Hawks GM Rick Sund Offers Mike Woodson a 2-year contract extention

Alright, alright, Happy Birthday Mike Woodson, ESPN the Associated Press reports you were granted a contract extension. I know a few of us Hawks fans are a little unhappy about that, more specifically Mark Bradley of ajc.com, but we guess he deserves a chance to have a full season with this team.


The reason many of us feel that Woodson should have been replaced is the same reason he is being kept; his performance as a coach with these guys in the playoffs. Granted, we took the eventual NBA Championship RUNNER-UP Boston Celtics to seven games, which the sports world refuses to give the Hawks credit for, and the Hawks played extremely well at Phillips Arena, the Hawks are the reason the Celtics have "road-demons" to conquer, because they did play poorly, but the Hawks played up to the task. However, in games 2, 5, and 7, why oh WHY did Woodson allow the Hawks to play so poorly? We all know Boston is a different team at home, their arena obviously has this strange aura that makes the home team play great and the visiting team play not-so-great, but WHY especially in game 7, did the Hawks play so discombobulated? So disorganized? So unstructured? So indecisive? I attribute that 100% to either the coach NOT getting through to his players, or the coach having no real game plan of what to do out on the floor.

We will see what happens next season, but i must say the "leastern conference" is becoming not-so-least this 08-09 season, i can guarentee that alot of eastern conference teams are gonna get alot better, we CANNOT win 37 games next season and expect to make the playoffs, my guess is it will take at least a 42-40 record and we should do better than that!

If Mike Woodson and the Atlanta Hawks aren't +.500 or better by the all-star break in 2009, then bring on AVERY JOHNSON, that guy has the highest winning percentage in the NBA, coached in the NBA Finals in '06 (got referee robbed), was a victim of Don Nelson the second year in the playoffs, and by the third year, the players started tuning him out and he was a victim of Chris Paul (aaarrrggghh!!). No, seriously though, with MiKE D' ANTONI being the head coach of the New York Knicks, we had better go and pick up Avery Johnson, because we are gonna be in for a long rivalry with New York as they try to take our spot, we have got to keep moving on up.

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