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All of the anti tanking plans I see relies on Millsap being injury free and  being an all star caliber players in his mid 30’s.

I’m glad we moved on. 2 years ago we were a Millsap injury or decline from being in the pistons/hornets territory.

Only scenario I believe we can be a 30+ win team.

If Trae Young can be an immediate net positive player when hes playing 30+ mins a game as a 19 year old

If John Collins can elevate his game to a fringe all star level

If Pierce proves he is a decent/good coach

1 hour ago, Plainview1981 said:

Lin should start at the beginning of the season. Young needs to earn the starting spot.

Lin shouldn't automatically get a starting spot just because he is a vet. He is coming back from a major season ending injury.

We don't know what condition he will be in when he returns to the court.

11 minutes ago, AtlKauzie said:

Lol, Why even post it.

Trae is the most polarizing player in this draft class (until Luka Doncic plays) and I have no idea why.

Any highlights of this guy regardless how he plays automatically gets 100k views.

He is getting Lonzo Ball level of attention.

1 minute ago, marco102 said:

PG13 - 4 years $137 million with OKC.  

They're about to pay a ton of taxes.  

Better stretch Melo.

Owners have learned their lesson from the durant and harden situation. Can't afford to be cheap when you got superstar talent on the team.

This pick will be felt for the next decade. With the lottery odds changing, we mostly will never have a pick this high in a draft this good for a loooooonnnggg time.

Definitely won't be watching the hawks next season.

Luka was the 1 guy I was looking foward to next season.

I hated Ferry plan. He built the foundation for the situation we are in now.

His win now with role players on short term contracts model was terrible for the future.

His decision to focus on developing a bunch role players in their late 20s on short term contracts did nothing for us but set those players up for big pay days and put us in a tough position financially.

Ferry also whiffed on multiple drafts (outside of dennis)leaving us devoid of any young talent which forced us to either tank or be a 40 win team with a 100 million+ dollar payroll.

He also allowed Larry Drew to hang around and soak up all of our drafting knowledge and go to Milwaukee which cost us Giannis.

Im glad Ferry is gone.

1 hour ago, NBASupes said:

Just want to state again, the best player in our recent history, Al Horford is the best player to me on Boston again. Regardless of what pieces change around him, he's the common denominator for his team's success. I don't like this idea that he's f***ing Horace Grant and never have. He's one of the best team players I've seen in some time in the NBA and I wish others could see what I see. He's lead, not one, but two different personnel to 1st place on the way for a 3rd.  

Then Tristan Thompson comes to town and you snap back into reality.

Now entertain me by telling me how their contracts would fit on our books.

I think we could of atleast gotten a 2nd round pick for him. There are some teams that needed some additional ball handling and scoring off the bench.

KCP's agent is Rich Paul.

He plays hard ball and is willing to go through long stalemates in order to get his client big money. Look at the Tristan Thompson and Eric Bledsoe contract situation. They both held out and didn't sign new contracts until September/October.

If KCP doesn't get the money he wants he will just take a 1 year and try the market again next year.

Hes too expensive. Hes going to get Otto Porter type money.

2 minutes ago, Hotlanta1981 said:

You have to get something for some of these players. All they got was Prince... Who is barely better than nothing.

I agree with that.

you can blame BudCox for that.

This team was on the decline and has hit its ceiling awhile ago. I am glad we are being more proactive about the rebuild. If we have stayed our course we would be in a very ugly situation a few years down the road with alot of bad salary on our books.

27 minutes ago, Vol4ever said:

Chandler 30 yrs and Faried 27 yrs are bums.  They have nothing to offer imo. That is not getting younger.

Not a fan of Faried at all but Chandler could be good trade bait for a team that is trying to win now. SFs that can shoot and play small ball PF are sought after in todays NBA.

3 minutes ago, KB21 said:

Paul Millsap is already a top 15 guy.  

I say

Lebron,Durant,Curry,Anthony Davis, Kawhi, Paul George, Cousins, Butler, Harden, Westbrook, Chris Paul, Griffin, John Wall, Giannis, Isaiah Thomas

Are better than Millsap now and moving foward.

We were one of the worst teams in the league when Paul Millsap was out. I believe our record was 2-10.

Even if we some how make the playoffs.

Being the 6th or 7th seed with a majority of the players 25 and under on a rookie scale contracts is significantly better than being a 6th or 7th with a 100 million dollar payroll.

5 hours ago, thecampster said:

We can extend the qualifying offer and then match anything he's offered so no, he's a restricted free agent only.

 Being a restricted free agent means its guaranteed that he is going to get overpaid in the off season which makes him significantly less valuable as a trade piece. 

We are most likely looking at close to a 20 mil a yr salary for him

Pretty much what I suspected from Bud based on the moves we are making. Stay in the middle, maintain status quo as long as possible until we are forced to go through a slow ugly rebuild when are main cogs start falling off a cliff.

Btw if he considers where we currently stand as "success". He is doing an awesome job of it.

On ‎10‎/‎27‎/‎2016 at 6:14 PM, BigDog90 said:

I never understood why they draft him. Hawks had Millsap and Horford as starters and Scott and Antic holding it down at C. Then, they drafted Tavares in the same draft which makes it even more confusing.

exactly I hated that pick from the moment he was announced and I couldn't rationalized that pick at all. We had a DIRE need at SG/SF (still do). we also had 4 bigs on the roster with the exact same skill set and not to mention he was an old fart for a rookie. Like 23?.

Just another draft blunder in our long history.

4 hours ago, BigDog90 said:

GS. As the Hawks got away from small ball, the NBA has embraced small ball. 

We went away from it because we were a small ball team that couldn't score when needed. Small ball only works if you can put on an offensive blitzkrieg and score 110 a night.

Side by side comparison of offensive numbers from this year and last year hasn't even changed that much. This year our offensive rating is 103.3 while last year our offensive rating is 103.0.

1 year later and I still think it was a god awful trade. I don't even think hes worthy of an extension. He sucks.

20 hours ago, Spud2Nique said:

I know we've beat this horse to death but for the life of me I still don't understand why Atlanta isn't at the top of players destination spots. If I was an outsider and didn't know anything about the NBA I would figure Atlanta should be up there with NY, Chicago, LA and Houston. I just don't get it.

Atlanta doesnt have the international reach that those cities do.