2021 Atlanta Hawks Summer League Thread

[thecampster]

1 minute ago, KB21 said:

His body control and athletic movements stand out.  I didn't see the hesitation to look for his shot that I saw from him at Duke either.  I've said for a while now that Coach K hasn't been coaching his players worth a flip.  Very interested to see what Jon Scheyer does with the talent they get at Duke (not a Duke fan by any stretch of the imagination though).  

 

Its a lost art in today game for a big to take his man off the dribble. That's the thing that stands out for me. He can score at all 3 levels and can penetrate. I think the last big I saw who could really do that was KD. Not saying he's KD but really, how many bigs do you know that can post up, shoot from range and penetrate off the drive/create their own shot?

 

[KB21]

8 minutes ago, thecampster said:

Its a lost art in today game for a big to take his man off the dribble. That's the thing that stands out for me. He can score at all 3 levels and can penetrate. I think the last big I saw who could really do that was KD. Not saying he's KD but really, how many bigs do you know that can post up, shoot from range and penetrate off the drive/create their own shot?

 

Yeah.  I watched this guy basically do whatever he wanted to do on the floor last night, and it made me wonder how in the hell did he drop to 20.  

[Wretch]

9 minutes ago, thecampster said:

Its a lost art in today game for a big to take his man off the dribble. That's the thing that stands out for me. He can score at all 3 levels and can penetrate. I think the last big I saw who could really do that was KD. Not saying he's KD but really, how many bigs do you know that can post up, shoot from range and penetrate off the drive/create their own shot?

 

Yeah man.  All that with like zero hesitation.  He'd get the ball and go right at the defender.  Watching this dude you can instantly see why we let Knight go.  

NHR but...

I really liked Yam Madar for Boston.  The game totally changed in the first half when they brought him in.  High energy, nice court awareness, and good on the ball defense.  He had Skylar out there struggling to breathe on a couple of trips lol 

...aaand that's enough of that.  He plays for the enemy so eff'em.

[ATLHawks3]

22 minutes ago, thecampster said:

Its a lost art in today game for a big to take his man off the dribble. That's the thing that stands out for me. He can score at all 3 levels and can penetrate. I think the last big I saw who could really do that was KD. Not saying he's KD but really, how many bigs do you know that can post up, shoot from range and penetrate off the drive/create their own shot?

 

Michael Porter Jr. is on this wave.

[ATLHawks3]

1 minute ago, Wretch said:

Yeah man.  All that with like zero hesitation.  He'd get the ball and go right at the defender.  Watching this dude you can instantly see why we let Knight go.  

NHR but...

I really liked Yam Madar for Boston.  The game totally changed in the first half when they brought him in.  High energy, nice court awareness, and good on the ball defense.  He had Skylar out there struggling to breathe on a couple of trips lol 

...aaand that's enough of that.  He plays for the enemy so eff'em.

Summer League is really used as an audition for guys to show teams their value. Madar has some good value. I'll be keeping an eye on him for the rest of summer league.

[thecampster]

20 minutes ago, KB21 said:

Yeah.  I watched this guy basically do whatever he wanted to do on the floor last night, and it made me wonder how in the hell did he drop to 20.  

You and I were talking about how long Sengun was gonna last because in my head, it was a foregone conclusion JJ was going in the top 10. I completely forgot about him.

I'm sitting on the couch with my wife (who was quite annoyed with me interrupting her watching man children kiss their mamas) when they started saying he could go to us with this pick. I start going through the draft order and was like, "hey didn't he go already? He's not available is he?" Everyone I was hoping for at that pick was a distant memory. I was like "Holy Snot! How is he still available? We don't need him but Holy Snot"

 

Disclaimer...Camp did not say snot but I am currently grounded from cursing on the internet from using that kind of language. My grandson just visited and I was quickly given a list of words I have to stop saying and "stupid" is on the list right before that other S word. He says I'm allowed to type on the internet as long I avoid all of the classic bad words and all of the new ones.

Edited August 9, 2021 by thecampster

[Spud2nique]

14 hours ago, kg01 said:

My guy @Spud2nique loooves to bring up my brief love affair with Sexton but I never shade him for wanting Doumboya. 

[Spud2nique]

14 hours ago, Cwell said:

I haven't forgotten about all the guys that wanted Bruno, Nassir Little etc. at pick 10 either

He’s fibbing. That was Jambrad’s feller!

[kg01]

2 hours ago, thecampster said:

Disclaimer...Camp did not say snot but I am currently grounded from cursing on the internet from using that kind of language. My grandson just visited and I was quickly given a list of words I have to stop saying and "stupid" is on the list right before that other S word. He says I'm allowed to type on the internet as long I avoid all of the classic bad words and all of the new ones.

