The Only Atlanta Hawks Blog
I recently did a search for a decent Hawks blog, and came up empty. I found one that hadn't been updated in a year, another one that is just news clips and appears to be "written" automatically, another one that just has links to buying tickets, and finally, a horrible AJC "blog" (really just a collection of short articles by yet another AJC writer who doesn't know what they're talking about).
I'm a Hawks fan by birth (read: I grew up in Atlanta). I didn't watch too much growing up, but I know who Dominique Wilkins is. But I try my best to root for the home team, despite the fact that they suck, that 95% of the fans hate them, that the owners suck, the jerseys suck, their marketing sucks, etc.
I thought it couldn't get any worse than when we had Steve Smith and Mookie Blaylock running the team. We were old, slow, boring, and would win more games than lose them on a bunch of 15 foot jumpers. But we made the playoffs. Then we traded for a horrible head case, Rider, who promptly killed the team.
Then came the sickest dunk I've seen in person my life, DeMar Johnson on top of Theo Ratliff (Sixers), and I was excited. We got Theo in the offseason, and had Shareef in the front court, Jason "J.T." Terry, and maybe Toni Kukoc or something. This lead to an actual conversation with a friend talking about how well we could match up with the Lakers. What an idiot. Theo went down after 2 games, we found out Shareef only dribbles to his right (seriously, every single time), Terry was a horrible point and not a very good shooting guard, and Toni Kukoc did not give a crap about playing for the Hawks.
I have suffered through years of Alan Henderson and Chris Crawford as two of the higher profile Hawks. Years of no real point guard. Years of a horrible and boring team. Terrible coaches (although we won't really know, as the teams were so bad). Every time I went to a game, I would estimate that half the fans had won some free tickets or were there with their families, a third of the fans were there for the other team (except when the Knicks or Sixers were in town, in which case like 90% of the fans rooted against the Hawks).
Atlanta is a town full of haters, man. And the only way to win over a hater is through mad respect. Michael Vick is one of the three greatest things to happen to me, and he has completely changed the attitude of this town towards Atlanta sports. The Hawks are close, and maybe something is gonna happen, and I'll be paying attention.
So stay tuned for ill-informed sporadic postings, mostly negative, but not about guys who care. Say what you will about Josh Childress, but he busts his ass. It's not his fault he isn't good enough to play more than 15 minutes a game against NBA professionals. Well, as you can see it's going to be a fine line between hating and not hating, but that's what you get when your team is this bad.
Update: Okay, there are a few other blogs out there, but not very strong opinions. Mostly reporting of the facts, followed by a "what do you guys think?" Well, this blog is going to be a little less fact and a litte more opinion. In fact, forget the facts.
I'm a Hawks fan by birth (read: I grew up in Atlanta). I didn't watch too much growing up, but I know who Dominique Wilkins is. But I try my best to root for the home team, despite the fact that they suck, that 95% of the fans hate them, that the owners suck, the jerseys suck, their marketing sucks, etc.
I thought it couldn't get any worse than when we had Steve Smith and Mookie Blaylock running the team. We were old, slow, boring, and would win more games than lose them on a bunch of 15 foot jumpers. But we made the playoffs. Then we traded for a horrible head case, Rider, who promptly killed the team.
Then came the sickest dunk I've seen in person my life, DeMar Johnson on top of Theo Ratliff (Sixers), and I was excited. We got Theo in the offseason, and had Shareef in the front court, Jason "J.T." Terry, and maybe Toni Kukoc or something. This lead to an actual conversation with a friend talking about how well we could match up with the Lakers. What an idiot. Theo went down after 2 games, we found out Shareef only dribbles to his right (seriously, every single time), Terry was a horrible point and not a very good shooting guard, and Toni Kukoc did not give a crap about playing for the Hawks.
I have suffered through years of Alan Henderson and Chris Crawford as two of the higher profile Hawks. Years of no real point guard. Years of a horrible and boring team. Terrible coaches (although we won't really know, as the teams were so bad). Every time I went to a game, I would estimate that half the fans had won some free tickets or were there with their families, a third of the fans were there for the other team (except when the Knicks or Sixers were in town, in which case like 90% of the fans rooted against the Hawks).
Atlanta is a town full of haters, man. And the only way to win over a hater is through mad respect. Michael Vick is one of the three greatest things to happen to me, and he has completely changed the attitude of this town towards Atlanta sports. The Hawks are close, and maybe something is gonna happen, and I'll be paying attention.
So stay tuned for ill-informed sporadic postings, mostly negative, but not about guys who care. Say what you will about Josh Childress, but he busts his ass. It's not his fault he isn't good enough to play more than 15 minutes a game against NBA professionals. Well, as you can see it's going to be a fine line between hating and not hating, but that's what you get when your team is this bad.
Update: Okay, there are a few other blogs out there, but not very strong opinions. Mostly reporting of the facts, followed by a "what do you guys think?" Well, this blog is going to be a little less fact and a litte more opinion. In fact, forget the facts.
posted by Matt at 1:46 PM
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