Much Respect Due

ranter posted 5/5/2008 from www.celticsblog.com [flag]

Last and certainly not least, a shout out goes out to Hawks fans everywhere. The Phillips Arena was absolutely rocking all series long and it was a major boost to your team. You really did "shock the world" simply by forcing the series to seven games, and the home court deserves a lot of credit. Well done. [link]

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fastbreakblog

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Lots of credit to Atl. tough games--they did everything possible and then some. They had no right seeing a game 6 even.

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ranter

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we thought it was going to be a sweep - we thought wrong

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