BrazilianHawk

Outside of Murray, JJ and perhaps Bogi, all I see is sheer incompetence. Mathews hits his shots, not his fault anyway.

Forrest is not NBA material. CC is washed up. OO can't stop fouling. Hawks are an utter mess.

I just finished watching the game and hereby I declare I'm 100% in opposition to a Murray trade.

In spite of the bone headed hero ball play that almost cost us the game, the guy just balled out there. 

It's very good to see a team with no BS in them for a change. Also kudos to Patty, Garrison and Onyeka, bench crew did their job last night. 

Can't wait to see the idiots at the helm trade his very friendly contract in exchange for a bag of rotten peanuts. 

A win for a change, so that's good. They should've won against a full tank squad and they did as expected, but I still haven't got used to those second half stinkers. I'll still take it, Trae was phenomenal in the first half and that helped a lot, otherwise that could be another terrible defeat at home. 

27 minutes ago, benhillboy said:

Looking at the remaining schedule, best case scenario the Hawks are looking at 37 wins assuming no one is out for an extended period going forward. 

That’s actually acceptable considering how inept the basketball operations are and how softly the team is coached.  They still have more talent than about half the league and are in an ideal average age range.  That will always keep them hovering around .500 but they simply aren’t equipped from an IQ, chemistry, and toughness standpoint to handle an above average strength of schedule (currently 11th). We all know no significant moves to improve the team are coming: teams that actually understand impact and metrics and have valuable assets don’t want DJ.  They have 7 games left versus bottom feeders, who they’ve gone 5-2 against so far so that’s something I guess  

Man... you might be right, but they just got blown out by the Washington Generals. At home. They're apathetic. There's no effort. I don't see them winning more than 30.

IMHO it's time to let go.

Edit: spelling

13 hours ago, Jody23 said:

Just a reminder.  The Hawks owe unprotected picks and a pick swap to the Spurs.  Tanking is literally not an option.

It's a good thing we don't need to tank to give the Spurs a super high pick. Just keep the route are we're eventually at that point. I don't really believe the Hawks will be any better the next few years, Trae or not Trae. 

So if we're going to give the Spurs our picks anyway, at least let's try to amass some draft assets from other teams. Hawks aren't going anywhere but down right now. 

14 hours ago, Peoriabird said:

Its so funny how the fan base goats a front office into going in a certain direction like draft Trae and Cam but when it doesn't work out, the Fan base acts it though they never agreed with those types of moves in the 1st place

Well... I for one always wanted that white guy that was #1 in all draft mockups but suddenly fell to #3 a week prior to the draft. I never wanted #7 Trae with the 3rd pick.

14 hours ago, NBASupes said:

They need to move him asap. He's the first one that needs to be moved. They need to show that they are serious about building a team that fits Quin style of play. Murray is next. 

Murray should be given an opportunity to play at his natural position. Just saying. 

14 hours ago, Peoriabird said:

The Trae Young era might be over in Atlanta

I can't say I'll be as happy as when we got rid of Midrange Shawty, but I'm positive this would be a HUGE step in the right direction. 

For as long as he's in the ATL, he will always be the guy the FO took instead of you-know-who.  

76 points in the paint. Superstar (4-17) had 6 assists and 5 turnovers. 

This team is hilariously bad on both ends. 

Get some picks, start over and build around JJ. This season is over. 

Happy New Year, Hawksquawk family!

They did it again. What's new? Happy New Year, Atlanta Generals! 

Refs hate Trae, the team suffers!

17 hours ago, Vol4ever said:

I think you gotta look at the past several GMs.   Flops all of them. Now you have one that is on the job training. 

Danny Ferry was absolutely NOT a flop. Ownership, OTOH, was.

7 minutes ago, Sothron said:

One of my sources and I talked after the game. Was asked for my honest opinion on the team and the direction. Gave my honest thoughts: keep Trae and JJ and make everyone else available to trade. Soft rebuild. If Ressler won't pay the LT (and he won't) this team just does not WORK. It depends entirely on Trae having a great game to win to make up for bad defense. 

You can't win that way on a consistent basis. This team is flawed. 

This has not happened yet but there's no way I can see Trae Young whose deal is up in two years to stick around for this.

It would suck for the Hawks to lose any leverage on a Trae deal when he asks for a trade or becomes noncommittal about a new contract with the Hawks.

Perhaps now would be the time to listen for offers? 

hmmmm... it happened again. But hey, it looks like our D was so much better last night. 

Another boring game. Get 20 down and struggle to lose by single digits. Props to Trae and Bruno, though. Bruno needs more minutes. 

And I hope this ends the 'OO over CC' movement. He's not a center. Allen just schooled O whenever they both were on the court.

BS call

Just now, JeffS17 said:

Siakam is cooking us lmao

TBH, anyone can cook the Hawks as of lately. 

Must win to avoid getting out of top 10. 

This will be a hard game. 

3 hours ago, NBASupes said:

If we could land a legit star for Trae. I'll do it. 

It think that ship has already sailed, but yeah... One can hope. 

3 hours ago, deester11 said:

Yall act like Trae don't get beat up too. Works both ways.  The problem with that is that Trae bytches incessantly about every call and the refs probably hate him as much as his haters do.  Brat? Maybe..but some of it is warranted no matter how much people detest it.  

Warranted, sure, but he's hurting the team by not being able to control himself. It won't get any better going forward if he doesn't change his ways. 

It's impressive they got like 5 consecutive stops and couldn't score a single point off those. Really impressive. These guys must be in need of some psychological help. This isn't normal. 

We have no closer. 

5 minutes without a single frakkin point. Unreal.