Hawks Fly High

I missed the first half so I can only base my comments on what I saw in the second half so here goes:
1) hawks played great and shot out of their minds
2) cassell will be on the bench for game 4 and house will be back in the rotation
3) pierce needs to go to the hoop
4) violet palmer is horrible
5) Horford did a stupid thing there at the end.
6) the celts will be ready to go on monday

Yeech. Easily one of the five worst Celtics performances this year.

Defensive intensity wasn’t there all night. WAY too many shots at the rim for Atlanta. Shot selection was just about as bad all night. Way too few drives to the rim, way too many jump shots. Sam, baby, if you’re going to launch like that we can’t use you.

We looked disinterested, and with that in mind a sincere thanks to Al Horford for acting like a punk in the last minute. Pierce will put up 40 Monday night.

I rather see KG get 20 rebounds and ten points, than 30 points and 10 rebounds. That guy has got to hit the boards harder! Maybe a little Tony Allen is needed for a few defensive stops. Toughness was lacking tonight Cs. Violet Palmer sucks!

I am not a fan of losses, but there is a silver lining in this. I’d rather the Cs deal with some adversity early against the Hawks than midway through the Eastern Conference Finals.

You will know everything you need to know about how far we can go by the way they play the next one. If they come in and squash this team and go up 3-1 then we are fine. If we come in and let them do to us what they did tonight we aren’t going to go very far. We’ll win this series sure, but it’s going to be hard to hang #17 if you can’t come out and trounce a team that is clearly a lesser team after them showing you up like that.

We didn’t rebound at all. We should have gone to KG in the post every time down and had him attack the rim. All the shots he missed were when he would turn and fade. He killed them when he went to the rim. We went big stretches without getting Ray free. Big stretches without getting PP a shot. When we need a basket it has to be them. Rondo for some reason couldn’t keep Bibby in front of him, however his numbers weren’t that great.

Sam once again reminds me why I hate his game. Even though he only took 4 shots, making one, the three he missed were daggers early in the shot clock. I sure hope that Doc gives House some time in game 4 to show Sam he just can’t do that. He was absolutely awful tonight.

That being said, this was one game. Not a reason to lose it completely here. Of course they are going to come in with emotion first game in their building. We will win the next and end it back in Boston.

It’s official. I hate Al Horford.

Horford ain’t no punk he’s awesome. Not as awesome as Josh Smith but awesome.

Hi my name is Doc Rivers and I’m obsessed with veterans and play PJ Brown, who is old and washed up, over Leon Powe, one of the most productive power forwards off the bench IN THE LEAGUE. Seriously, why is it that guys payed millions of dollars to do miss obvious sh*t such as this? Everyone knows Powe is really, really good and Brown is a washed up has been. Against ATL it’s no big deal, but it’s going to end up costing us a key game in the ECF or the Finals and all the Doc fan bois won’t think a thing of it.

The Hawks won without a lot of class. They acted like they won the championship. Al Horford pointing and yelling at Pierce (Pierce flashed some hand signal back at Horford when the time out began), Josh Smith trying to chestbump Joe Johnson after a basket while the game was still going on, etc. You know who does this kind of stuff? Eighth seeds who made the playoffs in a bad conference and lack proper respect for their opponents (the Spurs, even when being the best team in the league, respect their opponents). Being fired up for the playoffs is one thing, but making fools of yourselves and partaking in these unnecessary antics is juvenile.

What a deafening blow it would have been had the Celtics come back and squashed the best the Hawks had. That opportunity passed. Hopefully they leave the Hawks completely demoralized over the next two. Wipe the floor with them. These young guys need to be taught a lesson.

the vaunted defense was haunted. where was powe? little boxing out. poor shot selection. so atlanta was hot-this is the playoffs- teams are supposed to be good. wake up!! celtics!!

They acted like they won the championship

This is their championship. Their whole season comes down to whether or not they can steal a game from the Celtics. They did it, they should be delighted, they should be proud. It was a great achievement by Atlanta.

pj has done nothing to deserve minutes. powe and baby will fare better against the physical inside play of the hwaks. we could have used a better perk last night. he has to convert those easy inside opportunities. I think after he failed to convert on two dunks Pierce and others thought they had to win it themselves. If Perk could up his game it would help a lot

Naw cmoney, the defense was better with PJ in the game (and he didn’t get that many minutes to effect the outcome), though I agree I wouldv’e liked to have seen more Powe. Big Baby was doing good work on the boards, but he couldn’t stay on the floor with getting called for a foul every 30 seconds.

everyone is complaining about the Hawks acting just about exactly like Perk does on a nightly basis.

Palmer wasn’t bad. The Celtics were. I’m getting a kick out of how mad people are at Horford. Anybody watching Garnett run his mouth 24/7? As the leader of this team, maybe Garnett should zip it and crash the boards a little.

When they have to play against the Cavaliers AND the officials in the next round they can’t afford to be this flat. If we’re mad about a few bad calls, imagine how mad we’ll be when Lebron is playing and it looks like we’re playing against Tim Donaghy, Tim Donaghy Jr, and Tim Donaghy III. Garnett can’t afford to take 80% of his shots from the elbow whether they’re falling or not.

Not to mention the legendary coach. When your shooting is cold, how does the team’s instant offense all season play 2 minutes? When you’re getting completely outplayed inside, how does the team’s best rebounder play 6 minutes? When your opponents are shooting 55%, how does the team’s best defender on 2s and 3s play 4 seconds?

PJ didn’t have a good game. I like PJ and think he has a lot to offer but I’m not sure what he brings to this series. He doesn’t do anything to make Atlanta’s life more difficult. Powe does and Glen Davis does against Horford.

fairweather,

nah you’re wrong. He’s amongst the worst players to see minutes in the postseason. He’s sporting a -5 PER. Obviously a small sample size, but he sported a 10 PER in the regular season. Powe sported a 21 PER (2nd best on the team). Powe is just a much, much better player. PJ should only see minutes in garbage time or due to foul trouble. He’s bad and signing him with the intention of using him as anything beyond a last resort was awful.

And PJ is most definitely not a defensive plus in this series. ATL is a small-ballin’ athletic as hell team.