NBA Power Rankings: Hawks Rise To No. 4 In SB Nation Rankings
by Kris Willis on Jan 10, 2012 12:00 PM EST
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No they don't ultimately mean much but they are fun to talk about. The NBA season is now in full swing and that means that the latest additions of weekly power rankings have also begun. With the season just 10 games old, the Atlanta Hawks are a popular pick in the polls this week after impressing writers with victories over Miami and Chicago and coming within an whisper of defeating them twice each.
Atlanta comes in at No. 4 in SB Nation's power rankings for the week trailing only the Miami Heat, Oklahoma City Thunder and the Chicago Bulls.
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Atlanta earns a No. 6 ranking in Marc Stein's ESPN.com Power Rankings just narrowly missing out on the top 5. The Hawks trail the Heat, Bulls and Thunder in addition to the Nuggets and the Trail Blazers.
As soon as you figure out the Hawks, let us know. In a roller-coaster week, they looked like defensive juggernauts in monster wins over Miami (in Miami) and Chicago ... and at other times like a dude out of the D-League (Ivan Johnson) was their best player.
NBA.com writer John Schuhmann gives the Hawks their lowest ranking of the week moving them up two spots to No. 9 in NBA.com's weekly Power Rankings.
Atlanta (6-3)
Pace: 91.8 (24), Off: 102.4 (11), Def: 95.3 (6)
Just nine games into the season, it's already clear that the Hawks will repeat as the Jekyll and Hyde Team of the Year. The last nine days were a roller coaster, but the highs (wins over Miami and Chicago) have been better than the lows (the loss in Houston and the triple-OT loss to the short-handed Heat).
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Is the West down this year?
OKC is obviously going to be a great team. James Harden has turned into a scoring machine, as they hoped he would when he was drafted. Durant, Westbrook, Ibaka, Perkins, it’s a good core.
But beyond them…The Lakers are down-not bad, but down. They lost Phil Jackson and Lamar Odom. Portland looks good so far, but I look at their roster, and I don’t see an elite team. The Spurs are basically the same team they were last year, but Tim Duncan is starting to look really old. The Clippers are super talented, but raw, and a lot of their talent is concentrated at PG. Dallas is down, the Hornets are no good without CP3, and I don’t know what to make of Denver.
Braves will be fine. I'm not worried.
by Bronn on Sep 18, 2011 4:26 PM EDT
i thought Memphis would be better than they were
but i guess some can be partly blamed for injury
Larry Drew makes me think I can coach at a professional level.
Let's see what happens in games vs. Pacers, Wolves and Blazers
Are we elite of the East (Chicago and Miami) or a middle of the road team?
An elite team beats an improved Wolves team at home, and an improved Blazers team at home and must give Pacers at least a hard fight. I am more afraid of these matches than matches where we got nothing to lose going against East Elite.
to me I dont think the Pacers have really played anyone
but i dont want to jinx it so ill just agree and say we need to be ready for that game
Larry Drew makes me think I can coach at a professional level.
I'm wondering which lineup will be used
Do we go bigger because of Hibbert or do we stick with VladRad in the starting lineup?
hasnt horf been a mismatch on hibbert in the past?
if that continues then I guess we will go with the small. but the question is who is gonna check Granger? im guessing joe but this is another instance where losing marvin hurts us
Larry Drew makes me think I can coach at a professional level.
Granger
can check himself. He’s struggling offensively so far. He also sat out last game with food poisoning.
Any and all new Chuck Norris and Jack Bauer factoids must be approved by Ivan Johnson
by a hooter's baby on Jan 10, 2012 5:52 PM EST via mobile up reply actions
another instance? What was the first one?
Stick Smith on Granger and Space Cadet on David West.
have not seen Hibbert but his numbers looks like he’s playing like a true big man now. Before he had conditioning problems and a weak core and Horford always drove it into him. I think Horf dropped 25 or 30 on him before.
