<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE </div><div class='quotemain'>They can't hide from the chatter. They can't escape the ongoing debate that rages daily regarding the future of Hawks coach Mike Woodson While they were away from home on a five-game Western Conference road trip it was easy for the Hawks to ignore the furor over their coach. Now that they've returned, just in time for a four-game home stand that begins Saturday night against New Jersey, they can't ignore what's being written and said. "Winning cures everything," said Hawks captain and All-Star Joe Johnson. "We've just got to get back on track and get off this [three-game] losing streak. We've just got to keep ourselves right there on that playoff race. That's the main thing. "Because with everything that's going on we're right there in that seventh spot, the same as we were before we left for the trip. And that's crazy for us. But we just have to put all this other stuff behind us. The thing is, we know all that talk is out there. But we won with [Woodson] before and we can win now. We just have to get back to it." That's been much easier said than done the past five weeks for the Hawks, 18-24 and losers of six of their last seven games. Since their five game win-streak in late December, the Hawks won just four times in 16 games. And that includes their 1-4 mark on that Western Conference swing. With each loss the criticism of Woodson has gotten stronger and stronger, criticism his players insist isn't necessarily fair. "When we were winning games everybody got their fair share of the credit," Josh Smith said. "We all enjoyed the love from the fans and everybody else when things were good, so it's probably only fair that share in some of the heat when things aren't going as well as might have hoped." Woodson's focus remains on the task at hand. He was back on the practice floor Friday morning, preparing for a Nets team that sits behind the Hawks at the No. 8 spot in the Eastern Conference.</div> Source: AJC
