Atlanta Hawks Ready for 2009 NBA Season ATLANTA, GA (WABE) - Good teams tend to play well. Great teams win championships.
And somewhere in between---there are the Atlanta Hawks:

((they don't have an identity the kind of thing you put on a t-shirt or bumper sticker and market it))

Lang Whitaker is editor of the basketball magazine SLAM.
He says they're a good team but they depend a lot one player:

((it all goes through Joe Johnson, he's the leader of the team, leads in minutes, scoring, everything, it's his team at the very worst -play as well as the last three years when he was an all star))

Whitaker says the Hawks will also need Josh Smith and Al Horford to play key roles this season especially, against the Boston Celtics, Orlando Magic and the Cleveland Caveliers.
The Caveiliers with LeBron James knocked the Hawks out of the playoffs last season.
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