Preseason Game Thread #7: Atlanta Hawks @ Orlando Magic
by hawksdawgs on Oct 23, 2009 7:00 PM EDT
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Atlanta Hawks at Orlando Magic, Oct 23, 2009 8:00 PM EDT
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| Amway Arena |
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| Oct. 23, 2009 8:00 PM | ||
| ESPN, Hawks Radio Network | ||
| Probable starters: | ||
| Mike Bibby | PG | Jameer Nelson |
| Joe Johnson | SG | Vince Carter |
| Marvin Williams | SF | Mickael Pietrus |
| Josh Smith | PF | Rashard Lewis |
| Al Horford | C | Dwight Howard |
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Blogging with the enemy: Third Quarter Collapse
From here on out, the Hawks are on television. Amen and amen. I love you Steve Holman, but that is a good feeling. So far radio has been a doozy to figure out how to DVR.
Tonight's game against the Magic will still be fake, but starter should play more minutes and the quality of the opponent even if it is just 2nd unit vs. 2 unit will be the highest the Hawks have seen so far. Maybe it is the opponent, maybe it is the closeness to the regular season, might just be the tv coverage, but this one just feels a little more real.
Looking forward to the action myself. I will be in out of the game thread and all are welcome. So settle in for a Friday night event (me), make it a pregame activity, or DVR the thing and watch it later, but join us in the game thread for all the pregame, in game, and post game musings.
The season is almost here. Go Hawks!
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I'm nervous
I’m nervous about this game for two reasons:
1. We don’t play well on the road.
2. We don’t play well on national tv.
Either way we’re losers in this matchup because if we win, the media will say it’s just a preseason game. If we lose, they’ll say we aren’t ready to stomp with the big dogs. I’m just excited to finally get to see JC in action. I hope he doesn’t disappoint.
hawks dont play bad
they just lose.
but i agree. this is a zero win game. but it is preseason so you can’t get too upset. i just want to see jeff teague. espn is espn for a rookie. preseason or not.
bill simmons nba preview
i usually love the guy, but he once again managed to write 20,000 words on the upcoming nba season while barely mentioning the hawks.
all he really got in there was a small dig on jj and a less than flattering projection for our boys.
i like that shot
from hubie brown.
he has already messed up three player names and said he likes a josh smith jump shot.
preseason for all of us.
vince vs. turk
this team will be pretty damn good. as much as vc was a pain in the ass for toronto, and hedo had a great year, carter is still an upgrade for the magic.
I think it's a "wait and see" situation.
Vince is all flash and no substance. His teammates have historically hated him.
Haha
Gundy just needs a little more skullett and they would be twins. That is too funny.
"This is America, if we can’t self-righteously look down on others and blame them for our faults, the commies win."-----Cormican on Bleeding Green Nation w/r/t fans overreacting to the Eagles signing of Michael Vick
vince v. jj
contracts aside, who would you rather have?
i’m pretty sure it’s jj, but this may be close if vince actually gets his act together and tries while playing for a conteder.
JJ. I don't want Vince on my team.
No guys who quit on an entire team and city. I don’t care how many he can score.
Hawks are playing possum. Not that I have any evidence, at all, for this, but I like pretending that they’re not really playing, as opposed to thinking that Orlando can dominate them so easy.
this is the ultimate fan game
try to avoid being optimistic the whole time. totally freak out at the first bad sign.
don’t want to sound like a vc apologist, but i think he’s gone from wildly overrated to a bit underrated
let’s hope the hawks 2008/09 shooting wasn’t a fluke (i think some national writer, maybe hollinger, made that case)
i buy a few of those
bibby down, mo down, crawford no better, but i think marvin stays the same or up. joe same or up. josh maybe down but less important with less shots taken.
Okay, I can see why he said it
But if you force a double team right under the basket, how can it be “too much dribbling” ?
Actually, here's the list what isn't a problem:
9 free throw attempts.
The rest could use some work.
gortat
how much $ did he get.
zaza was a deal with about the same skill set (and fun eastern european personality)
if gortat
could keep his numbers as a starter would have been great. but paying that to backup the best center in the game? ugh.
Howard backs down, shoves Al out of the way,
lays it in. And yells “AND 1”??
Yeah…can’t wait for those old refs to get back. Geez.
Back to the VC bashing
I hate when VC makes a basket and has that dumbass look on his face. Almost like “Am I awesome or what?”
by dstdeelite on Oct 23, 2009 8:55 PM EDT via mobile reply actions
Don't think that's quite accurate
It’s his immaturity that we dislike, and largely in his on-court demeanor and his style of play.
I’ve always been impressed in his interviews by just how intelligent he is, and his ability to communicate what he knows. But actually following through with his comments would also help a great deal.
But in a lot of ways, he’s impressively intelligent for a man who skipped college.
Randolph Morris was on the bench for that AAU team
And that, my friends, is when something went horribly, inexplicably, wrong…
randolph morris
is the mike williams/maurice clarret of the nba.
went pro then went back to college. never good.
I’m bothered by the fact that JJ doesn’t seem to anticipate the double EVERY time he catches it.
You’d think we’d actually have an advantage in those situations since we’re a perimeter oriented team, but it’s not turned out so well.
as soon as hawk passes to him in jump shooting position
they should run at him to keep the thinking to a minimum.
Josh seems like a pretty good guy
Bronn, just to be clear, I don’t think smoove is an a-hole (in fact, quite the opposite)
i’m just pretty sure most nba fans who don’t really follow the hawks like we do, think he is a petulant dick. i suppose he does act that way on the court sometimes, but he also know how to give an interview and is probably a pretty good guy.
did you see that adidas spot?
I will say this.
I have seen Smith (on a few occasions) absolutely quit when he wasn’t getting his way in a game.
I'm just not sure if that's really how he's seen nationally
I’ve never really heard anyone say anything bad about him. Most of his harshest critics are Hawks fans, and most of us know enough to realize that he’s a good kid.
By bad
I mean, that he’s a bad person. There’s the continuing perception of a rift between him and Woodson…but nobody is saying he’s uncoachable or a jerk.
hubie brown is an idiot
the hawks are playing bad and the magic cant miss from outside. that is all.
Dwight Howard is a better player than Randolph Morris
This is an example of the insights you gain from preseason basketball.
Suprise!
Crawford has some bad shot selection
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