Thursday, April 08, 2010  Pistons 90 Hawks 88   Hoopdata
Boxscore    Team Poss Off Eff eFG% FT Rate OR% TO% ATL 89.4 44.6
16.9 33.3 15.7 DET 89.4 1.007 46.8  I suspect there will be
little relevance, in terms of the Hawks' post-season success or
failure, to losing the second game of a road back-to-back
without Joe Johnson. Johnson's absence was in service of
maximizing Atlanta' chances of playoff success. The playoff
schedule precludes back-to-back games. The Hawks, who have
seemed these past couple of weeks to adjust their effort level
depending on the quality of the competition, should demonstrate
greater interest in and urgency regarding the outcome of their
playoff games.  Nor did this loss teach us anything we didn't
already know about this team. They can struggle both to score
and to get stops in the fourth quarter. They are not relentless
either in attacking their opponent's weaknesses nor playing to
their own strengths. Collectively, they don't get to the free
throw line very often and one player in p