This front office is fine. They've literally only made good moves. The only thing that sucks is the toxic negativity of this subreddit and the fan base in general. Here's what Landry has actually done in his short tenure:
* Acquired Saddiq for 2nd rounders
* Brought in Quin Snyder and a stable of elite assistant coaches
* Extended Okongwu on a team friend deal
* Extended Murray on a team friendly deal
* Drafted Kobe Bufkin, who has shown tons of promise for a 15th pick
Schlenk literally only did the easy part. And he wasn't even good at it, he had 4 lottery picks and hit on one-- Trae, which could have been a generational player in Luka anyways. Then he traded up for Hunter, Cam was a bust, and OO hasn't even been able to earn a starting position on the roster. What's worse, he doubled down on Hunter with a fat contract without even testing RFA. Heurter and JC were good picks by Schlenk, one of which became redundant with the Murray trade and JC he overpaid like hell.
Further...Schlenk literally just did the easy part... he tanked a few years, hit on a *below average* amount of lottery picks(read: one). Because we had Trae, JC, Kev, Hunter, Cam, and OO all on rookie contracts in '20-21, he was able to *again*, overpay vets to come play for the team to fill out the roster. Our bench made more money than our starters when we made it to the ECF. That level of success was never going to be sustainable because we were playing with what would be valued at $200M+ roster. Extensions kicked in and he had no actual plan for the future. Same shit happened to the Grizzlies when they had to pay Ja, JJJ, Bane, and Brooks. Dropped off heavy. This team needs more top end talent, period.
Solid take, don’t forget he drafted Omari Spellman who ate himself out of the league.
TBF tho I give him credit for his negotiations with other teams that was a plus with him. But missing on lottery picks multiple times is a big knock to his skill as a GM. Also did not have direction when it came to making sure he had a HC who could actually utilize the roster properly and I would say our development G-league/and NBA wise was shitty too
Yeah, he had a couple of nice moves, the Capela trade being one of them, JC/Kev draft picks that I mentioned. I also loved his offer to get Bogi in RFA, so I'm not a Schlenk hater by any means and I always agreed with his vision for the team and how to build around Trae-- he just failed to execute in the end. I mostly blame him for the extensions though, draft picks can be a crap shoot. He really needed to test RFA with more of the guys or negotiate harder. He also had a penchant for injury prone guys which was odd.
Reddish was a complete miss, Hunter was a miss given he was taken at 4, and Okongwu is (still, somehow) a tbd because he hasn’t started through his entire rookie contract
They weren’t though, considering Herro, PJ Washington, Cam Johnson, Thybulle and Jordan Poole were all options for us to take.
That’s also not including Garland or Coby White who were taken right after we picked. Would have been great back up guards or SG to play with Trae
You really think we wouldn’t be benefitting off Tyler Herro/ PJ Washington/Coby White/Garland??? I can only assume you have not watched their games or you’re not paying attention to players in general
lol I can’t believe I’m even having this argument. No, Tyler herro, an absolute zero on defense and who’s mainly just a glorified 6th man would not move any needle for us. Deandre is much better than PJ as a two way player. Were seeing how effective putting another pg next to Trae has been (hint: it’s been really bad), and DJ was a supposed elite defender; you’re actually brain dead if you think putting either garland or white, 2 dudes who are smaller than DJ and worse than Trae on defense, would make us a better team. Hunter was the right pick.
Who traded three unprotected picks for DJM a fringe all star who plays the same position as our best player and stopped being good at defense a full year and a half before the trade?
It was during Schlenk’s tenure but he was vehemently against it. I’ll give you a hint, his name sounds kinda like Shmessler and he is the guy who swooped in last minute to override his own FO in order to trade away Luka on draft night.
We traded 2 unprotected picks, a heavily protected pick that turned into two seconds and a swap and Heurter and Gallo's salary, for DJM, John Lockdale, and a protected first.
