Where have I heard this before?

Clearly, Sekou Smith (best beat writer in the world), woke up this morning fresh out of ideas. He then traveled into the future, read my blog post, and wrote this story. Seriously, kinda bizarre how we both ran with the exact same shtick today. Here's a few quotes:

"We've talked the talk for a long time now," Hawks captain and All-Star Joe Johnson said. "Now we've got to put up or shut up. We've got what amounts to a 20-game season facing us, and the bottom line is this: if we win more than we lose our chances of making the playoffs go up dramatically.

"If we can't find a way, somehow and someway, to get the job done, we can pack it up and head to the house."

I'm glad to see Joe Johnson really wants to "go home," but that doesnt' make any sense to me. Let's see what Woody has to say.

"Urgency has to be our rallying cry," Woodson said. "We've known for a long time what's out there for us if we were willing to step up to the challenge. So it's not like it's some mystery. How bad do we want it is the real question?

"That's the question that has to be answered right now. And the only place that's going to happen is on the court."

Interesting. Actually, this isn't interesting at all. They've been saying this rhetoric since before the season started. I agree with them, but they summed it up best. Talk is talk. Not to say this article was without any insight. Without Joe's quote, I never would've known that the Hawks' bottom line is winning more games than they lose. I always assumed that the Atlanta Dispirit and Woody came up with some Producers type plan after realizing that a losing team actually generates greater profits than a winning team.