(Sorry guys about the lack of a blog yesterday… pretty hectic day for me and kinda a slow news day for the Hawks)







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The Hawks have a basketball game today!!!





Get Hyped!!





So it’s been 151 days since the Atlanta Hawks 2015-2016 season was ended by the hands of the eventual NBA champion Cleveland Cavaliers (but who’s counting?), and us hungry Hawks fans have been itching for our boys to get back on the court. A lot has changed with this team since that day, and finally we’re able to see this new look Hawks team in some Preseason action.





Tonight’s matchup has our home town heroes…











Imagine this next part in Ryan Cameron’s voice









“The ATLANTAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!







HAAAAAWWWWWWKSSSSSSS!!!!!!”









Season Foreshadowing *Replace Sullinger for Horford*









VS.













“The Memphis Grizzlies…”











Boooooooo







Tonight our Hawks are traveling to the Volunteer state in hopes to take Marc Cohn’s 1991 hit another step further by “Walking all over Memphis” (Actually pretty great song) and attempt to take revenge for the Georgia Bulldogs’ devastating loss this past Saturday. In addition to the Hawks, the Grizzlies have shaken things up too, from the roster to a new head coach in David Fizdale (Old Assistant coach for the Hawks 04-08 and the Heat 08-16). It’ll be interesting to see how Fizdale takes this prominent defensive team that has struggled in years past offensively, especially in the always competitive Western Conference.





“Lol good luck dude”





One of the more interesting things about this season for the Grizz is Zach Randolph will not be in the starting rotation this year, in hopes of being a viable 6th man and a leader for their second unit.

Fizdale announces Zach Randolph will come off bench this season full-time. "Let's not beat around the bush. He can be 6th man of the year." — Michael Wallace (@MyMikeCheck) October 5, 2016

Interesting tactics





Whether or not this will a successful move for this team remains to be seen. They did however win their first preseason game against the Orlando Magic 102-97 on Monday, so obviously Randolph probably had a good game that night and let’s check in on how he did-







Ooohh… Ouch…









I guess more things need to be ironed out, luckily for them it’s only the preseason.







Moving right along…







Unfortunately, tonight the Hawks will have 3 players sit out in Jack, Millsap and Splitter which stinks. However on the plus side, it looks like Dennis will be starting tonight in what’ll be the first time us Hawks fans have seen him play since the playoffs.





Get that hair ready, it’s your time to shine!





In addition to Dennis, I’m assuming Korver, Baze, Howard and Muscala? (maybe?) will round out the rest of the starting lineup. Anxious is an understatement, when describing how I’m feeling about waiting to see these starters hit the court for the first time this season. I’m also expecting Bud to keep the starters out for the first half of play against the Grizz and have the rookies close out, so it’ll be cool to see Bemby, Delaney and Prince out there in their first NBA preseason game.





My matchups to look out for 👀👀👀!!!

Schroder vs Conley

Otherwise known as “the up and coming kid” vs the “$153 million dollar man” (such a ridiculous contract). I’ll be definitely interested to see how these 2 go at it as both players are big fans of driving to the hole.

Howard vs Gasol

Tonight for Howard to me is what I like to call “Show me what you got” night. I’m expecting Bud to display a bunch of Dwight-centric plays tonight, so let’s see what you can do out there. He’s going to have a tough assignment in all-star Marc Gasol, so he’ll need to step his defensive game up and be our rim protector. (Again, I know it’s a preseason game).







Now with all that being said, I’m beyond pumped to finally get some Hawks basketball back into my life, and I have the confidence that this team can do some great things this year. We just gotta believe… oh and Atlanta Air force do me a favor and……..









CUE THE MUSIC TOMMMYYYYY!!!!





NOTHING CAN STOP US!!!!





-msl_atl





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