Official Game Thread: Hawks at Bulls

[JTB]

Delaney is so horrible i stopped yelling at my tv...I just shake my head and give him a blank stare whenever he touches the ball. Dude is so so so horrible ! 

Lol damn you Schlenk ! Delaney is part of the tank scheme isn’t he??? Well you surely signed the right guy.

[JTB]

2 minutes ago, NBASupes said:

This team is pretty tankalious. I wanted a lost tonight and we got it. Road to the #1 overall pick in the 2018 NBA Draft. 

Had Dennis played big possiblity you’d be upset right now lol

[bleachkit]

10 minutes ago, KB21 said:

Thank Travis Schlenk for this mess.  This is what happens with you give no effort to field a competitive team.  

We're tanking.

[GameTime]

8 minutes ago, DBac said:

Pretty big loss tonight. Maybe it'll have tiebreaker implications down the road.

[lethalweapon3]

Fear not! If you're hearing crickets tomorrow at the Highlight Factory, the Hawks have the perfect explanation...

~lw3

[lethalweapon3]

12 minutes ago, JTB said:

Delaney is so horrible i stopped yelling at my tv...I just shake my head and give him a blank stare whenever he touches the ball. Dude is so so so horrible ! 

Lol damn you Schlenk ! Delaney is part of the tank scheme isn’t he??? Well you surely signed the right guy.

#WellActually, Sausage says, "don't blame me!"

Malcolmtent got signed under Budcox to a two-year guaranteed deal in July of last year.

I just wait 'til he finally does something right and then I'm like,

~lw3

[Lurker]

23 minutes ago, bleachkit said:

We're tanking.

He thinks tanking is the path to 100% failure.

[lethalweapon3]

@Dolfan23 cannot be having the best of evenings.

~lw3

[NBASupes]

3 minutes ago, Lurker said:

He thinks tanking is the path to 100% failure.

And I think it's the path to greatness if done correctly. 

[lethalweapon3]

~lw3

[KB21]

39 minutes ago, bleachkit said:

We're tanking.

Yes.  The worst team building strategy any NBA team can employ.  

[Lurker]

We're Atlanta.

Hawks are f***ed for the next two decades. It's over, it's done. Finished.

[Sothron]

I don't want this to sound mean or picking on a certain poster or two but if you guys are going to be angry and negative all season you might want to not watch the games. Because they made it clear before the season we were going to be rebuilding. Getting angry about it will not change the team's direction.

[KB21]

The team could have rebuilt and fielded a competitive team.  

This is nothing but a 76ers style tank job.

[hazer]

6 minutes ago, KB21 said:

The team could have rebuilt and fielded a competitive team.  

This is nothing but a 76ers style tank job.

The game was competitive. Without our starting PG and starting PF. You heard the plan, right? Aren’t you a doctor? You’re smarter than this. Seriously...

[KB21]

9 minutes ago, hazer said:

The game was competitive. Without our starting PG and starting PF. You heard the plan, right? Aren’t you a doctor? You’re smarter than this. Seriously...

If the plan was to intentionally lose games so the team gets a higher draft pick, then the plan was foolish from the very beginning.  It's enough of a reason to go ahead and fire Travis Schlenk for incompetence.  

[hazer]

6 minutes ago, KB21 said:

If the plan was to intentionally lose games so the team gets a higher draft pick, then the plan was foolish from the very beginning.  It's enough of a reason to go ahead and fire Travis Schlenk for incompetence.  

[AHF]

28 minutes ago, hazer said:

The game was competitive. Without our starting PG and starting PF. You heard the plan, right? Aren’t you a doctor? You’re smarter than this. Seriously...

KB knows basically every champion dipped into the 20 win range and drafted their cornerstone(s) and that teams like the Grizzlies never win rings but he keeps pretending that we'd be champions if we just kept doing what we've been doing for the last decade but with an increasingly old and declining roster.  If he really believed that you could win like that he'd be giving us examples of what other champions won rings while avoiding the lottery.

He would have a point if we had our MVP level talent already.  When your best player is Sap, however, you have zero chance for a ring.

[DBac]

Honestly the arguments have gone and gone in circles. I argued that the Hawks should tank if they ever want to sniff a ring, never thought they actually would but they did so I'm happy.

[hazer]

1 minute ago, AHF said:

KB knows basically every champion dipped into the 20 win range and drafted their cornerstone(s) and that teams like the Grizzlies never win rings but he keeps pretending that we'd be champions if we just kept doing what we've been doing for the last decade but with an increasingly old and declining roster.  If he really believed that you could win like that he'd be giving us examples of what other champions won rings while avoiding the lottery.

Thus my facepalm and beating a dead horse emoji responses...