[外電] '30-some' wins next goal for Hawks
'30-some' wins next goal for Hawks
By SEKOU SMITH
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Published on: 03/10/06
Co-captains Al Harrington and Joe Johnson stopped short of
making a dreaded playoff guarantee Thursday, although the
Hawks are 8 1/2 games out of a playoff spot. Getting to 30
wins is more likely.
"I can easily see us winning 30-some games," Harrington
said. "With 23 [games] left and the way we're playing,
30-plus is my conservative estimate. But I tend to be an
extremely positive type of guy."
Johnson, without prompting, said the same thing.
"Twelve or 13 more wins is what I'm thinking," he said.
"As long as we keep playing the way we've been playing,
I don't see how that doesn't happen."
Tuesday night's win over Golden State pushed the Hawks'
season record to 20-39, after a 2-16 start. Confidence
is high heading into Saturday night's game against Chicago
at Philips Arena.
"There's no question that at the start of every season a
team goes in with the goal of making the playoffs," Hawks
coach Mike Woodson said before joining his team in a Read
to Achieve event in Decatur. "And that's the next step for
us. I realize we still have a lot of work to do. But anything
can happen between now and the end of the regular season, so
these guys shouldn't rule out the possibilities."
The Hawks can't help but replay their season, thinking about a
ll the games they led or seemed to have under control, only to lose.
"We worked just as hard early in the year as we are working now,"
Woodson said. "We just didn't see the results then that we are
now. Based on everything that's happened this year, and these
guys have been through a lot, it's nice to see the way we've
responded. But we're far from done. We have plenty of basketball
left to play and we have to keep working hard and make sure we
don't get too happy with ourselves."
They don't have to worry about that. Not when Hawks fans the
past few seasons have turned their attention to the draft this
time of year. It's a ritual for all struggling teams by March,
when attention shifts from the pain of another sub-.500 season
to dreaming wistfully about the future help that's on the way.
But that's not the case with the Hawks.
"That's the dumbest thing anybody could do," Harrington said of
draft daydreaming. "There's nobody out there in this draft that
can help us right away. There are no impact players in this draft
that I see.(That's a good point!!)
"None of that is guaranteed anyway. What we can control is going
out there for the next 23 nights and making sure we leave the
floor on the right side of that scoreboard. That's something you
can build on."
Johnson was even more emphatic about the draft talk being
unnecessary for a team playing as well as the Hawks have of
late. They're 8-8 in their past 16 games.
"We don't have time to think about pingpong balls," Johnson
said of the May draft lottery. "We've got to think about what
we've got right here. We need everything we can get, every win
we can get. Our young guys have worked hard, and we all need to
maintain our confidence so we come back next season knowing that
we're going to be one of those teams fighting for a playoff spot."
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