Hawks (9-10) @ Magic (16-5) - 12/10 - 7pm

[atljunkie]

vs

The Southeast Division-leading Orlando Magic are off to their best start in a dozen years, but coach Stan Van Gundy and his players are a little concernedabout some recent sloppy play.
The Magic try and get back on track and avoid losing consecutive games for the first time all season when they host the Atlanta Hawks on Monday.
Since winning 14 of its first 17 games, Orlando (16-5) has dropped two of four. In Friday's 115-109 loss to Indiana, the Magicsquandered a 15-point second-half lead.

Atlanta (9-10) defeated Memphis 86-78 on Saturday for its second straight win and third in four games. The Hawks, who have yet towin three in a row, have not had a .500 record
this late in the season since they were 10-10 on Dec. 7, 2002. "I've been saying all year that if we can play .500, we'll be in position to makethe playoffs,'' Atlanta coach Mike Woodson said.
"It's a long season. We just have to stay the course.''

It's going to be tough! Darn near impossible. haha
Hawks have some confidence and have some success this season beating power-houses.
I still have faith. Are there any Orlando fans on this board?

Atlanta
keys: stop dwight howard and get your free throw game up! every point is essential. stop the 3 ball!

Orlando
keys: stop josh smith, make them put up poor % field goal attempts. work the rookies.

edit: interesting. Orlando is only 5-3 at home. 3/5 losses have been at home? hmmmm


edit2:

NEW YORK, Dec. 10, 2007 - The Atlanta Hawks' Josh Smith and the Portland Trail Blazers' Brandon Roy today were named the
Eastern and Western Conference Players of the Week, respectively, for games played Monday, Dec. 3 through Sunday, Dec. 9.
Smith led the Hawks to a 3-1 week, averaging 22.0 points, 6.3 rebounds, 3.3 assists and 3.3 blocks. On Dec. 6 against Minnesota, Smith tied an
NBA season high with seven blocks to go along with 28 points and seven rebounds. Smith is the only player to rank in the top 10 in both blocks
(3.6 bpg, 1st) and steals (1.9 spg, 10th), and has blocked two or more shots in 16-of-18 games this season.

congrats to Jsmoove!

 

[flydaily]

im placin my bet on orlando.....

 

[cali dro cardo]

"I've been saying all year that if we can play .500, we'll be in position to make the playoffs,'' Atlanta coach Mike Woodson said.

Somebody get this guy the fruck outta here!PLEASE!!!


This is gonna be a very tough game. A MUST WIN regardless.

 

[atljunkie]

^ yup. plus they have the Raptors next smh. then the pistons smh.

 

[dlo13]

This is the only game on tonight that matters. I'm not trying to hear 3 hours of commentary on Vick, Bush, and the Patriots with a football game thrown in,just for kicks.

First, good news: Josh Smith is your Eastern Conference Player of the Week.

Still waiting on Joe to find his stroke, or as Steve Smith would put it, "We need Joe to be Joe."

Tonight would be a good night for that. Joe feasted on the Magic last year.

Somehow, we have to keep Horford and Smoove out of foul trouble against D12. I think we'd be wise to let him do his damage inside, instead of doubling himand letting their shooters kill us. We could really use Childress back tonight, too.

 

[ballinboykz]

congrats to Josh Smith....

DPOY?

 

[atljunkie]

DPOY?

hes def on the right track. still too early but that would be sweet.
I hope he gets into the all star game too!

 

[diew its james]

hopefully JJ and Smith can put up good numbers tonight and get the W, but i still need D12 to pull down 20 boards tonight for my fantasy team...

GO HAWKS !

 

[you big dummy]

Hawks @ Magic 7pm EST
(internet explorer link)

 

[cali dro cardo]

I just stared at that Vick avy for about 7 minutes. I'm gonna be hurting for a long time. He was my "Jordan" to Atlanta Sports.

