Game slips away in 90 seconds By SEKOU SMITH The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Published on: 03/27/06 Orlando — Rest for one second most nights in the NBA and the opposition will pounce. Rest for 90 seconds like the Hawks did just before halftime Sunday and there's little chance of leaving with anything but a loss. The Orlando Magic needed just a little space to pull away from the Hawks for a 108-101 win at TD Waterhouse Centre, the Hawks' fourth straight loss and eighth in nine games. The Hawks led 42-40 with 1:31 to play in the first half and then fell asleep at the wheel. Ninety seconds and nine consecutive Magic points later they headed for the locker room trailing 49-42 and wondering what hit them. Try a Hedo Turkoglu jumper and free throw, a Dwight Howard layup, a Jameer Nelson free throw and then his 3-point dagger with .05 seconds to play. "That was 90 seconds of hell," Hawks co-captain Al Harrington said after his team fell to 21-47. "If we lock down and get some stops before halftime and go into the locker room up two or tied even, the second half is a whole different ballgame. But we let it get away just for a few seconds, and that did us in." The Hawks' effort after halftime, however valiant, wasn't enough to offset 90 seconds of collective brain freeze before the break. Not with the Magic shooting nearly 60 percent from the floor (43-for-72) to the Hawks' 40 (34-for-85), and getting seven more points (21-14) off the same number of turnovers (14). Not with Turkoglu (team-high 23 points), Nelson (15 points, six rebounds), Howard (15 points, 13 rebounds) and DeShawn Stevenson (12 points) all playing as well as they did. And certainly not with Darko Milicic and Keyon Dooling contributing 13 points each off the bench. Still, it was hard not to notice that the point swing just before the half ended up being the final margin. "It was huge," Hawks coach Mike Woodson said of the 90-second glitch in his team's program. "We just didn't finish the quarter. ... "We had our chances at the end. We had it down to four [89-85 with six minutes to play]. We got the big steal on the baseline, and then we threw it away on the baseline. So we had some good chances. We're just not getting the key stops when we need them now. They made a lot of shots at the end of the shot clock. So you have to tip your hat to them." The Hawks have repeatedly hurt their chances to win this season with mental mistakes and breakdowns at key moments, and Sunday's game was no different. They let the Magic's reserves riddle them for basket after basket early in the fourth quarter when they trailed by eight, 79-71. Carlos Arroyo scored on back-to-back driving layups, Milicic on a jumper and then Dooling on consecutive jumpers before he and Arroyo traded baskets, Arroyo's a layup and Dooling's a 3-pointer near the end of the shot clock for a 94-85 lead with 4:55 to play. "At this point of the season we have to beat teams mentally," said Hawks reserve forward Josh Childress, who joined Harrington (20), Joe Johnson (19), Zaza Pachulia (16) and Marvin Williams (13) in double figures with 18 points. "We have to limit our turnovers, get shots that we want and play the [defensive] coverages the way we're supposed to. "And obviously we didn't do that tonight." 資料來源 http://www.ajc.com/hawks/content/sports/hawks/stories/0327hawks.html --

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