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I’m glad he’s playing alongside great teammates like White Joe Ingles, Patty, and Giddey who understand the importance of ball movement for optimal shots. If King Steven Adams was available they’d really be cooking with grease and an obvious contender to medal. Ben Simmons not so much. I have no idea what country Kyrie pledges basketball allegiance to and probably best he isn’t with them anyway.

The Hawks were 6th in 3s made and 5th in FTs made last season. Those are playoff team-type numbers. Do yall expect those to rise or dip trying to integrate two new rotation guys who aren’t the most aggressive with shaky shots? I’m saying this with limited knowledge of what Zac did in Euroleague, Betclic Elite, etc (I’m sure the ball and distance is different?) but his shooting form didn’t look good to me in SL.

Nah bro you do a stellar job. Now them Real GM mods with their same layout/ skin from dial-up internet having ass….not so much.

Where the hell has out resident #3 been? @Diesel will resurrect a game thread two weeks later on a Hawks off day at 3:41 am . I’m telling on myself too because I’ve seen those “diesel has replied” messages too often. Wasn’t there another woman here for a long time? The Queen of The Squawk has to have an heiress eh @JayBirdHawk?

I got a chuckle reading this, I’m sure everyone else would too. Who are they on HS? Who are you https://stuartreviewsstuff.wordpress.com/2015/10/22/the-14-types-of-people-you-see-on-internet-forums/ As I tee @Spud2nique up for a barrage of insults

He has to show me he actually cares about defense. Implore your guys to get up into someone. Take a quick timeout if they give up an offensive board and score in a sea of red jerseys. You can probably count on one hand how many 24 second violations they forced last season. Chew somebody the f$@k out when two guys leave a proven shooter on a miscommunicated switch. That wave of the hand to get back up the floor quickly to try to “get the points back” just doesn’t do it for me. I think Zac and DD will help with the disconnect between the pace and transition defense some but still much more team continuity and leadership from him is needed.

I think Jamal sat him down and was like “bruh I regularly hit for 4 points out here. Just chill.”

-3 net rating, sorry for the confusion. It was -2.2 last season, I don’t see how less than a point worse is outrageous.

No one can convince me Quinn is a quality coach. When the Pacers were up 30 in the final game and had Nembhard (well-deserved deal btw), McConnell, and Nesmith pressing inbounds passes and the Hawks weren’t really struck a nerve with me. He doesn’t give a sh*t about this job he knows Atlanta is a football town through and through.

DJ is a 2.5 level scorer and Bey is one of the best offensive rebounding wings in the league. Sure they have warts but this production isn’t easy to replace. You can always block my posts too if the negativity gets to be too much. Just totally glossed over the Dyson comments eh? We’ll just see 30 games in. If they’re as good as you think they’re gonna be I’ll gladly crown you king for a day. I’m sure you understand we’re talking about a 1 lost possession difference right?

I try to keep it to minimum, I know where I am. They just historically move the ball on offense (until a hot hand forces it to stop with him) and stop it on defense at all costs. It’s how ball should be played, simple and sweet. I don’t know how anyone can knock Spo’s rise and the way they promote from within. OK I’m done until the first heat vs Hawks tilt.

I called Reed a bigger poor man’s Mark Price. Eerie.

Yall up early with the jokes lol. I’ll take a Norris Cole jersey for real tho.

I think his metrics with the Hawks capture his impact perfectly: 102 to 103 rating .99 WS/48 +.2 on/ +4.7 on/off net He had the “why” part down as to taking more threes. It’s the “who,” “when,” “where,” and “how” he never got the grasp of. And it was pretty simple: a .285 three point shooter is pretty much wasting possessions taking them especially when his miss quality usually prevents offensive rebounding opps. There was great balance in on/off with the 53 win team, ranging from +4 to +8 with the starters and Craw Dog. Always liked ole Woody even though he wasn’t too popular here. 50+ wins seems so distant now granted the league was much more watered down at the time.

If the Hawks have better than a -3 point differential 30 games in I’ll eat all types of crow with habanero sauce. This is a Golden Era of players and competition underway. Hawks simply don’t have the free spending, front office stability, or college style coaching to be notably relevant. As every two-way dog ascends around the league (I’m pretty sure ZR will not be a “dog”) the Hawks will drop a little bit further. Hell the Hawks got eaten alive last season by blatant one-way players like Luka and Hali smh. Had all types of issues with the Hornets. I saw parts of the replay of Australia versus USA though, I didn’t even know they played. Dyson was giving Ant fits on a few plays I saw and he’s a relentless cutter. Really liked what I saw on a possession to possession basis but the offensive aggression obviously needs work.