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Only thing that will really change anything is to get that "TRUE" post big that you've been crying for constantly now.

My two cents and some change on Horford is I don't think him NOT shooting threes makes much of a difference. He's showing signs lately that he is playing to not get hurt more than to try to win (which this is a dangerous game to play in both life and sports, if you're just trying to not get hurt, odds are you're going to get hurt). Besides, if he is playing well, he has no good post moves from what I have seen, his only game is really the pnr and pnp. And people have been crying lately for a big that operates only in the post, right? Now I was for real when I looked at the schedule and said I was fine with 2-2 in this 4 game stretch and saw this as a schedule loss. Now I didn't know that it'd come with Teague going down for a few games and thanks to Schröder's regression, struggles against Utah and Brooklyn. And a very legit chance of it being 3-1 if the bench wasn't total garbage in Minnesota.

Said this was a big fat schedule loss to start with, but in the way it happened? Which is it now, once again? The team against New York/Miami/2nd Boston/Memphis or 1st Minnesota/1st Boston/Cleveland/now tonight?

Can make a very legitimate argument that if Teague doesn’t get hurt or we even have an average Schröder vs Utah and Brooklyn, Atlanta is 13-5 right now. With some very concerning games in there though (Detroit, the first Boston game, and the first Minnesota game). Hasn’t really been any rhyme or reason as to how they’ve played though so far. If you saw the Brooklyn and Cleveland games only, you’d be scratching your head at how Atlanta blew out a decent Boston team and weathered the storm vs Memphis and came back to dominate the 2nd half. I don't think they win in San Antonio but if the starters continue playing well I think they can beat everyone in this tough stretch except for SA and a split vs OKC.

I'm going to repeat myself. If they don't want to start Sefolosha, they need to be looking for alternatives NOW. Bazemore at SF and Horford at C is a GARBAGE defensive lineup.

If Memphis scores well over 100 points, that should beat it into their heads that if Sefolosha doesn't start, the defense will be terrible.

Bingo. Can make a very legit argument that Teague going down actually DID hurt pretty badly this season and it was because of Schröder regressing to his rookie self. http://hoopshabit.com/2015/11/27/clutch-situations-reveal-dennis-Schröder-isnt-ready-start/ Pretty good read..

I hate to say it but Bazemore starting at the 3 is going to continue to be a complete disaster defensively. The defense will not be solved unless they COMMIT to Sefolosha starting, even if he only plays 25 MPG, or they go with the big lineup (and Splitter starting would not be the answer here).

It sounded like to me in the offseason that Ferry is gone because Dominique Wilkins forced him out.

You’re asking for him to solve a major problem, the only time he can do so is the offseason. Look, this offense is going to struggle against good defenses as long as teams see Horford as a laughable offensive threat (stick their best defensive big man on Millsap) and teams force Teague and Schröder to shoot jumpers and they miss them. The best choice at this point is to take this season off and tank.

The only way to solve this problem is to trade for another PG or go all in on Schröder because Teague's mid range jumper just ain't going to get better at this point.

It's too late for Teague to become consistent with his jumper. He'll hit 40% at best on them.

People need to stop crowing about the idea that it was Mike Smith that was the problem.

I do have an interesting quick fix, but I don't think it's a full fix. Two trades: Try to acquire Willie Cauley Stein through trade. (Al Horford traded) See if you can pry TJ Warren from Phoenix. (Scott and one of the PGs traded).

In your mind, offensive rebounds have to be emphasized then when it's not.

Bazemore’s due for regression, as I’m completely selling on the idea he’s a 40%+ 3 point shooter on high-ish volume and he has a lot of trouble with finishing in traffic. He’s a poor man’s Barnes with the Clippers at best. 9 PTS per game, 3 rebounds, 2 assists, 1.5 steal, .5 block.

So I have a question: Without significantly changing the composure of the roster, how do you get a good young SG and SF and a C? I'll wait.

It’s more than just “oh, put in a rim protector and fierce rebounder and it will solve everything!” Korver’s days of being a help while playing big minutes are donezo and Bazemore is not a starter. There’s basically three spots in the starting lineup that need to be changed along with the bench upgraded and the only way to do so is to completely blow the team up and tank.

Sadly it isn't a complete overreaction. Teams are going to continue to constantly crash the boards until it wakes them up and lets them know they need to either have a SF with PF size starting or give up the idea of a small frontcourt entirely.

Trade Teague, Horford, and Korver for young talent or picks. Trade Millsap at the deadline and until the deadline, bench him. Sell sell sell.

There's 5 issues: 1. No SF 2. No SG 3. Horford has gotten weaker and doesn't want to bang 4. No bench outside of Sefolosha and Schröder 5. A go to scorer is needed when the offense stagnates. The only way to solve these issues is to sell sell sell.

Your idea of Brook Lopez wouldn't work, he would help with inside scoring but do nothing about boards. The only thing that would fully fix the issues would be completely sell and tank hard for this and next season.

So I suppose it's time to trade Horford, Millsap, and Teague and tank because its the only way to win in the NBA, and otherwise you're treadmill unless you get extremely lucky.

The only thing that I would have done differently in the draft is maybe try harder to trade up for one of Winslow, Johnson, Booker, or Turner (and this is repeating myself). It didn’t seem like a great first round past 15. This trade as far as I’m concerned is a bust but unless Sam Dekker turns out to be really something, then the only options for Atlanta that were good were try harder to trade up for a better talent or just trade down and out of the first round.

A lot of blame to this really goes straight to the fact that the bigs have to help defensively on the perimeter or the defense would be even worse than it is now because you are starting a hobbled KK.