<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE </div><div class='quotemain'>Despite Al Horford's game-high 18 points, the Atlanta Hawks summer league squad came up short against the host Utah Jazz, 64-63, on Friday night in both teams' opener at the Rocky Mountain Revue in Salt Lake City."We gave a tremendous effort tonight, especially defensively," said Hawks summer league head coach Larry Drew. "Our guys did a good job working together in trying to execute our defensive game plan. But we didn't make the play at the end."The Hawks were down two (62-60) with 11.7 seconds left, when they executed the drawn-up play perfectly, resulting in a Shelden Williams three-point play with 5.9 seconds left to go ahead by one. But Utah's Paul Millsap scored on a putback with 1.7 seconds remaining for the winning basket. Williams' 75-foot heave bounced off the backboard and rim as time expired.Supporting Horford's 18, Williams scored 11 points to go along with his 8 boards, while Acie Law had 7 points and a team-high 5 assists."Al was a beast around the basket," Drew said. "He played like an NBA veteran tonight."After one period, the teams were tied at 18, as both clubs shot the ball well from the field (Atl-54.5, Utah-57.1). The second quarter was more of a defensive battle, and Jarrius Jackson's long jumper at the buzzer knotted the score at 33. Utah snagged a one-point advantage through three, before the see-saw fourth.Millsap, Morris Almond and Matt Lojeski led Utah with 12 points apiece.The Hawks next face San Antonio on Saturday at 6:30 ET.</div>Boxscore: http://www.nba.com/media/jazz/rmr07Game02.pdfI had the chance to see some of the game earlier today, they replayed it.. Shelden looks like garbage on offense, and his size seems to hurt him a little bit on defense. Horford played pretty well, but turned the ball over a little to much. Law wasn't shooting to swell but he showed some decent court vision.. I dont think it was a great effort, hopefully we can come out later today and play better/get a win..
You actually espect Sheldon do be better than garbage on offense? Well it looks like Al Horford can be a beast!
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE </div><div class='quotemain'>SALT LAKE CITY (July 16) ? Maurice Ager went a perfect 3-for-3 from the field for the Dallas Mavericks and the Atlanta Hawks scored 16 of their 19 points of the first quarter in the paint as the Mavericks led through one, 22-19, on day three of the RMR. Atlanta?s rookie Acie Law made his third consecutive start while newcomer Al Horford watched from the bench in street clothes.The game was close through the second quarter, ending with a 44-40 advantage to the Mavericks. Law put in 14 points and Shelden Williams dropped in ten points and grabbed five boards for the Hawks. The Mavericks didn?t have a single player in double figures, although all but one Dallas player that hit the floor in the first half scored.Atlanta took the lead in the third with three minutes to go and finished the quarter on top 62-55. The Mavericks went dry from the field, scoring just 11 points in the ten minute quarter. Despite shooting barely 40 percent on the quarter, the Hawks won the battle of the boards and put backs.The game remained close through all four quarters and with a minute left in the game the Hawks remained in front 77-75 after a three-pointer by Dallas? Ager. Up four points at the 11.9 second mark, Dallas came out of a timeout with a play for Ager at the top of the key. Ager missed the long range jumper and Atlanta ended it with two free throw makes by Law.Law led the Hawks to the 83-77 win with 24 points, five assists, and six rebounds. He made 12-of-13 free throw attempts. Williams came close to a double-double with 20 points and nine rebounds. Dallas had four players in double-digits. Ager poured in 16 points, Jose Barea put in 15 and eight assists, Brandon Bass added 13 points and five boards, and Nick Fazekas finished with 12 points, including one three-pointer.</div>Boxscore: http://www.nba.com/media/jazz/rmr07Game06.pdfAcie played well, and led us to a win.. He came through late in the game nailing almost all of his FT's.. Shelden had another solid game, and it appears he's worked on his FT shooting. Its nice that we got this win without Horford, I believe he'll be sitting out the remainder of the SL with a sprained ankle..
