POSTCAST: Atlanta Hawks, Once Down 30, Channel Inner Belief To Expose Boston Celtics, 120-118

POSTCAST: Atlanta Hawks, Once Down 30, Channel Inner Belief To Expose Boston Celtics, 120-118

Part of locked on Atlanta on the locked on podcast Network your team every day welcome in the lockon Hawks postcast your home for the best Atlanta Hawks talk it’s local Insight you can’t get anywhere but right here at lockon I am your host tanra batist alongside me is Deshawn Tate this

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Podcast Network your team every day so deshaan the Hawks were looking to build off their win against the Hornet Saturday in tonight’s game against the Celtics we’re going to talk about how they did it in the an one and we’ll also look at how the Hawks can keep that same

Energy come Wednesday and who’s got next but first let’s T and tat will talk to you guys about the improbable 120 to 118 win against the Seas Tate you said I don’t think we should be surprised nah I don’t think that we should now you know I I I will

Say this much the Hawks have been I guess somewhat significantly improved maybe not a ton maybe not a batlo not nothing necessarily overwhelming but they have been improved improved so much that anybody would predict this probably not um and just being realistic about it like and we’ve seen them have in their

Bag some really good things up their sleeve like some really big time wins but in the way that this happened I think not even just about beating Boston I think the way that they beat Boston how far they got down and so forth but I think this kind of speaks to Boston’s

Just kind of vulnerability a little bit um to be able to you know we’ve been talking about this team for I don’t know how many years of being the team to go to the finals being the team someone said the other day oh man Boston got to

The got to go to the finals I’m done with them got to go to the finals like again you mean they must have to win the championship or I’m done with them by this point exactly um so no I think that this is just Boston being Boston again

Whatever that you know uh comes along with that and um I mean just remember this is just this is a series that typically these two teams they go back and forth it goes back I don’t know how many years in postseason play even all the way up to last year now including

Today so congratulations big time win by the Hawks and hopefully there’s many more to come yeah I think that for me this was as impressive a win as it was for the Hawks it was equally as in as much of an indictment of the Celtics and

The reason I say it that way is because yeah you’re right we take nothing away from what the Hawks were able to do you come back from 30 points down on any team in the association any team in a professional basketball game you deserve all the credit in the world because it

Took you had to have two-way play you had to have light out play like shooting 11 from 19 from the three-point Mark right sure in the second half Alone by the way but then also and go uh what is it 11 excuse me 18 of 36 for for the

Night but also after Boston shot like 10 of 23 from the three you got them to like go Hook Line and Sinker and be be who they are fall in love with the three and that’s what they did and then they shot one of 15 in the second half just

Waiting waiting waiting for the touch the return and it never did but you continued because you outrebounded them so you still played a solid game in terms of keeping them off the boards and you were slowly able to chip away and back back but again I don’t want to take

Anything away from the hwks but I do want to di Boston on this one because you still at the end of the day when the Hogs finally took a lead it was about 9 minutes into the fourth quarter it’s like 97 996 right and you think it to

Yourself then I think Boston gets the lead back and you assume that because it’s the number one team in the NBA record-wise that is that they were obviously going to pull this out and win this game and just go home or go back to their hotel because of course they play

The Hawks Thursday here in Atlanta they would just go back to to their hotel Shake It Off and say man we can’t play games like that we cannot play with any team that’s right that never happened and to me the Celtics faithful all of those green jerseys that found their way

Into State Farm Arena yet again tonight to me they need to be going home wondering like is this team gonna do this to us again because that this is what I’ve said on just about every show that anybody’s asked me a question about who I thought was coming out of the East

And I I keep saying I’m I’m still leaning towards the Bucks still leaning because I can’t I can’t give it to the the Celtics because of moments like this and yes I know that the Bucks have had a moment here and there like that this season as well DeShaun but the Celtics

Have too many moments like this you you’re coming here with some rest you’re coming here with nine straight wins you’re coming here as the team that’s supposed to be on Mission it really is for you Championship robust and this is what you do to me that’s an IND M on you

As a team and you really have to look at yourself I think one of the quotes literally from I think it was Jason Tatum after the game we effed up that’s a start that’s a nice starting point but really and truly you need to look at the

Fundamentals and break this all the way down to see because you’ve not this isn’t the first time you’ve done this this is just the most recent time you’ve done this but shout out to the hogs for being able to take advantage of hey if you guys want to play LAX orical because

You’re up by 30 then go on and we’re just going to keep plotting away because like I said I thought I saw it Saturday night when they smoked the Hornets which is a team that has their number right so to me it was significant that the Hawks

