<div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">I was joking with another NBA writer over the weekend about what I needed to see at Hawks training camp to convince me that they were ready to take that next step, and I told him that I needed to see some blood. I needed a good fight or something to let me know that these guys were serious about climbing out of the NBA basement. (I hadn?t witnessed so much as a shoving match since I?ve covered these Hawks, nice guys all of them but no one strikes me as particularly rowdy or nasty). Well, it didn?t take long for some blood to be shed. While pulling into the parking lot for practice this morning I spot Hawks equipment man Zach Walsh rolling past me with Zaza Pachulia in the passenger seat holding a bag of ice wrapped in a towel over his eye. Turns out Zaza caught an inadvertent elbow to the dome from Lorenzen Wright during a defensive drill. He missed the rest of the morning session but was expected back for the night session, with 20 or so stitches to close up the gash above his eye.</div> Source
Wright wants Zaza minutes and is trying to set the tone. What Wright may not know is that Zaza is one of the most physical posts in the league and that he will not take a supposedly inadvertant elbow lying down. To be honest I think that Zaza Pachulia is the most underrated player in the league right now.
