Forgotten Hawks of Years Past

[sturt]

30 minutes ago, AHF said:

Feel like the perfect answer for this question has to be someone who had a legit NBA career and whose Hawk time is barely a whiff of a memory. 

This is part of the criteria I assumed, and/but also, that it's a player who at some point earned All-Star credentials (or was otherwise fairly well-known perhaps for other reasons) and who, though his Hawks time now is not as widely remembered, it was, nonetheless, at least a season or two in length. (But again... all of that was my presumption.)

[Spud2nique]

11 hours ago, ATLHawks3 said:

Flip Murray. 

How do you forget Flip? He put the ball in the bucket. 6th man bucket getter. Having said that he never met a shot he didn’t love.

3 hours ago, Final_quest said:

He was like a bull.  

Strong like bull.

[AHF]

1 minute ago, Spud2nique said:

How do you forget Flip? He put the ball in the bucket. 6th man bucket getter. Having said that he never met a shot he didn’t love.

His year with us was by far the best of his career.  By a country mile.

[Spud2nique]

1 hour ago, AUhawksfan said:

discreet ones

Ya I’m confused on the answers based on the question. Lol.

[Spud2nique]

1 hour ago, JayBirdHawk said:

Brevin Knight

Ya we got him with Reef in the Gasol deal 2001 I think.

[Spud2nique]

I was gonna say GP but he never suited up (btw is he gonna join Nate on the bench or did he just tease us?) 

 

Lemme think here... Travis Mays was somebody I had a weird love affair for when I was younger but knee injuries derailed his career. For some odd reason I was infatuated with him when we got him from the Kings.

Jim Les is another one speaking of the Kings. Not infatuated with him but he was there for a minute I think. 
 

Trying to think of a good one..

I dunno..

Bobby Sura (platinum player, he wore a shirt that said that once) wanted him in the 95 draft but I think he went a pick before us to the Cavs and we got Dr. Alan Henderson.

Still haven’t nailed one here though..

I guess that’s all I can think of now.. damnit I wanted a gem  

Morlon Wiley had 20 something assists for us. At the time we were starved for a pg and this cat came in and straight balled out a few games if memory serves and knew he had to get the ball to Nique.

OH, SNOOP GRAHAM. In a rebuilding era of Hawks ball he got a lot of touches and empty stats.

That’s all I got.

[Spud2nique]

15 minutes ago, AHF said:

His year with us was by far the best of his career.  By a country mile.

Ya I remember him before with the Sonics and he was decent but nothing like with us. It was a time where we had all the good sixth men year after year, I think it started with him, then Craw, then Lou, then wait for it...DESHAWN STEVENSON!!! (You’re welcome)  

[Spud2nique]

There was another guy that briefly played for us, I believe his name was Maaarr something or other, oh Marvin Williams, very briefly he was a throw in on a trade for us.

(Ps I still have 2 jersey’s on Marv both bought in 2006. I thought he was gonna be WORTHY (James). Oops One of them is a beautiful yellow alternate jersey if anyone wants to make a bid for it, it’s a smedium though and fits true to size.

[JayBirdHawk]

9 minutes ago, Spud2nique said:

Bobby Sura (platinum player, he wore a shirt that said that once) wanted him in the 95 draft but I think he went a pick before us to the Cavs and we got Dr. Alan Henderson.

I don't think any Hawks fan will EVER forget Bobby Sura.   Trying to get a fake triple double. SMH...and trying to win too many games...I think that was the Dwight Howard draft.

 

[Spud2nique]

10 minutes ago, JayBirdHawk said:

I don't think any Hawks fan will EVER forget Bobby Sura.   Trying to get a fake triple double. SMH...and trying to win too many games...I think that was the Dwight Howard draft.

 

Oh god I forgot about the triple double attempt. I do remember us going on a tear for no reason to go from like worst to like 5th or so then dropping in the lottery to take my CHILD at 6.  

I wanted Iggy and Smoove. I had a weirdly infatuated with Iggy and his right bod at Zona. Don’t show kg this he’s gonna comment on the aforementioned “tight bod”...   

 

[Spud2nique]

Just now, Spud2nique said:

take my CHILD at 6.

I remember going to a few Stanford games and thinking Childress should not be a first round pick, if anything late 20’s pick definitely NOT #6 overall, that was as bad as our DeMarr Johnson pick at 6 in 2000.  

Apparently the 6th pick for us is unlucky but #5 (Trae and Hunter (Mavs/Lakers) and #19 (Collins/Huerter) have been a godsend.

[macdaddy]

I think we've overlooked the most overlooked (unless i missed it).   Guy averaged 20 points for us in one season.  Was a beast during his career.

 

 

[AHF]

49 minutes ago, Spud2nique said:

 

Bobby Sura (platinum player, he wore a shirt that said that once) wanted him in the 95 draft but I think he went a pick before us to the Cavs and we got Dr. Alan Henderson.

 

Will never forget the guy who cost us OG Dwight Howard.

[AHF]

7 minutes ago, macdaddy said:

I think we've overlooked the most overlooked (unless i missed it).   Guy averaged 20 points for us in one season.  Was a beast during his career.

 

 

Who is going to forget Glenn Robinson?  Part of the infamous "playoff guarantee" season?  He, Reef and JT ended up forming the nucleus of maybe the most disappointing Hawks team in our lifetime.  His 20 ppg on a .519% TS% was some truly empty scoring along some terrible D.

Neither forgotten nor forgiven.

[Gray Mule]

Ah, I remember it well.  Hawks passed on a needed PG and took Marvin instead.  Marvin wasn't bad, he just wasn't that PG that we passed on.  Now, every night the Hawks are on TV, there is that same PG in three or four commercials.  Hard to forget the player that was never a Hawk when we see him every night.

[sturt]

3 hours ago, sturt said:

though his Hawks time now is not as widely remembered

For the record, and just speaking for myself (obviously), I remember fairly well Googs... Big Dog... etc... but I get it that I'm in that group of Hawks fans that probably have been bordering if not over the "obsession" line for most of my life where it concerns my sports teams.

But having said that, depending on the multiple choice options I was given, I might have gotten stumped by having forgotten Sidney Moncrief's suiting up for the home team in the Omni.

And I admit I feel a bit ashamed. . 

[Blunt91]

How about Etan Thomas? He didn't  do much for the Hawks, but managed to play 11 seasons in the NBA.

[Dnice]

Dude from France, Pepsi, does he count?   A saw a boxscore of a forgettable this day in Hawk  history and he was listed.

[Spud2nique]

1 hour ago, AHF said:

Glenn Robinson

Big Dog part deux?

 

1 hour ago, sturt said:

Big Dog

You mean Big Dog, I mean big dog part II, I mean not original big dog...

 

[ATLHawks3]

Do y'all remember Randolph Morris? I think he was on that 53 win team during the 09-10 season.

Edited April 28, 2021 by ATLHawks3