With the Hawks season well underway, well, somewhat underwhelmingly underway at least, one can’t help but look at the off-season and wonder whether letting Mike Woodson go was the right decision. Sadly, like my League Pass on DIRECT TV Atlanta has absolutely no playoff game, even if we show up nightly in the regular season. The Hawks aren’t off to a bad start, not by the Hawks standards fans were accustomed to throughout much of the 2000′s, and to be fair, an injury to Joe Johnson has also hindered the team to function at full strength towards the end of 2010. Still, for an organization that dismissed its coach after its first 50-win season since the Bill Clinton Impeachment Trial, such strong natured actions are not without the repercussion of close scrutiny.While the wins and losses aren’t terribly disconcerting at this point, the performance of the much hyped Larry Drew motion offense is yielding mixed results. On the bright side, assists have skyrocketed from the middle of the pack to top 10 in the league up over 2 full dimes per game, indicating a trend away from the largely iso-driven offense that became a staple of Woody sets over the past several seasons since Joe Johnson’s arrival, further perpetuated by the additional scorer/ballhandler capabilities of Flip Murray and Jamal Crawford over the past 3 seasons. The downside? Total points have also dropped, topping the 100 PPG plateau last year, but safely below that high watermark so far this season.Of course, there’s no way to see precisely how much Drew’s job has impacted the squad until postseason play. Arguably the main factor in Woodson’s departure was the team’s ineptitude against the elite Eastern Conference squads in post-season play.  While point totals were among the better totals in the league during the regular season, the Hawks sputtered during the playoffs, marking the 3^rd straight year of inconsistent effort. In 2007-2008, a young Hawks squad mustered only 87.1 PPG in their 7 game 1^st round contest against the 1-seeded Celtics, a forgivable number considering the grit and talent showcased in their debut playoff appearance. The following two seasons, however, though the Hawks managed to make it through the first round on both occasions, the team was then demolished in Round 2 by the Cavs and Magic in respective years, finishing 15^th and 14^th in points scored among 16 playoff qualifying teams, despite winning a series .So be patient with Drew. Yes, a higher offensive output seems like it should be there given the talent and maturation of the current roster, but as long as Drew can coach the Hawks to at least a competitive showing against a higher seeded team this post-season, it will certainly be a step in the right direction.