dirtypuppet

My wife and I have been wondering this too, sounds like YANI! or something like that. But really, 'got him!' Ah, I was hoping for something more interesting. oh well, so long as we keep hearing it then the hawks are doing well.

I'd be interested in something based around Teague for Parker from the Bucks. I reckon that's reasonably fair for both. Teague is a talent on a good contract and a much more reliable and conventional point than MCW. We get some strong potential in Parker and some needed wing depth and size.

So we've had a lot of notable one time players at the Hawks over the years. In recent memory, guys like T-Mac have (surprisingly) wound down their careers with brief appearances on a Hawks roster. Going back a bit, during the early 2000's we were a doorstep for soooo many players who would come via trade or a signing for a variety of reasons. Sheed, Kenny Anderson, Stephen Jackson and so on. So who was your favourite 'one-time' Hawk? Points go to the more obscure or forgotten players. For me, I feel like the season that Ronald 'Flip' Murray gave us was completely down played. In a year that we made the playoffs, Flip was a consistent sparkplug, often found iso'd at half court to wind down a quarter and get us a bucket. He even won a few games single handedly with offensive outbursts during fourth quarter runs that I recall. Even more surprising, in a what was a contract year for Flip I felt he proved himself to be an NBA level player, but he never received that contract and shortly bounced out of the league. Thanks for the memories Flip. Bobby 'triple double' Sura surely requires a mention but I'll leave him and others to the rest of you. So who sticks out in your memory?

A small note from any of the Hawks footage from NBA 2K vids is that they all have our on court line-up as: Splitter, Horf, Paul, Kyle, Jeff Not that there's much to read into there other than it's interesting to see them put that as their likely plausible lineup. I know we'd use that situationally but if that does end up being the starters, that's a pretty big unit.

Ha, mine too. That was irritating, it went the whole game long. I was hoping security would get in there and strangle whoever was doing that.

Another Australian fan here. Started following back in the Nique days around the 91/92 season and stayed on strong ever since. Highly active reader, and I don't miss a game on League Pass but I don't post often. I take full credit for converting NVC as a hawks fan btw! I'm slowly converting my Australian friends to hawks fans. It helps that we actually have a solid product on the floor these days.

Which is why my thinking as that Payne can play the 5 in some matchups but you can't under value things like positioning and strength which I'm surprised Pero does quite well and Payne at this stage, does not.

I like the idea of him playing some 5 but definitely needs to improve his base strength. Good against certain matchups. No way we drop Pero this year in favour of Payne at the 5. As much as Pero had a terrible shooting performance in the playoffs, I was actually impressed with his positioning, post D and strength against Hibbert and at times West. He actually did a really good job bodying those two out which isn't an easy task. I think this gets overlooked because of his poor shooting. With his extended minutes in the second half of the season it looked like he finally got comfortable at the NBA level and wasn't just a spot shooter. Still wouldn't be opposed to signing another big. Perhaps Brand. Is Jason Smith a free agent? He's the odd man out with the Asik trade. He'd be cheap and serviceable.

I'd only imagined him as a 4 but if he can defend the position it would be a great help to balance our roster out. He could be the main backup at the 4/5 and this would make more room for minutes for Scott. Interesting idea if it's feasible.

Andy V would totally help us next year. We'll be OK with our current rotation but relying on Antić, and some other cheap signing (maybe Brand) to backup Al. Andy would be a starter quality C as our backup. When healthy he is a monster and a team player.

I'm a big fan of Varajao. If there's nothing else major happening this year in free agency then I guess 1 year of him as our main backup could work well. Not a greta use of our cap space but I like what he brings.

Watching that Teague highlight clip gets me pumped for next season...... even though we don't know what the team will look like.

Love Brooks potential and I imagine he'd come really cheap. Seems like a good replacement for Lou going forward.

Korver is one of the best pros we've had in Atlanta. He's been a hawks for 2 seasons now and atr the latter part of his career but he actually seems like a wise contract signing as his style of play isn't likely to decline much with age and his IQ and passion for the game is exactly what you want on any team.

Excellent work Dolf. Looks great and feels good!