[外電] Mistakes pile up in loss
Mistakes pile up in loss
By SEKOU SMITH
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Published on: 04/14/06
Has it come to this for the Hawks, being thoroughly outplayed on
their home floor by a team that didn't even exist three years ago?
That's exactly the way it looked Friday night, when the Hawks
wasted an early 13-point lead before losing 116-110 to the
Charlotte Bobcats before a sellout crowd of 18,729 at Philips
Arena.
Not even a spirited Hawks rally in the game's final four minutes
could offset the tornado of inexplicable turnovers, defensive
gaffes and mind-boggling mistakes the Hawks made from the middle
of the second quarter until the final buzzer.
The Hawks' chances of winning 26 games this season, doubling last
season's win total, is dwindling. They're stuck at 24-55 with
just three games left, and that includes Saturday's game against
the Bucks in Milwaukee.
"We got too comfortable with that early lead and it cost us,"
Hawks co-captain Joe Johnson said after pouring in a game-high
35 points to go with his nine assists and seven rebounds. "We
went away from the things that got us the lead and went to
playing one-on-one. We stopped making plays for each other and
once we got down we couldn't recover."
Johnson's 25-footer with 22.8 seconds to play brought the Hawks
to within three points, 111-108. Marvin Williams added a layup
with 16.3 seconds to play. But the Bobcats never relinquished
their 14-point lead entirely while holding on for their eighth
road game of the season, one more than the Hawks by the way,
without scoring a field goal for the final four minutes.
They knocked down eight of ten free throws to seal the win and
the season series (3-1) against the Hawks, who will have to work
to finish ahead of the Bobcats (23-56) in the Southeast Division
and league standings.
"Yeah, it's on your mind now," Hawks reserve point guard Tyronn
Lue said of the idea of the Hawks finishing below the Bobcats
for a second straight year. "This (Bobcats) team was the worst
shooting team in the league and our game plan was to force them
into taking jump shots, but once again they scored too many
layups and had too many points in the paint."
The Bobcats shot 54 percent from the floor, outscored the Hawks
50-46 in the paint and allowed 10 fewer points (17-27) off
turnovers than their hosts.
Every run the Hawks made after getting down double figures they
thwarted with turnovers, blown opportunities or missed assignments
on the defensive end of the floor.
Williams trimmed the Bobcats' lead to six, 96-90, with a vicious
baseline dunk with 6:08 to play. On the Bobcats' first possession
after a timeout, Matt Carroll stroked a 25-footer from the wing
for a 99-90 lead with 5:37 to play.
It was that kind of night all the way around for the Hawks, who
lost to the Bobcats for the third time this season.
Williams, playing in place of Hawks co-captain Al Harrington
(bruised finger), put together one of his best games of the
season with 22 points, six rebounds and three assists.
Josh Smith added 17 points, 10 rebounds, three assists and two
blocks, while Lue chipped in with 19 off the bench.
But it wasn't enough to offset the missing production of
Harrington and Josh Childress, who sat out the first of a
two-game suspension handed down by the league Friday morning
for a retaliation punch he threw at Chicago's Andres Nocioni
late in Wednesday night's loss to the Bulls.
"Until we figure out that we're not going to outscore teams all
the time and that we'll have to defend and rebound before we
think about scoring," Hawks coach Mike Woodson said, "we're
going to be a mediocre team."
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