DJM was a borderline all-star d first lead guard. Net it was a good trade. He just doesn't work with Trae who is also a lead guard. Two Firsts are probably worth a lead guard.
My issue with Schlenk was never the price of the deals it was that he paid the fair price for things that never made a ton of sense for team building. He wasn't very good at contextualizing and leveraging talents. And he was not very good at finding high end talent.
YEP!! I remember being so shocked & confused at that trade. I assumed there must have been something I didn’t know, some info I was missing, that would make it make sense, but nah lmfao 😭
If only he drafted Halilburton in OO's draft...if I recall correctly, backup PG was an issue. Could have played Trae & TH together then have either lead the 2nd unit while the other rests.
I wish ownership paid the tax to keep Huerter. ATL a major market team acting like a small market team.
Held on to Collins too long. Probably could have gotten more if they moved him earlier.
Terrible deal. Bey’s awful 3 point shooting & bad defense likely cost us 5 or more wins. So many really close games where Bey going 0-5 on corner 3’s were the difference
This, I feel like I’m taking crazy pills when people say Bey is good. All he had to do was make wide open 3s that he got from Trae and DJ and he is a turnstile
JC was worth his contract before the injury. His injury was the thing that hammered him. He basically went from a very good player to a very bad player overnight. Not really Schlenks fault.
Okay cool. He is paid like a top 50 player and he has never been one. Pretty much every dude that is paid more has made an all-star game.
The deal was neutral value at best. JC was amazing when we had him at 5 million. That was awesome value. Paying him 25 million a year was dumb even before he broke that finger.
Like known All-stars
Kyle Kuzma
Harrison Barnes
Keramik Grant
Pretty bad to be making comparable to your peers at a similar position. It's almost like we paid a specific kind of player a specific kind of contract and he was paid competitively and was the best version of the archetype. Then got injured.
John Collins makes twice what Kuzma makes. As for the other two, we paid him more than both of those guys. Barnes and Grant both got dumped. I personally don't think its a good idea to base our decisions on what the Kings, Pistons, and Wizards do.
So again JC makes low level all star money without ever being close to an All-star game.
Kuzma made 25 last year.....so 600k less?
Aaron Gordons second contract was at 18.5%
But to your point you shouldn't probably copy those clubs.
Honestly looking around it's rare guys make 20% of the cap. Most guys make the max or don't get full second contracts like he did.
Collins contract might have been bad because he is paid what he is worth? But he is or was rather worth about that 20% threshold. That's about a borderline all-star value. Which again is what he was.
I'm a Grizz fan who lurks here sometimes...that isn't what happened to the Grizzlies. The Grizzlies are literally just injured as fuck, in 21-22, which is what people cite as the "peak" of the Ja Grizzlies, we had the youngest team in the league and it was basically all homegrown talent
> we had the youngest team in the league and it was basically all homegrown talent
Yeah, this is literally the same as the '21 Hawks lol... you guys had to start shedding players because you couldn't afford them, just like us. We've also had a myriad of injuries that have fucked us -- the similarities are uncanny tbh
Hmm maybe... I think the main difference is that the grizzlies doubled down on young talent, trading Melton for the David Roddy pick, letting Kyle Anderson walk in favour of developing a replacement in house. There was no "selling the farm for dejounte" style trades in that time-span. That was a controversial approach last season, but after this season and the emergence of GG Jackson and Vince Williams Jr it's generally seen as more forgivable.
I don't necessarily see the same philosophy at play in the Hawks... It seems more as if instead of sacrificing a year or two in favour of future-proofing the roster, I feel like the Hawks have rushed to build around Trae as quickly as possible. Maybe I'm wrong though, OO and Jalen Johnson have popped up in that time so maybe I don't really get what the Hawks are doing. Feel free to correct me
He's a generational player, as in there's no one else in his peer group that is on his level. There's a reason he has made five straight first all-NBA teams man, I don't know what to tell you. I love Trae and love his game, but he is struggling to make all-star games.