Smoked the Hornets because this is a team that no matter how many wins or losses they have they still have figured you out now Big O says it’s a big night for the Hawks on the same night we get a big win at home against the best team in

The East the Bulls suffer a bad loss at home against the worst team in the East I hope that’s a good sign well I I don’t know bigo it’s it it’s an interesting sign we’ll call it because I’m not sure that it’ll make a difference I don’t

Know if there’s a way for the Hogs to legit get back get into the ninth seed I think they are in scon the 10th but a great win nonetheless and like you said King philli great comeback the greatest comeback in Hawks franchise history deficit wise the largest margin deficit

Comeback in the NBA this season so yeah great no question about it you got to tip your hat to the Hawks for what they were able to do and I felt like deshun it was all encapsulated and I know we’re going to talk about it on the other side

But I felt like it was all encapsulated in kind of what we saw in the last I’d say minute and then if you break it down even further because at the minute Mark dejonte Murray hits a jumper and that’s your go-ahead bucket right but you know Boston isn’t going to

Just lay down and be okay with it so it’s a back and a forth a back and a forth and then Boston has a bad possession that the Hawks actually take advantage of H offensive rebound kick it out to DeAndre Hunter and not that we

Want Dre to do that you could have just dribbled a dag on Ball and just dribbled out the clock you have you’re up a point because they were gonna come and fou you and the Hawks are a good free throw shooting team for the most part no doubt

No dud said I got that ice water in my veins I got a little ice I know he’s ice but I got a little ice in my I was just dead this thing and I mean Dre hit nothing but net I have not said Dre Day

In so very long but I’m saying it’s Dre Day toight so congratulations to him for what he was able to do but I mean Deshawn there were so many different players for this Hawks team a team that only dressed out 10 players there were so many different players that were

Responsible for what the Hawks were able to do at different moments in the game and I know we’re going to talk about H exactly how this stacked up and how each player kind of contributed in the next segment but is is there anybody you want to shout out because some people need to

Be shouted out some players might need to be shouted out twice yeah yeah for sure um I don’t see how that player is not and you got to help me out with the pronunciation of the last name because I’m still working on it CI V CI yes vit

CI there we go um I I got to and I’ve been I’ve been like really critical of his play and just his time um going all the way back to last season just not get really getting in the game much not really doing a whole lot when he gets in

The game and I tell you what if he didn’t M if he didn’t you know make up from missing that you know game winner for us whatever about a little over a week ago or whatever he definitely done tonight and I can see the energy that

He’s playing with and just willing to do all the little things and you know kind of having some of that sneaky athleticism or you know being a Hustle Man doing whatever he has to do dropping the ball off distribution facilitation he’s literally there at are literally

The guy that when they say you know when guys are going to get drafted like hey who do you want you know just who you know I’m willing to do whatever coach and the guys want me to do like he’s literally that you know some guys say

That because it sounds cool and it sounds cute and you don’t want to look bad or whatever or it’s just a marketable marketability whatever thing to say but like he really means that I think that you got to have one of those on on on your uh on your roster yeah no

Question no question when we come back we’re going to talk more about exactly how each and every one of these Hawks contributed to take down the Celtics tonight we’ll talk about it in the an one this episode of the lock on Hawks postcast is brought to you by Robin Hood and eBay

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Cell phone and go up and down the box score and say every single Hawk on some level maybe with the exception of Dylan Windler and Trent Forest because hey they just didn’t play a lot of minutes to be honest with you but every one of these guys literally deserves some

Credit but let’s start with the guy who really really kind of set the tone and kept it consistent throughout and that’s DeAndre Hunter 24 points in 34 minutes eight of 14 shooting from the field but three four of eight from the three-point line to go along with seven rebounds and

Three assists a really really nice two-way game from Dre getting the start and a word that we haven’t used for him is consistency we’ve really been seeing a lot of that but this was some kind of game from Dre yeah I I agree with you and listen I mean

When there you’re going to have your nights right that you’re just not going to do as well some nights you’re going to look like you should be the starter some nights you look like you should be coming off the pine um a good mix is I think a good starting

Point for uh for DeAndre and I think that we’ve kind of experienced that now we’re able to kind of see he works better coming off of you know this particular area or this department or you know likes the ball in you know this way better or with these second you know

String players and whatever else what have you um so I think that it is good that we’re able to see some of that confidence you know some of the so like knowing what I’m going to get if not nothing else even if that what I’m going

To get is not probably going to be good tonight at least I know I’m getting something that’s not going to be that good and I know I I need to probably go and replace it ASAP the wishy-washy of going back and forth and not knowing if

