Should the Hawks resign Joe?

[killbuckner]

Let him go and take the trade exception. its suicide to give him 6 years and 120 million.

[ShowNTell]

Knick fan here, I want Joe to sign with us, just to help us get Lebron, but you guys dont want him for the max. It will be Allan Housston for you guys, and he will be unmoveable. Believe me the Hawks can compete without Joe Johnson easily. Especially with Jamal Crawford. Joe Johnson is going to be a awful signing at that much. I dont even think Bosh deerves that much. Hawks are making a panic move. Those Allan Houston years for $100 mill were terrible guys

[ATLballer]

I agree with uga_dawg. We have no choice but to resign JJ. it's a lot of money but I agree we need to continue to build and improve on last years debacle in the playoffs. We WILL be a better offensive team than last year without stupid Woody and his ISO offense. Teague will be much improved with summer league play and Jordan Crawford could be a monster off the bench. This guy can really play as i've seen a lot of him in college.

[JSABleedsGreen]

Celtics fan here, that is a horrendous contract if indeed it goes down. The owner is basically financially strapping himself with that.....in wo years he'll be asking himself why he made that offer. Terrible. When i read the contract offer....I thought of Rashard Lewis and Gilbert Arenas' contract offers....ALL terrible. Max money for a non franchise player. JJ is basically a pippen. A really good 2nd option.....definitely not the number 1 option, not for a guy who averaged 11 points in the second round of the playoffs.

Good luck to you guys......

[ATLballer]

Celtics fan here, that is a horrendous contract if indeed it goes down. The owner is basically financially strapping himself with that.....in wo years he'll be asking himself why he made that offer. Terrible. When i read the contract offer....I thought of Rashard Lewis and Gilbert Arenas' contract offers....ALL terrible. Max money for a non franchise player. JJ is basically a pippen. A really good 2nd option.....definitely not the number 1 option, not for a guy who averaged 11 points in the second round of the playoffs.

Good luck to you guys......

Funny you say this. Just wait and watch ur Celtics overpay for both Ray Allen and Pierce who are both barely 2nd options themselves.

[Space Jam]

Celtics fan here, that is a horrendous contract if indeed it goes down. The owner is basically financially strapping himself with that.....in wo years he'll be asking himself why he made that offer. Terrible. When i read the contract offer....I thought of Rashard Lewis and Gilbert Arenas' contract offers....ALL terrible. Max money for a non franchise player. JJ is basically a pippen. A really good 2nd option.....definitely not the number 1 option, not for a guy who averaged 11 points in the second round of the playoffs.

Good luck to you guys......

Funny you say this. Just wait and watch ur Celtics overpay for both Ray Allen and Pierce who are both barely 2nd options themselves.

LOL I was thinking the same thing, not to mention Garnetts contract.

[evildallas]

^^^ The big difference is the Boston owner was willing to pay luxury tax to win a title. And if they overpay to keep the band together it is one that almost won it all including beating the team that swept us by a record margin. Atlanta extending a bad contract to stay the team that gets swept out of the playoffs is worse than Boston entering bad contracts to try to make another run at the title all things considered.

[CAM]

Should the Hawks resign Joe?

No, not for this money. I sincerely hope there is something else in the works or he signs elsewhere. I have not read a single positive comment anywhere about this contract situation. Even on AJC.com all of the writers are at best sitting on the fence and not saying negative.

I just don't see how we can continue to improve with so much money being paid to Joe. Very disappointing.

- Is anyone actually happy with this result?
- Is there any chance at all that this is actually a precursor to a sign and trade? Perhaps even a bigger one including Marvin and / or Bibby?

[BballerShotCaller]

No don't re-sign JJ. The Hawks players don't like each other as Barkley observed.

It was obvious the team has chemistry problems. Good job getting rid of the coach.

Now just start to build around Horford. Make the trades to bring in better chemistry

while trying to maintain or improve the talent level.