Paul Pierce:Mr. Flop Himself

I wish the Hawks could get some of the calls that the much more respected Boston Celtics got tonight.

It is hard enough to stop Paul Pierce without him getting those bogus calls. The shot he made at the end of the game was simple fantastic, I'll give him that, but those foul calls that we was getting throughout the game were just horrible.

Pierce reminded me of a French soccer player flopping all over the field. He almost flopped as much as Tim Duncan does. Nobody does that.

Atlanta was already short manned to start the game. One of their top players, Josh Smith was out and will be out for 2 to 3 weeks. The referees did not help the Hawks chances at all tonight.

How is a team supposed to beat a top tier team like Boston at Boston if their players are getting calls like these? These calls won't get talked about because nobody respects the Hawks and the media is not going to talk down about the Big Three.

I won't talk down about the Big Three either but I will talk down about Paul "Big Flop" Pierce.

Here's the situation: I'm Al Horford and I'm standing with my arms straight up in the air. Paul Pierce jumps into me and throws up this straight up garbage looking shot.

Here comes Mr. Ref walking in here and blowing his mighty whistle. PPPPPPPPP. Foul. Horrible! Some people don't deserve whistles.

 This being said "Mr Flop" did come up with an amazing shot to win that game. I will give him that. These Boston versus Atlanta games have become very entertaining television. We could have quite possibly seen an Eastern Conference Finals match-up tonight.

I know it is still way too early to be calling something like that, and to the average fan out there who only watches nationally televised games you are going to think that I am nuts.

But with Josh Smith out, and Zaza Pachulia not being able to play the second half, the Hawks hung in there in a hostile environment and gave Boston everything that they wanted and more.

The Hawks have heart this year. They haven't had that for a while. And I am loving every second of it.

Except, of course, for that last second where "Mr Flop" had to beat them.