Mistakes pile up in loss By SEKOU SMITH The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Published on: 04/14/06 Has it come to this for the Hawks, being thoroughly outplayed on their home floor by a team that didn't even exist three years ago? That's exactly the way it looked Friday night, when the Hawks wasted an early 13-point lead before losing 116-110 to the Charlotte Bobcats before a sellout crowd of 18,729 at Philips Arena. Not even a spirited Hawks rally in the game's final four minutes could offset the tornado of inexplicable turnovers, defensive gaffes and mind-boggling mistakes the Hawks made from the middle of the second quarter until the final buzzer. The Hawks' chances of winning 26 games this season, doubling last season's win total, is dwindling. They're stuck at 24-55 with just three games left, and that includes Saturday's game against the Bucks in Milwaukee. "We got too comfortable with that early lead and it cost us," Hawks co-captain Joe Johnson said after pouring in a game-high 35 points to go with his nine assists and seven rebounds. "We went away from the things that got us the lead and went to playing one-on-one. We stopped making plays for each other and once we got down we couldn't recover." Johnson's 25-footer with 22.8 seconds to play brought the Hawks to within three points, 111-108. Marvin Williams added a layup with 16.3 seconds to play. But the Bobcats never relinquished their 14-point lead entirely while holding on for their eighth road game of the season, one more than the Hawks by the way, without scoring a field goal for the final four minutes. They knocked down eight of ten free throws to seal the win and the season series (3-1) against the Hawks, who will have to work to finish ahead of the Bobcats (23-56) in the Southeast Division and league standings. "Yeah, it's on your mind now," Hawks reserve point guard Tyronn Lue said of the idea of the Hawks finishing below the Bobcats for a second straight year. "This (Bobcats) team was the worst shooting team in the league and our game plan was to force them into taking jump shots, but once again they scored too many layups and had too many points in the paint." The Bobcats shot 54 percent from the floor, outscored the Hawks 50-46 in the paint and allowed 10 fewer points (17-27) off turnovers than their hosts. Every run the Hawks made after getting down double figures they thwarted with turnovers, blown opportunities or missed assignments on the defensive end of the floor. Williams trimmed the Bobcats' lead to six, 96-90, with a vicious baseline dunk with 6:08 to play. On the Bobcats' first possession after a timeout, Matt Carroll stroked a 25-footer from the wing for a 99-90 lead with 5:37 to play. It was that kind of night all the way around for the Hawks, who lost to the Bobcats for the third time this season. Williams, playing in place of Hawks co-captain Al Harrington (bruised finger), put together one of his best games of the season with 22 points, six rebounds and three assists. Josh Smith added 17 points, 10 rebounds, three assists and two blocks, while Lue chipped in with 19 off the bench. But it wasn't enough to offset the missing production of Harrington and Josh Childress, who sat out the first of a two-game suspension handed down by the league Friday morning for a retaliation punch he threw at Chicago's Andres Nocioni late in Wednesday night's loss to the Bulls. "Until we figure out that we're not going to outscore teams all the time and that we'll have to defend and rebound before we think about scoring," Hawks coach Mike Woodson said, "we're going to be a mediocre team." 資料來源 http://www.ajc.com/hawks/content/sports/hawks/stories/0415hawks.html --

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