San Antonio Spurs 105, Atlanta Hawks 90 or moral victories?

and it sadly includes my two favorites.

I can’t really take any moral victories out of this. I am angry with our guards for their “defensive efforts” and I’m not speaking to them again until Friday.

They fought hard against huge odds and ran out of gas. They adjusted nicely and became the aggressor. This was a tough spot for them. I am hoping this effort springboards the Hawks into a trashing of the Celts on Friday night.

And I am still fuming over the “The Hawks are no better than four years ago” post in the game thread.

I would say that Tim Duncans length(not boxing out) and the hawks poor shot selection (ill advised shots) led to him getting all those rebounds. I hope Jeff Teague got a lesson from Tony Parker about a true point guards play.

missed Jason Collins

There is no moral victory when an opponent’s player has 27 rebounds.

Effort should not be applauded, it should be expected.

Hawks struggle going up against big centers. Whether Duncan, muscle man in Orlando, Bynum, Cleveland centers,…. Now these are all great teams (Spurs recent lack of production excepted). But clearly our lion in the middle is at an disadvantage. Add to that Zaza being slow, and Joe Smith looking old, and our problems get bigger with our two main backups.

Secondly, when Bibby is at least not being a threat, we struggle. we need to get some production from Bibby, or all the pressure builds on JJ and Crawford to score. At this point our rookie is really irrelevant. Let’s hope we can mentally recover in time for Celtics, though the game after that is a scenario we have seen before.

Sure I want to win every game, but that’s not going to happen. I think this game was more about how well the Spurs played as opposed to how badly the Hawks played. The Spurs came in with one mission: Attack! Attack! Attack! They were playing with their backs up against the wall. They knew they could exploit our PG position and they did just that. Normally I’m not one for moral victories either, but tonight I saw something different. I truly felt that the Hawks felt they could come back and steal this game and I haven’t felt that in the past. Hell, I felt that way as well. We got two back to back steal with a chance to cut the lead from 9 to 4 if we had converted on those steals. It’s a sign of maturity and growth. Without any production from Horford and Bibby, it was most certainly going to be un uphill battle. I don’t think we realize how much pressure it puts on Smoove and Al when our PG’s get beat off the dribble. It’s sets them up for foul trouble and fatigue. I don’t know what’s ailing Bibby, but something has got to give. He had a few clutch plays in Houston, but short of that, he’s had zero production and he’s a liability on defense to boot. At least JC tries to defend. I can’t say the same for Bibby. Did he have any points or assists last night?

They have grown and refused to get blown out. I don’t like the loss but I can handle it because they did try. JJ was on last night on offense but defense was invisible. He plays one of the best defense for a score in the league but refused to play and hates contact(that still puzzles me). Smoove played well and did try, JC came out and did what we he could but it showed that al was needed badly. even when bBIBBY is off we win with al’s scoring and defense and that wasn’t there. BIBBY..get it together asap

And I’m not trying to be a “sour grape” but the hawks lost in the same fashion with every other double digit loss. Anytime they settle for jump shots and miss and nobody’s there to rebound we get behind really early. Not only does that make more work for the starters, that gives the other team more confidence. If they made this a close contest the whole game and loss a close one, then I would consider moral victories.