Hey Hots....

[Diesel]

What's your starting 5 for the Hawks...

Don't be bashful!

[Plainview1981]

The question is will Harrington be resigned? If he is the

Hawks should look into getting Dan Gad from the Bucks... As

a shot block near 7 footer he should work well with the

undersized Al Harrington... If not, he should be traded in

the Nene/Watson deal.

Watson

JJ

Smoove

Williams

Nene

Or

Lue

JJ

Smoove

Harrington

Dan Gad

I actually think the secound lineup would be better. But

what would it cost to get Dan?

[jezmund]

I, personally, think both Watson and Gadzuric are overpaid. Watson is not $30M better than Ivey and certainly not $15-18M better than Lue. Didn't Gadzuric get like $40M? Hmmm...

[exodus]

Gadz signed a deal this past summer, about $6 mil/yr I believe.

[mrhonline]

Watson and Gadz both make "average" salaries. Since they're "average" players, I think it's fitting. (Gadzuric's contract is TOO long for my tastes).

Lue makes $3.5M/year, which I think is fitting for his level of production.

The difference? Defense.

[Plainview1981]

Well, having an undersized Pf increases the need for a taller shot blocking center... Sorta like the Hendu/Deke

combo. Of course Dan isn't even close to Deke's level..

But I hope you see my point... Since Al isn't that good

of a rebounder I would expect that he'd do the scoring

and Dan would do the rebounding and some shot blocking

and so they would feed off each other.

[shock]

in my opinion, they future of this teams starting lineup will be jj at sg, marvin at sf, and smoove at pf.

[Diesel]

Why not propose getting Foyle?

Delk/Thomas/2nd can get us Foyle.

[Packfill]

Foyle's contract is an abomination. The Hawks want no part of that.

[Diesel]

Compared to what some are willing to pay Nene, Foyle is making poverty money.

This year Foyle is making 5.5 million with 6.05 million next year. I don't think that's an abomination in comparison to 6 yr 64 million that Nene wants.

[Traceman]

not necessarily the same. Best case, he MIGHT get the $55M that Curry got from NY over 5 years. I'll bet he gets more like $50M over 5 years starting around $8M a season. He will be coveted by some teams who need big men but no one values him as much as Chandler, Dalembert or even Curry.

Nene is definitely worth twice as much as Foyle. Foyle will be 31 soon and Nene just turned 23. Nene has scored more than Foyle in every year he's been in the league. They rebound at about the same clip. the only thing Foyle has over Nene is shotblocking and Foyle's shotblocking has been going down every year. Smoove blocks more shots than Foyle does now.