Tuesday, February 10, 2009

February 10th Open Thread: Washington (-) @ Atlanta (29-21)

TIP-OFF: 7pm

TELEVISION: None local.

RADIO:
Hawks Radio Network, Audio League Pass

GAME NOTES:
Hawks/Wizards

ATLANTA INJURY REPORT:
Mike Bibby and Thomas Gardner are game time decisions.

WASHINGTON INJURY REPORT: Gilbert Arenas, Brendon Haywood, DeShawn Stevenson, Andray Blatche, and Etan Thomas are out.

FOR ENTERTAINMENT PURPOSES ONLY: Atlanta -8.5, 200 o/u

OTHER PERSPECTIVES:
Wizznutzz, Bullets Forever

PREVIOUSLY, THE WASHINGTON WIZARDS...
beat Indiana 119-117 on Sunday. Caron Butler scored 35 points and Antawn Jamison scored 34. It was just Washington's fourth win in their last 21 games.

Atlanta has won both previous meetings with the Hawks this season, 91-87 in Washington on November 19th and 102-98 in Atlanta on November 29th. Josh Smith didn't play in either game. Al Horford missed the first meeting as well.

ALL-STAR NEWS: Joe Johnson will play HORSE GEICO against Kevin Durant and OJ Mayo on Saturday night.

Consider this an open thread for all pre-game, in-game, and post-game (but pre-recap) thoughts.

1 comment:

Unknown said...

Loved the performance by Zaza in this game - 9 offensive rebounds is fantastic. Also nice to see Acie get to log some solid minutes.

Hate to see Joe log 35 minutes in a blowout win on the front end of a back to back, but that's probably the only negative I can take from this game...