#6 Hawks vs. #3 Pacers

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#152
Vercingetorix said:
I'm a Hawks fan. I don't think it's weird at all.
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Maybe it's normal for the Hawks then lol but it's not for the other 29 teams in the NBA. Home/road games shouldn't be the difference between 15-20 point wins/losses. It's not normal for home and road games to be the difference of 40 point swings. lol
 
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An impressive number of empty seats in Philips Arena tonight. Maybe everyone else will start to fill in as the night goes on.
 
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7 pm start on Friday night is hell with the downtown traffic. Braves games on Friday nights usually take 2-3 innings to fill in. We'll see what it looks like in half an hour.
 
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Vercingetorix said:
7 pm start on Friday night is hell with the downtown traffic. Braves games on Friday nights usually take 2-3 innings to fill in. We'll see what it looks like in half an hour.
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This is true. We were down there for the Saturday Braves game the same night as the Final Four and it was ridiculous.
 
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Plus this is a team that has never played in the conference finals and that hasn't even tried to field a contender since Dominique left, playing in a city where everyone is from somewhere else. There's not really any reason for anyone to give a crap.
 
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bleedorange0037 said:
I guess you just get used to it, but every time I go to ATL I'm just thankful I don't have to deal with that mess on a regular basis.
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I've lived here almost 20 years and traffic has never been a big part of my life. All you have to do is be smart about where you live and wok and it's not a big deal. Other than going downtown to sporting events, of course.
 
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Vercingetorix said:
Plus this is a team that has never played in the conference finals and that hasn't even tried to field a contender since Dominique left, playing in a city where everyone is from somewhere else. There's not really any reason for anyone to give a crap.
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Damn. That's some harsh stuff.
 
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Vercingetorix said:
Plus this is a team that has never played in the conference finals and that hasn't even tried to field a contender since Dominique left, playing in a city where everyone is from somewhere else. There's not really any reason for anyone to give a crap.
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Giving one of the high seeds in the East a good run for their money in the first round really has been just about the best case scenario for the Hawks for just about as long as I've followed the NBA. I'm sure that's got to be frustrating. Just good enough to never get an elite player in the lottery but bad enough to win at a level that matters. Very much the same situation the Titans have been mired in for the past 10 years.
 
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#166
Vercingetorix said:
I've lived here almost 20 years and traffic has never been a big part of my life. All you have to do is be smart about where you live and wok and it's not a big deal. Other than going downtown to sporting events, of course.
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I'm sure some local knowledge helps. My dealings with at Atlanta are almost entirely sporting related, so my driving either consists of going down 75 to Turner Field or taking 285 over to the Dunwoody MARTA station to go down to The Dome. Both of those routes can be parking lots if you roll into the city at an even remotely busy time.
 
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As I said, I've lived here almost two decades, and by far the greatest moment for the Hawks in that time was dumping Joe Johnson's contract. Which is pathetic. Every Hawks fan I've ever met feels like kind of an idiot for wasting time on this team. Hawks fever!
 
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Vercingetorix said:
As I said, I've lived here almost two decades, and by far the greatest moment for the Hawks in that time was dumping Joe Johnson's contract. Which is pathetic. Every Hawks fan I've ever met feels like kind of an idiot for wasting time on this team. Hawks fever!
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What a miserable existence.
 
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#169
Whoever ends up winning this series needs to send a big thank you to the Celtics for winning those two games so the Knicks didn't go into the second round with a full week of rest.
 
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bleedorange0037 said:
I'm sure some local knowledge helps. My dealings with at Atlanta are almost entirely sporting related, so my driving either consists of going down 75 to Turner Field or taking 285 over to the Dunwoody MARTA station to go down to The Dome. Both of those routes can be parking lots if you roll into the city at an even remotely busy time.
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Rolling into town and hitting the downtown connector or the northern arc at rush hour is the driving equivalent of getting off the subway in southeast DC with a big suitcase and a laptop bag and asking for directions at a crackhouse, I'm afraid. You have to arrange it a little differently.
 
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Vercingetorix said:
Rolling into town and hitting the downtown connector or the northern arc at rush hour is the driving equivalent of getting off the subway in southeast DC with a big suitcase and a laptop bag and asking for directions at a crackhouse, I'm afraid. You have to arrange it a little differently.
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The majority if the times I've been down there was during the weekend, so rush hour wasn't a major concern. I went down earlier this week for a Braves game and thought traffic wouldn't be all that bad going into the city. While it was nothing compared to what was leaving town, it was still stop and go for the final 2-3 miles on 75 before we got to the Turner Field exit. Nothing catastrophic, but like I said nothing I would enjoy dealing with on a daily basis.
 
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#175
Vercingetorix said:
As I said, I've lived here almost two decades, and by far the greatest moment for the Hawks in that time was dumping Joe Johnson's contract. Which is pathetic. Every Hawks fan I've ever met feels like kind of an idiot for wasting time on this team. Hawks fever!
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Since those Lenny Wilkens teams in the mid 90s, you're probably right.
 
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