Media Day 2019

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[Spud2nique]

36 minutes ago, JayBirdHawk said:

 

 

Kawhi it. 

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I'm looking forward to the certified heights .

 

 

 

[AHF]

Do we really believe that Parsons is 6'10'' and is one of the few NBA players to list his height in bare feet?   

 

(I'd mention the angle making this tougher and the hair being a factor in first reaction to the shot - like compare the top of their heads to the top of their shoulders - but that seems like smaller pickings than pointing out we shouldn't be relying on prior listed heights for projecting where someone will list when they get measured.)

[NBASupes]

VC sits next to Cam in the locker room 

[Spud2nique]

Noticed a couple things during the interviews. The maturity level of our players is beyond their years. 

They all seem super confident and ready to roll. 

Deandre said he wanted to be called Dre doh? I’m spelling it wrong most likely. He said he modeled his game after Melo growing up...

When they were interviewing Collins, who by the way is hilarious , was that Nique that walked by and he yelled GOAT ALERT ?

Fun times ahead.

[Spud2nique]

4 minutes ago, NBASupes said:

VC sits next to Cam in the locker room 

Do you know who Dre doh sits next to by chance?

[Blunt91]

3 hours ago, Spud2nique said:

Noticed a couple things during the interviews. The maturity level of our players is beyond their years. 

They all seem super confident and ready to roll. 

Deandre said he wanted to be called Dre doh? I’m spelling it wrong most likely. He said he modeled his game after Melo growing up...

When they were interviewing Collins, who by the way is hilarious , was that Nique that walked by and he yelled GOAT ALERT ?

Fun times ahead.

I thought he said Dre Dog. I could be wrong.

[Spud2nique]

39 minutes ago, Blunt91 said:

I thought he said Dre Dog. I could be wrong.

Ok that makes more sense.. my bad I thought he meant like play doh Dre doh? Ya I think ur right.

[Peoriabird]

Hunter appears to be a serious gym rat.  He will surprise a lot of Hawks fans that appear to be low on him right now.

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3 hours ago, Blunt91 said:

I thought he said Dre Dog. I could be wrong.

 

2 hours ago, Spud2nique said:

Ok that makes more sense.. my bad I thought he meant like play doh Dre doh? Ya I think ur right.

I heard 'Dre Doh'.

My interpretation is 'Deux' as in french for #2.... as in Dre #2. (I'm prolly wrong )

These Millennials!!

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[bleachkit]

7 hours ago, JayBirdHawk said:

I'm looking forward to the certified heights .

 

 

 

 

 

7 hours ago, AHF said:

Do we really believe that Parsons is 6'10'' and is one of the few NBA players to list his height in bare feet?   

 

(I'd mention the angle making this tougher and the hair being a factor in first reaction to the shot - like compare the top of their heads to the top of their shoulders - but that seems like smaller pickings than pointing out we shouldn't be relying on prior listed heights for projecting where someone will list when they get measured.)

Parsons is not 6'10, not even close. These listed heights are absolutely laughable, and media takes them as gospel. Players can literally put whatever height they want for their listed height. I give Kevin Durant props for being the only player in NBA history to make himself shorter than he actually is in his listed height, which is why he is listed at 6'9".

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John Collins didn’t finish the sentence.... I asked him what the vibe was around this team when he talked to other players around the league and if he felt like the Hawks had some respect now.

Collins said in his first and second seasons the reactions would normally be, “Yeah, you’re cool and this guy is all right, but y’all are kinda ….....“Trash” is likely what Collins was going to say. The conversations this summer have been much different. He feels awareness that he hadn’t felt in his first two season. “Now when I’m talking and bring up myself and Trae (Young) — I don’t see them getting scared, but I feel the respect now,” Collins said at the team’s media day Monday. “They see the young guys coming up. We’re not going to lie down to anyone......They feel like we’re rising stars in the league, and we’re coming.”

I asked Young the same question. He had a similar answer.

“You definitely hear the excitement,” Young said. “We are one of the toughest teams to guard in the NBA. It’s really cool hearing from guys you look up to and respect say that about your team. 

Hunter:  Lots of eyes are going to be on De’Andre Hunter this season........“I call him — and not to hype him — but I call him ‘Baby Kawhi,'” Len said. “He’s got a strong body and can play defense. He’s also really poised on offense.  What the players have noticed in Hunter so far in the pick-up runs they’ve put together so far this summer is his defense has been as good as advertised. .......He said defense is so important to him and always has been because he personally hates when people score on him. It’s the worst part of basketball, he said.

He’s also excited to show offensive versatility to the public this season. He’s aware that people believe he’s limited on that end of the floor and just view him as someone who can spot up for 3s, but he says that’s just not the case.

Collins mentioned to me how he felt like last year’s team “actually wanted to hang out with each other,” unlike his rookie season.nThat camaraderie only has gotten stronger this summer.

“I feel like we have a group of guys who want to be in the locker room with each other and want to play with each other and want to spend time with each other,” Collins said. “I feel like you are going to see that translate on the court. If guys want to play with each other and have each other’s back, it makes life out here so much easier.”

• Bruno Fernando said progress with his jump shot is coming along nicely with the help of the coaching staff. The staff has gotten on him a couple of times this summer when the team has played pick-up basketball because Fernando has passed on open shots.

• Huerter said the two biggest things he worked on this offseason were getting stronger in the weight room and finishing at the rim. He feels like he has the confidence and mindset now to make that a strength of his game this season.

• Young acknowledged that he needs to get better on defense. He feels like his effort was there (lots of times it wasn’t), but understanding concepts more is the area he feels like he needs to improve on.

Per Collins: Tony (Ressler) is putting is heart and soul into making the Hawks the future franchise of this city. I feel like he’s shown it with this building right here (Emory Sports Medicine Complex) and the arena and what he’s doing down there. I feel like it’s our job to get it done on the court to bring those fans out, and I feel like we have. I feel like when we start winning, the fans will be right where they need to be. It’s a process. It takes time. I know we have to prove it to them first.”

 

[NBASupes]

I love to hear Hunter was killing in the summer pickups. All I kept hearing was everyone is impressed in the organization but what does that really mean, it means you got game in the case of DeAndre