Hawks Get Killed Again

The Hawks need to track wins and losses in several columns: competitive wins and losses vs. blowout losses. Because we seem to be having a few blowout losses. Yes, Al "True Professional" Harrington did not play, so we've got some excuses. But Al not playing isn't why we shot 35%, is it? Why our front court starters went a combined 7 for 30? That's not the kind of shooting you want out of your big men. We lost by 15, only because we out scored their scrubs by 10 in the 4th quarter. We didn't make a single jump shot in the 3rd quarter. The list goes on.

Now obviously I'm not an NBA analyst, but it seems to me that your team *consistently* gets thrashed and outperformed in the 3rd quarter, right after halftime, there is something your coach is not doing right. When Woodson says stuff to the effect that nobody on the team was doing anything right, either nobody on the team cares what he says or he is a horrible coach. We have a very young team, and nobody on the court has previously established themselves as a "smart" or "coachable" player (although Childress went to Stanford), so it's possible that Woodson knows what he's doing and none of the players are paying attention. There can't be much leadership on that Hawks squad, especially when they are looking to Harrington as the experienced vet, and he only seems to care about putting up numbers in a contract year. And I don't think Marvin Williams, the 6th best player on a COLLEGE team last year, is ready for that responsibility.