Some of you clowns suck at life with slitting your wrists over a 1 point halftime deficit. Seriously you have no future in this world....
Offense was not in issue when we played these guys at home: http://www.nba.com/games/20080209/ATLHOU/boxscore.html Just plain flat looking this game so far.
Whether in the 30's or the 50's we are still only ONE point behind a pretty bad team. I STILL BELIEVE.
Man....... don't know what happened to the team tonight. Leading 32 to 24. Then all of a sudden.......got hit by a 9 ~ 0 run by the Hawks to end 1H 32 ~ 33. Tracy seemed lack of intensity in his game when he returned to play in 2Q after 6 to 7 minutes of rest, passing out a few of open looks that he should take, and even missed the 2 free throws at the end of 2Q to tie or surpass the lead. Is something (fatique or pain) bothering him?
I would play BJ and Head instead of Rafer and TMAC until they can have some energy. If we stick to BJ and Head, we will be fine, another double digit win.
A game like this makes me miss Landry in a bad way. Refs try to set the tone early inside by calling ticky tack fouls on Scola and then Chuck gets 3 fouls (nothing out of the ordinary). Landry would expose this defense by getting in the middle of this zone and ramming the ball down their throats. We've been forced to have 2 non-offensive threats down low with Mutombo and Hayes. If I'm Adelman, I'm pissed at the lack of ball movement and cutting. The shots will start falling if we keep everybody moving and in the flow of the offense.
Time to start taking the ball to rim. Can't shoot too many jumpers. The Team needs to start off strong and not give the Hawks any confidence going into the fourth. We all knew this game would be a tough game.
T-Mac just needs to stay away from anything that even remotely resembles a guarantee, even if it's a half-guarantee which he quickly qualifies/retracts. Nothing good has ever come of any of his guarantees. He only ends up jinxing himself.
Hope Landry comes back soon. Scola is the ONLY inside player now, hard to do it alone. Plus, Scola is great hustle, but not that strong ... yet, to move his way around the inside, especially by himself. Landry will be a great help when he returns. Yao would have been a huge help, but o well. Without an inside game, even outside shooters are well defended (no spacing), which partly explains our bad shooting so far.
