This is a 5* play on the Atlanta Hawks.

Paul Pierce was all talk before the Wizards first round series versus Toronto, and he backed up his words on the court, helping Washington sweep the Raptors. Pierce also had some words for the Hawks, saying "There isn't a team I look at in the Eastern Conference that makes me say, ‘they are intimidating, we don't have a chance.' As good as Atlanta is, they just don't give off that aura where we're afraid of them." The Hawks looked like a team that was just going through the motions at the tail end of the regular season, and that continued through the first four games of their first round series against Brooklyn. They appear to have turned it back on though, dominating games 5 & 6 against the Nets. I think Washington is coming into this game over-hyped, overrated and over-confident. The Wizards might have to shake off a little rust, and they lost three of four to Atlanta during the regular season. The one game they managed to win, Atlanta rested it's starters.

Take ATL.

GL,

Jesse Schule