 

[the coolness]

Originally Posted by you big dummy

Hawks @ Magic 7pm EST
(internet explorer link)

forbidden...nice try tho

 

[you big dummy]

hurry
http://boss.streamos.com/wmedia-liv...XadK2qfjGSaR8oo0CTu13!We5Y4K!HU8o4HMh6?e=.asxhttp://boss.streamos.com/wmedia-live/opC3f3G4GyVRa6iTSoaPe2djlHDTvJOGp4Da5nVCIvGEhwhyhoklUJ4cCMvgkkQd7g2dOgLUwxcy!KWKDRQM4YUAUhtBnw5S02Ndpl2VqzJGt4bOTMB23nTTBmJdNESs?e=.asx

 

[strongmind3]

try this out if you guys cant get the other links to work: http://s226606444.onlinehome.us/121...00_nba-league_pass_orlando_051201.asx&gid=302'

 

[atljunkie]

good look all of you guys and yea, i sent dummy a comment about the avi. he was wild!

 

[im fresh428]

none of those links work for me

 

[knockoutned]

for the love of god please give me a working link!

 

[atljunkie]

^^ lmao. you guys are wildin. Hawks playing well. good ball movement! shelden williams playing well!!!!!!

come out in the 2nd half and tear it up!

 

[superofficial]

Jsmoove tearin up the box score, 18 14 4 3 and 2... gotta love him on my fantasy squad...

 

[2g00d4u]

Looks like this is the beginning of the downfall of the Magic. Pathetic

 

[superofficial]

What happened to Horford? I see he's only played 6 minutes.

 

[atljunkie]

^^ he has 4 fouls or maybe 5. howard also has 5.

jj and jsmoove are playing well!!!!

 

[diew its james]

hawks making us proud

josh smith with 16 boards 4 blocks 25 pts

 

[dlo13]

They just lucky Shelden Williams got hurt. It could have been worse.

Our defense has been on point this year. Tremendous job on D12, even with Al getting hit with those fouls. Smoove took over in that 4th quarter...

On that note, here's the photos from Josh's 22nd birthday bash last week. It was nice of him to invite the T-Wolves after Joe ripped their heart outearlier.

Hopefully after he gets that big extension, he can get some better women in there. Some of these chicks are busted.

http://www.photos.atlbarz.com/main.php?g2_itemId=57878

Again, great team victory. Got the Raps tomorrow. At least Al will be fresh. Maybe we get Chill back.

 

[you big dummy]

nice win by the hawks

Josh Smith with a nice stat line: 25 points, 16 boards, 5 assists, 4 blocks, 4 steals

