Who is watching the NBA playoffs right now? Maybe hockey is more your speed and you have been tuning into the NHL playoffs going on also. I know the city of Atlanta and the state of Georgia is on the bandwagon now and rooting for the Atlanta Hawks. They have been given the Boston Celtics fits. I think the biggest thing that has got the Hawks playing good basketball is the lack of respect they have been receiving from the media and the players on the Celtics team. The media never would entertain the thought of the Hawks winning this series and even now they all say that Boston will win this series. If Boston wants to win against Atlanta, they better shut their mouth and play basketball. The more Kevin Garnett walks around with his big mouth open and yelling things, is only giving the young guys for the Hawks motivation to beat them. If Boston would change their demeanor on the court and just act like it’s another basketball game, they would rock the Atlanta Hawks to sleep. Instead they wanted to yell and scream and beat a dead horse in the ground when they were wiping the floor with the Hawks. That has cost them two games in this series and nothing is going to be easy from here on out.

For all you basketball experts that judge teams on paper, you might want to think about the Janet Jackson lyrics right about now “What Have You Done For Me Lately“. The Atlanta Hawks have won the last two games against the Celtics. So Boston might have been the best team in the NBA during the regular season, they are not the best basketball team in this series right now. If Boston wins game 5 things will shift back in their favor, but the young Hawks are growing up and the old Celtics are just getting older. The longer this series goes, the more it will favor the Hawks from Atlanta. Go Hawks!!!