Official Game Thread: Hawks at Magic

[terrell]

Just now, TheNorthCydeRises said:

I don't know if anyone wants to step up or not.

So you know what?  . . .

 

Shoot the ball, Trae.

[TheNorthCydeRises]

Hunter only 3 shots in the 2nd half.  (  0 - 3  )

 

He froze himself out.

[BrazilianHawk]

OO is way too soft. I'd like him traded. 

[benhillboy]

OO always struggled with length, seems like more so this season.

[TheNorthCydeRises]

All of their bigs can shoot.

 

[terrell]

9 minutes ago, Diesel said:

Nice lefty assist!!!

This Dude BolBol....  Damn...

 

Nice scouting Schlenk. Could have had Bol Bol PLENTY of times. But instead signs scrubs...smh

Trade up for Bruno with this kid sitting there.. lol

Edited December 15, 2022 by terrell

[benhillboy]

Banchero is improving pretty rapidly.  He looked lost defensively last game we played them.  Bamba and Bol weren’t available last game though, certainly helps him out.

[TheNorthCydeRises]

4 minutes ago, terrell said:

 

[Plainview1981]

2 minutes ago, terrell said:

Nice scouting Schlenk. Could have had Bol Bol PLENTY of times. But instead signs scrubs...smh

Trade up for Bruno with this kid sitting there.. lol

Schlenk might be the worst GM ever.

[terrell]

I'll give it to Nique/new guy, they're really trying to get fans to believe we got a chance to win.. 

[terrell]

3 minutes ago, Plainview1981 said:

Schlenk might be the worst GM ever.

He had a chance to build something special with all of that draft capital.. Good grief

He's obviously failed, but Hawks fans will still make up excuses for him for some reason...

 

Edited December 15, 2022 by terrell

[TheNorthCydeRises]

Well the Hawks won when I was watching them.

I saw a 102 - 85 win.

 

[Plainview1981]

1 minute ago, terrell said:

He had a chance to build something special with all of that draft capital.. Good grief

 

I'm thinking Ressler is inept simply for not firing Schlenk. Nothing he does works.

[TheNorthCydeRises]

The Wagner bros, Bol, and Bamba shot 11 - 18 from 3 tonight.

Dre with 25, but only 2 pts in the 2nd half.

[georgia]

Maybe time to look at moving on from Trae and build around Murray.     They won’t do it…..but his value will continue to go down.   He’s too concerned about highlights and has his $ now.   

[hawkman]

3 minutes ago, TheNorthCydeRises said:

Well the Hawks won when I was watching them.

I saw a 102 - 85 win.

 

Negative post alert: It's looking like another season where the Hawks will have to fight to get above .500 during the second half of the season. Absolutely no excuse to allow 50 points in a quarter even in today's high scoring NBA. No pride, no leadership, and no toughness. This game was lost in the 1st.

[Marvin24Williams]

I have seen enough. This team sucks. Fire up the Wembanyama thread

[TheNorthCydeRises]

1 minute ago, georgia said:

Maybe time to look at moving on from Trae and build around Murray.     They won’t do it…..but his value will continue to go down.   He’s too concerned about highlights and has his $ now.   

 

What did Trae do tonight that showed that he was looking for highlights?

He had more assists than he did shots.

[BrazilianHawk]

2 minutes ago, georgia said:

Maybe time to look at moving on from Trae and build around Murray.     They won’t do it…..but his value will continue to go down.   He’s too concerned about highlights and has his $ now.   

Nah, Trae can do a lot better than this.

 

However, it could very well be that his atrocious defense keeps us from having a real shot at winning it all. 

[Sothron]

That first quarter was the most embarrassing quarter in franchise history. No, I take that back. I'm old enough to remember the "perfect quarter" that Bird's Celtics had back on Nique back in the day. 

So this was the second most embarrassing quarter in franchise history. 50-22. Yes, we won the rest of the game but you don't get kudos from me. 

We are now a below .500 team this far into the season. Pathetic. 

Nate needs to go but this starts from the ownership right from the top. Ressler refuses to pay the luxury tax which means we have a crap bench that doesn't even have the full 15 roster spots filled. We handed Kevin Huerter away for literally nothing. I fully expect us to not even get the Kings future first. We didn't even try to keep Delon Wright after how good he was last season. We intentionally did not use the MLE or the bi annual exception. Vit is on the roster and won't be released literally because his contract is so wonky he's cheaper than anything we can sign.

Imagine if we had a real owner. We would still have Kevin on the roster. Delon Wright would have been resigned to be the backup PG. DJM is still traded here. We would have used the MLE and smaller exception to get better depth. Suddenly our team isn't dying on the vine because of injuries to multiple starters.

I know Nate is going to keep getting a hotter and hotter seat but I'll give him and his staff this: they really are coaching up the young guys. Forrest, Jalen, Culver and AJ have played better than they have any right to be at this point in their careers.