Hawks Win Home Opener!

Atlanta Hawks started off the sea­son in win­ning fash­ion beat­ing the Indi­ana Pac­ers 120–109 at Philips Arena.

Al Hor­ford has a mon­ster game lead­ing the way for the Hawks with 24 points and 16 rebounds. Joe John­son added 25 points and Josh Smith scored 18 points.

The Hawks had a one point lead enter­ing the fourth quar­ter but then the Pac­ers folded like a lawn chair. Indi­ana had a dis­mal 25 turnovers essen­tially defeat­ing themselves.

It was the third year in a row the Hawks won their home opener. Next up for the Hawks is the Wash­ing­ton Wiz­ards Fri­day Night at Philips Arena. Get tick­ets here!

Review of Hawk’s Trade for Jamal Crawford

Atlanta Hawks sent Speedy Clax­ton and Acie Law to Golden State on Thurs­day for vet­eran shooter Jamal Craw­ford. Atlanta makes a great move here trad­ing vir­tu­ally noth­ing to get a big scor­ing guard while tak­ing some heat off of Joe John­son in the 4th quarter.

Acie Law never lived up to expec­ta­tions although his min­utes were lim­ited. Bot­tom line here is he can’t shoot and was a poor pick in the draft. Four let­ters pretty well sum up Speedy Claxton’s time in Atlanta, can you say B-U-S-T !

A major ben­e­fit should Mike Bibby go else­where now that Atlanta has some­one to fill his scor­ing shoes not to men­tion it will free up$8 mil­lion. The Hawks drafted Wake For­est star Jeff Teague who can really push the ball and also score. The Hawks now have some breath­ing room with free agency and can focus on resign­ing Flip Mur­ray and ZaZa Pachulia.

Jamal Craw­ford aver­aged over 19 points, four assists and three rebounds a game last year. He’s a pro­lific scorer who can knock down the big shot as evi­denced by being the 7th best 4th quar­ter scorer in the the league last sea­son.  

Atlanta Hawks still have some work to do like secur­ing a true cen­ter and find­ing some­body to guard LeBron James. The rest of this sum­mer will be inter­est­ing and let’s applaud Gen­eral Man­ager Rick Sund for putting this deal together.

Bot­tom line, Atlanta is a fun, energetic town and the Hawk’s are a young and excit­ing team head­ing in the right direc­tion …Lets Go Hawk’s!

Hawks Soar Winning 1st Round Playoff Series

The Hawks have been here before, enter­ing the deci­sive game 7 in the first round of play­offs. It was last year against the Boston Celtics in Boston and the Hawks were blown out. However, this out­come would  be dif­fer­ent as the Atlanta Hawks turned this game into a laugher on their home court eas­ily defeat­ing Dwayne Wade and the Miami Heat 91–78.

The Hawks were in charge early on and thanks to the hot hand of Joe John­son Atlanta never looked back.  Joe had been strug­gling pre­vi­ously in the series never scor­ing more than twenty points in any one game. But when the Hawks needed him the most Joe  John­son rose to the occa­sion sink­ing six 3 point­ers (some from 40 feet), mak­ing 5 steals while scor­ing 27 points. It was Joe’s sec­ond high­est scor­ing play­off game as a pro.

Josh Smith had another solid game putting down 21 points and grab­bing 9 rebounds. Flip Mur­ray once again pro­vided the spark off the bench scor­ing 15 points includ­ing a three pointer that gave the Hawks their largest lead of the game.

Dwayne Wade scored more than 30 points for the sec­ond time in the series but most of those came after the Hawks had estab­lished a com­fort­able lead. Haslem added a dou­ble dou­ble but was ejected in the fourth quar­ter after horse col­lar­ing ZaZa Pachu­lia on a drive to the bas­ket. Rookie Michael Beasley had 17 points and 7 rebounds for the Heat.

This was the first game 7 won by the Hawks since 1961 back when the Fran­chise was still in St. Louis. It was the first time ever the Atlanta Hawks won a game 7 and the first time since 1999 that the Hawks advance to the sec­ond round of the playoffs.

That’s the good news for the Atlanta Hawks. The bad news is their next oppo­nent hap­pens to be the best team in bas­ket­ball, the Cleve­land Cavaliers. As if that’s not enough they also face the best player in bas­ket­ball Lebron James.

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