Eight quarters into a season seems a bit premature as far as defining moments go. But Hawks veteran forward and co-captain Al Harrington says he's seen enough.

The time has come already, Harrington said, for this Hawks team to decide what type of team they will be.

Will they be the outfit that ran circles around the Golden State Warriors for a little more than a half in Wednesday's season opener? Or the confused and timid bunch that was steamrolled in the second half of that game and all night Friday night by the Los Angeles Clippers at Staples Center?

Harrington was in the middle of the action against the Warriors. But watched the Clippers debacle from the bench, as he nursed the sprained left ankle that also kept him out of Saturday night's game against Portland at the Rose Garden.

But he was back in the thick of things in the locker room after the loss to the Clippers, when tempers flared and a players-only meeting was held before the media was allowed in. Harrington wouldn't elaborate on the details but spoke for the entire team afterwards.

"Our problems, whatever they might be, are self-inflicted and until we understand that we're going to be on our heels," Harrington said. "Are we inexperienced? [Heck] yes. Are we hurting? Obviously. But are we going to go out every night and lose by 25 and 30? I say [heck] no. [Heck] no.

"We've got to start listening to our coaches and doing the things we work on every day in practice. We can't go out there when the game starts and play scatterbrained and act like we haven't prepared properly because we have. And that's a reflection on us as a whole, not any one person."