[外電] Hawks lack pieces for board games
Hawks lack pieces for board games
By SEKOU SMITH
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Published on: 02/12/06
Sacramento — With every passing second in Friday night's loss in
Seattle, it became more and more clear that the Hawks would be
unable to win the rebounding battle against the SuperSonics in a
99-91 loss.
Don't think for a minute that the Hawks didn't work at it, because
they did.
They were simply unable to match the length and fury of the
Sonics inside. Nick Collison (15) and Robert Swift (13) crashed
the boards relentlessly, giving the Sonics a decided edge late
in a game that could have gone either way.
But when Collison has nearly as many rebounds as the entire
Atlanta bench (16) and he and Swift combine for more than the
Hawks' entire starting unit (28 to 21), it allows one team a
significant amount of leeway in how the other three or four
players are allowed to attack the game.
And you better believe that every team the Hawks (15-33) face
the rest of the season — and especially on the rest of this
current Western Conference road swing, with pit stops at Arco
Arena today against the Sacramento Kings — is paying attention
to those details.
"If they're watching film like I know we do, they're noticing
that one of our weaknesses as of late has been our struggles
on the boards," said Hawks co-captain Al Harrington, who
struggled as much as anyone against the Sonics, grabbing two
rebounds to go along with his 26 points in nearly 32 minutes
of play.
"It's something that we — and I'm talking about each and every
one of us — has to consciously try and fix within our own games
to make sure it doesn't happen again.
"Because if we get outrebounded by 10 or 12 every night against
these teams that are always bigger than us inside, we'll
eliminate any chance we have of winning games late. Once again,
we beat ourselves instead of making the other team really work
to beat us."
The Hawks' major problem is that they're playing with an
undersized unit up front. Starting center Zaza Pachulia, who
scrapped for eight rebounds against the Sonics, often was left
alone to battle Seattle's big men for rebounds.
Rookie Marvin Williams grabbed nine off the bench, all on the
defensive end, and Joe Johnson added six.
But other than Pachulia's five offensive boards and three from
Josh Childress off the bench, the Hawks were unable to clean
up many of their own errant shots while the Sonics grabbed 16
offensive rebounds and rolled to a dominating 25-8 advantage in
second-chance points.
"If you look at it, that was the game right there," said Hawks
forward Josh Smith, usually one of the team's most active
rebounders. But Smith managed only three in his 22 minutes, his
rebounding no doubt related to his 1-for-7 shooting performance.
"You'll beat yourself on any given night by allowing the other
team to smack you around inside and beat your brains out on the
glass," Johnson said. "Since we're not as big as most of the
teams we're going to play, we have to make up for it with our
effort, and it just wasn't there. We can't just put it on the
big men.
"We have to rebound better as a team to help ease some of the
pressure on them, because there are going to be times when we
go up against a team that's just bigger and better equipped to
go to work on the boards than we are."
資料來源
http://www.ajc.com/hawks/content/sports/hawks/stories/0212hawks.html
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