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I'll give him a year under Snyder and his finger being fixed before I'd trade him, we have more issues and more players to sign before JC is an issue

I said it many times during the year but we are the most 41-41 team ever in the NBA, we are so mid 41-41- had to be our final record this year.

Really weird as I think with our roster and with Snyder we should be a 50 win team easily but something is really off with this team and I'm not really sure what it is.

Id be open to moving Hunter if that meant keeping Bey and Murray. 

Hunter seem eternal mid and eternally nicked up. One of our young core guys I did not want to sign long-term.

I really think both will be keys to our long term success especially now with Snyder running things.

Given the contracts they might command can we keep rhem long-term?

Also Id still like to keep JC. The only core starter I would not care trading is Hunter.

So does anyone think its realistic to most keep our top 10 intact?

So back to under .500 tonight?

11 hours ago, AtLaS said:

Man we should be 2 games over .500 and on a 3 game win streak if we just took care of business against SAS.  Really hope we can end the season on a hot streak.  

Doubt it, think fate will have us at 41 and 41 this year.

8 hours ago, JayBirdHawk said:

We setting records y'all 

 

 

pretty funny, it's obvious we will either finish the season 41-41 or 40-42

We are such a weird team

Bummer, maybe AJ will get some time?

22 minutes ago, bleachkit said:

I agree. Why didn't we just keep Kevin and let Bogi walk? Kevin is younger and not as injury prone. 

Hes even worse on defense and never gets to the free throw line

2 hours ago, NBASupes said:

 

Thats horrible, would be silly to gut our young roster like that.

I like this roster, this new front office and our new coach. 

I just hope it all works, would suck even though on paper we should be a top 5 team but for some reason never get there.

Im glad Bogi is locked up but I hope his knees hold out andvwe do need another long shooter on the roster. 

So I guess keeping him long term is better then another Hueter situation. Huerter though was pretty bad in defense and never went to tje free throw line so he had some major faults fir this team.

I just hope we play competitive and do not embarrass ourselves.

Im at the game tonight. Murray is on a tear. Hope we dont blow the lead in the 4th. 

I'd rather have owners like Tony and Jami that seem to give a damn then a nameless corporate face like ASG.

Not many people in the world know how to run an NBA team so I got no problems with them learning as long as they care about the results and it really seems they do.

Why would we want an owner that just owns the team for a tax break?

Man this is shaping up to be one of my favorite Hawks teams. Been a fan since the Nique days in the mid 80s and this new Front office, New head coach combined with our young but talented team and it is really really exciting.

Not often a coach in his prime comes in to a young team like this. 

We shown we can get to the ECF finals with a lesser coach so very excited to see what Quinn can do.

13 hours ago, kg01 said:

That friggin vaunted 60-win team limped past the crap-a** Nets on the 1st round.  Regular season paper tigers.

It's funny folks want us to stop harkening back to the ECF run from a couple years ago, but folks still hold the 60-win team up on a pedestal like they won a ring. Weird.

While that 60 win team was great and it was a fun ride we peaked WAY to soon on the season, we were pretty much limping into post season, and the police issues with Thabo hurt a lot as well. You could see it in the last month of the season.

Good guy, no hard feelings. Thanks for the ECF run and the Trae coming out party. That was a fun run.

Prunty did good, yesterdays game is a game we lose under Nate, Nate was an expert in going up[ by double digits and then blowing the lead in the second half. I'm glad a reasonable coach worked around that habit of our team.

7 hours ago, Wretch said:

First...a LITTLE shout out to the new front office.  I'm usually very slow to pass judgement on front office changes, unless they sound like Babcock, but it was pure chaos there for a second.  I'll pause on hitting the panic button for now.  These dudes look like they have an actual plan.

I know some people want to separate the arrival of Trae from the uptick in relevancy here, but I'm over it now.  We've had an All-Star starter, we made the ECF's, we've got a player breaking all kinds of records, we recruited a coveted All-Star, and now we've ripped an A-List coach right off the market.  There's a process to this and it starts with acquiring a star.  With this hiring, it's clear that we are on our way or are at least we understand the steps that it takes get there.

I'm interested in seeing if Quin can use Trae and DJ the way we all anticipated during the offseason.  I'm curious too if we'll continue to see the great 2-headed PG stagger that has been so effective for us.

Yea the Front office turmoil was odd but they did step in front of it quick and laid out what was going on. so they handled that well and honestly since the change over they have been making some REALLY good decisions, our trade deadline moves were great, firing Nate and getting Quin is a major coup for the team.

I'm so far really liking the new front office and am very hopeful for the future.

On 2/25/2023 at 10:30 AM, NBASupes said:

Bey is like a better Huerter, he just got some defensive issues with versatility which makes him best as a 6th man. 

He is still a step up from Kevin on Defense

With JC AND Hunter always injured Bey will probably end up starting alot of games anyway filling in for one of them at any point in time.

I'd see how he does the rest of the year. We do need a legit backup for Hunter and Collins since both seem to be injury prone and a bench 3pt shooter is useful since we shipped Hueter out

9 minutes ago, Sothron said:

They want Snyder ASAP because he will have a voice in the roster going forwards. There's no better way for him to make judgements on this than simply coming in and coaching.  In most ways he would have little to no pressure since everyone knows he's coming in at the 2/3 mark of the season without even his own staff around him.

The FO did not trust Nate's judgement on players and that goes back to when Travis was still GM. It is a big reason why Nate is gone. They do however trust Snyder and want to give him some real experience with the current roster before they make offseason moves.

I think it is actually pretty clever. Most teams sweat out a lame duck and then try to find a guy with so many other teams also trying to find a guy. This way we get the best guy out there and he gets basically 20 games or so work experience with the current roster. It is a classic win/win. 

If this was Nick or Landry's idea not to wait and go make a move now this is the kind of out of the box thinking that the Hawks could use more of. 

Yea the new front office has been making some smart well thought out moves since the reshuffle.

I like the way they are doing things.