Atlantaholic
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I'm more disappointed by his defense there were stretches the last few years where he was dominant on that end. Haven't seen it all year.
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OO has been super disappointing really thought we would see the type of jump we got from JJ. He's been especially a complete non factor the last few weeks.
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Been my dream since before he broke out. Too late now.
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Pop may have not much to do with the decision, and even if he doesn't like Trae at 3 wins this year I'm sure he can be persuaded to work with 27-11 on 57% TS. and sub 4 turnovers.
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We've had stretches of great defensive play with Trae on the floor. Trae is not the problem. Our wing defense is none existant, Hunter is not the lock down type of defender people make him out to be Clint regreses every year defensively and now this season we are struggling with rebounding. I'm convinced OO should be playing PF, he's too small to play mostly at C, the great defense he plays (when he's not fouling) is mitigated by the fact taller players can consistently score on him and we don't rebound when he's on the floor. DJM is the biggest issue defensively, whoever he's guarding is going to light us up. Bogi is playing better defensively this year, but he isn't a defender and never will be, he doesn't have the length and quickness to be a difference maker on that end. Doesn't help that occasionally when we do find a good defensive player like Wright we don't make any effort to keep him.
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Yea it's bizarre, he always played at his own pace but now it feels like he is moving with cinder blocks attached to his ankles. It's hard to watch.
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AJs value must be in the cellar right now. He hasn't been bad, he's been unplayable.
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Bogi can only be moved if he is packaged for an all star type guy. There is no non all star type guy we can get back that would make it worth it.
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Bey at the 4 and zero size on the bench. I'm not surprised the Spurs are a tough, tough out. Trae has been on it for a little while now outside of the Cleveland dud, he's putting in the work at both ends. Problem is the roster construction, no depth outside of the top 8. What happened to AJ? why did we think we were set at the frontcourt? Even healthy we were already severely undersized and without JJ now it's comical. This is not a serious front office. They are happy to dwell in mediocrity as long as Trae continues to put butts on the seats. As a long time fan it's sad af.
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Yea... if we can't beat the spurs I'm pretty much giving up on this year
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Lateral move honestly. Grant isn't scoring 23ppg here, he'll average around 16-18 on average efficiency and be a step down on defense. Essentially a slight upgrade offensively and a slight downgrade defensively, and we lose another pick. Honestly we should be trying to acquire picks not give them away.
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Their defensive ratings in their championship seasons were: 1st-2015, 2nd-2017, 11th-2018, 1st - 2022. So yea. I think the Nuggets last year at 15th were the worst ranked drtg team to win an NBA championship. Ever. Almost every single championship team is elite (top3-5) on one end and at least very good (top 10-15) on the other. It doesn't really matter if it's defense or offense but you have to be able to be fantastic at one end and good in the other or you aren't consistently outscoring anyone.
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Indy hasn't been relevant for ages, for them a play in spot is a success at this stage. Hawks have been stuck playing. 500 ball after making the ECF going on for three years now. Elite on offense and crap on defense will gets you to the second round tops. Not sure that's what we are aiming for, I hope it's not.
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Official Game Thread: Hawks at Cavaliers -- IST Game #4
Atlantaholic replied to lethalweapon3's topic in Homecourt
Another game against a member of the east "rest of the pack". Can't drop these games if we want to avoid the play-in. -
Of course, Bogi for Caruso straight up would be worth considering, but adding two firsts on top is madness.
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Also, Caruso is a PG, do we really need another one of these?
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We are cutting off our index finger on one hand to glue it on the other, not going to help us, and giving up more picks when we already gave up a bunch of picks for Murray is nauseating.
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We gave up Kevin Huerter and John Collins for a box of cracker jack's and a diet coke. Pretty depressing.
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He needs to stop passing up open threes and let it fly.
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Not hating at all. I like all our players and Quin, but we just don't stack up against the top teams. Boston and Philly took huge step ups this year we are clearly not in their league, and if we can't consistently get stops it's going to be trading punches with the rest of the middle of the pack teams that are all pretty stacked and vastly improved from the last several years. Scoring is at an all time high, a lot of teams can score like crazy, it's not gonna set us apart.
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Nah, go watch other teams. This isn't 2021 both conferences are stacked with players that can go out there and hang 30 whenever they decide to. Giannis who is every bit as good as he was when he was winning MVPs is no where near the MVP conversation. Brooklyn is a play in team, they have a loaded roster that is arguably on our level. If this team doesn't make moves we will be fighting for a play in spot this year, no doubt about it at this point. Team has been completely healthy and playing hard every single night, we aren't gonna magically transform into a good defensive team which is what we are absolutely going to have to be to win more games than we lose in 2023.
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Guess what folks, if you don't have good defensive players are undersized at key positions it doesn't matter if you have the best defensive coach in the history of the game, you will suck at defense. Snyder can't go out there rebound the ball and contest shots of guys with a foot advantage in wingspan. Roster constructions is clearly flawed
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I think it would improve the defense for sure, but are we cutting Murray's minutes to do that? That's gonna cause problems internally.
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Team will definitely have to chose between Murray and Trae at some point soon. It's not just defensively both require the ball in their hands and are not maximized at all when on the floor together. It's not a cosmic coincidence that they both rarely have a good game at the same time.
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Unless he gets leg extensions even that won't matter. Dude couldn't get within one yard of Mikal's shot release.
