the New Josh-led Atlanta Hawks are as much a Championship contender as any team in Eastern Conference, to be seen tonight in first game on ESPN

Hello, World. My name is World Infamous

Welcome to the PlayoffsHawks dominion, it is not quite a domain, but for now this is the site that will dominate all content related to Atlanta Hawks, NBA Basketball news, and End-of-the-World predictions, and i will do it with an interesting perspective, to say the least. 

Let me just say to begin, fuck all of you. 

and likely you will say as a reply, well, fuck you too, World Infamous guy. 

And that would be fine.

The question is will you fuck WITH me or try to fuck me. Or, ladies, you can just fuck me ;)

But i say all of this to say i will say what the fuck is i feel un-censored on this blog, and if you don't like it, FUCK OFF!

Josh Smith is the 3rd best forward in the East (LeBron, Carmelo) [HAPPY BIRTHDAY JOSH!]

Al Horford is easily a top-10 "frontcourt-player-a-position-formerly-known-as-CENTER"

Jeff Teague is EASILY a potential all-star-in-the-making 

AND

Louis Williams is one of the most talented scoring guards in the league and will thrive as a ATL-hoopslegend finally on his hometowns NBA team

Anthony Morrow is one of the best shooters in the league, Georgia Tech draftee

Kracker Korver is one of the best shooters in the league, excellent off-season acquisition 

Ivan the Terrible is still playing terrible, one of the worst role players in the league #WorldInfamous 

Devin Harris is adjusting to the role of being a role player, but he is still a very good guard

Deshawn "2011 NBA Champion" Stevenson

Zaza Pachulia is still the best foreign big-man name in the NBA

these guys can beat any team in the NBA on any given night, shit, especially if the Washington Wizards can defeat the Miami Heat when motivated, no matter the EGO, "We took this team lightly" is a loser-excuse!!

Tonight is the new Josh-led Atlanta Hawks debut on ESPN, the first time these ESPN guys are gonna be forced to talk about the Atlanta Hawks ALL NIGHT and actually OBSERVE the strengths and weaknesses of this team, and of course either display their inevitable bias against us or actually recognize the TRUE POTENTIAL championship potential core of this team! 

Listen, if Dwight Howard, Kobe Bryant and them Lakers can be 7-8 and i guarantee they still expect a championship this season, there is no reason why my 9-5 Hawks, currently riding a 6-game winning streak can't whoop on these Nuggets to Shock the World when they see how good this team is when Josh and Jeff lead the offense and everybody plays in sync. 

I predict tonights game be a victory of course to the tune of 109-105 in a fast paced game that goes crucial possessions in the 4th quarter.

watch me or watch the game with me @DJ_BROUGHHAM

#PlayoffsHAWKS

Riding a wave of Hate and Underration, the Atlanta Hawks soar into the Playoffs as True Eastern Conference Championship Contenders

Who would have thunk it?

When the Atlanta Hawks started this lockout-shortened season with the starting 5 of Jeff, Joe, Marvin, Josh, and Al, very few critics and analysts had them as a top 4 team in the Eastern Conference.  Even fewer people would have guessed that 10 of their 15 players would miss a combined 111 games as a result of injury, and finally NO ONE guessed that in those circumstances the Hawks would still improve collectively yet again!

After sustaining a season-ending injury to the two-time all-star and top-shooting big man Al Horford, 2nd year head coach Larry Drew leaned more heavily on team captain and longest-tenured Hawks forward Josh Smith, with backup duties regulated to Zaza Pachulia and breakout undrafted rookie Ivan Johnson. There was an open public opinion that the Hawks would struggle to make the playoffs without Horford, but Josh, Zaza, and Ivan stepped out their games tremendously.

Josh Smith is the most oppressed multi-talented players in the league, this season was the first time Josh led the team in scoring and reboundng with a career-high 18.8 ppg and 9.6 rpg. It is an absolutely FELONY that he was not selected to make the all-star team! He got more touches and increased his efficiency while maintaining a dominant defensive presence.

But none of that matters now as the Atlanta Hawks are set to open up the 2012 NBA Playoffs with home-court advantage over the Boston Celtics. As we have seen previous post-seasons, the "ESPN experts" are so pigeon-holed into this pre-concieved stigmatizm of the Atlanta Hawks being an "average" team that reached their ceiling (a theory the Hawks disprove every season), they do not give the Hawks a fighting chance against any quality team in the playoffs (11/12 "ESPN Experts" picked the Celtics to win this series). Even the Hawks blog legend of pessimism himself Bret LeGree of Hoopinionblog.com predicted the Celtics win in 6. We've seen his pessimistic predictions bite him back before though (Magic in 5 LMAO), and I don't see any reason why he wont be just as wrong in this series prediction. Bret's reasoning for the pessimistic prediction is as follows:

With a healthy Zaza Pachulia, this series would be, from Atlanta's perspective, at worst a toss up. I'm not confident Pachulia can have a positive impact on the series.

If he can't, that puts tremendous pressure on the undersized Ivan Johnson, the oversized Jason Collins, the physically inconsistent Tracy McGrady and Vladimir Radmanovic, and the thoroughly inconsistent Marvin Williams to be as productive in doing the dirty work as Pachulia managed in Al Horford's absence.

Umm.. first of all, how could a fully healthy Zaza NOT make a positive impact on the series (for the Hawks)? 7 ppg 7 rpg is a pretty good season for a back-up/starting center, but the bigger question is this. If Zaza isn't able to go, why is there such little confidence in the bench's ability to pick up the production? No matter how inconsistent you call Marvin Williams, he can manage 7 pts 7 rbs. Our April Rookie of the Month, Ivan Johnson can handle 7 pts 7 rbs. Even the extremely overweight Dwight-stopper Jason Collins has made a field goal or two and grabbed a rebound or two this season! It stops there though because we haven't seen any good games out of Vladimir Radmonivic, but I believe the Hawks personnel has the skill to win.

There are a few Celtics players the defense needs to NOT-ignore in order to be competitive; Avery Bradley and Brandon Bass. We know Paul, Kevin, and Rajon are going to score, but keeping the other guys out of double figures and out of the 20s is imperative.

The deciding factor on who wins the series will be who can commit less turnovers, rebound, get FT attempts and make them, and of course crunch-time decision making.  And of course Joe Johnson has been a virtuoso this season in the clutch, people can talk about Joe's contract all day, they just use that as an excuse not to focus on his skill and the fact that he is the 3rd best shooting guard in the entire NBA (Kobe, Wade,..). This post-season is the ultimate test for every team, but especially for these Hawks, they are ready to "Shock the World" once again.

Hawks in 6