GTfan wrote:
1.) Fire Mike Woodson and hire Jeff Van Gundy or or another good coach
2.) Do not resign Mike Bibby (the worst defender in the NBA)
3.) Sign Ramon Sessions (better distributor than Bibby, much better defender, and much younger)
4.) Let Marvin Williams walk
5.) Sign Ben Gordon (the hawks will have cap space for both of these signings)
6.) Slide Joe Johnson over to SF (its what he played in PHO and he was way more effiecient then)
7.) Draft competent big man, perhaps Dejuan Blair orGani Lawal (Lawal is more realistic)
8.) Resign Zaza at a cheap price
1) That's a given, but our owners probably disagree.
2) Unless we already have a good PG in hand, we have to try to keep Bibby. We have to have a decent PG.
3) I think we'd have to overspend for Sessions.
4) For NOTHING?
5) Sessions and Gordon and Joe as our 1-2-3? Kinda small. Add in Smoove at 4 and Horford at 5 and we're REALLY small.
6) He'd take a beating from the bigger SFs, don'cha think?
7) Right after a beautiful girl tells you she loves your back hair.
Biggest problem I have is with the poor makeup of the starting 5. We'd have the smallest front court, the smallest swing players and the least athletic back court (1 through 3) - both in terms of speed and leaping ability - in the NBA.
Plus, that's a much poorer outside shooting team.
Defensively, Sessions is better than Bibby (big deal, I'm better than Bibby), but Gordon is worse than Joe at 2 and Joe is worse than Marvelous at 3.
YES!!! For god sakes YES!!! Let Marvin walk for nothing, just like the Magic did with Darko, that let them sign Lewis, and look at them now. Marvin is not worth $8+ mill a year. I do not wanna get saddled for the next 5 years with a bloated crappy marvin williams contract. An earlier poster pointed out how our cap space would allows us to take back some great players through trades in addition to free agency, getting rid of Marvin, Bibby, and Childress rights would allow us to really improve. If we have to pay Bibby $7 mill a year, I'd much rather use that on Jack, or Sessions, or Miller, or trade for Ford, or Heinrich. We have so many better options and we are never ever going to be an elite team with Bibby (o points, o assists until the last 3 minutes in the biggest game of the year for the Hawks). Bibby is just not that good, he's washed up. He was better than The PG's we had before him, thats the best compliment I can give, but that does not justify keeping him around and stagnating as a first round playoff team.
How about we throw some Money at Turkoglu to replace Marvin, he's unrestricted, and a hell of a lot better player. The way we do that is by letting marvin walk (unless the Magic are dumb enought to wanna sign and trade for him). Other options are Marquis Daniels (should be cheaper than Marvin) or Shawn Marrion (still a much better player than Marvin, on offense and defense).
If we keep this core we are going nowhere fast, and will be surpassed by the 76ers and the Bulls next season, with the Heat right in the mix as well. Time for Sund to put his stamp on this team and not accept the mediocre team Knight put together.
