humanhighlightblog.com - 17 days ago
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It's something when THHB can sit back and stroke their collective long, gray, novelty beards while the Good Guys appeared to be conserving energy and effort throughout a game, allowing an inferior team to hang around until the final quarter, where their good friend "Defense" waited for them to ...
peachtreehoops.com - 18 days ago
cowbellkingdom.com - 17 days ago
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cowbellkingdom.com —
Young teams often have to find a way
to win in the fourth quarter by closing out
the games strongly. If you watched the Kings’ fourth quarter against the Hawks then you saw the opposite of how that needs to be accomplished. The Kings played incredible basketball for the first 36 minutes of ...
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Game 5 Recap: Hawks 113, Kings 105
peachtreehoops.com - 16 days ago
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Quotes, Notes, and Links: Hawks 113 Kings 105
Hoopinion —
... "Take nothing away from the Kings, they have guys that can score the ball so I knew it wasn’t going to be an easy game. We knew that fourth quarter was going to be huge. Again, I've got to get us, the most important thing is we came in here and got our win."Coach Woodson's quote comes from Sekou Smith's final game story for the AJC. He's off to write for NBA.com. The Human Highlight Blog offers a fine appreciation of Smith's tenure: Smith came along in a dark time for ...
Goodbye Sekou Smith, these links and quotes will never be the same
Peachtree Hoops —
... The Human Highlight Blog expertly articulates the finer points of optimism to be found in last night's game. He opens with this portrait of the game and only does on to describe exactly why last night was not crappy at all but progress. ...
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