Is Medvedenko a Hawk?

[BornandDieHawks]

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• MAKING ROOM: In order to make room for the signing of veteran power forward/center Slava Medvedenko, the Hawks waived Matt Freije. Medvedenko, who played six seasons with the Lakers but is now a free agent, could be signed as early as Thursday. Freije played in 19 games this season, averaging 1.9 points and 1.1 rebounds

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This was from an article in the AJC.

Have we signed this guy yet?

[gsuteke]

not per the Atlanta Hawks official website. i was looking for that info myself today.

btw if you look at this guy's bio on NBA.com something is fishy. i have no idea who this guy is, maybe he suffered an injury or something, however if you look at his stats 4 years ago he was averaging something like 6 and 6 in 21 mpg.

the guy is only 27-28 years old. he should be peaking right now, not regressing.

[Plainview1981]

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not per the Atlanta Hawks official website. i was looking for that info myself today.

btw if you look at this guy's bio on NBA.com something is fishy. i have no idea who this guy is, maybe he suffered an injury or something, however if you look at his stats 4 years ago he was averaging something like 6 and 6 in 21 mpg.

the guy is only 27-28 years old. he should be peaking right now, not regressing.

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If I remember right he had a problem playing with high basketball IQ. But he's better than Matt so you really can't lose anything with the signing.

[DJ_Money]

Just going off what I hear from Lakers' fans elsewhere...

Slava is probably no better than Freije on defense and does have a problem with picking up fouls. On offense, he's never met a shot he didn't like. Said their announcers used to joke about Slava being on the floor with four HOFers (Shaq/Kobe/Malone/Payton), but him being the one putting up shots...

Whatever...can't be any worse than Freije. If we could ever get everyone healthy, we won't see him anyway.

[gsuteke]

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Just going off what I hear from Lakers' fans elsewhere...

Slava is probably no better than Freije on defense and does have a problem with picking up fouls. On offense, he's never met a shot he didn't like. Said their announcers used to joke about Slava being on the floor with four HOFers (Shaq/Kobe/Malone/Payton), but him being the one putting up shots...

Whatever...can't be any worse than Freije. If we could ever get everyone healthy, we won't see him anyway.

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why is it that the European little guys seem to be solid team players while the European big men seem to think they are shooters?

[TheDude]

even if he is just as bad as Freije...at least he's Freije with experience.

[Theeyo]

I remember reading an article about him on Realgm a little over a year ago about Passing out in an elevator. Lemme see if I can Locate it