[table][tr][td]Atlanta[/td] [/tr][tr][td]Name[/td] [td]Min[/td] [td]FG[/td] [td]3Pt[/td] [td]FT[/td] [td]Off[/td] [td]Reb[/td] [td]Ast[/td] [td]TO[/td] [td]Stl[/td] [td]Blk[/td] [td]PF[/td] [td]Pts[/td] [/tr][tr][td]M. Williams[/td] [td]37[/td] [td]4-10[/td] [td]0-0[/td] [td]4-4[/td] [td]0[/td] [td]3[/td] [td]2[/td] [td]0[/td] [td]1[/td] [td]0[/td] [td]3[/td] [td]12[/td] [/tr][tr][td]J. Smith[/td] [td]45[/td] [td]7-20[/td] [td]2-4[/td] [td]9-13[/td] [td]2[/td] [td]16[/td] [td]5[/td] [td]2[/td] [td]4[/td] [td]4[/td] [td]3[/td] [td]25[/td] [/tr][tr][td]A. Horford[/td] [td]7[/td] [td]3-5[/td] [td]0-0[/td] [td]1-1[/td] [td]0[/td] [td]1[/td] [td]0[/td] [td]0[/td] [td]0[/td] [td]0[/td] [td]4[/td] [td]7[/td] [/tr][tr][td]J. Johnson[/td] [td]48[/td] [td]8-21[/td] [td]2-3[/td] [td]6-7[/td] [td]0[/td] [td]4[/td] [td]4[/td] [td]2[/td] [td]1[/td] [td]0[/td] [td]2[/td] [td]24[/td] [/tr][tr][td]A. Johnson[/td] [td]35[/td] [td]6-9[/td] [td]1-2[/td] [td]2-2[/td] [td]1[/td] [td]6[/td] [td]5[/td] [td]2[/td] [td]3[/td] [td]0[/td] [td]4[/td] [td]15[/td] [/tr][tr][td]L. Wright[/td] [td]27[/td] [td]0-2[/td] [td]0-0[/td] [td]1-2[/td] [td]2[/td] [td]3[/td] [td]1[/td] [td]0[/td] [td]1[/td] [td]1[/td] [td]4[/td] [td]1[/td] [/tr][tr][td]A. Law[/td] [td]15[/td] [td]1-5[/td] [td]0-0[/td] [td]0-0[/td] [td]0[/td] [td]1[/td] [td]2[/td] [td]1[/td] [td]1[/td] [td]0[/td] [td]2[/td] [td]2[/td] [/tr][tr][td]S. Williams[/td] [td]11[/td] [td]6-6[/td] [td]0-0[/td] [td]0-1[/td] [td]4[/td] [td]7[/td] [td]0[/td] [td]1[/td] [td]0[/td] [td]1[/td] [td]2[/td] [td]12[/td] [/tr][tr][td]S. Stoudamire[/td] [td]6[/td] [td]0-4[/td] [td]0-2[/td] [td]0-0[/td] [td]0[/td] [td]1[/td] [td]0[/td] [td]0[/td] [td]0[/td] [td]0[/td] [td]0[/td] [td]0[/td] [/tr][tr][td]M. West[/td] [td]4[/td] [td]0-0[/td] [td]0-0[/td] [td]0-0[/td] [td]0[/td] [td]1[/td] [td]0[/td] [td]0[/td] [td]0[/td] [td]0[/td] [td]0[/td] [td]0[/td] [/tr][tr][td]S. Jones[/td] [td]0[/td] [td]0-0[/td] [td]0-0[/td] [td]0-0[/td] [td]0[/td] [td]0[/td] [td]0[/td] [td]0[/td] [td]0[/td] [td]0[/td] [td]0[/td] [td]0[/td] [/tr][tr][td]J. Childress[/td] [td]DNP - Right Groin Strain[/td] [/tr][tr][td]S. Claxton[/td] [td]DNP - Coach's Decision[/td] [/tr][tr][td]T. Lue[/td] [td]DNP - Coach's Decision[/td] [/tr][tr][td]Z. Pachulia[/td] [td]DNP - Coach's Decision[/td] [/tr][tr][td]
[/td] [/tr][tr][td]Totals[/td] [td]235[/td] [td]35-82[/td] [td]5-11[/td] [td]23-30[/td] [td]9[/td] [td]43[/td] [td]19[/td] [td]8[/td] [td]11[/td] [td]6[/td] [td]24[/td] [td]98[/td] [/tr][tr][td]Percentages:[/td] [td]
[/td] [td].427[/td] [td].455[/td] [td].767[/td] [td]
[/td] [td]Team Rebounds: 8[/td] [/tr][/table][table][tr][td]

