[外電] Two overtimes double trouble
Two overtimes double trouble
By SEKOU SMITH
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Published on: 03/16/06
New York — A wicked dose of their own medicine is what did
the Hawks in this time.
The 'Nothing to Lose' mantra the Hawks have played with for
weeks was turned on them by the New York Knicks' reserves,
who scored 77 points in a thrill-a-minute 121-117 double-overtime
loss at Madison Square Garden.
The Hawks squandered chance after chance to put the Knicks away
after rallying from a double-digit deficit and losing one of their
own before the extra sessions.
"We lost when we had that lead and [Knicks coach Larry Brown] put
those subs in, they came in with some energy that we really hadn't
played with the whole night," said Hawks guard Joe Johnson, who
torched the Knicks for a game-high 36 points but missed on his
final shot in regulation that could have won the game and his
final two shots that would have given the Hawks a lead or tied
the game late in the second overtime. "Nate Robinson is the leader
of the pack. The energy they brought off that bench, it hurt us.
We gave them some confidence, allowed them to make some plays and
from there on it was a battle.
"We had the game in our hands many a times. And at the end, we
got careless with the ball and had too many mistakes when the
game was on the line. We didn't take care of the ball when the
game was on the line and it got us beat."
The Hawks (20-42) are now of losers of three straight games, a
nasty blight for a team that's been surging since last month's
All-Star break.
But as Johnson said, they have no one to blame this morning but
themselves.
Brown benched his regulars in favor of his young reserves in the
second half and stayed with them the rest of the way. Robinson
(18 points, six assists), Jamal Crawford (21 points) and Qyntel
Woods (18 points) inflicted the most damage for the Knicks (18-45).
The damage the Hawks did to themselves, however, was far more
pronounced.
They had two costly turnovers on two of their last four
possessions during the second overtime and handed over a total of
24 points off of their 24 turnovers on the night.
"We'd have rather played against their starters than those subs
tonight," said Hawks co-captain Al Harrington said after his
28-point, nine-turnover, six-rebound performance. "They played
with an attitude of nothing to lose and it's always tough playing
against a team like that. We know that better than anybody. Even
with as well as they played, though, we had too many self-inflicted
mistakes, I had nine of them, that really did us in."
As good as the Hawks had been this season in overtime games (4-1),
it's been a while since they played two of them. Their last
double-overtime game was March 29, 2004, a 136-133 home loss to
Memphis.
They were in dire straights from the start Wednesday night, with
nearly their entire frontcourt rotation in foul trouble by the
start of the fourth quarter.
They lost Zaza Pachulia early in the second overtime but not
before he dropped a career-high 26 points and nine rebounds on
the Knicks' seemingly endless supply of big men.
But no other Hawks player reached double figures and the bench
was outscored 77-17.
"It's not like we aren't doing the right things," Hawks forward
Josh Smith said. "They didn't beat us, we beat ourselves. It's
just like [Hawks coach Mike Woodson] said, we have to find a way
to put the hammer on people and finish games off. Because we're
playing hard and we're playing together."
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http://www.ajc.com/hawks/content/sports/hawks/stories/0316hawks.html
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