2023-24 Hawks Roster and Season Previews

[JayBirdHawk]

 

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14 Guaranteed contracts:
PG: Trae Young, Patty Mills, Kobe Bufkin, 
SG: Dejounte Murray, Bogdan Bogdanovich, Garrison Mathews
SF: DeAndre Hunter, AJ Griffin. Mouhamed Gueye
PF: Jalen Johnson, Saddiq Bey
C - Clint Capela, Onyeka Okongwu, Bruno Fernando

2 Unguaranteed contracts:
PG: Vit Krejci
SG: Tyrese Martin
SF:
PF:
C - 

2 Two-Way Contracts:
PG: Trent Forrest
SG: Seth Lundy
SF:
PF:  Miles Norris
C - 

Total Salaries - $ 159,723,629(*$5.6 million under the Luxury Tax)

[JayBirdHawk]

....and then there were two!

Who do have: Vit or 'Rese? and why?

Is it possible that Tyrese gets the final 2way?

[macdaddy]

10 hours ago, JayBirdHawk said:

....and then there were two!

Who do have: Vit or 'Rese? and why?

Is it possible that Tyrese gets the final 2way?

Got to be Vit i think.  Ceiling seems much higher. 

[macdaddy]

10 hours ago, JayBirdHawk said:

 

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14 Guaranteed contracts:
PG: Trae Young, Patty Mills, Kobe Bufkin, 
SG: Dejounte Murray, Bogdan Bogdanovich, Garrison Mathews
SF: DeAndre Hunter, AJ Griffin. Mouhamed Gueye
PF: Jalen Johnson, Saddiq Bey
C - Clint Capela, Onyeka Okongwu, Bruno Fernando

2 Unguaranteed contracts:
PG: Vit Krejci
SG: Tyrese Martin
SF:
PF:
C - 

2 Two-Way Contracts:
PG: Trent Forrest
SG: Seth Lundy
SF:
PF:  Miles Norris
C - 

Total Salaries - $ 159,723,629(*$5.6 million under the Luxury Tax)

 

Our guard rotation is pretty good assuming Patty has something in the tank but this isn't going to cut it unless there are some big break outs.

SF: DeAndre Hunter, AJ Griffin. Mouhamed Gueye
PF: Jalen Johnson, Saddiq Bey

I love all these guys but Hunter and Bey are just solid rotation players and the others still need a lot of experience.  

[Spud2nique]

6 minutes ago, macdaddy said:

Got to be Vit i think.  Ceiling seems much higher. 

Vit really pushes tempo like crazy. It’s pretty close to me, Martin is tighten up his game too a bit. Toss up.

[macdaddy]

5 minutes ago, Spud2nique said:

Vit really pushes tempo like crazy. It’s pretty close to me, Martin is tighten up his game too a bit. Toss up.

Vit is 6'10" and better handles.  That does it for me unless Martin is a significantly better shooter.  

[Spud2nique]

2 minutes ago, macdaddy said:

Martin is a significantly better shooter.  

Which he isn’t. VIT IS IT!  

[JayBirdHawk]

I'm on the Vit train, he's a willing passer and plays with his head up.......he's our bargain bin Manu.

3 minutes ago, macdaddy said:

Vit is 6'10" and better handles.  That does it for me unless Martin is a significantly better shooter.  

6'-8" 

1 minute ago, Spud2nique said:

VIT IS IT!

[macdaddy]

5 minutes ago, JayBirdHawk said:

I'm on the Vit train, he's a willing passer and plays with his head up.......he's our bargain bin Manu.

6'-8" 

oops.  i guess i was fooled by the doo. 

[HawkingAwesome]

the young cats are looking like thunder cats 

[terrell]

Nice Bufkin..

[Bonkers]

Gueye gotta take that shot since he hardly gets any touches

[RandomFan]

[RedDawg#8]

41 minutes ago, RandomFan said:

Agreed with this assessment.

[Spud2nique]

59 minutes ago, RandomFan said:

Love all our dudes but OO is the leader with  AJ second and JJ third. That’s how I see it.

[gurpilo]

I agree wit this statement, I think JJ, OO and AJ give us an incredible advantage, if given the minutes you get unbelievable production for little money and I think we need to look for options to open minutes for them. That is a big plus for a playoff team because you can send important players out for a proven star and replace their production by cheap players on rookie deals, of course lack of experience might cost some games but all of them might start. If we can add Bufkin and Gueye to this trio with similar potential watch out!! We are really deep.

 Currently our starting 5 is

Starting: Young/Murray/Hunter/JJ/ Capela

2nd unit: Mills/Bogi/AJ/Bey/OO 

3rd unit Bufkin/Matthews/Lundy/Gueye/Bruno

2nd unit is probably very undersized but 3rd unit has the potential to step in case we do a trade for a star player with 2-3 players going out as Capela, Hunter and Bogi that I think are the most likely to go. Matthews and Lundy can replace Bogi’s shooting, Bey or AJ can replace Hunter if we get a starting PF or C and Bruno would be forced to step on the rotation to replace Capela, I don’t have so clear that move, probably we need to go to FAgency.

 

[kg01]

17 hours ago, Spud2nique said:

Love all our dudes but OO is the leader with  AJ second and JJ third. That’s how I see it.

I'm expecting my guy, BenJalen JohnSimmonson, to change this math.

[JayBirdHawk]

Hawks have a decision to make on Tyrese Martin by Friday wether to guarantee his salary ($1.7 mil) for this upcoming season.

 

[thecampster]

7 hours ago, JayBirdHawk said:

Hawks have a decision to make on Tyrese Martin by Friday wether to guarantee his salary ($1.7 mil) for this upcoming season.

 

I didn't expect he'd have a shot of sticking on the roster but I think that one game in summer league helped his chances greatly.

[JayBirdHawk]

 

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15 Guaranteed contracts:
PG: Trae Young, Patty Mills, Kobe Bufkin, 
SG: Dejounte Murray, Bogdan Bogdanovich, Garrison Mathews
SF: DeAndre Hunter, AJ Griffin, Wesley Matthews
PF: Jalen Johnson, Saddiq Bey, Mouhamed Gueye
C - Clint Capela, Onyeka Okongwu, Bruno Fernando

1 Unguaranteed contracts:
PG: Vit Krejci
SG: 
SF:
PF:
C - 

2 Two-Way Contracts:
PG: 
SG: Seth Lundy
SF:
PF:  Miles Norris
C - 

Total Salaries - $154,302,680(*$10.9 million under the Luxury Tax)