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jayu70 wrote:Priority List:
1. As much as Nate fustrates me with his rotations sometimes. Drop the interim tag so he becomes our permanent headcoach.

2. Resign Collins - yes he says he thinks he should be in the the max conversation, I don't think he gets one. Hawks offered 4/$90 a max from another team is 4/$120 - i think there can be a meeting of the minds somewhere in the middle.

3. Draft - the #20 pick: I'm hoping we can find a 'Capela like trade' - a young player, preferably a PG, on a reasonable long term deal to trade #20.

4. Point Guard - Trae signs his early extention. Back up PG - we went into last offseason needing one and here we are again needing one. I think Dunn picks up his option unfortunately. I hoping he doesn't. Target: TJ MCConnell

5. Lou, Hill and Snell are most likely gone. One of Lou or Hill maybe back on a vet min for the locker room. Lou gave us 1 great game in each playoff series but that was it.

6. The wings: Bogi, Hunter, Reddish Huerter - keepers for now. We never had them all healthy all year. If an early value deal for Huerter can be negotiated, do it.
Add depth players to replace Snell and Hill: Target:  Danuel House via trade. (Dunn and a 2nd or two).

7. The Bigs: Hawks need some added depth there. Okongwu - would like to see him progress next season to have him get an even split of minutes with Capela aa his backup. Is Bruno salvageable? Target: Dieng

Run it back and see where we are at the trade deadline.

PG: Young, McConnell, Goodwin
SG: Bogdan, Huerter,  Mays (2way)
SF: Hunter, Reddish, House
PF: Collins, Gallinari
C - Capela, Okongwu, Dieng, Fernando, Knight (2way)

hawks_fan25 wrote:

jayu70 wrote:Priority List:
1. As much as Nate fustrates me with his rotations sometimes. Drop the interim tag so he becomes our permanent headcoach.

2. Resign Collins - yes he says he thinks he should be in the the max conversation, I don't think he gets one. Hawks offered 4/$90 a max from another team is 4/$120 - i think there can be a meeting of the minds somewhere in the middle.

3. Draft - the #20 pick: I'm hoping we can find a 'Capela like trade' - a young player, preferably a PG, on a reasonable long term deal to trade #20.

4. Point Guard - Trae signs his early extention. Back up PG - we went into last offseason needing one and here we are again needing one. I think Dunn picks up his option unfortunately. I hoping he doesn't. Target: TJ MCConnell

5. Lou, Hill and Snell are most likely gone. One of Lou or Hill maybe back on a vet min for the locker room. Lou gave us 1 great game in each playoff series but that was it.

6. The wings: Bogi, Hunter, Reddish Huerter - keepers for now. We never had them all healthy all year. If an early value deal for Huerter can be negotiated, do it.
Add depth players to replace Snell and Hill: Target:  Danuel House via trade. (Dunn and a 2nd or two).

7. The Bigs: Hawks need some added depth there. Okongwu - would like to see him progress next season to have him get an even split of minutes with Capela aa his backup. Is Bruno salvageable? Target: Dieng

Run it back and see where we are at the trade deadline.

PG: Young, McConnell, Goodwin
SG: Bogdan, Huerter,  Mays (2way)
SF: Hunter, Reddish, House
PF: Collins, Gallinari
C - Capela, Okongwu, Dieng, Fernando, Knight (2way)

I like this list. I think we let Lou, Snell, Hill all go and get our locker room vet and backup PG in one man: Derrick Rose.

I'm not sold on giving JC a ton of money simply because I'm not sure the ownership is willing to expand the budget to build good teams around he and Trae. I liked Portis as a part-time starter/bench PF even before this series. I'd love to see if Millsap would take a team-friendly contract as well to be another big with experience. I also think Hunter is a luxury here because he can play PF in a lot of situations.

If Kai Jones makes it to #20 I really hope we take him. He's got potential to be a very good stretch 4 and defender in the NBA.

I didn't even think about House, but that would be a steal if we could trade Dunn and a couple of seconds for him. I'd actually offer Dunn+Bruno+SRP and we can sign Knight to a full NBA contract.

I'm just really excited about next year. I'd love to run this group back with everyone healthy and I wouldn't be upset with paying JC as long as the owners expand the budget in future years to be able to build around JC and obviously a maxed Trae.

saloonyk8 wrote:If Minnesota starts off really poorly I could see Kat being ready to move on and get a fresh start....

And I would offering Capella, Collins, Huerter and picks

dlb731 wrote:Now that the season is officially over,. What do the Hawks do to improve on this season?

Galloisdaman wrote:In fact Young, Bogs, Huerter, Gallo, Lou, and Capella all had defensive problems vs the Bucks.

The Bucks were a tough matchup size wise. Really was a matchup nightmare for the Hawks. The Hawks showed real pride just to bring it to 6 games. I was puzzled why the crowd was so quiet in game 6. I thought the home crowd was a legit factor in other games.

Lopez was too big for Cap.
Giannis too big for Collins (who really battled).
Middleton was too much for KH.
Jrue is too strong for Trae.
Portis was more willing to rebound than Gallo.
Connaughton outplayed Lou off the bench.

That’s made Ressler more excited and eager moving forward — the Hawks are fully committed to “being good for an extended period of time,” Ressler said, and that means competing for a championship.

“We really do believe we are just getting started in building what we’re trying to build,” Ressler said. “... There should be no confusion, we are really proud of where we are. But by no means do we think we’ve gotten, shall we say, to where we’re going. That’s just not the case. Nobody has lost any bit of obsession about where we hope to go.”

On how he views the difficulty of building a roster when guys on rookie-scale contracts are all becoming eligible for extensions around the same time:

“It’s complicated, of course, because what we’re trying to convince people is we’re building something, but let’s not kid ourselves, our job is to run a good business. Every player we’re negotiating with for their contracts are trying to do what I’ve been in their ear (about) from the day they joined the Atlanta Hawks, which is to be good businessmen. Be successful. Be financially focused. And at the end of the day what we are trying to achieve is literally keeping our best players, as you could imagine, trying to make clear that we’re going to have to spend a lot more than we have this season. We fully expect that. I’m not sure we’re going to be able to keep every single player that we want to keep. Pretty good bet, pretty good assumption we will not.

“But I do think we have several years that we should be able to build some real stability and listen, if the question is, and I’m not sure if it is, but if the question is are we scared of the (luxury) tax, are we scared of hitting the tax, are we scared of going into the tax, let’s face it. Our job is to run a good business. I’m scared of paying the tax and not being a good team, yes, that I’m scared of, but if we have to go into the tax to be a great team for a period of time, so be it. It’s the nature of this beast. But our view is really simple, it’s try to be the best we can and try to run a good business. And yes, try to keep as many young players as we can and know that we may not be 100 for 100 on that.”