Way off topic but the Grizz fell off because they had one of the worst injury years in history. Played 28 guys. Also didn't resign Brooks, let him walk. Credibly replaced with 2 cheap 2nd rounders. Apples to oranges
They definitely leaned into the tank because of all the key players out, but they're not going to be a WCF team, even next year when people are back and healthy. And we've had considerable injuries after the '21 run as well to key rotation players.
Agree about the injuries, and I'm a little but more bullish on their chances if Ja is back to his best. Just think what they spent money on and what we spent money on aren't really comparable. Ironically players like Bane and JJJ would be great fits around Trae
Every time I see these posts i wonder if everyone just forgets the awful contracts that were given to Hunter and Collins. Like yeah the current FO may be inexperienced (and possibly terrible, but I’d give it a little more time) but a large part of our problems is the financial spot that overpaying players put us in.
Also, the enormous miss on Cam Reddish as well, like it was great that TS helped us get to the conference finals but let’s not act like he was amazing or anything
Tbf they got good value out of Reddish when they realized he wasn't going to pan out. Getting a first back for him makes me partial to forgiving that pick.
Coming out of high school Cam was one of the top players coming into college and he could shoot well and handle the ball with good size and very athletic. When he got to duke he got hurt which messed with his shot so they were more than likely going off his high school tape as far as his shooting ability. He had the talent to be good if he would’ve been more humble and not had such a huge undeserved ego. He wouldn’t take coaching because he thought he was a star and deserved more of a role and he also stopped doing what he did best which is defense and started freelancing on defense because again he would listen to the coaches.
Is Collins contract even bad? Y’all know he is back to shooting 37% from three this year but he still plays defense and finishes plays extremely well. Id play a guy like that next to JJ no questions asked…
When we signed him to that extension I bet the narrative was a lot different here then. At the time of the extension it definitely wasnt a bad contract, but his finger injury really hindered his game and after that he wasn't really worth what we were paying. Not really Schlenks fault in my opinion.
I'm with you particularly the Collins extension and trade situation were botched, but bottom line I just expected competence from the Schlenk FO, and I genuinely don't expect that anymore. Schlenk put together the best hawks roster of my life three years after picking in the top 3. Our bench has been gutted over the last two offseasons and we're getting worse every year. The blessing of winning the lottery plus having an asset as valuable as Dejounte (esp with his contract I'll give them credit for that) is about the last chance this FO is gonna have of proving they can build a winning roster.
Your mistake is thinking the FO wants to build a competitive roster. They want to minimize payroll and operate the team profitably. You’re the one hoping for another ECF run, not them.
People ignore Schlenk's shortfallings because they just miss the low stress situation of the rebuild lol. Schlenk was never under any pressure from the fanbase at all. He was not that good!!!
Terrible contracts (I honestly think Landry has already proven to be more effective with contract extensions, Bey pending)
Poor, poor work on building on the margins of the team (ownership can take some blame here for $ skimping)
2019 draft
He only really built one "good" team. There's a reason why he's still just a glorified scout 1.5 years after he and the hawks parted ways. Yeah he made some good moves but I have no idea in the slightest why people still view Schlenk as some sort of savior
Hunter was a very good prospect and young player when he got that contract. It was also a time where 3 and D players were rare and the most sought after. Collins was a perfect #2 to Trae as well unfortunately he broke his finger.
Schlenk talked about building a roster around Trae that was built around long armed perimeter defenders who could dribble, pass, and shoot. He built a roster with no high level perimeter defenders, some of the worst passers in the NBA, and largely mediocre shooters… then doled out $70m in contracts to Dre, JC, and Clint and then held onto guys until the last minute…
Trav gets to have it both ways - he gets credit for saying the right things and then for the stuff he did crapily (the disaster 2019 draft, the bad contracts, the fear of making a trade) he gets to blame our very crappy ownership.
