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Young/Napier/Hampton Edwards/Harris/Huerter Hunter/Reddish/Bertans Collins/Bertans/Wood Drummond/Ibaka/Fernando

I understand the frustration but let’s see the situation with some perspective. Let’s start with a fact, this is a lost season, year 2 of rebuild program, no team can compete on year 2. Is hard to accept as everybody had high hopes but is what it is, we are not ready. We are playing significant minutes our young players, we are losing but we will improve through the season, we will be top 5 worst record, that guarantees a chance for Anthony Edwards or Wiseman and next year all our vets contracts will be gone. Next season we will have a young core of Young, Huerter, Reddish, Hunter and Collins + 2 picks and tons of cap space. All of them are NBA players. We will have a fantastic opportunity to round the team and compete then. We have clear needs, bigs that can defend the paint and rebound, a backup PG, a 2nd or 3rd scorer (depends if you consider Collins a reliable 2nd option or not) and also some shooting. Best case scenario for me would be a draft that gets us Anthony Edwards and Kilian Hayes or Hampton and we sign Drummond, Christian Wood or Ibaka, Bertans, Joe Harris and Napier or Mudiay. But we could also consider a best case scenario adding Wiseman and instead of Drummond add Noel so that Wiseman evolution is not compromised by Drummond minutes while still keeping good defense and rebounding with Noel. Most likely scenario is that we end with another prospect like Jaden McDaniels, Stewart, Carney Jr or Oby Topin, still go with a backup PG with the other pick, Hayes, Hampton, Maledon.... and round the team with 2-3 bigs like Baynes, Noel, Henson, Wood, a wing in Harris or Crowder and a backup PG. All these scenarios end with a team with less flaws than today. in my opinion best fits for Haws in FA next year are Drummond, Noel, Ibaka, Bertans, Wood, Marcus Morris, Harris, Korkmaz, Burke, Crowder, Napier and Mudiay.

Actually I was considering Joe Harris and Andre Drummond bit Noel and Bogdanovic would work too

I agree, I would give opportunities to young players, we are losing anyway, Goodwin, Hunter, Reddish, Fernando...

Is not a re do list, we had Graham and traded him and Robinson was too obvious, we needed a Center and he was the best one available. I am not going to go back and see which was the best player, Robinson was too obvious.

2018 draft you keep Graham and draft Robinson instead of Spellman as most wanted. This year we do not make a trade for 4th Young/Graham Huerter/NAW Reddish/FA/Crabbe Collins/Parker Robinson/ Hayes/ Len that is a much better and balanced team in my opinion

I remember draft time when everybody was saying we could not add so many rookies.... So now how people feel about that? What if we would have Hayes, Reddish and NAW or Clarke? Don't you think we would look better? What if we would have Devonte Graham and Mitchell Robinson? Would you really play Damion Jones, Turner, Len , Crabbe, Bembry... Ahead of this guys???? Really? There is nothing wtong adding rookies if talent is there.

Is difficult to not agree with the statement, they have look awful. Although might be true they are showing flashes overall performance is poor.

In my opinion any move we make now is a step on the wrong direction. Adams or even Capela are worst than Drummond and we would have to give assets for them. I think we need another 2 good picks to round the talent level on the team, there would be great PGs at 15-20 with BKN pick and we should take best player available with our own pick, hopefully is Edwards or Wiseman but most likely could be Carney Jr, Stewart or Advija. A big and a PG, then go to FA to round the team, draft a starting C a backup PF and perhaps a wing and a backup PG Trae/Napier/Hampton Huerter/Joe Harris/Reddish Hunter/Reddish/ Bembry Collins/Bertans/Wood Drummond/Fernando/Carney Jr

He improved his numbers on the final minutes of the 4th with 3 baskets, his game was even worse than that, he will have better nights for sure but he needs to share the ball faster. The good thing, some players came to play today, Jones, Len, Carter, Crabbe and Huerter, good win

That was really a bad 3 pt shot from Trae, now a good floater

Ball is really moving when he is not on the floor, you can see now

Trae, when you are 4-12 on 3s and your team is winning is time to share the damn ball with your team mates, move the damn ball, be the PG

I am liking Jones game today, Crabbe with another steal

Good game by Crabbe too

Len out, Jones and Young in. Carter on a clinic

Huerter is +12 on the game, Hawks leading due to Huerter good play and Len and Carter efficient games

Huerter has been one of the best players on the game, how can he have only 5 shots and Trae 12? We need to find more all the players. Trae out and two 3s

Trae should stop shooting if his shot is off, move the ball and try to find open guys, Hornets are playing good defense and our offense has been too easy to defend. Defense is keeping us on the game, offense is horrible. Trae takes the ball to find the final assist, shot is much much easier the few times the 5 players touch the. All you have to do is share the ball with confidence with your mates.

