<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE </div><div class='quotemain'><span class="body"> The good news for the Hawks is that they only have one more time during the regular season when they'll share the same court with Detroit Pistons.</p> The bad news is that final meeting, Feb. 12 in Atlanta, probably will follow the same script as their first three games this season: The Hawks compete for a while, throw a little scare into the mighty Pistons and then fade when it matters most and continue their futility against the reigning bully of the Eastern Conference. <span class="template"><span class="body"> The Hawks' latest failure against the Pistons, a 91-81 loss Friday night at the Palace of Auburn Hills, certainly followed that script, though not in sequence.</p> The Hawks struggled in the first half, trailing by as many as 17, but turned up the heat after halftime and outscsored the Pistons 48-44 after halftime. It was noble effort, but far too late for it to change the outcome.</p> "You can't get down against a good team like this and think you're just going to run back into the game," Hawks coach Mike Woodson said after his team shot a miserable 27-for-76 (.355) from the floor. "We played our way back into it, but I had to rest some of the starters and our bench didn't have it. But we'll bounce back. We'll go home and take care of our home [against Charlotte tonight at Philips Arena] and get back on the winning track."</p> Losers of seven games in a row against the Pistons here, the Hawks (10-12) again found themselves on the receiving end of one too many three-punch combinations.</p> </span></span></p> </span></div></p> The Atlanta Journal-Constitution</p>
