Thomas

What team would pay 15 million for Baze to start, I'm guessing at SG? Not sure he would get 10 even with the exploding cap. His hustle would be nice to keep at some feasible price.

Seems like when Humphries is hungry he gets seven or eight rebounds in twenty or so minutes. Maybe Bud wants him to hit eighty percent from three or he rides the bench. In our situation I don't see how giving him minutes hurts.

So if we keep developing swing players but we don't hold on to them we don't have the chance of them performing big time for us in their prime. Yet some other teams are so far over the cap it's ludicrous.

What is the feud with Humphries? At least he could battle with Thompson some. Al doesn't like too. Hope Edy improves really fast for next year.

If you make it to the second round you are one of eight teams. Eight out of thirty seems pretty good until you see the enormous difference between the Cavs at playoff time and us.

If our Hawks thought they were disrespected I would say their play on the court did not show it. Like a kid getting insulted by a bully and then beaten up.

Supes is right on it. We would be bigger and all three in the the front court can shoot. After last night they should get a lot of minutes together. Could give us some rebounds. If the Cavs keep making threes like last night we will have to shoot lights out though. This has not been the year for that.

Not too long ago it was felt by some the Cavs would implode at some point. Instead they turn it way up on us and shoot lights out. The starters stunk and only so much can be blamed on Bud when they were so awful. Still, his rotation minutes all year have been less effective than they should be. Last night he played Korver a lot less but nothing seemed to matter because the Cavs just buried us.

Even after LeBron talks about playing Miami in the second round and not about playing us in the second game we still lay an egg. Our highly rated NBA defense looked like Doug Moe's Denver defenses from the seventies (grade school level) trying to stop anything from long range. Just a terrible game for the starters.

We have had the occasional Playoff Teague so now maybe we have the beginning of Playoff Dennis. Consistency from the PG's please. Now would be the most perfect time! Beat the Cavs!

It's super tough on the road especially in you know who's house but I agree with you guys that if Bud manages the rotation minutes better we can absolutely take this game. Go Hawks!!!

Don't know about exact numbers but you would hope the players and FO can work it out. Somehow the Spurs pull it off. Your idea on Baze starting at SG is right on. Maybe next year Baze and Hardaway at SG. Big ? at SF with Thabo and Korver off the bench. Korver could back both positions up but hopefully he plays less total minutes. Al,Baze and a SF is going to be seriously expensive I fear.

If our threes actually hit a little better and our team defense is all over the Cavs it should be a tighter series than ESPN would ever consider. Hoping Thabo gets over half of the SF minutes to at least irritate their charging machine. Maybe the refs will have some fear of the last two minute video (unlikely). Go Hawks!

Seems like Thabo getting most of the SF minutes would be our best bet. His offense can be a problem but during the season most of the time our defense ignited our offense. It was plainly better than our offense. Bazemore and Hardaway at SG then Thabo and Korver at SF? Wonder if this is the rotation next year if we keep Baze.