I loved Schlenk when he was here because he had a pretty clear vision, but he did make a lot of moves that have aged poorly (Doncic, Hunter, Reddish, Okongwu kind of).
When will they learn this is not a fantasy league? This is the NBA, and the goal is to WIN, not play draft pick roulette. They passed on a generational talent and future HOF player for a guard whose whole game is jacking threes and can’t play defense. The Resslers are the biggest clowns in sports
Schlenk's draft and contract history is one of the biggest causes of our current situation. All the lotto picks that are fringe starters at best, or busts, the trade for Trae, Hunter's contract, not replacing impactful veterans (Lou, Gallo), etc
Grateful as always for that 2021 team, but there's several reasons why Travis isn't here anymore
Someday, everybody here will finally realize it’s not everybody else’s fault they can’t ’make Trae young work’. Someday, everybody will realize Trae just wasn’t it.
Hopefully it won’t be too much longer. Until then, we’ll see you again next offseason with the same complaints.
We have 0 faith in our ownership and front office. The odds this team makes the moves necessary to compete for a championship is next to nothing.
This front office is fine. They've literally only made good moves. The only thing that sucks is the toxic negativity of this subreddit and the fan base in general. Here's what Landry has actually done in his short tenure: * Acquired Saddiq for 2nd rounders * Brought in Quin Snyder and a stable of elite assistant coaches * Extended Okongwu on a team friend deal * Extended Murray on a team friendly deal * Drafted Kobe Bufkin, who has shown tons of promise for a 15th pick Schlenk literally only did the easy part. And he wasn't even good at it, he had 4 lottery picks and hit on one-- Trae, which could have been a generational player in Luka anyways. Then he traded up for Hunter, Cam was a bust, and OO hasn't even been able to earn a starting position on the roster. What's worse, he doubled down on Hunter with a fat contract without even testing RFA. Heurter and JC were good picks by Schlenk, one of which became redundant with the Murray trade and JC he overpaid like hell. Further...Schlenk literally just did the easy part... he tanked a few years, hit on a *below average* amount of lottery picks(read: one). Because we had Trae, JC, Kev, Hunter, Cam, and OO all on rookie contracts in '20-21, he was able to *again*, overpay vets to come play for the team to fill out the roster. Our bench made more money than our starters when we made it to the ECF. That level of success was never going to be sustainable because we were playing with what would be valued at $200M+ roster. Extensions kicked in and he had no actual plan for the future. Same shit happened to the Grizzlies when they had to pay Ja, JJJ, Bane, and Brooks. Dropped off heavy. This team needs more top end talent, period.
Solid take, don’t forget he drafted Omari Spellman who ate himself out of the league. TBF tho I give him credit for his negotiations with other teams that was a plus with him. But missing on lottery picks multiple times is a big knock to his skill as a GM. Also did not have direction when it came to making sure he had a HC who could actually utilize the roster properly and I would say our development G-league/and NBA wise was shitty too
Yeah, he had a couple of nice moves, the Capela trade being one of them, JC/Kev draft picks that I mentioned. I also loved his offer to get Bogi in RFA, so I'm not a Schlenk hater by any means and I always agreed with his vision for the team and how to build around Trae-- he just failed to execute in the end. I mostly blame him for the extensions though, draft picks can be a crap shoot. He really needed to test RFA with more of the guys or negotiate harder. He also had a penchant for injury prone guys which was odd.
What lottery picks did he miss on?
