Atlanta Hawks 2024-2025 season thread

[Estarossa]

How tf did we win?

 

[Born2BKing]

These nikkas bipolar. Great win, I'm GEEKED UP

 

[Black White Sox Hat]

I don’t see how people still go to games.Orlando even passed up our front office.That’s the spot we should be in now but nah shallow barely breathing under .500 as usual.

 

[staticshock]

I don’t see how people still go to games.Orlando even passed up our front office.That’s the spot we should be in now but nah shallow barely breathing under .500 as usual.

Cause tickets are cheap when we aren’t playing the Lakers, Warriors or Celtics. I’m looking at Gametime & I see tickets for $5 for the upcoming Pacers game.


Front office could be better but Tony Ressler is trash & I hope he sells the team to an owner who’ll spend money

 

[Rekkapryde]

A talented but inconsistent team

 

[AVXL]

I don’t see how people still go to games.Orlando even passed up our front office.That’s the spot we should be in now but nah shallow barely breathing under .500 as usual.

lol breh it’s the Hawks lighten up. This franchise has always been mediocre to good enough to make the playoffs. I don’t look at the Hawks as a team that is going to contend for a title when I go watch them, it’s either date night w/my wife or a night out with my boys

And State Farm Arena is a fun experience…people are more into that than the hardcore fans who only care about the wins/losses

 

[Professor K.]

I don’t see how people still go to games.Orlando even passed up our front office.That’s the spot we should be in now but nah shallow barely breathing under .500 as usual.

We just got really unlucky with our lottery picks post-Trae. Only pick where we reasonably could've picked a better player for us was Reddish over Cam Johnson and PJ Washington. For the other picks(Hunter, OO), the only players we really missed out on(Garland, Herro, Haliburton) were incompatible with Trae or were never in the lottery conversation (Desmond Bane, Nic Claxton). We made pretty much the best picks we could given the talent on the board, there just wasn't too much talent there to begin with

Orlando sucked longer and got more lottery picks in better drafts. Be mad at fate for that, not the front office

 

[AVXL]

We just got really unlucky with our lottery picks post-Trae. Only pick where we reasonably could've picked a better player for us was Reddish over Cam Johnson and PJ Washington. For the other picks(Hunter, OO), the only players we really missed out on(Garland, Herro, Haliburton) were incompatible with Trae or were never in the lottery conversation (Desmond Bane, Nic Claxton). We made pretty much the best picks we could given the talent on the board, there just wasn't too much talent there to begin with

Orlando sucked longer and got more lottery picks in better drafts. Be mad at fate for that, not the front office

Yea I can’t get there with you on this assessment at all, respectfully. Beyond the draft picks (which I don’t think we’ve made the best pick every time) this is a front office & ownership group that doesn’t have a consistent view of how to build a championship roster. That’s shown up via roster management, taking back trade exceptions on our former players (John Collins & Kevin Huerter for example) in cost cutting moves, coaches and front office personnel (Travis Schlenk being fired, Nate McMillan elevated from an Asst Coach, hired and fired, elevating an unproven Landry Fields to GM etc) and an unwillingness to spend on FAs to improve the team.

The Hawks are content being a .500 or so team with a great gameday experience that’s in the hunt for a play in spot.

This version of the Hawks will only be a championship contender if Jalen and/or Ricochet become superstars and Trae stays around to see them develop into that

 

[Professor K.]

Yea I can’t get there with you on this assessment at all, respectfully. Beyond the draft picks (which I don’t think we’ve made the best pick every time) this is a front office & ownership group that doesn’t have a consistent view of how to build a championship roster. That’s shown up via roster management, taking back trade exceptions on our former players (John Collins & Kevin Huerter for example) in cost cutting moves, coaches and front office personnel (Travis Schlenk being fired, Nate McMillan elevated from an Asst Coach, hired and fired, elevating an unproven Landry Fields to GM etc) and an unwillingness to spend on FAs to improve the team.

The Hawks are content being a .500 or so team with a great gameday experience that’s in the hunt for a play in spot.

This version of the Hawks will only be a championship contender if Jalen and/or Ricochet become superstars and Trae stays around to see them develop into that

I'm not saying the front office is perfect, or even good tbh. But if you're gonna compare us to Orlando - a team that isn't comparable timeline-wise to us in the first place - then the difference is going to boil down to drafting.

Against our "peers" -Dallas, Memphis, Cleveland- is where you see the difference in FA moves and investments in going all-in.

With all that, I feel like this is the first time in the Trae era we really know who we want to be AND actually have the personnel to to do it. All roles are carved out. There's not really any more questions of who goes where. We have the exact *types* of players we need. Now it's just about them getting better OR finding a better version of the guy we already got. Easier said than done, but the path to success for us is clearer than it's ever been.

 

[daemonova]

 

[daemonova]

 

[daemonova]

How tf did we win?

 

[daemonova]

@Rekkapryde

 

[Estarossa]

Ran them níggas off the court…

I coulda went to this game but my flight home was at 11.

 

[daemonova]