Atlanta Hawks

Have you looked at the league leaders yet this season?

There are some familiar faces atop some of the big categories. Kobe leads the league in scoring. Nash leads the league in assists. Rondo leads the league in steals. 

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Brett Favre needs to stay

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The Celtic's defense showed up huge against the Atlanta Hawks who the C's have beat 3 times this year, but only by a total of 10 points; two of those games the C's won by only 1 point which gives Atlanta the feeling that they can beat the C's especially after last year's 1st round (taking the Celts to 7). But after last night's win, 104-92, having 10 blocks, the C's were sending a message: "get it out of our house".

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Joe Johnson, Atlanta Hawks (21.6, 4.5, 6.2) – Despite injuries to a pair of Atlanta starters and a lack of help off the bench, the Hawks are one of six Eastern Conference teams with a record above .500, and Johnson is largely responsible. He’s struggled in the new year, yet still has some of the best all-around numbers in the game.

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Matt's next point was that the Celtics had to go seven against the young and inexperienced Atlanta Hawks, who entered this year's Playoffs with a losing record.  While it is certain that the Celtics' struggles against the Hawks were frustrating and disheartening and exposed some of Boston's weaknesses, I don't think that this argument is proof positive that the Celtics will lose.  First off, the Hawks were better than anybody thought they could be, and Joe Johnson is perhaps one of the most underrated players in this league.  Also, the Celtics total margin of victory against Atlanta was greater than 100 points for the series, and every single performance at home was dominant.  It wasn't always pretty, but the Celtics moved on, which is all that really matters. 

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I could officially care less about the Celtics road record this postseason.  After seeing the way the Celtics have played at home against some tough competition, I don't think that anybody, not even the mighty Detroit Pistons can beat the Celtics in Boston this year.  The players are hungry and the city is too, and we can all smell a championship now. 

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First off, the Cavs are not nearly as young or athletic as the Atlanta Hawks were, which should make things easier on the Celtics on both ends of the floor.  Aside from James, the Cavs don't have another explosive athlete or a player who is capable of exploiting the Celtics with athletic prowess.  The Hawks had nothing but a roster of young, athletic studs who were dedicated to pushing the tempo and exploiting their only advantage over the Celtics at every opportunity.  The Hawks were able to use their superior athleticism to compensate for inferior execution and game planning to keep the series as close as it was.  The Cavs aren't as athletic as Atlanta (aside from James), and they still don't execute as well as the Celtics do, which puts them at a disadvantage without an effective countermeasure (aside from James, broken record much?).

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I'm upset that I didn't get to watch game 7 of the Celtics/Hawks Beatdown in Beantown on Sunday, but this gig doesn't exactly pay the bills, so alas I was working for the man instead of cheering loudly and laughing my ass off as the Hawks got served in brutal fashion in Boston.  The game speaks for itself (likely won't stop me from speaking for it), and it provided a thunderous and definitive answer to all the doubters and haters (Zaza Pachulia got a personal notice of defeat, the back court pick from KG that leveled the untalented center).

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    The Celtics seven game series with the Hawks was a beneficial experience for the Celtics.  A team that had never played with each other in the playoffs was able to see what they were really made of.  The Hawks, granted they are an extremely young and inexperienced team, pushed the Celtics to their limit.  But the Celtics responded admirably by absolutely pounding the Hawks in a decisive game seven, ending any hope at all that their team would win.

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Come on... really?  What a nightmare.  There's not too much to say, other than the officials hosed Paul Pierce and the Boston Celtics yet again.  Paul Pierce fouled out on the ticky-tackiest of calls (on a foul that hadn't been called all series), and the Hawks had more than forty attempts at the free throw line, while the Celtics had only 25 attempts from the stripe Regardless, the Celtics still had a chance to win it at the buzzer, and they failed to execute anything resembling an offensive set or a game plan.  And they had two chances. 

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Only three hours and ten minutes until the Hawks and Celtics tip off game 6 in Atlanta, so until then I figure I'll spend the beautiful afternoon rambling on and on about other news in the basketball world.  So I apologize, but this post will have little or nothing to do with my beloved hometown Celtics, but does concern another one of my favorite teams in the NBA, the Phoenix Suns.

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Now that's more like it.  The Celtics have put the Hawks on the ropes with a resounding and convincing victory in game 5 last night.  Everything that was going wrong for Boston in games 3 and 4 seems to have been solved by playing in front of their home crowd, and similarly, everything that was going right for the Hawks evaporated into thin air as the road team.  I suppose that it just goes to show how huge an advantage a raucous home crowd can be in a playoff series.  That being said, I think that the Celtics are poised to break the cycle in this series and finish the Hawks off in game 6 in Atlanta.

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Somebody pinch me, I must be dreaming.  It seems as though the Atlanta Hawks lost their scripts for games 3 and 4 of this first round series against my beloved Boston Celtics, and are ad-libbing some kind of horrible nightmare that currently has the series headed back to Boston tied at two games apiece.  I guess they didn't fully read the lay-down-and-die directive that the media handed them and decided to spice things up a bit.  Kudos to them, but I'm not sweating yet (and not just because it's still goddamned cold here in Portland).

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Sucks to the site server man, I've been getting blocked (like Scalabrine) by the website and unable to post for a few days.  I'm sorry, and it angers me more than it does you I'm sure.  Anyhow, here is my lovely post, it's not even stale yet! 

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In the East, however, the Celtics first round match up this season will most likely be the Atlanta Hawks (who at 35-40 own a four game advantage on the Nets and Pacers, who have identical records of 31-44).  Instead of fighting tooth and nail for the last playoff spot in the Eastern Conference, the battle for the eighth seed in the East is a battle to see who can back their way in by being marginally less bad than their competition.  

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