Tune in at 3:30 PM ET as the Hawks take on the Clippers. Maxwell Hubert will be liveblogging for your enjoyment.
Hello everybody and welcome to the liveblog of the Hawks and Clippers. My name is Maxwell Hubert(@teedotyankee) and I will be following tonight's matchup with all of you out there. Please feel free to imput your comments and observations and take part in the action! It's going to be a great one, let's do this!
The Hawks were a 95-89 loser in their most recent outing at home against the Heat.
Miami built a 9 point advantage in the final Q, but the Hawks stormed back to lead by 2 (87-85) with 3:26 remaining
Jeff Teague led the Hawks with 20 points, Morrow finished with 17
Josh Smith (13), Kyle Korver (11) and Al Horford (10) also hit double digits
Let me hear what you think will happen in this afternoons game? What is your final prediction?
Does anyone out there have any $$$$$ on today's game? I would take the Clippers -6.5 and OVER 196.5
The Clippers won their last outing against the Trail Blazers on November 8.
Clippers built a 25 point lead in the first half, then held off a second-half rally by the Blazers for a 103-90 victory.
Jamal Crawford scored 25 points off the bench, while Paul and De-Andre Jordan had 21 apiece
Hawks
Pachulia, Smith, Horford, Korver, Teague
Clippers
Butler, Jordan, Griffin, Green, Paul
What kind of season do you think the Hawks will have? Will they improve or decline?
Tip off in just a few minutes............................
Where do you see the Clippers finishing in the Western Conf?
The Clippers last won a season series vs. Atlanta in 2005
The Hawks have dished out 20-plus assists in all four games this season while averaging 21.8 per game
Atlanta has won three straight road games dating back to last year.
Where do you see the Hawks finishing in the Eastern Conf?
The Clippers host the Hawks for the only time this year in the first-of-two games between the clubs
Los Angeles comes to Philips Arena on 11/24 to finish the season series
What do you think about the Pach move to C in place of Horford?
Clippers won their last two games by a total of 35 points.
Tip is up and the Clippers control possesion
Griffin dishes to a open Green coming off the curl for the bucket
Smith misses the baby hook over Butler, LAC rebound.
Jordan cleans up the board off the Clips miss. Clips lead by 4.
Off the Hawks miss Griffin takes a nice feed in close for the easy 2 in transiiton.
Smith to Pach at the other end and the Hawks get on the board.
9:50.....................
Horford can't handle the pass and it deflects out of bounds back to LAC
Green rises from DEEP downtown and misses, ATL rebound