2021-2022 Post/In- Between Game Thread: Thoughts, Updates, Tidbits etc.

[marco102]

On 2/16/2022 at 1:11 PM, AHF said:

I'm definitely in the "play him to give him a chance to earn some time to develop him for next year" camp and not the "I expect him to step in and be a big positive impact on the team right now" group.  My interest is from the player development side rather than maximizing our chances to win any individual game.  I wouldn't want JJ to tank the team either so if he shows he can't handle it and is a complete liability then you keep him playing in the G-League.  I do acknowledge that the staff may have determined that the latter scenario is so likely that they don't want to try it but despite the negative impact most rookies have, most teams manage to find a lot more time for their first rounds picks.

His defense was much improved last night and I think that's been the staff's biggest worry.  College Park is doing its job and helping him develop. 

Hopefully no one's posted these. I haven't been in the threads today.

[bird_dirt]

1 hour ago, LongTimeFan said:

It's obvious why the Lakers are on TV all the time.  Same with the Bulls.
But some real curiosities here.
Lakers rule Florida instead of the Heat?
The Hornets are the favorite team of  ...  Montana!?  

There were probably 3 jersey sales in Montana, all to three brothers that went to school in Charlotte 10 years ago. They probably got them on sale, too.

Edited February 17, 2022 by bird_dirt

[benhillboy]

2 hours ago, marco102 said:

His defense was much improved last night and I think that's been the staff's biggest worry.  College Park is doing its job and helping him develop. 

Hopefully no one's posted these. I haven't been in the threads today.

I can’t do Twitter but this guy is high quality.  What’s his background in short, he used to be a coach?

[marco102]

3 minutes ago, benhillboy said:

I can’t do Twitter but this guy is high quality.  What’s his background in short, he used to be a coach?

Yeah, he was a low level coach I believe. 

[benhillboy]

1 minute ago, marco102 said:

Yeah, he was a low level coach I believe. 

I figured that.  What are his general feelings on Trae?

[marco102]

Just now, benhillboy said:

I figured that.  What are his general feelings on Trae?

Speaks pretty highly of him.  Talks about defense from time to time.  He writes on www.peachtreehoops.com.

[benhillboy]

17 minutes ago, marco102 said:

Speaks pretty highly of him.  Talks about defense from time to time.  He writes on www.peachtreehoops.com.

Oh cool.  Haven’t been there in forever I’ll have to check him out.

[benhillboy]

Hawks currently 2 games under, net rating + half a point lol.

If the Basketball Gods stop jerking us around with the injuries I got us going 14-10 the rest of the way, hopefully getting that differential up to around +2.  That’s certainly not contender-worthy but we’ve seen twice now in Trae’s short career he can go nuclear for a 4-6 week stretch.

The first four games out the break may determine the season with Toronto, Beantown, and DeBozan twice.  Gotta be locked and loaded.

[marco102]

30 minutes ago, benhillboy said:

Hawks currently 2 games under, net rating + half a point lol.

If the Basketball Gods stop jerking us around with the injuries I got us going 14-10 the rest of the way, hopefully getting that differential up to around +2.  That’s certainly not contender-worthy but we’ve seen twice now in Trae’s short career he can go nuclear for a 4-6 week stretch.

The first four games out the break may determine the season with Toronto, Beantown, and DeBozan twice.  Gotta be locked and loaded.

It's really not about the record for me.  I just want to see consistent effort on the defensive end.  If they do that, I'll have high hopes for us in the playoffs (play-in?) no matter who the match up is.

Just give a damn on defense fellas. 

[hawkman]

8 minutes ago, marco102 said:

It's really not about the record for me.  I just want to see consistent effort on the defensive end.  If they do that, I'll have high hopes for us in the playoffs (play-in?) no matter who the match up is.

Just give a damn on defense fellas. 

I've said repeatedly that if the Hawks played even league average defense consistently, they'd already be one of the top 5 teams in the Eastern Conference. Schlenk was absolutely right when he said the Hawks look like a completely team at times. I've never seen a team give up as many wide open 3 pointers, offensive rebounds, and layups as the Hawks this season. I don't even remember them being this bad during the tank seasons. They played absolutely no defense during their freefall a few weeks ago and that's not an exaggeration. It's like the Hawks collectively decided to not even try on that end for that stretch.

[Spud2nique]

1 hour ago, marco102 said:

Yeah, he was a low level coach I believe. 

He’s also on squawk.

[Spud2nique]

1 hour ago, benhillboy said:

14-10

18-6 for me.

[Spud2nique]

Why isn’t Trae in this sick song? He better than the both of em! Man, if I was a Pelican fan I’d be sad as hell.

Trae>Luka>Zion

 

[RedDawg#8]

2 hours ago, marco102 said:

It's really not about the record for me.  I just want to see consistent effort on the defensive end.  If they do that, I'll have high hopes for us in the playoffs (play-in?) no matter who the match up is.

Just give a damn on defense fellas. 

I feel you, but at this point we put ourselves in a spot where we have to worry about the W's and L's. We had a chance to be .500 or better at the break and came up flat too many times.

If we don't play with a sense of urgency and stack some W's, we are not going anywhere.

[marco102]

Good googly moogly Sharife. This is what I want to see from him in  g league.

 

[bleachkit]

Our next 4 are Chicago, Toronto, Boston, Chicago. Dayum that's brutal. 

[RedDawg#8]

1 hour ago, marco102 said:

Good googly moogly Sharife. This is what I want to see from him in  g league.

 

He really is Trae 2.0, this kid can flat out go

[NBASupes]

7 hours ago, marco102 said:

Good googly moogly Sharife. This is what I want to see from him in  g league.

 

He's starting to get the hang of it.

[Gray Mule]

  Big hand to the coaching staff of our G League team as we all see the results!

Jalen and Sharife have both grown a lot since they were drafted.  They may not come up and play a lot this season as it quickly is drawing to an end.  Next season there should be two positions on our NBA roster for these two.  

[lethalweapon3]

I'd like to be this kind of 

~lw3