Tonight’s game will be broadcast on Fox Sports South (TV) and 92.The Hawks & Nuggets split their season series last year with both teams winning at home.The Hawks currently sport a losing record on the road this season.A win tonight would move the Hawks into the 3rd spot in the East.Dennis Schroder has rebounded from early season struggles and is now averaging a career high in points, rebounds, assists and steals.Notes: Jameer Nelson (wrist) is doubtful for tonight’s game and Kenneth Faried (groin) will be a game time decision The Nuggets are a slight 2-point favorite against the Hawks, according to the latest NBA odds. Notes: Paul Millsap is expected to be back in the lineup after missing Saturday’s game due to personal reasons I fully expect Kenneth Faried to play tonight so rebounding could be an issue, but isn’t it always? I’m not so sure that Baze will get first crack at him as he’s a bit undersized to guard the bigger Gallo, but you better believe both Thabo and Millsap will both be key in slowing him down. You don’t have to be a mathematician to tell that keeping him below 20 points is a must for the Hawks tonight. When he fails to score 20 points, the team is 4-21. But just how necessary is it to containing him? When Gallinari scores 20+ points, the Nuggets are 13-6 on the season. He is the team’s leading scorer and their best all around player. Gallo-20: It would seem quite obvious that the Hawks need to contain Danilo Gallinari this evening. Mandatory Credit: Jennifer Stewart-USA TODAY Sports Phoenix, AZ, USA Atlanta Hawks forward Thabo Sefolosha (25) dribbles the ball up the court against the Phoenix Suns in the second half at Talking Stick Resort Arena. The forward from Italy is having the best statistical season of his career as he is heading towards free agency this summer. The team is coming off of a 104-101 win against the Detroit Pistons on Saturday, a game in which Danilo Gallinari scored 30 points and got to the free throw line 16 times. This will be the team’s 8th straight game at home (don’t ask me how) but the team has yet to take full advantage, going a mere 4-3 during the first seven. The Nuggets, while not currently as bad as the Suns, are a team on the outside looking in with regards to the West’s playoff picture. Jeff Teague had another atrocious game and if it weren’t for the Hawks’ bench, the game wouldn’t have been close in the final seconds.īut let’s not talk about that game, today is a new day and the Hawks get their All-Star back in the Mile High City tonight in another game against a struggling Western Conference foe in the Nuggets. Archie Goodwin scored a game high 24 points while Tyson Chandler hauled in a whopping 27 boards. Granted, the team was without soon to be All-Star Paul Millsap, but the Suns were a team decimated by injuries and coming off one of the worst stretches of basketball the team has played in the last two years. Saturday night’s loss to the Phoenix Suns might have been the worst of the season. By Clayton Crowe 7 years ago The Atlanta Hawks make their way to Denver, a city on a Super Bowl ‘high’ at the moment, to take on the Nuggets for the final game of their four game Western Conference road trip.
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