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ATLANTA - Paul Millsap knocked the ball away. Thabo Sefolosha scrambled into the corner to grab it and passed quickly to Dennis Schroder, who took off the other way.Schroder dribbled into the frontcourt and spotted Millsap already ahead of him on the wing. Millsap didnt keep the ball for long, bouncing a pass to Al Horford streaking through the lane for a thunderous dunk.That play epitomized the way the Atlanta Hawks are going right now.A stop at the defensive end. Four guys touching the ball. An easy basket.The Hawks are the biggest surprise in the NBA, leading the Eastern Conference with a 26-8 record that is the best in franchise history through 34 games. Most striking, they have won seven straight on the road, wrapping up a sweep of their West Coast road trip with a 107-98 victory over the Los Angeles Clippers on Monday night.Weve got a good group of players, who play unselfish and play hard, said second-year coach Mike Budenholzer, who learned at the knee of San Antonios Gregg Popovich and is looking to build another powerhouse in Atlanta.The Hawks have won 19 of 21, but their play over the last three weeks has been especially impressive. Atlanta has twice beaten the Clippers and LeBron James Cavaliers, sending a bit of a shockwave through the league with a 29-point blowout at Cleveland. The stretch also includes wins over Chicago, Houston, Dallas and Portland, so this is looking less and less like a fluke.The Hawks are facing all sorts of uncertainty off the court, from ongoing efforts to sell the franchise to what will become of disgraced general manager Danny Ferry. But the turmoil seems to have brought the team together, and Budenholzer — a long-time assistant with the Spurs — has instilled many of the same principles that work so well in San Antonio.Atlanta ranks among the leagues top clubs in steals and assists, scoring about two-thirds of its baskets off passes from teammates. All five starters are averaging at least 11.6 points. Theres not one true superstar, but Jeff Teague is emerging as one of the leagues best point guards, Millsap can do a bit of everything, and Horfords return after missing most of last season with an injury has been a huge boost for the inside game.Budenholzer and his staff have also gotten surprising contributions from DeMarre Carroll, who bounced around to four teams before finding a home in Atlanta, and Kyle Korver, who has proven to be a lot more than a 3-point specialist. The bench is deep, too, with players such as Schroeder, Sefolosha, Mike Scott and Pero Antic making important contributions.Sounding very much like his mentor, Budenholzer talks constantly about activity at the defensive end, pushing his players to get a hand on the ball and cut off passing lanes. The Hawks arent a pick-and-roll-focused offence like the Spurs, but they feed off their defence, run at every opportunity, and wind up with a lot of easy baskets.We know if we make plays on the defensive end, everything else will take care of itself, Teague said.Teagues development has been a huge key. He flashed plenty of potential over his first five seasons, but hes finally demonstrating the sort of consistency that Budenholzer demands. Over the last five games, the 26-year-old is averaging 23.2 points, 8.2 assists, 4.8 rebounds and 2.6 steals while shooting 52 per cent from the field.Horford and Teague are the only players whove been with the Hawks longer than three years, the roster almost totally overhauled the last two summers by Ferry. While the GM successfully turned things around in Atlanta, theres no indication hell ever return to his job after making racially charged comments about potential free agent Luol Deng.Ferry is on an indefinite leave of absence, watching from afar as the roster he built keeps piling up the wins. Budenholzer is now in charge of player personnel, though it looks as if the bulk of the work is done.Once the Hawks get to the playoffs, the lack of one dominant scorer could prove to be a weakness. It certainly cost them last season, when they squandered a chance to knock off top-seeded Indiana in the opening round.For now, its not an issue.Weve got a good group of guys in that locker room, Budenholzer said. Were playing well on both ends of the court.___AP Sports Writer Beth Harris in Los Angeles contributed to this report.___Follow Paul Newberry on Twitter at www.twitter.com/pnewberry1963 Nike Sf Air Force 1 Saldi . TSN2 December 18 Knicks at Bulls 8pm et/5pm pt TSN2 December 18 Thunder at Warriors 10:30pm et/7:30pt TSN2 December 21 Pacers at Timberwolves 7pm et/4pm pt. 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De La Rosa lasted only 4 1-3 innings and allowed five runs in his first opening-day start.CHICAGO - Chicago Bears coach Marc Trestman ran through the faults he saw in his team during its latest loss and it sure sounded familiar.The Bears have dropped six of their last eight games, occupy last place in the NFC North and are playing more like a team expecting one of the top picks in the draft than one that expected to challenge for a division title.We didnt have any kind of consistency, Trestman said Tuesday, one day after a dispiriting 31-15 home loss to the Saints. We had really no kind of passing game early in the game, for the first half. It was certainly not good enough. Thats all there is to it.When Bears offensive co-ordinator Aaron Kromer admitted to the team last week hed been the anonymous source for a story criticizing quarterback Jay Cutler, the perceived betrayal sent ripples through the team. Players and Trestman insisted that had little or nothing to do with Mondays game, in which the Chicago offence gained only 278 yards against a 31st-ranked Saints defence that had allowed more than 400 yards in four straight games.People make mistakes; were not perfect, tackle Jordan Mills said of Kromer. That had nothing to do with our focus this week. He apologized for it and we moved on for it. He was sincere about it. ... None of that affected us. We just need to be more consistent.Cutler had three interceptions and was sacked seven times. Prior to an abbreviated postgame press conference, he told WBBM-AM that any effect from the Kromer comments diminished through the week.Monday was different, Cutler said of the day Kromer told the team. I think Tuesday, Wednesday we adjusted fine. By Thursday, we were back to game planning and football. We just had to do the press conferences and do that. But it didnnt affect me preparing for the game.dddddddddddd It didnt affect the rest of the guys, I think, preparing for the game.Kromer had suggested Cutler has problems reading defences and changing out of running plays against certain formations. Following Mondays game, the Saints said they saw evidence of this so they disguised their coverages.Dont tell them (Cutler) what (defence) youre in, cornerback Keenan Lewis said. Make them figure it out at the last minute. There was a lot of success doing that. By film study, we watched that and saw a couple teams do the same thing and have success.When asked whether Cutler was off his game, Trestman said: I was off my game. Our entire group was off their game tonight.Penalties again plagued the Bears offence and special teams, and Trestman took the blame for the punt team lining up with only 10 men to try a failed fake punt.We should have had 11 players, but we had 10, Trestman said. Im responsible for that.There were nearly 11,000 no-shows and the Bears left to a chorus of boos at halftime for a team now 5-9 on the year and 13-17 in two seasons under Trestman. The Bears were 10-6 in 2012, the final season under Lovie Smith before he was fired.The team is trying to keep its focus on Sundays home finale with Detroit and the season finale with Minnesota.Theres a lot of good things going on with our football team, but the bottom line is that we arent winning, Trestman said. Theres a lot of guys working hard. Theres a bunch of guys getting better. We are developing young guys.But the bottom line is that this is a business based on winning and losing. We cant sugarcoat it. We are disappointed that were not playing well enough to win and we havent in the last three games. 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