ShooterSays

5 minutes ago, JayBirdHawk said:

 

 

Hawks need to check-in on this ASAP.

Went to UGA. Hopefully that would have some swing in keeping him here as an UFA.

24 minutes ago, JayBirdHawk said:

I said before, you want Reaves because he has more trade value than DLo, so if the Hawks don't want him, trade him for what you need.

Agreed. I see a 3rd team being involved regardless of if it's Reaves or D-Lo. Reaves probably just gets us what we want from that 3rd team.

12 minutes ago, JayBirdHawk said:

 

 

Maybe it's Austin Reaves to a 3rd team just like if it was D-Lo in the trade and we get an extra pick out of it?

Idk... we'd give up 150 a night if we add him to our defense.

1 hour ago, JayBirdHawk said:

 

 

Wonder why....

Just now, AHF said:

I'd love to see the overall numbers if someone is doing a breakout because I do feel like there are a lot of offensive rebounds on those plays with big men coming out to challenge him and leaving our bigs to scoop those up.

That's a fair point on the offensive rebounding on these shots. I bet that ratio is higher than most of his other shots.

But a lot of these are getting blocked too.

What would y'all guess Trae's FG percentage is on these side layups where he tries to go over the defender and off the glass? It's gotta be bad. My bet would be <15% and he keeps going to it. This shot has to be killing his efficiency.

He did a full warmup too. Pretty weird. Might be a trade brewing. We’ll see…

1 hour ago, givemesome1ce1 said:

 

DEJOUNTE MURRAY HAS TO GO

Wow. This convo is actually wild.

WTF was he thinking sending this? The LA market ain’t going to be a good fit for him.

1 minute ago, Sothron said:

Basketball side wanted luka. Marketing told ressler Trae would sell more in Atlanta. Ressler went with money over his own Basketball people. 

I don’t doubt that.

But Ressler isn’t a scout. He doesn’t know any better unless you literally tell him you’re trading the second coming of Bird.

I guarantee you, Travis had Luka and Trae graded similar and that’s what was communicated to Ressler. So of course Ressler went with money + same skill level.

That’s on Travis.

I will say… Luka has never looked half this good with 12 guarding him

The thing about Luka is he doesn’t take a bad shot. He can get separation, or he has the size to shoot over you, or the strength to bully under the basket.

Just easy buckets. 

26 minutes ago, Sothron said:

Blame ressler not Travis 

Nope. Scouting failure. You rely on your GM to tell you if there’s a generational talent you’re about to trade.

The conversation was probably that they’re on the same tier which was flat out wrong. Most of us knew this on draft night.

5 minutes ago, TheNorthCydeRises said:

Quin could stop this if he just send both bigs hard at Luka, and force the ball out of his hands.

That just leaves someone else wide open to score on us lol

To whoever made the call to trade Luka - I hate you.

Cap and Bey are negatives on the floor at this point. 

8 minutes ago, ShooterSays said:

I think the play is to hold on to DJM until the offseason, and try to shed enough salary so we can make a splash in free agency (Claxton).

Means you'd have to turn Capela and either Dre or Bogi into expiring's now.

Build around Trae/JJ/Claxton

Hopefully get lucky-ish in the lotto and take the best wing.

Then you'd have DJM, AJ, Kobe, OO, and whatever we have left in draft assets to try and add that final piece...if it's not DJM.

I think the play is to hold on to DJM until the offseason, and try to shed enough salary so we can make a splash in free agency (Claxton).

Means you'd have to turn Capela and either Dre or Bogi into expiring's now.

Don't pick a different team to cheer for. Just pick a favorite non-Hawks player to follow.

It was Iverson then Kobe for me. Now it's Luka. 

Trae/Grimes/Jones/JJ/Claxton

Just say F it and sell out on defense lol

But seriously…those NOP picks probably end up as mid-late firsts if they have a core of DJM/Ingram/Zion. Better off seeing what happens with KAT this summer.

I love what DJM has been giving us over these last few games anyways.

I’ll co-sign this. Hope the front office is reading.