Tonight is going to be a night that I actually want to play or not I think is the bigger problem at hand yeah um that being said I mean I I think somebody else that really kind of kept the ball rolling and going on tonight uh was

Clint capella you know just being Stout you know being being a you know he’s obviously not the biggest CER in the world but um you know just being a guy that is is trying to alter shots at The Rim as much as possible really doing a

Lot of dirty and just cleanup work um in the game tonight the ball just happened to be falling right in his lap sometimes or you know just doing all some of the L little things and the thing I love probably about him and I know we got to

Move forward but probably the thing that I like about um about Clint the most is that he doesn’t really exert a lot of energy in anything that he does so it does reserve him in his time out there on the floor and I can appreciate that a

Lot yeah and probably that last rebound was the best and the biggest rebound of all because that’s really how you win this game and like you said not it it looked like I don’t want to say effortless because we would want to take away from it but it really did kind of

Make you feel like it was just Clint being Clint just being in the right place at the right time life is more often than not especially if his body allows him to be but let’s stay with the front court because I think you make a great call on what the front Court was

Able to do tonight capella of course with 14 points in 29 minutes on six of 10 shooting 12 rebounds as well and then you look across the space and you see what Bruno Fernando is able to do and you and I have been having a lot of

Conversation about him he is another one who benefited from his time down in College Park with the 13 points in 19 minutes six of seven shooting from the field three rebounds and three assists that’s another nice night from a big man oh I’ll say this like I I I Bruno Fernando I

Think is got to be probably I mean he’s not going to get most improved over Jaylen Johnson obviously because he’s up for the player you know of of for that award in the league um but second to that you know I I I think it’s Bruno

Like Bruno could have kind of you know sat on his hands and kind of continued to be the same Bruno that he’s always kind of been or just maybe not going as hard as you know we’ve been seeing him do but like he’s really been like

Getting a lot of you know not just garbage points but even some stuff that look like some halfway decent footwork and I’m like oh yeah is this is this Bruno the dream for Nando that we’re talking about you know here almost to a degree you know almost like a little H

Ke something and right right and and I think I I mean I I I couldn’t be happier for the guy because I know how difficult it can be sometimes and you know that that you um you know you’re trying to really find your footing and find your

Your your place and your space and and way on the floor and other guys not getting on the floor when you’re more than deserving I think Coach Quin Snider talked about that a couple of nights ago where you know he deserving to be on the floor but we just couldn’t afford for it

To happen so um good things are starting to happen for him it’s starting to pay off and I think those little things people might say oh he don’t really do that much the little things tend to equal the big things and and and his contribution to me I consider to be a big

Thing yeah I I would agree I think that he’s the guy who has pleasantly surprised us right I think that we we were very concerned when o went down and we did not know what in the world to do with our like we didn’t know what was

Going to happen and then you lose jayen and you’re like oh dear God but Bruno Fernando give him a world of credit for being very very consistent in what he’s been able to bring to the table and the front Court did such a great job on Boston tonight that it almost kind of

Overshadows what the back court was able to do but dejonte Murray hit that go-ahead three at the minute Mark and that pretty much sealed the game of course DeAndre three like really sealed it or his jumper I’m sorry I think Dre uh DJ hit jum but 19 points yeah 19

Points uh and 15 assists so nice game of Distributing the all very well to go with five rebounds bton bonovich with a 22-point night four of seven shooting from three again four rebounds three assist and a steal and we don’t talk very much and they didn’t do a whole

Heck of a lot but the Matthews boys got just enough done with the 12 points that they brought to the table in the five rebounds that’s the way that a team gets to claw its way back into a game the way that the Hawks did we’re going to talk

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So Deshawn I tell you as hype and as happy as we are tonight to be talking about a win Saturday night we were just as happy talking about a win but four out of the five times on that five game west coast swing that five game road

Trip we were not happy campers so as I was watching Twitter like explode tonight off this Hawks wi I saw all kinds of words one word answers one word tweets to describe how people were feeling it was everything from exhilarating shocking confusing it was just all over the place

So when you think about the Hogs and I’ll I’ll give you one it’s a one-word answer but I’ll give you multiple one words how about we do it do it that way okay so let’s do it what your one word or one word one word and and and another one word and listeners

Audience you guys tell us how they make you feel what’s your one word most definitely um um uh it’s just got to be in it’s just got it’s just it’s just got to be it’s got to be inconsistent um or or just injured you know because it’s like I I feel I feel