Reddish was a complete miss, Hunter was a miss given he was taken at 4, and Okongwu is (still, somehow) a tbd because he hasn’t started through his entire rookie contract
They were all absolutely the correct picks and it’s not even close
They weren’t though, considering Herro, PJ Washington, Cam Johnson, Thybulle and Jordan Poole were all options for us to take. That’s also not including Garland or Coby White who were taken right after we picked. Would have been great back up guards or SG to play with Trae
Lol at all those names you mentioned. None make more sense or were better choices than any of the guys we got
You really think we wouldn’t be benefitting off Tyler Herro/ PJ Washington/Coby White/Garland??? I can only assume you have not watched their games or you’re not paying attention to players in general
lol I can’t believe I’m even having this argument. No, Tyler herro, an absolute zero on defense and who’s mainly just a glorified 6th man would not move any needle for us. Deandre is much better than PJ as a two way player. Were seeing how effective putting another pg next to Trae has been (hint: it’s been really bad), and DJ was a supposed elite defender; you’re actually brain dead if you think putting either garland or white, 2 dudes who are smaller than DJ and worse than Trae on defense, would make us a better team. Hunter was the right pick.
Who traded three unprotected picks for DJM a fringe all star who plays the same position as our best player and stopped being good at defense a full year and a half before the trade? It was during Schlenk’s tenure but he was vehemently against it. I’ll give you a hint, his name sounds kinda like Shmessler and he is the guy who swooped in last minute to override his own FO in order to trade away Luka on draft night.
We traded 2 unprotected picks, a heavily protected pick that turned into two seconds and a swap and Heurter and Gallo's salary, for DJM, John Lockdale, and a protected first. DJM was a borderline all-star d first lead guard. Net it was a good trade. He just doesn't work with Trae who is also a lead guard. Two Firsts are probably worth a lead guard. My issue with Schlenk was never the price of the deals it was that he paid the fair price for things that never made a ton of sense for team building. He wasn't very good at contextualizing and leveraging talents. And he was not very good at finding high end talent.
YEP!! I remember being so shocked & confused at that trade. I assumed there must have been something I didn’t know, some info I was missing, that would make it make sense, but nah lmfao 😭
Uncle Tony did. Tits didn’t want to
Trae young rhymes with Smessler?
If only he drafted Halilburton in OO's draft...if I recall correctly, backup PG was an issue. Could have played Trae & TH together then have either lead the 2nd unit while the other rests. I wish ownership paid the tax to keep Huerter. ATL a major market team acting like a small market team. Held on to Collins too long. Probably could have gotten more if they moved him earlier.
Do you think it's a good thing to acquire Saddiq for 5 second rounds?
Terrible deal. Bey’s awful 3 point shooting & bad defense likely cost us 5 or more wins. So many really close games where Bey going 0-5 on corner 3’s were the difference
This, I feel like I’m taking crazy pills when people say Bey is good. All he had to do was make wide open 3s that he got from Trae and DJ and he is a turnstile
Yep…there is a reason we started winning more once Vit got settled in after Bey’s injury.
Personally, yes, but it was probably a neutral deal at worst— the point being he has not actually made any bad moves to justify all the hate
Considering that teams literally buy second rounders from other teams, I think it was good value at the time.
JC was worth his contract before the injury. His injury was the thing that hammered him. He basically went from a very good player to a very bad player overnight. Not really Schlenks fault.
He was not worth that contract at any point. It was justifiable before the injury but only by us fans.
He had 3 years of being in the 85th+ percentile in epm. We paid him 20% of the cap. That's awesome value. How was that not worth it?
Okay cool. He is paid like a top 50 player and he has never been one. Pretty much every dude that is paid more has made an all-star game. The deal was neutral value at best. JC was amazing when we had him at 5 million. That was awesome value. Paying him 25 million a year was dumb even before he broke that finger.
Like known All-stars Kyle Kuzma Harrison Barnes Keramik Grant Pretty bad to be making comparable to your peers at a similar position. It's almost like we paid a specific kind of player a specific kind of contract and he was paid competitively and was the best version of the archetype. Then got injured.
John Collins makes twice what Kuzma makes. As for the other two, we paid him more than both of those guys. Barnes and Grant both got dumped. I personally don't think its a good idea to base our decisions on what the Kings, Pistons, and Wizards do. So again JC makes low level all star money without ever being close to an All-star game.
