Thomas

When I was able to first watch the Hawks consistently it was the early seventies. We were fun to watch with our two 2000 point in one year scorers (Pete and Lou). I think it only happened once, not sure. Unfortunately we ran into the Celtics or Knicks in the playoffs seems like every year and they were winning championships. Still it was a blast.

Would have loved to have seen that era of basketball. Sounds like he was a level above just about everyone else and was a Hawk to boot. Really would be nice to see a Hawks championship wether its from the 50's or now. By the way I turned 60 years old today. Dinner in town tonight.

So the Rockets canned McHale early in the year but give Kenny Smith an interview to have to possibly deal with D12 and definitely deal with Harden. Thinking this must be the "we pursued a thorough search of all possible candidates" spiel.

If we collectively closed out games we would still be playing the Cavs right now. A combination of things but at the end of games coaching decisions, poor rebounding and no one hitting a clutch shot (in some cases not getting the shot off) doomed us.

This could be BS but ESPN online had a story about Kenny Smith interviewing with the Rockets. A remote possibility of Kenny "one of the TNT bad analysis guys" Smith coaching D12. Wow. http://espn.go.com/nba/story/_/id/15504550/houston-rockets-interview-jeff-hornacek-kenny-smith

Really do think the Taurean Prince pick would be a nice cookie cutter fit for our scheme. His availability seems likely at our pick. Coaching staff then molds our future 3 and D player.

Being able to watch the Hawks while living in the mountains sounds like a wonderful time.

Even on a bad team Jarret Jack has been a thorn in the Hawks sides often. Like you were thinking, where is a SF coming from.

OK, thanks Ekyo.

The quote I pasted was from ESPN yesterday. “The important minutes are at the end of the game and that you close out games,” Schröder said. “I think for me it’s clear: In the future, I want to be a starting point.” I didn't say he is forcing something. I also mentioned Jason's speculation for the PG position..

Sorry the NBC link is an older article but ESPN has an article.

Link to NBC sports article. http://nba.nbcsports.com/2015/10/21/hawks-pg-dennis-schrder-says-he-wants-to-start-will-look-for-other-opportunities-if-he-doesnt/ Please disregard this link because it is from October. I apologize. I don't want to start a British tabloid.

The Dennis comment was in an article on the ESPN NBA page last night.

After our abrupt dismissal from the playoffs I've been thinking of the forty plus Hawk seasons I've seen. Comparing the game changes and all. John Drew and his close range bank shot versus Kyle Korver shooting from over twenty five feet and more at least eighty percent of the time as an example. Crazy difference. My question to you is did you see Bob Petit play in person? What I have read states the Hawks won their one championship mainly because of him. An era of Hawks I never saw. We have not won it all in Atlanta but I still love watching us try.

A comment from Dennis. “The important minutes are at the end of the game and that you close out games,” Schröder said. “I think for me it’s clear: In the future, I want to be a starting point.” Thinking he feels the future is now. This comment and Jason Walker's article "state of the franchise" has me thinking I was way off thinking Bud is keeping both PGs, he may start thinking about a trade happening before the season or at the deadline. Jason mentions Teague and Atkinson are close. Sean Marks, Atkinson and Teague are all SpurHawk ball scheme vets. My question is what in the world do the Nets have to offer or would offer? If we keep just one our backups are a second rounder most likely and a journeyman like Kirk I'm guessing. A remote possibility of Patterson.We would be weak there when the starter is off the floor.

With all the ideas on shaping the roster we have all had I had forgotten about Patterson's existence. Your right about Thabo getting most of his minutes at SF but defensively he kept J.R. from getting shots after he had been absolutely torching Korver. The big question I think is who our starting SF is because we have so many SG bodies.

Your right. Off the bench and a lot less minutes. Soon to be 36 years old and J.R. made him look much, much older.

This is not comforting but in the playoffs against the Cavs last year we were in only one game. It wasn't even at home. This year we were in three games. A sweep is a sweep but I don't think Bud and company see it that way really. They saw progress and they will probably try to field the same team plus a rookie.

During the season he messed with his Facebook page and also put his condo on the market and a lot people assumed he was definitely going to be traded. Didn't happen.

We know what Black Ops style training did to Tiger's career. I agree with you about beating LeBron in the playoffs because that game on Sunday was the closest we have been. One freaking point. Got to become a close the game out team now.

A number of the players on other teams have a second residence here and most players compliment the city. Never fully understood FAs in general not wanting to play here other than the Spirit. The Spirit were inconsistent with their wallets. They sure opened them to keep Joe here though.

Just afraid if we do rebuild at this point we might not be playoff bound until LeBron is retired. Seems like it took forever to have even a winning season the last time we started over. Oddly we did made the playoffs that first year of our run with a losing record. Still, it took a really long time and I don't want to be senile by the time we win again.

One thing Derozan would help with is the number of foul shots we would take every game. That would help with the win total since we don't average many as is.

I do realize I,m talking about summer league but Edy seemed fast enough down the court. Blocked a shot on one end and followed up a missed fast break shot on the other end in one sequence.

Yea , I think Edy will work out for us. Patience for us all to see him getting minutes is being strained especially with our need against the Cavs of having all the C minutes played like a C (a lot more rebounds and blocks). Guessing Edy's NBA career will have a lot more total minutes than Lucas. Hopefully a ton more impact.