Hawks still 3rd best team in the East?

[HoopsGuru25]

Why did you need to quote that particular post to say that the Bucks are better than the Hawks?

[D21]

I don't understand why you have the Bucks over the Hawks either..What are you basing that on?

Why ?

- don't look at their 82 games record : their real record is on games once Salmons was there.
- Salmons is still there, Delfino too and they will add Bogut to that, with a full summer to work on it.
- they added Maggette, Gooden and only lost Ridnour, even if he needs to be replaced.

Unless ATL makes real progress from the new coaching, MIL is clearly supposed to be better.

[Harry10]

^^ The Celtics will not be a higher seed than Orlando. They have shown to not really care for the regular season and with Perkins injured they are looking at a 4 or 5 seed IMO. I don't understand why you have the Bucks over the Hawks either..What are you basing that on?

It helps that the Bucks have a real coach and not a nickel and dimer like Larry Drew who only has the gig because the Hawks are cheap.

Let's be honest.... The Hawks players aren't up to snuff. They got whipped in the 2nd round while other teams have improved and the Hawks will still be starting the UNPRODUCTIVE old Mike Bibby. They have scrub Jeff Teague as the back up PG>... The Hawks have no center. If he had got a chance to play Bogut would have handled Al Horford. The Hawks still lack a quality bench and are average at SF.

If the Hawks hadn't had so much luck with injuries they wouldn't have won 50 games. They will be LUCKY if they win the 47 games they won 2 years ago.

did you even watch how Horford dominated Bogut in the regular season?

"real coach"? you mean the same reach coach whose players quite on him in PHX and CHI?

"aren't up to snuff" what does that cliche even mean?

"scrub Jeff Teague as the back up PG", most scrubs are backups, this is just idiotically redundant , and the Hawks have a PG, he is Jamal Crawford, do you even watch the Hawks in the 4th quarter, when Crawford takes the PG spot with the line up of Al/Josh/Marv/Joe/Crawford

"Hawks have no center" so they don't have a center, but they do have an all star center, starting at center (Bogut: zero all star appearances)

"no bench", so when did having the most productive bench, tied with the Sun, not have a bench

this is just (Please Use More Appropriate Word) or sad, i don't know which one, but this is just one long (Please Use More Appropriate Word) rant that not only makes no scene but is hilariously wrong at ever aspect

[JoshB914]

um... the hawks weren't the third best team in the East LAST season