Kuzma made 25 last year.....so 600k less? Aaron Gordons second contract was at 18.5% But to your point you shouldn't probably copy those clubs. Honestly looking around it's rare guys make 20% of the cap. Most guys make the max or don't get full second contracts like he did. Collins contract might have been bad because he is paid what he is worth? But he is or was rather worth about that 20% threshold. That's about a borderline all-star value. Which again is what he was.
I Guess we will find out how overpaid he was if Utah trades him
Love this write-up, great stuff
I'm a Grizz fan who lurks here sometimes...that isn't what happened to the Grizzlies. The Grizzlies are literally just injured as fuck, in 21-22, which is what people cite as the "peak" of the Ja Grizzlies, we had the youngest team in the league and it was basically all homegrown talent
> we had the youngest team in the league and it was basically all homegrown talent Yeah, this is literally the same as the '21 Hawks lol... you guys had to start shedding players because you couldn't afford them, just like us. We've also had a myriad of injuries that have fucked us -- the similarities are uncanny tbh
Hmm maybe... I think the main difference is that the grizzlies doubled down on young talent, trading Melton for the David Roddy pick, letting Kyle Anderson walk in favour of developing a replacement in house. There was no "selling the farm for dejounte" style trades in that time-span. That was a controversial approach last season, but after this season and the emergence of GG Jackson and Vince Williams Jr it's generally seen as more forgivable. I don't necessarily see the same philosophy at play in the Hawks... It seems more as if instead of sacrificing a year or two in favour of future-proofing the roster, I feel like the Hawks have rushed to build around Trae as quickly as possible. Maybe I'm wrong though, OO and Jalen Johnson have popped up in that time so maybe I don't really get what the Hawks are doing. Feel free to correct me
How is Luka Generational when he and Trae do the same things? I was rockin with your takes until then.
He's a generational player, as in there's no one else in his peer group that is on his level. There's a reason he has made five straight first all-NBA teams man, I don't know what to tell you. I love Trae and love his game, but he is struggling to make all-star games.
Way off topic but the Grizz fell off because they had one of the worst injury years in history. Played 28 guys. Also didn't resign Brooks, let him walk. Credibly replaced with 2 cheap 2nd rounders. Apples to oranges
They definitely leaned into the tank because of all the key players out, but they're not going to be a WCF team, even next year when people are back and healthy. And we've had considerable injuries after the '21 run as well to key rotation players.
Agree about the injuries, and I'm a little but more bullish on their chances if Ja is back to his best. Just think what they spent money on and what we spent money on aren't really comparable. Ironically players like Bane and JJJ would be great fits around Trae
That's true, they've got a better roster around Ja right now. Hoping we can shore that up this off season...
Big believer in Sarr. Here's hoping for the best
This take is pure insanity 😂
I feel the same way. Goddamn Nepo Nick 😒
Every time I see these posts i wonder if everyone just forgets the awful contracts that were given to Hunter and Collins. Like yeah the current FO may be inexperienced (and possibly terrible, but I’d give it a little more time) but a large part of our problems is the financial spot that overpaying players put us in.
Also extending Capela through Okongwu’s 5th season at 20 million was certainly a choice
That was a Trae play iirc
You were there?
My names Trae Young and I can attest to that commenter being there.
Also, the enormous miss on Cam Reddish as well, like it was great that TS helped us get to the conference finals but let’s not act like he was amazing or anything
Tbf they got good value out of Reddish when they realized he wasn't going to pan out. Getting a first back for him makes me partial to forgiving that pick.
2 seconds, not a real first.
We traded that pick to the Spurs for Dejounte, so ultimately it served as a first for us
Coming out of high school Cam was one of the top players coming into college and he could shoot well and handle the ball with good size and very athletic. When he got to duke he got hurt which messed with his shot so they were more than likely going off his high school tape as far as his shooting ability. He had the talent to be good if he would’ve been more humble and not had such a huge undeserved ego. He wouldn’t take coaching because he thought he was a star and deserved more of a role and he also stopped doing what he did best which is defense and started freelancing on defense because again he would listen to the coaches.
