A completely subjective and immediate response to the events of tonight's game, featuring a comment and rating, the latter on a scale of 1 to 10, on every player who saw the floor and the head coach, along with ephemera and miscellany as the author deems necessary.Your ratings and commentary, dear reader, are welcomed in the comments to this post.BoxscorePlayers...
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27 days ago
Quote of the Day -- January 15, 2012
Ivan Johnson: "My thing is, I don’t really watch basketball so I don’t know who anybody is. So when I match up against them, they are a regular player. I know the major players like LeBron, Kobe, Wade but all the extra ones I don’t know. Even if I did know them, I’m not going to be afraid. We are playing basketball."Doesn't really watch basketball? Doesn'...
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28 days ago
Initial Feedback: Comeback
Initial feedback: A completely subjective and immediate response to the events of tonight's game, featuring a comment and rating, the latter on a scale of 1 to 10, on every player who saw the floor and the head coach, along with ephemera and miscellany as the author deems necessary.Your ratings and commentary, dear reader, are welcomed in the comments to this post.BoxscorePlayers...
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29 days ago
Can Zaza Replace Al Horford's Production in a Starting Role?
By Buddy GrizzardCan Zaza Pachulia come anywhere near replacing Al Horford's production in a starting role at center for the Atlanta Hawks? The numbers suggest he can. Horford and Pachulia both rank in the top 20 among centers in points per 48 minutes:Points per 48 minutes / Positional rankHorford: 18.8 / 14thPachulia: 15.8 / 19thBut if you look at John Hollinger's player...
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January 13, 2012
Al Horford Injury Reaction Roundup
Zach Lowe addresses Al Horford's impending absence in terms of Horford's successfully symbiotic relationship with Josh Smith: The per-36-minute stats of Atlanta’s backups look nice, but there’s a reason Horford and Smith are the guys actually playing 36 minutes. Atlanta’s other big-man options all have limitations that will get exposed with increased playing time. None...
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January 13, 2012
Hardwood Paroxysm: Let's Get Irrationally Angry About Al Horford's Shoulder Injury
The one, the only, Noam Schiller: The world has become a cold, dark place today.Al Horford was the thing. He was the one thing. A pit of darkness, despair and isolation basketball lives in the depths of the Phillips Arena, rearing its ugly head 82 nights, plus playoffs, every year. In the form of a Mike Bibby or a Willie Green, a 20 second Joe Johnson dribble-fest or a Josh Smith...
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January 13, 2012
Initial Feedback:
Initial feedback: A completely subjective and immediate response to the events of tonight's game, featuring a comment and rating, the latter on a scale of 1 to 10, on every player who saw the floor and the head coach, along with ephemera and miscellany as the author deems necessary.Your ratings and commentary, dear reader, are welcomed in the comments to this post.BoxscorePlayersJeff...
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January 12, 2012
Quote of the Day -- January 12, 2012
Larry Drew: "[I]n that third quarter, we just couldn’t do anything right."GameflowShot Chart
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January 12, 2012
Initial Feedback: Separation Anxiety
Initial feedback: A completely subjective and immediate response to the events of tonight's game, featuring a comment and rating, the latter on a scale of 1 to 10, on every player who saw the floor and the head coach, along with ephemera and miscellany as the author deems necessary.Your ratings and commentary, dear reader, are welcomed in the comments to this post.BoxscorePlayers...
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January 11, 2012
Year of the Point Guard
By Buddy GrizzardA few years back, in an NBA draft rich with point guard prospects, the Atlanta Hawks made a selection that would dramatically impact the team's fortunes to the present day. You know which draft I'm talking about. No, not the 2005 NBA draft when the Hawks selected Marvin Williams ahead of Deron Williams and Chris Paul. I'm talking about the 2009 NBA draft...
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January 11, 2012
Initial Feedback: The Sweep of Newark
Initial feedback: A completely subjective and immediate response to the events of tonight's game, featuring a comment and rating, the latter on a scale of 1 to 10, on every player who saw the floor and the head coach, along with ephemera and miscellany as the author deems necessary.Your ratings and commentary, dear reader, are welcomed in the comments to this post.BoxscorePlayersJeff...
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January 09, 2012
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