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I thought they were dumb for giving up Hinter apparently they made a sneaky good trade. Those guys have been good since trade.
Had nothing to do with that. Their ownership is just cheap, and won’t even pay first level luxury tax. Hunter was due $47M for two years after this season. LeVert is expiring, and Niang has one year at $8.2M. They got off about $39M in salary.
I thought they were dumb for giving up Hinter apparently they made a sneaky good trade. Those guys have been good since trade.
Yep, this is a bold trade that should have been made, not the Donic for Davis trade. Philadelphia should have been the ones to make a big trade before Embiid's health issues caught up with him. Instead, Dallas give away a young Luka for an injury prone player.
The 76ers should have been the ones doing that with Embiid.
Making a good trade to improve the team wasn't their intention IMO. I think it was what Exstatic said, to save salary.
Gotta give Trae props. The guy plays big minutes, passes the ball, and seems to be trying hard out there to win.
Give ATL's FO some credit, exstatic. Fixing your salary cap issues without hurting the floor product is good GM'ing. They also did better than I expected in the 2nd DJ Murray trade. Their pretty sharp...
Those two guys they got are experienced vets with high 3 PT shooting %. Exactly the sort of bench players Spurs could use. If we could do a similar deal for Vassell that sounds like a solid blueprint.
They did not. They realised that they cannot be stuck in mediocrity while Spurs have their picks. They just sold what they can, to get some assets for future. LaVert and Niang will be flipped next.
I'm really jealous the Hawks have Snyder. Think his team reflects how good of a coach he is.
They’ve played, what, one game so far?
It’s pretty commonly known that they’ve been shedding salary at the behest of ownership for a few years now. Jollins, Huerter, and now Hunter have all gone out with little/no salary return.
I’ll make you an sig bet that LeVert is allowed to roll off this summer, and not resigned by Atlanta. Whoever loses has to put up an sig next season saying “[username who wins the bet] knows more about Atlanta’s cap history and ownership than I do “. I have paid off such bets as recently as this season,but was allowed to take it down a week or two ago by the generous winner of the bet.
Last edited by exstatic; 02-13-2025 at 11:39 AM.
My argument isn't that their not trying to shed salary. I agree, I expect LeVert to be let go this summer as well. But the ATL FO has found a way to do so that doesn't seem to hurt the product on the floor to a significant degree; that's good GM work.
Hopefully losing Lavert hurts them next season, though. I doubt Trae is content to be on a treadmill team at best going into next year, I could see him tapping out and pushing to be traded this off season. Their entire future is banking on Risacher becoming a guy and Jalen Johnson staying healthy and convincing Trae there is a path to contention there sooner rather than later. I like both those players but I think expecting a big leap from Risacher next year might be a little optimistic.
I think the next 10 games will tell the tale between if ATL is vying for the 7/8 seed or the 9/10 seed. All 10 games have no gimmies, but probably 4 of them at home are winnable. It's going to be interesting.
their first 4 games will be crucial. All against teams directly ahead and behind them in the standings. Orlando/Miami/Detroit. Let's hope they lose all 4, cause if they go on a winning streak we can say goodbye to that pick being in the lottery.
Snyder's in-game adjustments far surpass anything that Mitch can draw up. Heck, Mitch struggles making inter-game adjustments even after watching the same strategy fail game after game and even while having the benefit of game tape.
atl tearing orlando up...guess we should be looking at a pick from the 20s from them.They are making the playoffs for sure
Freaking great.
I'm setting my sights on the 2026 swap deliverying us Boozer.
Atlanta looks better than Orlando. Orlando doesn't look very good.
Orlando has too much talent to be this bad they like us need a new coach
And now the magic are up by 1 at the half... panicking about early deficits in this 3 pt happy league is silly.
nothing to panic about.The east is so bad,Expect alot of east teams to tank while atl takes advantage of it.Been expecting it.
Yeah, I agree. Orlando should be much, much better.
4:50 - 4th
1 2 3 4 T ORL 21 38 31 11 101 ATL 33 25 23 17 98
14.1 - 4th
1 2 3 4 T ORL 21 38 31 24 114 ATL 33 25 23 27 108
Nice
Down goes Atlanta!
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