Blue

If your looking for a wing, y'all should take that kid out of St. Johns

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BlakeJesus

Could be good value late, I think we either need to grab a long term project who could develop into a top 3-5 player on the team, or go for guys who we can plug in to the rotation immediately.

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BlakeJesus

Lot of buzz about us taking Tony Wroten if he's available. DraftExpress says he's a 19 year old 6'5" PG/SG and his best case comparison is Tyreke Evans. People say that it's great value and could potentially be a steal because he would go way earlier if he came out in 2013 instead.

Haven't seen the kid play at all (though I will make a point to check out some highlight tape in the near future), but he sounds like the direction I would want the Hawks to go. Not neccessarily his skillset, but a high potential kid that may end up having way more value than you'd normally find at 21. We need to either hit on a rotation caliber big man or gamble on some high ceiling wing player (PG-SF).

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ATLien

I don't pay much attention to those best case / worst case comparisons on draft sites. If they were accurate, there would be a lot more superstars and good players than there exist in reality.

I want to see a new starting SF, though. Or move Johnson to SF, and see a new starting SG. It's kind of funny now I want to see us draft a wing player.

BlakeJesus

I thought it was funny too that I wanted us to nab a SF/SG or PG/SG type, just feels wrong to root for that sort of thing. I suppose that's how Lions fans will feel when it's time to draft another WR in the first round.

Nah I feel you about the comps, players are generally very different even if they do similar things, but I literally haven't seen him play any basketball so it's nice to at least have a feel for what "type" of player the kid is.

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ATLien

Denver/Memphis have me thinking how good this team would be if they were coached and played smart basketball.

I heard today that both the Hawks HC & GM are undecided if they'll be brought back. I just don't know if you can fix Josh & Joe after they've been in the league for 7+ years together. Actually have a post I want to make on this, but I'll wait until a decision is made on Drew/Sund.

BlakeJesus

I would thoroughly enjoy a philosophy change for our team. I do think the Hawks have some serious talent, and if they can nab a 10 minute a night guy via the draft as well as throw the MLE at somebody they could be a serious team.

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ATLien

Oops, both Memphis and L.A. got bounced. So much for trying to be like them.

Dre

LA who

BlakeJesus

I think he meant Denver.

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Dre

Joe Johnson might be the best closer on either Denver or Memphis and Josh Smith might be the best player

RollWithEm

The Hawks just need to add Nash.

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But that's just me.

BlakeJesus

Adding Nash would be pretty awesome.

DraftExpress has Meyers Leonard getting picked 21st to Boston, I would really love for this kid to fall to us at 23.

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RollWithEm

I have come back to this thread to reiterate that Steve Nash would make the Hawks the FAVORITES in the Eastern Conference. The Heat would not want to play that team.

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But that's just me.

BlakeJesus

If we added Nash and Meyers Leonard or Fab Melo I would agree that we'd probably be a top 2 team, not sure we could topple the Heat but Josh Smith is probably the best equip player in the league to slow down LeBron.

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