The Side Line
Hawks fans have suffered through years of awful basketball, and frankly uncompetitive teams. Terrible trades were made, money was blown on overpriced free agents and the front office just couldn’t figure out how to draft a team, instead going for overhyped “athletes”.
Only now, after getting our man Mike Woodson at head coach, a calm stabilizing force, and through a series of improved offseason moves, the Hawks are a force to be reckoned with again.
At point guard, Mike Bibby was viewed by most to be on his way out of basketball after a few average years in Sacramento. The Hawks saw wasted talent and snagged him for pennies, and he has had a second honeymoon in Atlanta.
The star of the team, Joe Johnson, is one of the best pure scorers in the NBA. He can do almost everything to get the ball in the basket and has become a perennial All-Star. Against the Heat, Johnson and Dwayne Wade will be a very entertaining scoring battle to watch.
The strength of the team is in hustle and rebounding, provided by a stable of forwards like Al Horford and Josh Smith. Both are exceptional young talents, with Horford eating space in the paint and collecting a ton of rebounds, and Smith erasing shots and soaring for highlight-reel dunks to keep the Philips Arena crowd buzzing.
I hope to be part of the experience, because it’s not often we get home-court advantage playoff basketball in Atlanta. If you want to have some fun in Atlanta, see some high-level basketball and have an experience like no other, grab your tickets and see the Hawks play the Miami Heat. Philips Arena is a great place to watch any sporting event, and come playoff time, it turns into a deathtrap for opponents. Just ask the Boston Celtics.
Posted by Colonnade Archives
on Apr 17 2009. Filed under Sports.
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