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Monday, December 15, 2008
Trap game?
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
HAWKSVILLE - It’s only 12 minutes and 21 seconds old, but everything about this Hawks-Bobcats game smells like a trap game to me.
The whole world knows that the Hawks are hosting the blazin-hot Boston Celtics here Wednesday night.
The ESPN cameras will be out, the first time they’ll grace Philips Arena since the Hawks’ Game 6 win over Boston in last season’s playoff series.
No one had to talk about it out loud for me to know that most everyone around here is thinking about (the ad on the jumobtron for the Celtics game in the second quarter certainly reminded anyone that wasn’t thinking about it).
Having this game against the Bobcats sandwiched between Saturday’s win over the Cavaliers and the Celtics game looked ominous to me as we got closer and the circumstances for all four teams came into focus.
With the Cavs and Celtics playing lights out and the Celtics doing the same, you knew the Hawks would be amped up for those games.
But the Bobcats?
The Hawks have plenty of time to dig out of this current hole. But their energy right now is low and they’re not playing with any kind of rhythm on either end of the floor.
They better start now, though, before they dig too deep a hole …
