.
Jon Barry: Sweep Prediction Wasn't Personal
Jon Barry has fired back at Hawks coach Mike Woodson, defending his prediction that Cleveland could sweep Atlanta in their second-round series.
"That's alright. If he wants to make a personal attack about what I've done in the league that's fine," Barry said on 790 the Zone in Atlanta. "I'm not in the league anymore. That's my job. I get paid to not be on the fence and express my opinion on what I think is going to happen. This is no personal attack on Mike Woodson, on any of these Hawks players ... I think they're a young, up and coming team, whatever. That's just all I'm picking. I'm not attacking anyone personally. If they play the way they played against the Miami Heat, they are not going to be able to win a game in this series."
On Monday morning, Woodson slammed Barry on the same station.
"Man, I could care less about what Jon Barry is saying. That's why he's doing what he's doing and we're doing what we're doing," Woodson said. "What he says don't amount to nothing. Again, I don't even know why I've wasted my words on Jon Barry."
.