Atlantaholic

God the Falcons game today is one of the most boring ones I can remember ever watching. It reminds me of the Carolina-Atlanta match ups of the post-superbowl pre-vick years... thank god the Hawks are playing tody. (can't believe I'm thinking this)

He's not holding the ball so much... I guess it must have been the hair

How about JJ + Chillz + Zaza?... I doubt it, but if the Lakers get desperate enough maybe they'll take it.

(On a side note: had we drafted Iguodala or Deng Kobe would be a lock to be a Hawk)

I don't know if it's impossible to keep Acie, Marv, Joe, Horf, and Smoove... honestly I don't think Acie will ever become an "elite" pg, and I don't see him asking for much money. (probably less than the contract we gave JT.) Marv, Smoove and Horf will probably command some serious dollar, but with Lorenzen, Speedy, Lue and AJ coming of the books, we may be able to free up enough cap to keep them all.

If Marv, Smoove, Acie, AND Horf all merit big deals two-three years from now, then that would mean we have been fielding a legitimate contender anyway... So even if we indeed can't keep them all, I stil like our chances with our current lineup over Kobe's

If we win this game we will have to outplay them on the offensive end. You can't really count on shutting down their offense when they have three all-world scorers who can all get it done in different ways.

We have to be efficient protect the ball, rebound on the defensive end, and RUN. We are the younger more athletic team, our best shot is to try to use our athleticism in the open floor.

The problem with having JJ and Kobe on the same team is that they are both the same type of player... I would never do this trade; sure, we would be relevant for the next three - four years if we did, but then we would be back to being cellar dwellers after Kobe retires. And in case people haven't noticed we have sold out our first two home games, and are ranked 13th in the ESPN power ranking and 8th in the Fox power ranking... we don't need Kobe to be relevant; we need to win games, and I think we can do that with the group we have right now.

C-Webb is not worth anything more than the vet minimum

haha.. we were also playing the second of a back to back dude... and Nash played terrible besides getting 30 + points and 11 assists??? Yeeeeah. Nash had 10 points and 7 assists against the Bobcats and they won by 20+, so I don't get what your point is. Nash has had a massive amount of games worse than the one he had yesterday in the last four years and Phoenix still won the majority of those games. If Nash hadn't been unconscious from the three point line and/or Joe didn't have the worst shooting night of his career this game is a blow-out.

They have had NO BODY in New Orleans who can put the ball in the bucket aside from David West (who was nothing but an above average scorer the last two years) and he still put up tremendous numbers while almost leading the team to the playoffs in a conference where we wouldn't have won 10 games any of the last two years. To say his team won't win anything after only two years of him being in the league is as asinine as saying that Marvin will never amount to anything because he hasn't put up great numbers his first two years.

Chris Paul is 10 times better than any PG we have on the roster. If New Orleans would give us Paul for Marvin, Law, and Zaza I would take it in half a heart-beat.

Still, the pick is not a disaster, and may I repeat MAY turn out to be the better pick depending on how Paul's and Marv's careers pan out... Still, if I'm rating BK's building of the team, I'm looking at the past and at the present. And his decision making has been suspect to say the least.

If we don't manage to re-sign Smith than BK's tenure needs to end.

And how many playoff games has Childress won?? Last time I checked basketball is a team sport, so I don't see what playoff wins has to do with anything at all. Iguodala is averaging 5.7 TO the first five games of the year... big deal. Nash is averaging around 5 himself and is a two time MVP. Any GM in the universe will tell you that Iguodala has twice the trade value of Childress, not to mention Deng's value compared to Chills. The Lakers want to trade Kobe for a package built around Deng... I'd love for us to offer a package featuring Childress for Kobe and see how hard Jerry West laughs. Brandon Roy, Randy Foye and even Rondo have so much more trade value than Shelden that it is kind of ridiculous. Marvin may pan out to be the correct pick, and indeed was considered the most talented player in the draft, so I'm much more willing to give BK the benefit of the doubt on that one... however, forward was our only strength and PG was a huge, HUGE need at the time of the draft, so at best that was a debatable choice.

The signing of Speedy and Lorenzen were terrible. The AJ trade was a total head-scratcher... all in all, the list of questionable and down-right wrong moves by Billy far outweigh his correct choices. Non the less, he is still probably around average in comparison to other GM's around the league.

Going after Miller would be extremely dumb, he is 31 and is slow. He always has been a half-court set PG. He's biggest success by far was his last year in Cleveland when they had all those old jump-shooters and they just ran curls all game long... Everytime Miller has been in an up-tempo team he has played average. (his first year with the Clips when they had all those young players was a disaster.) If we go after Miller it will only help Philly.

We can't count on Speedy contributing anything... anything we get from him is a bonus.

Last night was definitely him not getting enough lift on his shot. (all his misses were short)This happens to A LOT of jump-shooters on second nights of back to backs.

The last thing in the world I'm worried about right now is Joe Johnson's shot.

Speedy, Lorenzon, Childress over Deng and Iggy, Marvin over Paul or Deron (though this one isn't so bad now that Marvin is showing vast improvement), waisting a second on getting AJ, and worst of all Shelden "I have the trade value of a non-drafted rookie" Williams

The signing of Speedy and getting AJ (I believe he is signed to one more year, though I could be wrong) could prove to be extremely costly if we can't sign J. Smith to an extension... (which should have already happened)

I'd rate Billy Knight a c+ at most. If he hadn't brought in Joe Johnson it would be a solid F.

After the game, Woody seemed extremely pleased with Salim's performance, and even said that it was a mistake to not have played him in the previous two games.

I'm guessing he will be seeing the floor more from here on out. However, with Woody at the helm, who knows?

He is an asset off the bench because of his defense, so it would be nice to have him. However, we obviously can't count on him AT ALL... best thing to do is to act like he isn't even part of the team. Anything we can get from him, we should consider a bonus.

We out-rebounded them by 16, had the lead just about the ENTIRE game, they never got closer than 3, shot 41% from the field and we one by 9.

Swatguy is insane.

True. I forgot about that. We wouldn't need him anyway... he is completely, 100%, finished.

Salim needs to get Lue's minutes if he continues to play at anywhere near the level he did today.

We need to give him more looks in the post... he got a couple at the beginning of the game and scored in one opportunity and drew a foul in another. I don't know why we don't post him up more, especially instead of running some of these possessions where we just hold the ball in the perimeter and kick it out to Josh for a jumper

I guess... but they are team that is built differently than any other team in the league. A European coach would most likely have to adapt to the NBA, not Vice-Versa.

But you are right in saying that the biggest thing by far would be the respect factor... especially with the egos floating around in the NBA it would be really, really tough for a European coach to have respect and control of a team.

I think we will have to sacrifice Chill at the end of the day. Hopefully we can make it happen and keep everyone together, but I don't see us keeping everyone. And as good as Chill is, he is odd man out right now.

we want Woody fired because throughout his three years as coach he has yet to run an offensive set. Phoenix had nothing on us inside and yet we give Smoove and Horford the ball at the top of the key instead of posting up. At least he took Lue out of the game, so that marks an improvement from his overall atrocious coaching of the last three seasons.

I don't know why we don't use our post players in the post. This is one of many Woody enigmas. Horford and Smith get all of their touches at the top of the Key... it's insanity.