Deluge of hair-brained threads incoming.  And there ain't a thang you can say about 'em.  Haha

[thecampster]

14 minutes ago, kg01 said:

Deluge of hair-brained threads incoming.  And there ain't a thang you can say about 'em.  Haha

So it all began with me introducing him to my dogs and saying this one is big and clumsy but really smart. This is one is little, very sweet but she's a little stupid. Seems that someone's pre-k  class has identified stupid as one of the worst things you can possibly say about anyone, including dogs. To which I was ratted out for saying worse on the internet and I got a lecture on the importance of using our nice words and that if I couldn't do that, MeeMaw would take my computer time away.

[kg01]

2 minutes ago, thecampster said:

So it all began with me introducing him to my dogs and saying this one is big and clumsy but really smart. This is one is little, very sweet but she's a little stupid. Seems that someone's pre-k  class has identified stupid as one of the worst things you can possibly say about anyone, including dogs. To which I was ratted out for saying worse on the internet and I got a lecture on the importance of using our nice words and that if I couldn't do that, MeeMaw would take my computer time away.

It's about time somebody stepped in to stop the monster you were becoming. 

Some of the teachers I had would not make it in the school system nowadays.

Flashback to 5th grade alert.

Once, after PE, somebody came back to class a little ripe.  A teacher lined us up to smell who the culprit was.  When she found him, made him stand outside until the end of the day.  Young man learned a valuable lesson in wearing deodorant.  Bet he never missed it again.

Try that in 2021 and that teacher'd end up on the news in a bad way.

And, no, it wasn't me.  Well, it actually was me, but I was so funky that the kid standing next to me got blamed.  Haha, sucker.

[AHF]

10 minutes ago, kg01 said:

It's about time somebody stepped in to stop the monster you were becoming. 

Some of the teachers I had would not make it in the school system nowadays.

Flashback to 5th grade alert.

Once, after PE, somebody came back to class a little ripe.  A teacher lined us up to smell who the culprit was.  When she found him, made him stand outside until the end of the day.  Young man learned a valuable lesson in wearing deodorant.  Bet he never missed it again.

Try that in 2021 and that teacher'd end up on the news in a bad way.

And, no, it wasn't me.  Well, it actually was me, but I was so funky that the kid standing next to me got blamed.  Haha, sucker.

Yikes - you aren't wrong about that.

[JayBirdHawk]

3 hours ago, thecampster said:

Disclaimer...Camp did not say snot but I am currently grounded from cursing on the internet from using that kind of language. My grandson just visited and I was quickly given a list of words I have to stop saying and "stupid" is on the list right before that other S word. He says I'm allowed to type on the internet as long I avoid all of the classic bad words and all of the new ones.

He sure told you, lololololol.

[JayBirdHawk]

32 minutes ago, kg01 said:

And, no, it wasn't me.  Well, it actually was me, but I was so funky that the kid standing next to me got blamed.  Haha, sucker.

Had to be you, lololololol.

[RandomFan]

 

[sturt]

What happened? A.J. Lawson signed with the Heat as an UDFA. But now he's ours?

 

Hmmmmm.

 

https://www.basketballnews.com/stories/2021-nba-draft-prospect-aj-lawson-qa-south-carolina-gamecocks

 

 

[NBASupes]

25 minutes ago, sturt said:

What happened? A.J. Lawson signed with the Heat as an UDFA. But now he's ours?

 

Hmmmmm.

 

https://www.basketballnews.com/stories/2021-nba-draft-prospect-aj-lawson-qa-south-carolina-gamecocks

 

 

We lost Eric Moreland

[JayBirdHawk]

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[NBASupes]

On 8/9/2021 at 9:24 AM, thecampster said:

Its a lost art in today game for a big to take his man off the dribble. That's the thing that stands out for me. He can score at all 3 levels and can penetrate. I think the last big I saw who could really do that was KD. Not saying he's KD but really, how many bigs do you know that can post up, shoot from range and penetrate off the drive/create their own shot?

 

It's not a lost art, everyone would do it, if they could. It's the fundamental part of Basketball everyone learns playing 1v1 but it's hard to do it. Takes a good to great first step. I didn't think JJ had a good first step but watching the Boston game, he does have a good first step for a 6'9 swingman. 

[KB21]

5 hours ago, NBASupes said:

We lost Eric Moreland

Did he finally retire?  I think I remember seeing him on the summer league team back when they used to play at Life College.  LOL!!