[/td] [/tr][/table][table][tr][td]Orlando[/td] [/tr][tr][td]Name[/td] [td]Min[/td] [td]FG[/td] [td]3Pt[/td] [td]FT[/td] [td]Off[/td] [td]Reb[/td] [td]Ast[/td] [td]TO[/td] [td]Stl[/td] [td]Blk[/td] [td]PF[/td] [td]Pts[/td] [/tr][tr][td]H. Turkoglu[/td] [td]36[/td] [td]7-15[/td] [td]3-7[/td] [td]5-6[/td] [td]2[/td] [td]7[/td] [td]5[/td] [td]2[/td] [td]0[/td] [td]1[/td] [td]4[/td] [td]22[/td] [/tr][tr][td]R. Lewis[/td] [td]37[/td] [td]5-13[/td] [td]3-10[/td] [td]2-2[/td] [td]2[/td] [td]7[/td] [td]2[/td] [td]3[/td] [td]0[/td] [td]0[/td] [td]5[/td] [td]15[/td] [/tr][tr][td] . Howard[/td] [td]42[/td] [td]4-7[/td] [td]0-0[/td] [td]6-14[/td] [td]1[/td] [td]18[/td] [td]1[/td] [td]5[/td] [td]2[/td] [td]2[/td] [td]5[/td] [td]14[/td] [/tr][tr][td]K. Bogans[/td] [td]33[/td] [td]4-11[/td] [td]3-7[/td] [td]1-2[/td] [td]1[/td] [td]4[/td] [td]0[/td] [td]2[/td] [td]0[/td] [td]0[/td] [td]1[/td] [td]12[/td] [/tr][tr][td]J. Nelson[/td] [td]26[/td] [td]2-8[/td] [td]0-2[/td] [td]2-2[/td] [td]0[/td] [td]1[/td] [td]4[/td] [td]3[/td] [td]0[/td] [td]0[/td] [td]2[/td] [td]6[/td] [/tr][tr][td]B. Cook[/td] [td]4[/td] [td]0-2[/td] [td]0-1[/td] [td]0-0[/td] [td]0[/td] [td]0[/td] [td]0[/td] [td]1[/td] [td]0[/td] [td]0[/td] [td]2[/td] [td]0[/td] [/tr][tr][td]M. Evans[/td] [td]17[/td] [td]1-5[/td] [td]0-1[/td] [td]0-0[/td] [td]2[/td] [td]3[/td] [td]1[/td] [td]0[/td] [td]0[/td] [td]0[/td] [td]0[/td] [td]2[/td] [/tr][tr][td]K. Dooling[/td] [td]21[/td] [td]2-7[/td] [td]1-1[/td] [td]2-4[/td] [td]0[/td] [td]0[/td] [td]1[/td] [td]1[/td] [td]0[/td] [td]0[/td] [td]4[/td] [td]7[/td] [/tr][tr][td]C. Arroyo[/td] [td]14[/td] [td]2-3[/td] [td]1-2[/td] [td]0-0[/td] [td]0[/td] [td]2[/td] [td]4[/td] [td]1[/td] [td]0[/td] [td]0[/td] [td]2[/td] [td]5[/td] [/tr][tr][td]A. Foyle[/td] [td]5[/td] [td]2-2[/td] [td]0-0[/td] [td]0-0[/td] [td]0[/td] [td]3[/td] [td]0[/td] [td]1[/td] [td]0[/td] [td]0[/td] [td]1[/td] [td]4[/td] [/tr][tr][td]J. Augustine[/td] [td]DNP - Coach's Decision[/td] [/tr][tr][td]T. Battie[/td] [td]DNP - Coach's Decision[/td] [/tr][tr][td]P. Garrity[/td] [td]DNP - Coach's Decision[/td] [/tr][tr][td]J.J. Redick[/td] [td]DNP - Coach's Decision[/td] [/tr][tr][td]
[/td] [/tr][tr][td]Totals[/td] [td]235[/td] [td]29-73[/td] [td]11-31[/td] [td]18-30[/td] [td]8[/td] [td]45[/td] [td]18[/td] [td]19[/td] [td]2[/td] [td]3[/td] [td]26[/td] [td]87[/td] [/tr][tr][td]Percentages:[/td] [td]
[/td] [td].397[/td] [td].355[/td] [td].600[/td] [td]
[/td] [td]Team Rebounds: 14[/td] [/tr][/table][table][tr][td]
[/td] [/tr][/table][table][tr][td]Game Info[/td] [/tr][tr][td]Technical Fouls: Atlanta - J. Smith 1. Orlando - H. Turkoglu 1
Officials: Bob Delaney, Derrick Stafford, Zach Zarba[/td] [/tr][/table]

 

[cali dro cardo]

Great win, but WWE is getting most of my attention tonight, can you believe that!? Yea, the show they've put together is that good!

Is a 4 Game win streak too much to ask for?