Like you know when when the I when the when the expectations are so high yes where they’re not meeting the expectation let alone exceeding the expectation but when you lower that you know then obviously they do you know pretty pretty well for themselves um but I I just say inconsistent because you

Just don’t know when you’re going to get it or what you’re going to get if I would have told you what we saw tonight was coming tonight you’d have probably called me crazy and told me I’ve been watching too much college basketball and I ain’t even paying close enough

Attention to the Hawks nor to the Boston Celtics so I think just one of those things any anything can happen anything goes whatever what you don’t you know but I I just it’s got to be inconsistent for me because I just I don’t know which way to go with this team and they’ve

Just been so banged up more than ever that’s the only thing that I can really ever think about when I’m looking at this team because there’s always so many players that aren’t playing well my one word is bewildering because that means perplexing confusing puzzling I I mean I just I never ever

Know what to expect like literally I was able to go go to the game and covered in person Saturday and I didn’t know what to expect because again this was a Hawks team that lost to a 12 win Charlotte team back in February this was also a

Hawks team that lost the season opener to Charlotte in October so I didn’t know what we were GNA see and then they blew them out the building Saturday and I was just like I don’t even know what to do with this and tonight I had all

Intentions of going was good to go and then got a little curveball like you said to Sean you and I are Knee Deep been covering March Madness in addition NBA so sometimes we’ll get a curveball on what we have to do for that so that

Threw off the rest of my evening so I had to cover the game uh and take it in from home and so I’m literally like like what am I experiencing here like what am I witnessing especially because when you think about what Boston was able to do I

Think there was one point where they had like 26 points off 24 possessions and that’s you want you want like a point plus every possession that’s like I in the Le sure for sure so you’re totally thinking like okay this will be a long night and then the Hawks were doing that

Other Hawks thing they were Hawking earlier in the game so you just knew at some point that this was not gonna end well and then all of a sudden it was like creep creep creep creep creep creep creep creep okay it’s down from 30 to 18

And then the Hawks start this run before the half and then you know what we tell you guys always on this lock on Hawks postcast that pesky third quarter always looking to see what happen always reminding oh yeah exactly and then they kept the Run going in the third quarter

And they kept it going through the fourth until they took the lead and as excited as I was and really happy for this Hawks team especially these guys who are not starters or they’re not starters every single night they’ve got so many players down and they were able

To pull this off you know they deserve a win like this from time to time it’s just a fan base I’m looking at the fan base like well bless their hearts I’m I’m I’m a little bit surprised to n that we’ve seen what we saw today and I

Know this might not seem you know surprising but happening at home where they just haven’t been nearly as good as they have been on the road yeah um so that right there within itself I guess just slightly slight slightly shocking to me if I’m just being honest but you know

Obviously um you know we’ve we’re we’re we’re looking ahead um to whole another a whole another game before we end up getting Boston again and yeah it’s another one that you got to make up because guess what you know Atlanta went into someone else’s house being a port

And tril Blazers came away with a W didn’t play well at all at all and um and now they get a chance to get a little bit of repeat yeah and so right and and it was one of those where when and I can remember that game because

That was just literally less than two weeks ago right so they go up to Portland and the Hawks had every opportunity to win this game dejonte Murray drops 40 Clint Capella’s got a ridiculous number of boards I’m looking at the stat lines like 14 but I remember

That 106 102 like I didn’t even have to look back because I remember how disgusted I was with that game because there was no reason in Hades that the lost that game but they did but they did so now I’m hoping that they can remember

What that felt like in a game that they were supposed to win that they lost up in Portland that they should with no hesitation win on Wednesday as long as there’s no emotional let down from tonight and everything that it took out of them physically mentally and

Emotionally to come back and get this win but again Hawks congratulations to you it’s just that you just you like my mom used to say you just nerve-wracking you drive us because you make us so happy some days and some days you just make us want to cry Rivers anyway lock

On Sports Atlanta is the number one place to hang out after every game win or lose we are here remember to like And subscribe to our YouTube channel and for more on the Hawks the winning Hawks of tonight over the Celtics check out lockon Hawks with our guy Brad Roland we

Will see you guys Wednesday night

The Atlanta Hawks put together a historical run for the ages, a second half comeback that led to a home victory after trailing one of the best teams in the league by 30 points. On display, the ultimate team win led by contributions from everyone on the roster.

It appeared that the Boston Celtics would effortlessly cruise to an easy win on Monday evening but not before countless converted shots from distance would put ATL within reach in which they’d soon never look back.

How will this confidence booster prepare the Hawks for an upcoming battle this week with the Portland Trailblazers before welcoming Boston back to State Farm Arena later this week?

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