gurpilo

I can see Travis upgrading the team with FA like Bruce Brown, Gary Harris, Otto Porter, Covington, Boucher, Hartenstein, Whiteside, player that provide toughness and strength.

When you have young players with some upside on the market but you need good players to surround your star, best move is to pack players for an upgrade, we are deep enough.

Do you prefer Ayton or Capela/Okongwu? We can still sign a backup C as Hartenstein/Boucher/Mcgee/Whiteside...

Siakam or Collins/Huerter? Consider you still can sign someone as Bruce Brown or Gary Harris.

We have options un FA that still are similar to our players.

Great news, he could have injured badly his knee. He is nota going to be available for a few ganes, probable weeks, I Guess he has a knee strain

I think we have lost Capela for the playoffs and we should focus on finding a replacement. We need to replace his size, I would sign Olivier Sarr for the remainder of the season, he played great for OKC.

 Bad matchup for Hawks in my opinion, they have everything we lack, if Allen is playing the frontcourt of Allen, Mobley an Markkanen can be tough for us. Love is also a concern, we cannot defend him and Garland can score at will vs Trae, I have a bad feeling for today, is going to be really difficult.

hace 3 horas, gurpilo dijo:

There are some good wings we could have on the draft, Agbaji, Dyson Daniels, Tarie Eason, Kendall Brown... None of them should help on day 1 but certainly  could develop on good players

I have more or less clear the draft order

Jalen Duren

Tari Eason

Mark Williams

Kendall Brown

Those are muy draft preferences, size and defense

hace 2 horas, NBASupes dijo:

Even in a Gobert trade, Kevin and JC or Capela is significant. Take away Kevin, that's a player we knows shows up in the playoffs who can play both sides of the court. We knows he's a baller. Gobert is a massive upgrade over Capela. 

Replacing Kevin is not as easy as people think. 

We would have to keep our 1st in 2022 and hope we can find a backup for Bogi to cover for the Kevin loss. 

Ochai Agbaji or Dyson Daniels make sense. Especially Agbaji but man, it will be tough to lose someone as good as Kevin who I think is even a top 100 NBA on a good contract. 

There are some good wings we could have on the draft, Agbaji, Dyson Daniels, Tarie Eason, Kendall Brown... None of them should help on day 1 but certainly  could develop on good players

hace 1 hora, NBASupes dijo:

Even in a Gobert trade, Kevin and JC or Capela is significant. Take away Kevin, that's a player we knows shows up in the playoffs who can play both sides of the court. We knows he's a baller. Gobert is a massive upgrade over Capela. 

Replacing Kevin is not as easy as people think. 

We would have to keep our 1st in 2022 and hope we can find a backup for Bogi to cover for the Kevin loss. 

Ochai Agbaji or Dyson Daniels make sense. Especially Agbaji but man, it will be tough to lose someone as good as Kevin who I think is even a top 100 NBA on a good contract. 

I think that Bruce Brown would be a better fit for Hawks than Kevin. Huerter is the dame type of playera as Bogi, but worst, we need another SG that can defend.

hace 1 hora, swanlee dijo:

Na, with our team being injury prone if we get rid of depth for one star chances that star would get injured and we'd end up being worse off.

We'd be in trouble right now without Gallo since JC is injured for example,

 

You can have depth by FA, plenty of options out there, we should package players for upgrade and full the roster by FA

Is time to look for another star to join Trae, I am fine with Ayton or Gobert, I would be fine with Siakam  as well. Anyway we need to and size and defense and as I said there are a lot of options at FA. Whiteside, Bryant, Hartenstein, Boucher, Covington, Otto Porter, Brown, Harris…

For me the keepers are Trae, Delon, Bogi, Hunter, OO, JJ, Cooper.

Available for the right price Huerter, Collins and Capela.

Try to resign for a reasonable contract, Gallo.

Targets: Star C and star wing. 

Capela and OO for Ayton? I would do it. Star C for players that will never become star, just do it in my opinion.

I would try to upgrade Collins with a better defensive PF like Siakam. Something like Collins and Huerter for Siakam.

Cannot see any upgrade at wing, Anunoby perhaps?

 FA I would like us to sign, Jalen Smith, Boucher, Hartenstein, Whitheside, Thomas Bryant, Bruce Brown, Garay Harris, Covington, Otto Porter Jr, Kyle Anderson, all are players that can defend and solvente our size and strength issues. In my opinion those are better options to surround Trae.

Draft: Wing or Jalen Duren.

Dream scenario

Young/Delon/Cooper

Bogi/Bruce Brown/ Draft

Hunter/Otto Porter/Danuel House

Siakam/ Jalen Smith/ JJ

Ayton/Hartenstein/Dieng

I will make a trial

Young/Delon/Cooper

Bogi/Bruce Brown/draft pick

Hunter/Otro Porter/JJ

Collins/Jalen Smith/JJ

Ayton/Okongwu/draft pick ir FA as Whiteside

You can even add someone like Kyle Anderson or Covington if you think Jalen Smith is too young to be a reliable backup. I don't, I think he is legit. Boucher is also a good option.

I would not count on JJ to become a regular contributor but for sure I would give him the minutes of Luwawu. He can be the 5th forward easily on the team. Is important to have a balance of proven players and developing talent.

I can definately see a rotation like this

Trae/Delon/ Cooper

Bogi/Huerter

Hunter/FA?/JJ

Colllins/Gallo/JJ

Capela/Okongwu

For next year change Huerter for a 3&D player at SG with size, as Garay Harris, find a starter at SF that can chalenge Hunter, needs to be a defensive big SF as Otto Porter, upgrade center position, frontis Capela to someone like Ayton, draft a C with size as Jalen Duren.

UFA players with size that could improvisado our defense and strength. Boucher, Hartenstein, Jalen Smith, Mcgee, Whiteside, Drummond, Thomas Bryant, Thadeous Young, Covington, Kyle Anderson, Otto Porter, Bruce Brown, Garay Harris, there are a lot of options there. I would lo e to get Jalen Smith.

I think we need an upgrade at wing and big.

Which players we should keep? Trae, Bogi, Hunter, Wright, OO, JJ, Cooper. Reasons are different, performance or current trade value vs potential.

Players we should move for the right price?  Collins, Capela, Huerter, Gallo… 

Draft? Wing or big, we need size and defense, Tari Eason, Duren, Kendall Brown should be targets.

FA? 3&D player at SF or a big SG.
 

Priority should be to add a 2nd scorer, preferably a C. If Ayton is available we should go all in.

However the Siakam issue got me thinking, which duo is better? Siakam/Capela or Colins/Ayton…. Tough for me.

The other trade should be Bogi or Huerter, they are really redundant, we should trade one of them for a big SG that can defend.

At Backup PG I lime Delon, Cooper should push him. 

After that a wing from the draft and a wing free agent.

For 2nd round I like David Roddy

I think Kendall Brown and Tari Eason are realistic targets and really good fit, we need wings.

In my opinion is a mistake to not give minutes to Cooper and Johnson, specially with some injuries going on.

I think JJ can provide good minutes at SF after Reddish departure and Cooper can take control of 2nd unit at PG. Defense is the excuse but how is Gallo, Kev, Lou defense? Please this guys need to play.

I have heard Raptors were trying to get Bogi on trade deadline. Anyone know what were they offering?

Just realized James Ennis and WCS are available

Augustine, Moses Brown

For backup SF we should consider Danuel House

I want to convey this year, package with Hawks pick to move up in the draft and take Kendall Brown or Tari Eason.

Rockets are waiving DJ Augustin and Hawks should definately sign him