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Sunday, March 9, 2008
The Surreal Life!
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
SMYRNA - The Surreal Life’s turn at Philips Arena was one of the more hyped environments I’ve witnessed at Philips Arena the past three-plus years.
It was much ado about dang near nothing. The Hawks got two wins against a deplorable Heat team (it’s hard to imagine that this team, or a variation of it, won a title recently).
Contrast Saturday night’s festive mood in the Hawks’ locker with the dead air that smothered everybody in Charlotte 24 hours earlier and it doesn’t even seem possible to go from one extreme to the other so quickly.
(And for all you Joe Johnson critics out there, give the cat his credit. He’s stepped up at the time when a leader, an All-Star and captain is supposed to. All those people that think the Hawks would be better off without him haven’t been paying close attention to this thing the past three years.)
But Salim Stoudamire (who has quietly played a huge role in whatever bits of success the Hawks have had since the All-Star break) summed it up best in his postgame comments Saturday night.
“It’s crazy,” Stoudamire said. “Yesterday everybody was sulking. And tonight we’re in the playoffs. It’s a crazy mix in the Eastern Conference right now.”
Crazy indeed.
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