Your right we dont need 2 jjs. Though I felt jj was paaing more than usual which is a good sign but they just couldnt produce the points last night. Teague should have gotten a run or atleast a minute in the game. He could have helped……..On to utah. I like playing them so dont embarass yourselves hawks.

when josh is being all about josh it isnt productive for the whole team. And I look forward to the warriors now too. I like stephen curry and montae(injury) So we play golden state first?

In the end, our starting lineup was totally gassed. How Woody couldn’t see this is beyond me. Ever since Bibby hurt his ankle at the beginning of the season, he hasn’t been the same. It’s so odd how rapidly he declined. We really don’t need this right now. All of the more reason to give Teague minutes to at least get the 2nd unit out and running. The kid is a regular Flash Gordon out there. Sitting on the bench is doing nothing but killing his confidence. Clearly JC’s shoulder is still an issue. I think he was throwing shots up because he thought he’d get a whistle. Not! No whistles are called on the road my friend. Even when they got to the charity stripe they clanked off the rim. Al missed 4 free throws!!! That’s unheard of. Woody has got to find a way to play his bench more effectively. He does not have to have all bench players in at one time. He can mix and match. He just needs to figure it out because while we’re losing, Toronto is winning. We’ll find ourselves in the 5th playoff spot before we know it without homecourt advantage. We all know that’s all Woody strives for.

Apparently this game was tied 70 to 70 and Phoenix’s lock down defense won the game.

The Hawks are hard-headed. I think everyone had their share of jump shooting the team out of the game. We again get outrebounded mainly because of that. That alone will get you blown out of games, more times than if a team is better than you and you play flawless. Am I wrong for thinking that? Can anyone agree with that assessment?

There is no way we win at Utah on Monday. It is the second game of a back-to-back and the hawks do not play well in back-to-back games. They don’t even play well at home on a back-to-back (Miami Heat Thumping). The Clippers game is a must, because Utah will beat us. We have to learn how to bring it every night, swing the ball around, and bring some fire on the road. Until we do that we will be the number 4 seed. There aren’t many games left and we need to start taking care of business if we want to try to take the 2 seed.

To me last night’s game was only winnable if we played five on five. But Suns have a bench. Whereas our starters had to log major minutes last night. Frye and Dudley and Dragic were major contributors.

In the fourth our starters were going against their bench for majority of time. We are not going to win many games when our starters including Bibby are putting in over 38 minutes a game. And if Jamal is having problems, like he is (health or something) our bench is just not there. Losing Childress and Murray in years past is coming back to hurt us. Right now Mo Evans misses open shots, Zaza is in the wrong place majority of time, and the rest, …. It is incomprehensible for Woody not to let the rookie get into the game for a few minutes each half. Surely he could not have hurt us any worse than Mo Evans last night. Sorry I am down this morning, but hate the fact that Van Gundy predicted how thin we are on the bench and it is coming true and we have done nothing about it. We have been lucky with no injuries so far, but a teams needs to be built assuming one or two injuries a year. Bibby’s decline is really hurting. At least it is sunny in beautiful ATL today

Plain and simple. If Jamal doesn’t produce, we get nothing from the bench.

AND, even when they do have good games, they get less than 10 minutes.

Joe Smith was looking like Joe Beast tonight. So Black Kojak promptly took him out of the game before he could be of too much help.

We need to do something to rejuvenate our bench. Maybe move Marvin to the bench?

So in this morning’s AJC, Woody says he intentionally played six players only in the second half as his strategy.

http://blogs.ajc.com/hawks/2010/02/20/woody-short-bench-strategy-backfired-on-me-vs-suns/?cxntfid=blogs_hawks
  
What is he freaking thinking about? Well I did mention as part of this thread, that he is handicapped by some of the players Sund has given him. But for him to have said his strategy was to play six players is unconscionable . Now we know he doesn’t believe in offense, and just wants to let players do their thing. One can fire him just for that reason. But to come out and so blatantly say that was his strategy to limit us to six players. I am just amazed, that a head coach after six years of coaching in NBA is saying what he is saying. Even a rookie coach will not make that mistake. We in the game thread that night saw the problem with the starters getting tired in the 4th going against their bench, and here is Woody pontificating after the fact. It is hard to overcome lack of solid bench players, it is doubly hard to overcome a coach that doesn’t even know how to take advantage of what it is he has on the bench. Inexcusable. And I don’t believe him that he will change his strategy going forward becasue he is incapable of doing that. He does not trust any one but the starting six.

When Al is off, Bibby is in a slump, Jamal hurt, and Marvin is not agressive – what do you expect. Woody did not use his bench in the second when they held their own in the first. We were tied after the 3rd qt and then went to pieces. Plenty of blame to go around.