cyman3

This is telling us that the hawks are really dedicated to winning this year.

Most teams and the players are probably on vacation for the summer or do other work outside basketball (family, volunteer, own business, etc).

from hawks.com

"Shareef Abdur-Rahim proposed a three-day period each month during the offseason for the players to commence in Atlanta for organized voluntary workouts"

- shareef is stepping up! being the leader he needs to be.

from the pictures i see KRUGER, RATLIFF, TERRY, ABDUR-RAHIM, CRAWFORD, HENDERSON, GLOVER, JOHNSON, and im sure others are there too...

life would suck without them.

Babcock hinted that trades might open, so im not sure if hes going to get the player (SF) through a draft...

but we'll see...

I think both trades help us...

that roster would do some damage.

mock draft? It'll be fun to see how we did compared to the REAL DRAFT.

Does anyone have the mock draft from last year? I wanna compare it to last years draft... see how everyone did

Since he does soo much for us on the DEFENSIVE END.

I really think hes the GLUE to our defense.

It used to be MUTOMBO, and ever since he left... we are lost on D. Newble is guarding all the ALLENS, IVERSONS, MCGRADYS, BRYANTS of this league and is doing a heck of a job.

the first one is good, second one is not so good

The new roster greatly improves our team, but i dont see any of those trades happening...

Terry, Jones, Johnson, Abdur-Rahim, Lafrentz

backup

Email, Glover, Newble, Henderson, Mohammed, Leon Smith, Chris Crawford

only question... this gives us an opportunity to resign Vaughn and give them EMAIL (which i rather do).

As much as u love CHANDLER and EROB, so does CHICAGO.

I dont see it happening, cuz Chicago would only be stopping their own creation.

NAZR is way better than CHANDLER right now, but every GM would take chandler over Nazr right now.

"And I'm sure the Kings fans would love to

see Horry get traded."

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

Since the lakers arent willing to deal with SHAQ and KOBE, FISHER/HORRY have the highest trade value (include FOX in here too).

Sorry, but Horry has about the same trade value as NAZR MOHAMMED.

Its not like he has much trade value anyways.

But i like having an experienced PF come in cuz i dont think LEON is ready.

I watched couple games of him when he returned from the injury and he kinda kept sure everything was going smoothly. When we were in a shooting slump, he did the veteran thing. He post up, got the foul, and started to head for the free throw line.

He does have decent post game.

his numbers:

16.2 MPG

5.5 PPG with .509 (fg percentage- he takes high percentage shots)

rebounds decent at 3.7 rpg (w his limited minutes)

one bad thing about him is his free throw percentage

.533? thats only a little better than his FG percentage

he shoots pretty much the same when hes COVERED by a player and when hes open by himself shooting a FT.

i think HENDERSON + MOHAMMED + SMITH is good at the backup PF/C positions. 2 are experienced and 1 is a project

But suppose they do get WOODS and he doesnt play out.

Then they gave away HORRY and FISHER to get him...

and the NBA will then have a chance to compete!

Which means a stronger bench.

I have faith with the players in our starting lineup.

but when the bench comes in, i start getting worried

We need to have good players get off the bench. This year, we gonna have people like MOHAMMED + KUKOC + E DAVIS(starters of last year) come off the bench.

This should be our turnaround season!

the most?

As of now:

PG- Terry, Email

SG- Johnson, Glover

SF- Newble, Kukoc, Crawford

PF- Abdur-Rahim, Henderson, Smith

C- Ratliff, Mohammed

i dont see room enough for a second rounder, JV, Mottola, or Bowdler.

I think our main concern is at SG (Johnson still not ready?). I think Johnson should be our 6th man this year and we should try to get a PRIME TIME SG (Eddie Jones would be nice).

If the world was perfect, we could get Jones with just KUKOC + SCRUBS

And im not just saying this cuz u stole copied my screenname (lol).

This trade is no good and doesnt help us.

I think GLOVER, KUKOC, and MOHAMMED can help us more than these scrubs.

LOL...

Aight, hawksfan21? I think u read my message and purposely used hawksfan21... but u can have it.

cyman3 now guys... and ima stick with it (well, thats what i said last time with hawksfan1).

-peace