* Hawks trade {Al Horford + protected 2nd rounder} for {Perimeter F Jon Leuer and C Andrew Bogut}
* Jeff Teague * Joe Johnson* Jon Leuer * Josh Smith * Andrew Bogut *
by PointGuardSlim on Jan 11, 2012 9:49 AM EST up reply actions
Stay with Rad
We have to see if he can stop an athletic small forward like Granger if he wants to start. This is the game to find out while Marvin is out
Celtics are senile
Any and all new Chuck Norris and Jack Bauer factoids must be approved by Ivan Johnson
by a hooter's baby on Jan 10, 2012 2:40 PM EST via mobile up reply actions
The trap game is without a doubt the Charlotte game on Thursday.
Despite their record the Bobcats are competing. The almost beat Miami, they took Atlanta to OT, and the Knicks couldn’t put them away last night.
Hollinger
We are 5th on Hollingers ranking. Still cant believe that he had the Hawks not making the playoffs this year.!
Does anyone understand how the Hollinger Ranking works?
Larry Drew makes me think I can coach at a professional level.
basically, teams that blowout good teams are ranked higher.
its better for finding out which teams aren’t good than which teams are good.
once you’re below 10, you have to start looking for flaws in their lineups.
by Bryant Singleton on Jan 10, 2012 3:11 PM EST up reply actions
It's not all that complicated
I’ve seen more murky ranking systems before. It just uses scoring margin, rather than actual record, and then makes adjustments for strength of schedule and home court. Later on, it will also start to value recent results slightly more than full season results, but since nobody has played more than 10 games, that’s not a factor yet.
Our strength of schedule is middle of the road so far. We’ve played four games against elite teams, but we’ve also played 3 games against the Nets, one against the Wizards, and one against Charlotte, so it’s balanced out (those are 29th, 30th, and 26th teams, respectively).
This is a good team. There’s obvious ways in which we can still improve, but getting Kirk back healthy helps, and T-Mac looks really, really good when HE is healthy. Come mid-February, assuming we can from putting too much mileage on McGrady’s knee, we’ll be able to go 9 deep as well as anyone.
Braves will be fine. I'm not worried.
by Bronn on Sep 18, 2011 4:26 PM EDT
It's basically the BCS for basketball
Margin of victory and strength of schedule, with more recent games weighted more heavily and (I think) road wins weighted heavily than home wins.
Basketball-reference.com’s SRS rating is very similar.
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by NajehDavenpoop on Jan 11, 2012 9:47 AM EST up reply actions
waiting until the postseason
consistency in winning is the only goal for the regular season
Atlanta will win a championship....someday
agreed
Hollinger’s ranking becomes much better as the year goes along — right now the sample size is too small for a pure statistical ranking. Not only do more games allow it to establish a reliable strength of schedule metric, it makes the weighted “last 10” stats more significant and reflective of “power rankings”
…and 30 in Charles Barkley’s shitty rankings.
I feel like SWAT right now..Colin Farrell GET AT ME! GET AT ME! LL Cool J GET AT ME!
wait barkley thinks there are teams worse than us?
Larry Drew makes me think I can coach at a professional level.
HA HA HA
yeah he beat the Hawks up thursday. Chuck’s my favorite player of all time, so thursday was like showing up to pick up your date on prom night and her ex-boyfriend answers the door.
He trashed everything about the Hawks except Ivan Johnson
Rad the Serbian Great
Does any one wonder why Rad can do in a few games what Marvin has failed to deliver in seven years?
I say sit Marvin’s soft butt on the bench. He gets injured if you look at the guy.
Rad should be the starting small forward for the rest of the year, if he can play Granger well.
Maybe Vlad can check Paul George? Athletic but not a great ball handler from what I've seen. Or like last game implement the switching defense
* Hawks trade {Al Horford + protected 2nd rounder} for {Perimeter F Jon Leuer and C Andrew Bogut}
* Jeff Teague * Joe Johnson* Jon Leuer * Josh Smith * Andrew Bogut *
by PointGuardSlim on Jan 11, 2012 9:50 AM EST up reply actions
this team go's as Josh go's.
Good Josh, we can hang with any team, bad Josh, we lose to teams like the heat without their best players
Heat lost, and the way I look at things
we are one game out of first in the southeast. lol yeah i iknow its early in the season.
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