Email is not gunna be cut...spare mins for Dan

[Guest]

http://www.nba.com/hawks/news/Lon_Kruger_C..._-55570-33.html

Q: Talk about Dan Dickau and whether we'll see a backcourt of him and Jason Terry this season.

Kruger:

Dan is going to be an outstanding player. We are really excited about getting him late in the first round. He's a guy that has a passion for the game, very good understanding, he delivers the ball well, shoots it well. I think it will be a little bit of a process getting comfortable, as it is with any guy's first year in the league. I see being selective with his minutes early, picking and choosing, backing up Jason with both Dan and Emanuel Davis, and then as the season unfolds Dan getting more comfortable. At what point, we'll have him in there or if we'll have him in there at the same time with Jason depends on how quickly he progresses and how quickly he gets comfortable.

I get the feeling the Hawks are still very high on

Dickau but seeing that he isn't going to develop

quite as quick as hoped it looks like Email is going

to see some minutes to start.I pray he doesn't

pull a Larry Robinson on us and use Email as a

6th man.

Also JT still says he likes being just a scorer...but

will do whatever.That is lazyness.Being only a scorer

is being lazy.While I think JT will do fine at PG,the

fact that he just wants to score will keep him from

getting a big contract.Looks like JT is out of luck.I

think he will fill the role with 16 7.5.....HOWEVER,

in the back of his mind that isn't the role he wants

to be play.

There is a difference between not wanting to play

PG and can't..Iverson can play PG and so can David

Wesley,but since JT isn't as good as Iverson in any

phase of the game look for him to have a David Wesley

type of career.WHich is fine by me as long as he isn't

demanding a really big contract.

Everybody knew JT isn't a TRUE PG,honestly the only

true PG's are that of Kidd/Payton/Stockton/Andre Miller.

Cassell/Marbury/Nash/Van Exel are score first PG's.Really

Baron Davis is also.

The only way JT gets the really big contract is if he

can be Steve Nash.Not Payton/Kidd/Miller/Snow.It's

interesting that remember when Lon had JT watch

tapes of Steve Nash?Why not Miller/Payton or Kidd?

He wants a scoring guard aswell as a guy that can

pass the ball.I know JT can...but this is the question..

Is JT really happy doing it?If not then he might not

have a place.Even if JT gets us the 16/7.5 I expect

if he is not happy about it I'd rather not dish out the

big contract.

[Diesel]

Actually, the person who can best answer that question is Babcock/Billy Knight. Those two guys will be able to tell you better who the Hawks will have than Kruger. I feel if something opens up, that the team could change just like that. Go back to when Kruger gave an interview in the summer before the big dog trade. He was asked about Toni and he spoke the same way... As if Toni was a part of the future. Babcock stated tht the deal for Big Dog had been on the table wavering a while.

[Guest]

Well Babs has took the"prove to me"approach with

JT which I think is best.Lon,first it's Dickau will play

alot...then now all of a sudden he is the third stringer!

Did Lon really believe Dan was ready for 30MPG NOW??

I just think he has to go.He seems understand less

about the pro game than the fans here at Hawksquawk.

[Guest]

Lon just has my head spinning over what is

really going on.I get the feeling that Lon wanting

to go uptempo is what is causing alot of the

TO's.

1)JT will play PG sucessfully,but not as a up and

down court PG.

2)Dickau hasn't adjusted to NBA speed mustless a

uptempo game on top of that.

3)Shareef is quick but not fast.He's quick enough to

beat most PF's to the basket one on one...But up

and down the court speed he just doesn't have.

4)I'm starting to think our 2nd half of the season

was the worst thing for the team now.It saved

Lon's job.

5)We Need a second ball handler.Every good team

should have atleast two.We need a Doug Christie

or Brent Barry type of player starting at SG instead

of Dion Glover or Ira Newble.