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Trae is the problem?
F'n Cs
Trae is the problem?
Well, he damn sure ain’t the solution…
I watched a good part of that game. It was mostly the Celtics coming out unfocused and then not executing at the end of the game. Tatum missed a wide open three that was halfway down that probably wins the game for them, and then they followed it up with a bad turnover. Atlanta is an interesting defensive team when Young isn't playing. You can switch Daniels, Risacher, Johnson, Nance Okongwu, and even Keaton Wallace a bit. They are a lot more difficult to attack, but they had no business scoring 117 on Boston with that lineup and Young out. It was a bad loss for the C's.
I find myself more emotionally invested in the outcomes of Hawks games than the Spurs right now.
Hawks led Wizards by 9. Half time.
Dyson Daniels and 2 first rounders for Dejounte looks like such a great deal for ATL right now lol
Teams that trade for DJ just keep taking Ls, tbh.
fck hawks top 5 in the east.Have a good chance to move into top 3.Guess we should prepare for pick in 20s
It’s REALLY early to be making an assessment like that. They and Charlotte were swapping places with each win and loss, going from like pick 8 to pick 15 overnight. A 2 or 3 game skid will put them right back in the mid lottery. The East is so bad that every WC team is huddled at the end of the lottery.
atl players getting healthy and daniels playing like a allstar.Looks like at any moment the 76ers,heat and pacers could go
full tank mode.Also atl has no reason to tank compared to others.
They said G League players couldn’t play
Spurs not even going to have a single top-15 pick this year at this rate. How ty. This team is still devoid of top-end talent. Guess we’ll have to hope to land a big fish in Free Agency at some point in order to get Wemby some real help. Will definitely be tougher that way. Or maybe we we luck out and land a steal in the mid-round. We’ll see.
Good news is Wemby is the type of talent guys will want to play with, so there’s a decent chance we eventually sign a big fish Free Agent down the road imo.
Wemby, Castle, Sochan, Vassell are all top end talent. You don’t need top end talent from 1 to 15. After LeBron, AD, there’s Reaves, Russell, and who? Knecht, maybe one day? But the rest of that roster isn’t top end talent. Same for many of the best teams in the league. Nobody remembers the names of the players after the top four. If you’re saying we need even better players than Sochan or Vassell, then it’s going to take even more years to get there since most of the time it takes three years to get to that level.
We're not making the playoffs, which means we're guaranteed a lottery pick.
Hawks will definitely be in the play in, if they make the playoffs they'll have a worse record than West playoff teams, meaning worst case scenario we get a #16-18 pick from them.
We got a ton of assets, if PATFO thinks there's a player in #5-10 range that's a must get and a perfect fit, we can get him. Might be an overpay, but that's what you do to get your guy.
OKC is the blueprint for everyone, outside SGA and Chet their picks were fairly low.
Williams was #12, Dort was undrafted, Wiggins was #55, Joe was #49 and Wallace was #10.
We have #1, #4, #9, #11 as our core guys.
We can't ask for more and if things are to even out, we deserve to drop down in every single draft for like a decade.
East is too weak, so can't depend on Hawks anymore. The only way to get top 15 pick is...
I really wish they'd put a package together and even over pay for a great player. A current alpha. Do that and there will be a great chance pretty good players will hop on board. I think we've figured out which of our "young" players are worth keeping.
espn has a statistical projection record tool:
https://www.espn.com/nba/bpi/_/view/projections
Right now, they project Spurs to end with the 7th, 9th and 15th picks in the 2025 draft.
The issue is that there are so few wings that fit the timeline on the market.
Let's say we're looking at legit starters or better who are 28 or younger.
Which wings you can even think of?
Cam Johnson is probably the best player available, but would you use 2 FRPs on a 28 year old averaging 16/4/2 on 46/36/89?
playing with my emotions
Need to post that in the 2025 Draft thread. With that ending, we just need one of those (7 or 9) to hit the top 4 lottery to make my dream realistic.
I'm still thinking someone like Trae Young, Donavan Mitchel or Lillard are big time shot makers that I bet could be pried. I'm not too worried about the "timeline" because you can maximize the roster and tweak it as necessary since Wemby is the constant. Even someone like a Tyler Hero isn't scared and seems to have the ability to play clutch. We can't just stand pat and hope something happens. Wemby is all world but the guy needs a big brother out there. Also, can he really be the top dog on offense and defense and be that at a high level most of the time? I don't think so and I don't think that's how we should do it. (I thought we should have made a play for PG13!)
The good thing is we have Castle and Wemby who in my book are non negotiable while others are actually good enough to package along with picks. For the guys i mentioned, neither would Vessel.
If we stand still what do you think we will be doing next season to become championship caliber?
That would be a massive upgrade in talent
For me the biggest issue and concern is who is going to replace Pop?
if they got picks #7, #9 and #12 as it predicts right now I’m not sure what the they would do. They would have to give those picks away for cash to retain Branham, Wesley and Cidy I guess.
Draft and stash 1st rounder, smh.
It has to be trade bait, take best prospect with highest pick, pack middle pick with expiring contracts like Barnes, Collins, Keldon, stash or trade away lowest. Next year, they cant around with brand new rookies in rotation.
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