TomSelleck

Has the entire rest of the league been scared off by Avery for the last two years, too?

When was the last time that LAL or Utah or Boston had to rebuild from the ground up?

They have had bad years, but they always maintained a star presence because they know that they can't feed their crowd this draft diet that teams like ours love to feed.

We should be at a place where instead of rebuilding, we're just reloading.

When you hit a home run with a player in the draft, you don't need to re-build until that guy leaves or gets too old. As long as LA has Bryant, Utah has Williams, Boston has Pierce/Rondo, San Antonio has Duncan, etc., they're going to at the least be pretty good. The Hawks missed their chances at home runs in the draft and the good years only hit doubles and maybe a triple or two.

There has to be a really good reason why a coach with as good of record as Johnson has been unemployed for going on two years.

The team has maximized its potential as it is currently constructed. So you either keep trotting out the same team and hope they miraculously get better than everything they've ever shown, or you start taking it apart and try to put together a new team that can take it to the next level.

He's not a SF, not even close, his athleticism may remind you of one as well as his frame but all and all. He's far from a SF.

That's why I said he's a 3.5. He likewise doesn't have the post game of a true PF.

I don't see Josh Smith as a true PF. He's more like a 3.5, a bulky SF who can't shoot, like Shawn Marion.