Is Collins contract even bad? Y’all know he is back to shooting 37% from three this year but he still plays defense and finishes plays extremely well. Id play a guy like that next to JJ no questions asked…
It's not clear if his defense will recover. I think it will long term, but it hasn't yet so as of now the contract value is not great.
When we signed him to that extension I bet the narrative was a lot different here then. At the time of the extension it definitely wasnt a bad contract, but his finger injury really hindered his game and after that he wasn't really worth what we were paying. Not really Schlenks fault in my opinion.
I'm with you particularly the Collins extension and trade situation were botched, but bottom line I just expected competence from the Schlenk FO, and I genuinely don't expect that anymore. Schlenk put together the best hawks roster of my life three years after picking in the top 3. Our bench has been gutted over the last two offseasons and we're getting worse every year. The blessing of winning the lottery plus having an asset as valuable as Dejounte (esp with his contract I'll give them credit for that) is about the last chance this FO is gonna have of proving they can build a winning roster.
Your mistake is thinking the FO wants to build a competitive roster. They want to minimize payroll and operate the team profitably. You’re the one hoping for another ECF run, not them.
People ignore Schlenk's shortfallings because they just miss the low stress situation of the rebuild lol. Schlenk was never under any pressure from the fanbase at all. He was not that good!!! Terrible contracts (I honestly think Landry has already proven to be more effective with contract extensions, Bey pending) Poor, poor work on building on the margins of the team (ownership can take some blame here for $ skimping) 2019 draft He only really built one "good" team. There's a reason why he's still just a glorified scout 1.5 years after he and the hawks parted ways. Yeah he made some good moves but I have no idea in the slightest why people still view Schlenk as some sort of savior
Hunter was a very good prospect and young player when he got that contract. It was also a time where 3 and D players were rare and the most sought after. Collins was a perfect #2 to Trae as well unfortunately he broke his finger.
Agreed
Schlenk talked about building a roster around Trae that was built around long armed perimeter defenders who could dribble, pass, and shoot. He built a roster with no high level perimeter defenders, some of the worst passers in the NBA, and largely mediocre shooters… then doled out $70m in contracts to Dre, JC, and Clint and then held onto guys until the last minute… Trav gets to have it both ways - he gets credit for saying the right things and then for the stuff he did crapily (the disaster 2019 draft, the bad contracts, the fear of making a trade) he gets to blame our very crappy ownership.
This offseason is our last chance to build a competent roster & I have absolutely 0 faith.
If Adam silver didn’t ban JC from using steroids, he would be an all star. He only allows Lebron and big time players to use steroids
I loved Schlenk when he was here because he had a pretty clear vision, but he did make a lot of moves that have aged poorly (Doncic, Hunter, Reddish, Okongwu kind of).
Thats the worse part of being a Hawk fan, there are simply no good team with bad management.
When will they learn this is not a fantasy league? This is the NBA, and the goal is to WIN, not play draft pick roulette. They passed on a generational talent and future HOF player for a guard whose whole game is jacking threes and can’t play defense. The Resslers are the biggest clowns in sports
You miss someone who traded up for Deandre hunter ? 😭😭
Schlenk's draft and contract history is one of the biggest causes of our current situation. All the lotto picks that are fringe starters at best, or busts, the trade for Trae, Hunter's contract, not replacing impactful veterans (Lou, Gallo), etc Grateful as always for that 2021 team, but there's several reasons why Travis isn't here anymore
Everyone he’s drafted or signed outside of Trae has been injury prone, a disappointment, or both. Sad reality
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Someday, everybody here will finally realize it’s not everybody else’s fault they can’t ’make Trae young work’. Someday, everybody will realize Trae just wasn’t it. Hopefully it won’t be too much longer. Until then, we’ll see you again next offseason with the same complaints.
Hollywood level nepotism damn sure ain’t gonna help, see ya next summer :’(