theheroatl

13 minutes ago, ShooterSays said:

Trae / Bufkin / Forrest

Herb / Bogi / Lundy

BI / Hunter / Griffin

JJ / Gueye / Bey

Capela / Sarr / Bruno

I don't think Herb will be on the block for many years

4 minutes ago, KB21 said:

I’ve tried to look at some other prospects, but Sarr is the clear cut top guy, IMO.  
 

 

We will find that like the Anthony Edward’s draft.. people were saying there isn’t a clear cut option but that became apparent as time went on and the combine.

5 minutes ago, JTB said:

Keep Capela then?

lol the beef there has tenderized… pretty much slow roasted prime rib at this point

how tough of beef are you looking for @JayBirdHawk

ill look over the menu if you let me know

2 minutes ago, REHawksFan said:

I don't hate it, although I'm not sure how realistic it is. Not sure Memphis is ready to give up on Smart. Not sure why they'd want Clint. Not sure Bev gets released. 

Memphis made a mistake trading Adam’s and Landry convinced them of this showing them advanced alien statistics 

Pat Bev went on his pod and trashed Thanasis for ripping his leg while bowling and Giannis said he gotta go

1 minute ago, KB21 said:

Blech on any lineup with Ingram.  

Ah I forgot the footnote:

Note: KB can ignore this cause we know his Ingram stance 

@theheroatl’s HAWKS MOCK ROSTER 2023-2024 Version 1.02 Beta

Starters:

Alex Sarr

Jalen Johnson

Brandon Ingram

Marcus Smart

Trae Young

Bench: 

Kobe

Bogi

Bruno

Dre

Dyson Daniels

Pat Bev

Saddiq Bey

Trent Forrest

MO Gueye

Vit

AJ

Trades:

Capela for Smart

DJ and OO for Dyson and Ingram

Dunno how Pat bev got there.. think Bucks waived him after he annoyed Thanasis

7 minutes ago, Spud2nique said:

@theheroatl 

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

9 minutes ago, Afro said:

 

BAahahahaha SPURS fanboys wetdreams squashed

6 minutes ago, AHF said:

I'm skeptical that BI can be retained on a non-toxic contract and I also have questions about his mid-range, eh defense game meeting our needs so I hope we do "better" than him in trading DJM.  If we trade for him, I'll root for him but I don't want to see JC 2.0 where we overpay to keep him because I think some team is going to pay him.

Maybe Landry can work the same magic he did with DJ.. a sub max contract for BI is a win

2 minutes ago, theheroatl said:

Yep 100%

 

in fact that’s pretty much what’s happening… everything else is fan fiction from these two factions:

 

Spurs/Lakers fanboys

TraeHaters

All scenarios, hype, media.. everything comes from these two factions..

not facts or reality

2 minutes ago, NekiEcko said:

I am with you on that but one question tho

What would happen if Trae does not like that package?  

Suck it up or request a trade.. if you request a trade be prepared to go to no-man's land for a haul of a return like Donovan went to Cleveland

8 minutes ago, ShooterSays said:

I'm with you 100% man. Giannis is not realistic for us and it's crazy people are campaigning to trade Trae and not DJM. 

I don't doubt we've had internal conversations about Giannis, but this feels like KAT 2.0 already.

Draft Sarr and use DJM to go get a wing.

100% agree... everything else is KAT/Pascal talk 2.0

3 minutes ago, KB21 said:

Why do so many people want to stick Brandon Ingram on this team?

I included him to get the Lakers pick to Milwaukee. That so far is the only rumored "clear path" pick to route to them.

8 minutes ago, Dragitoff said:

I'm still not seeing how salaries match up with the potential deal for Giannis. 

 

Giannis $49m

Capela $22m
Jalen $4.5m
#1 pick $10m

TOTAL $36.5m

We'd need to add a little more salary to that wouldn't we? 

I have a possible scenario as this... Bucks basically become what we would've been with Sarr/Johnson but they get Bogi too. The Pelicans get what they want for what we need.

This is the win-now move for the Hawks. Recouping draft capital is reliant on Bufkin growth, Capela getting you some protected FRP on an expiring.. but other than that you're in trouble draft wise.

1 hour ago, KB21 said:

Warriors - Didn't tank.  They were bad for 100 years before they lucked into Steph Curry with the 8th pick.

Spurs - Didn't tank.  Star players were hurt, and they lost because of that.  They added Duncan to Robinson, Elliot...etc when they returned from injury.  

Are we really going to rehash an argument I've already won?

Tanking is just as risky as anything else.. I actually hate it.

Somebody should have threw a bag at Sam Presti years ago.. 

So many teams tank and don't end up with championships.. nobody wants to talk about those teams

I would love to see the Spurs and Doc Rivers faces if Giannis was traded to Atlanta 

40 minutes ago, REHawksFan said:

Is there any scenario where we can trade for Giannis and keep Sarr?  Could we transfer the Lakers unprotected 1st in the Flagg draft to Mil instead of our 1st this year?  I would do that. Trade DJ and OO to NOP for Ingram/Daniels/Lakers pick with the pick moving to Bucks as part of Giannis deal.  

We could have a roster of:

Trae / Kobe

Bogi / Daniels

Ingram / Vit

Giannis / Mo

Sarr / Bruno

 

Would leave a black hole at center so we'd need to add some vet depth.  

This is best case scenario 

I’d love to see Giannis.. but crazy part is Jrue and Brook and Khris had almost as much to do with their winning as him.

you still need to surround him with defense or else it’s just another Giannis-Lillard 

However never underestimate leverage being taken away when a player wants to go to one place and one place only..

only if Giannis wants to come play with Trae do we not get fleeced

5 minutes ago, marco102 said:

 

Well well well if it isn’t the snake himself mr Kevin “I hate the hawks and try to trade every talented player on their team in my supposed rumors tweets” O’Conner

2 minutes ago, AHF said:

Who could forget the Greek Process?

Joel-Pascal Anthony-Townsend

French Canadian I think is his background 

1 minute ago, terrell said:

Trade JJ, give up another future 1st, give up this years #1 pick just to appease Trae again? lol.. 

I might be done with team for real if this shit happens..

I sense a supes 2.0 coming….

Just now, AHF said:

Why would the NBA be eager to help the 31st largest media market in the US (San Antonio) at the expense of the 7th largest media market (Atlanta)?  I don't follow.

Only spurs fan fiction writers in the south central texas sweat shops are moving this theme forward.. I’ve seen the bot farms at work on the OpenPopsAI network