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he was injured the entire year wtf was he here for again

inb4 every team thinks there gonna get a starter from us cuz we want to replace him..........

Well No, nothing in this thread is neccessarily true; isnt that the whole point of a speculative thread discussing assumptiongs, rampant speculation and rumors? Some strange stating the obvious pontificating on this board - no offense, just keep seeing it, maybe we are just tired of talking about the same shit over and over more of the obvious from me : BIG picture given no team is clearly trying to give any edge or any decent piece they feel is of any value without getting more value in return its all - shit. Given the overall status of the league and obvious favorites its hard to really make much change here. Its really hurting basketball when you think about it - ppl talking about Durant going to the Warriors - hows this now? That old cliche about superstars exists for a reason, Its very unlike Hockey, football, and Baseball in this regard. The best players make differences and create dynamics that make it very hard for other teams that dont have them through draft or FA, make something sustainable.....because of the rising of salaries non elites get paid the same etc., I thought for some reason NBA was done with this - I came back a few years ago but seems to be still a huge issue, Im not sure how then can really address it ? Its very clear to see how many teams wanting to make changes are kinda stuck other than little tickey tack changes - and begs the question of parity in this game and really whats the point if you cant make a difference.

We are not breaking up the team if we cant get value back period, nobody is going to do that. Were not getting the players that the top teams have the four we always talk about not happening, so were more competitive than almost any other team without any of those players, not getting past CLE or maybe even TOR if they stay healthy but those teams have holes and issues are goinng ot start showing for them too - we are already underperforming, we really dont have anywhere to go but up if we keep the current players for this year.

..........would be interesting to get DMC back with Hardaway and Baze playing now,

Not by himself no, I guess Magic didnt want to give up anything more than Harris.

sure they would......not sure why we didnt hear about harris for teague

that was one of the first suggestions ............where u been :) - Im almost looking to see what this team does in the playoffs cuz they been so inconsistent and I feel have not played as hard as they could have, relying on the system too much, and I think CLE is getting exposed and showing there cards.

Who knows what could happen really - the more I look at these teams, we just need our shots to drop, I dont know but CLE lacking depth and having starters to forced to play more minutes I see more injuries for them hitting the finals - we need our bench to step up. Its def not worth tearing everything down unless u get the value.

i thought Horf wanted to play PF. ANYWAYYYY we are not losing all these games cuz of rebounding, its a product of our style, were losing cuz damn shots are not falling, No team with a bigger center that can rebound are going to stop these hot shooting ball movement teams in the playoffs

Howard isnt a star.

of course he wants to come here hes not the player he was and is trying to drum up hype - anyway everyone knows this so he has to do it, fine give us Howard - ur not getting Horford

no. its not. Yes it would put buts in the seats full of skeptical as f*** fans, ATL fans arent stupid, thats one reason why they arent the easiest to get in the seats. IF howard comes here theyll be plenty of hype and then when were .500 ppl will stop coming again.

Would be pretty funny to see Dwight here - cant imagine him fitting in with what we do. but have horford at the 4 and millsap at 3 would look good at least. lol

apparrently ATL is the farm system for the rest of the NBA - mmKay NY yall did that to urselves

INteresting that this article mentions nothing of us still having cap space if we keep horford, as some have been mentioning, i dont know enough to believe either - but if we got 20 mil to spare and can keep AL - u try and get a good enough wing player that can give us what we had in DMC and more, I dont know which it is but this piece making it seem we blow it up or stay the same,

we already haz a tradez tread

The math isnt hard - site im looking at has us at 70 mil next year cap goes to 89.9 hopefullly etc, we give Horford his 20 or whatever its going to be thats going to suck it up, i know we can go over to sign him but how much can we spend on another player - what is your suggestion ?

I dont know Im looking at all the scenarios if we sign Al we have no space to bring in the missing peace which everyone says is the small forward - we have no choice but to trade Jeff to try and get a guy. If Al goes yea we blow the whole thing up - not sure how ppl like KW is saying its not a big deal to lose Al in free agency cuz then we have space, space to sign who though - the best player that will come here is already here.

Talk of Mavericks wanting horford - saw an interview on TV - Apparently they have assets, i mean uh zaza and parsons

say wha - ? everything we do would weaken us for short term. We would have to use parts of that trade to get nice young big - easier said than done, not sure there is anyway we can get an improvment on Horford - just wont happen, take the loss there and develop the new younger players into what Al could not be..... thats the only thing that would happen,

Give them Hardaway not Korver - to get Gordon and Dipo. Teague and hardaway for those two - they need to develop but we would at least be younger.

yesssssssssss and thats why i said what i said.

Magic are retard if they give us Gordon and dipo for Teague. They can haz baze - we are good a developing players those two guys onece they integrate into our system, I think that will keep Al around for sure.

The reason for oladipo making sense is he attacks the rim most of the time, is one of the best at gaurding the 3pt line and is willing to take contact, he led the league in charges and is very good at taking them, having a physical presence like that will open things up again and force teams not to play us the way they used to - Dipo typicall gaurds the other teams best player because of his lateral quickness, hes is good defender - it basically lets us change things around and how we run our offense - while not as good as it was last year until it starts to gel, long term will be harder for teams to shut down.