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Jonathan Daniel/Getty Images Sport Jeff Teague: One of several Hawks giving far more in the playoffs than they did in the regular season. During the 82-game regular season, the Atlanta Hawks went 12-24 against teams with winning records. Yet over...

Yesterday, Brett Hainline wrote about the vast troves of data that motion capture technology will soon bring to analysis of the NBA. The possibilities are both exciting and a little overwhelming. In imagining and understanding those possibilities, on...

Bret Lagree of Hoopinion: "Mike Woodson removed Al Horford, fresh off a dominating Game 7 performance against the Bucks and arguably Atlanta's best player for the entirety of the first-round series, just 5:44 into the game because ... he had one foul...

Bret LaGree of Hoopinion on the bizarre play that earned Mike Woodson a technical foul: "I've been critical of both the timing of and propensity for the head coach's technicals this season. This time, he got jobbed. Railroaded, even. The replays show...

Not sure you can defend the inbounds play that produced Jamal Crawford's cold-blooded game-winner from 28 feet any better than Phoenix did. Bret LaGree of Hoopinion notes the irony: "Phoenix's defense of Atlanta's final inbounds play was far and away...

You know that old basketball meme that says a coach drawing a technical foul is one way to fire up his team? As Bret LaGree of Hoopinion enumerates, the possessions following Mike Woodson's technical last night in Atlanta were every bit as ugly as th...

Bret LaGree of Hoopinion on Larry Brown's ejection via replacement referee: "Larry got his 2nd T from Kevin Scott, who never got within 35 feet of Brown before, during, or after the call. Brown tried to engage any of the refs on the occasion...

Does anybody think the Wizards are done trading? I don't think the Wizards are done trading. Hawks brass cautions that free agency may be a bigger concern than the draft. Hoopinion's Bret LaGree: "Note to self: spend time studying how p...

The Hawks can't switch on defense to save themselves. Let's switch up the playoff format. Switch Brian Scalabrine for Kevin Garnett to no ill-effect?! Flip the switch at the TrueHoop Network: Bret LaGree of Hoopinion...

Bret Lagree has been writing Hoopinion since the halcyon days of basketball blogs way back in 2004. In October 2007, Hoopinion zeroed in on the Atlanta Hawks, and quickly became one of the smartest, most incisive team blogs on the scene. ...