Atlanta Hawks schedule 09-10 in bullet points
by hawksdawgs on Aug 4, 2009 1:33 PM EDT
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PrintHere is the official announcement from Hawks.com with some thoughts from Micah. And below are some first thoughts.
- The first two games are at home and highly winnable. Much easier than the Orlando/Philly start from last year. Unless you are adamant about Woody being fired mid-season, the Hawks need a good start.
- West coast trip early. Not sure it is a horrible thing. Just definitely not a good thing.
- A 5-1 start to the season would be more impressive than the 6-0 start last year.
- The Hawks play six games in nine days in November. Good thing most of those are at home.
- The NBA may not think Boston/Atlanta is a rivalry, but they do like the matchup. Two more games with them on ESPN.
- The Hawks have back to back games against Cleveland?
- We play on Thanksgiving in the primetime slot on TNT. That is pretty huge. I can already tell this is going to cause multiple fights at my place of residence.
- Seven nationally televised games is a huge improvement. Still a little disappointed we only made TNT once, but hard to yell and rant. I was expecting, at most, five. Seven games are the most we have had in the last 12 seasons. (Hard to yell and rant until THHB told me the Clippers have eight games.)
- The Texas triangle(Dallas, San Antonio, and Houston) is only a Texas line! Somewhere Micah Hart is rejoicing.
- It is called the Shampoo effect. Where you wash your hair, rinse it out, and then put a little drop of shampoo in again and your whole head lathers up right away. Jan 1st against the New York Knicks.
BeerShampoo effect will be in full force. This once could get ugly with all those Knicks fans. - Hawks longest home stand is five games and it happens in January. If the team holds true to the last couple of years, that is the exact month the Hawks need their longest home streak.
- The Hawks head out of the all star break on their only other west coast trip. Weird to put both trips at the two "starts" of the season. Not sure if this is good or bad. I guess I will just revise history at a later date.
- The Hawks have one (Indiana) clearly winnable game out of their last seven at home (with games against Cleveland, San Antonio, Orlando, and the Lakers). Yikes.
- My most anticipated game? Stephen Curry and the Hawks on ESPN Feb. 21.
What jumps out at you? What games are you excited about? How will the Hawks start?
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in case you wanted to get fighten mad
here is the national tv break down (via fanhouse)
houston has zero, the clippers have 8
Boston: 24
Cleveland: 25
L.A. Clippers: 8
L.A. Lakers: 24
New Orleans: 9
San Antonio: 20
Utah: 13
Denver: 21
Chicago: 13
Portland: 17
Dallas: 13
Miami: 15
Washington: 8
New York: 5
Orlando: 24
Phoenix: 18
Atlanta: 6
Minnesota: 1
Detroit: 4
Philadelphia: 2
Oklahoma City: 1
Golden State: 8
Toronto: 1
Memphis: 1
Indiana: 1
They've already started the hating....
Dammit!! We haven’t even began the season and the Hawks are already getting the shaft. That’s fine. I’m coming into this season with an open mind and heart. I’m taking the approach of, “It’s us against the world”. Even after making the playoff for two years straight, the national media refuses to take us seriously. That’s cool. Why the hell do the Suns have that many nationally televised games?? Shaq is gone and Amare has his eye hanging out of his head by a string. WTF!!
The NBA
needs more balance. I understand that maybe no one really wants to see the Bucks or Bobcats or teams like that in large doses, but its ridiculous that we have to watch the same 6 teams face each other over and over again every time they put the games on National tv. Sigh.
they are a weird mix of super slow in moving from the old guard (suns)
to totally reactionary with the Bulls.
who did have the best first round series ever, but lost their best scorer and made no improvements.
apparently gilbert is worth 8 games.
hahaha
yes! i hope i had some part in converting you.
my worst fear is that he sullies all the good will he built up at davidson and turns into some kind of jerk.
but i only think about that in my nightmares.
Looking for to a rookie thrashing
I’m looking forward to all the games that involve a rookie getting hazed in the real world AKA the NBA. Blake Griffin and Hasheem Thabeet are supposedly ready to turn around their respective franchises. We’ll just see about that.
Lakers....
on the third game. The first test right off the bat sort of……we definitely need another big
Atlanta will win a championship....someday
there were a lot of Nat TV nights with good matchups for the Hawks
Those thu and Fri matchups for AtL just weren’t that good. The good ones are on Nat Tv the others just sucked. But don’t be surprised if ABC picks up that Sun Spurs match up. If the season goes as we hope.
But Our biggest challenges in the East battle will be Bos & Cavs for top spot,
The the Hawks, Magic, maybe Heat for the 3rd…no one else should be better than these teams in the East not even Chicago. The ECF should be an absolute goal for this team. Not so much because we are ready to win a championship, but because we are good enough to challenge and beat Boston and Orlando ( I don’t think we could beet the Cavs in a 7 gm series)
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