So after the first half, Trae is playing poorly, bad shot selection, a good amount of TO... the team has no offensive scheme, we are in the game due to Vince, Crabbe and Bembry. Jones is not playing bad, altering some shots, Bruno was playing well, why he is not playing more? Hunter and Reddish today.... nothing, wake up young fellas. And finally Huerter, team is playing well with him as Backup PG, I like it.

Well, I think the strategy was fine while we were piling assets. Next year with a core of Young, Huerter, Reddish, Hunter, Collins, Fernando and 2 good picks we should have enough assets to go to FA, sign 3-4 players and make first run to the playoffs. We need bigs and there are bigs on FA, a star on Drummond and good role players on Noel, Ibaka, Baynes, Tristan Thompson, O'Quinn, Favors, Giles, Whitesize, Wood, Morris, Mason Plumlee, Bertans, Henson, Parker.... Other FA could use Jae Crowder, Derrick Jones, Harkless, Tyler Johnson , Kormaz, Joe Harris, Jordan clarkson, Teague, Napier, Frazier... No reason to overpay really but there are enough players to fill the needa we have and rouns the team to compete

Next year a wise option would be to go after Drummond or upgrade your weak positions with good FA and draft. If we cannot get Drummond we should get Baynes or Noel, we really need a center, we should also try to get Wood, Bertans and a backup PG. Once you have upgraded your team to be on a winning position on 2020 by two additions on FA and 2 additions on draft, go to 2021 FA class and become the main player, young team on playoff with 2 upcoming stars loking for the final piece to become a contender.

I think Drummond would be perfect fit with Trae, Collins, Hunter and Huerter or Reddish. Of course Giannis or Kat are better players but Drummond isbmore likely to sign here and is a better fit.

Players that will be around next year Trae Huerter Hunter/ Reddish John Collins Fernando Picks we should be doing assuming we are a top 5 pick and 17-20. Edwards, Wiseman, Stewart, Carney Jr.... should be target with own pick, we could even trade down. BKN pick for Hampton, Maxey, Halliburton, Kilian Hayes or Maledon FAs to target, we can go cheap with some FA like Tyler Johnson, Korkmaz, Crowder, Baynes, Wood, Henson, Giles, Bertans, Noel or try to go big with Drummond, Joe Harris or even Ibaka. some likely scenarios Young/Tyler Johnson/Hampton Huerter/Reddish/Korkmaz?/Hampton Hunter/Bembry/? Collins/Wood/Fernando Drummond/Stewart/Fernando Cheaper scenario I like more Young/Tyler Johnson/Hampton Huerter/Joe Harris/Hampton Hunter/Reddish/Bembry/ Collins/Wood/Bertans Ibaka/Stewart/Fernando there are some big FAs apart from Drummond or Harrell that would be really serviceable here and we can promise minutes and roles they cannot have out of here like Bertans, Giles, Vonleh, Baynes, Ibaka, Noel, all of them would be huge upgrades. Even Whiteside or Tristan Thompson could be really valuable here.

Well, Cam and Hunter can struggle, that does not mean they will not be fine medium or long term. This team long term potential starters are obviously Trae and Collins and Huerter and Hunter. Parker, Cam and Bruno could become important players with Cam having a much highest ceiling and of course lower floor, very uncertain his future right now although I have confidence in him. Bembry and Jones might be options at the end of the bench. We clearly need to complete the team with 4 players at least, two rookies and 2 FA. I can see us getting Wiseman and a backup PG or Anthony Edwards and a backup PG. A big FA and another wing might round the team. This is going to be a transition year but next year we can compete again