Do we need to rebuild again? A dark-horse GM candidate...

[fo_o_fo_404]

That question permeated in my brain today for some odd reason and I want the REALGM heads to chime in on this.

My thinking is this:

Since BK has been GM (since he was hired as the Interim GM in 2003), he successfully unloaded a lot of "bad contracts" and received praise leaguewide for accomplishing that major feat.

In 2003, he rolled the dice on Diaw (dang Boris was scoring at will last night) and left Josh Howard on the board. Once Woody is hired to coach the team, he has run ins with Diaw (like Salim, Smoove and Zaza)...and Diaw eventually asks to be traded because he "could not play for Woodson." REBUILDING OPPORTUNITY LOST # 1

The 2004 draft, with Deng and Iguodala on the board, he selected Chills, basically because of his "wingspan." We were going to get Smoove with pick 17, which came from Detriot for the Sheed as a Hawk for one day deal. REBUILDING OPPORTUNITY LOST #2 (minus Smoove)

In 2005 and 2006....I needn't beat a dead horse....but dayum! REBUILDING OPPORTUNITY LOST # 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, etc.

Now we are back at square one,....with five contracts coming off the books.....Joe almost near the end of his five year deal.....free agents to be signed....or not....I feel that we may need to rebuild again.

I dont know....maybe I'm just trippin, but I thought about this all day and wanted to share with my blog-heads. Thoughts?

Oh yeah, my dark horse GM candidate....don't laugh...is Hawks Director of College/Minor League Scouting Harold Ellis. He is....I've heard...very smart, intelligent, young, at 38. He knows a great deal of basketball and is a pure basketball mind through and through. Similar to what Tom Dimitroff's role was with the Patriots before being hired as the Falcons GM.

Just an "out of the box" thought.

[Hawks]

We do not need to rebuild again. Just get a headcoach in here that can....get this.....ACTUALLY COACH. The Hawks will be just fine.

[evildallas]

The roster needs fine-tuned and the coach needs changed (soon), but I don't see the need to rebuild. The one thing that would change my mind is if I feel the players become jaded and accepting of mediocrity. If they seemed resolved to losing then it will be time to burning it down. Sadly, I think we are closer to that point than we should be.

[conleyorbust]

fo fo fo, I see where you are coming from with the contract situation but I don't think the team necessarilly needs to rebuild. The fact is that most observers, including all of us, have been clamoring for a real pg in the BK era since around 04' when Smith and Chil came on board and proved to be great transition players. Unfortunately, we still don't have one and it's hard to evaluate what looks like a great uptempo team if you don't have the pg to help push the pace.

[Joe Kleazy]

rebuild?