He has that kind of toughness. But if it's a situation where he can't play, then he won't be out there. The Celtics evened the series on Tuesday night, rallying in the fourth quarter for an victory. Smith, who has battled tendinitis this season, appeared to be having trouble with his knee at several points in the game. He finally headed to the locker room with remaining, and the Hawks' offense bogged down without his presence in the post.
Now, Atlanta is facing the prospect of trying to regain home-court advantage while missing its top two centers, Al Horford and Pachulia, and possibly Smith, who had taken over many of the offensive responsibilities in the lane after Horford went down early in the season with a torn pectoral muscle.
Smith averaged a career- best He led the Hawks to a Game 1 victory with 22 points and 18 rebounds, and followed with 16 points and 12 rebounds on Tuesday. Obviously, we already have both centers out, and now we're looking at our starting power forward possibly being injured. These type of situations have been happening to us all year. We've been kind of snake-bit, but we're just hoping for the best. Horford had wanted to return for the playoffs, but he's already ruled himself out of the entire first round.
Pachulia took over as the starting center and did a solid job, but he was injured in mid-April and missed the last seven games of the regular season.
The Hawks keep evaluating him on a daily basis, but he's still wearing a protective boot on his foot and there's no indication that he's close to returning.
There's a lot of guys on this team with a lot of playoff experience. If someone goes down, someone else steps right in. But losing Smith for even one game would be a huge blow.
Ivan Johnson , a year-old rookie and most likely candidate to step in at power forward, has been a solid contributor off the bench but isn't likely to be nearly as effective Smith over long stretches. The Hawks got a glimpse of how tough it would be without J-Smoove when he left Game 2 with Boston clinging to a lead. Going to a small lineup and trying to spread the court, the Hawks couldn't find any space to get open looks.
They missed four of their next five shots -- including a couple of long, desperate 3-pointers -- and turned it over twice, allowing the Celtics to pull away. If it's not there, we have to run our sets and run them with pace. In that fourth quarter, we just played too slow and too methodical. Chamberlain , D. Schayes , J.
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