Geaux_Hawks wrote:Speaking of those Dallas Mavericks you refer to, they gave up 96 ppg and had a 105 defensive rating. So to me you seem to be contradicting yourself and trying to cover up by showing 2 dominant Spurs teams with very good defenses did and not showing what other NBA champs have done. The 2 years LA won back to back, they averaged 104.2 defensive rating and gave up 98 ppg.
http://espn.go.com/nba/hollinger/teamstats
OFF EFF - 107.6 DEF EFF 102.3 (+5.3)- Mavs 2011
OFF EFF - 103.2 DEF EFF 104.6 (-1.4) -Hawks2011
OFF EFF - 105.9 DEF EFF 101.1 (+4.8) LAL- 2010
http://www.basketball-reference.com/
Off Rtg: 109.7 (8th of 30) ▪ Def Rtg: 105.0 (8th of 30) - DAL 2011 [+4.7]
Off Rtg: 111.0 (6th of 30) ▪ Def Rtg: 104.3 (6th of 30) - LAL 2011 [+6.7]
Off Rtg: 106.1 (20th of 30) ▪ Def Rtg: 107.0 (13th of 30) - ATL 2011 [-0.9]
Off Rtg: 111.9 (2nd of 30) ▪ Def Rtg: 106.7 (13th of 30) - ATL 2010 [+5.2]
Off Rtg: 109.3 (10th of 30) ▪ Def Rtg: 107.6 (12th of 30) - ATL 2009 [+1.6]
It's obvious we don't have enough firepower and lack it it in the front court, which is why I agree we should move Horford while the League is still high on him. Chicago only had Deng & Rose and a beat up Boozer, that's why it didn't take but 90 points to beat Chicago.
I agree, with Firepower [Teague, Hinrich, Johnson, Williams] on moving Horford BUT it has to be multiple [CAREFULLY Researched
] players that fill out and can Play with this roster. Defense, Defense, Defense. Its cliche but that gives us more opportunities to score than having 3 volume shooters out there.We want to win a title we have to divest and multiply Al's "10 Wins" into more like 15 wins via committee.
Kwame Brown won 3.5 games in 66 games.
divest Al and maximize our entire roster vs. Divest other players and maximize Al.
Al's talent is maxed out. He had more assists than Lamar Odom and almost twice as many as Bosh lol at "featuring him in the offense" more.
He had 7 less than Pau Gasol. He gets the ball and he passes it!
No shame in that and he does it well just don't tell me at this stage of his career he's "working on a counter move" when his primary move is to muscle it in and jump hook
CHICAGO
Chicago is a mirage and all you need is a guy of similar mobility to box Joakim, and Asik out and give multiple efforts.
Boozer gets injured every year. Kurt Thomas is 38 etc. Bogans is gone. They will need to extend
+ Mirotic + Liggins
Carlos Boozer $15,000,000
Luol Deng $13,326,700
Joakim Noah $11,050,000
Derrick Rose $9,091,819 - Qualifying Offer/ Give him more and limit teams options?
Kyle Korver $5,000,000
Ronnie Brewer $4,370,000
CJ Watson $3,700,000
Omer Asik $2,321,875
Taj Gibson $2,155,811
"I think his play during the 2010-2011 season, coupled with his prior years in the league tell us two things about Boozer moving forward. He's not going to learn how to play defense at this stage in his career, and he isn't going to stay healthy. That's a scary picture to paint for Bulls fans.
Boozer will be 30 years old next season. He's struggled with injury problems throughout his NBA career. Boozer won't be less injury-prone as he gets older. Yes, he was injured during the playoffs and that contributed to his poor performance this year, but he probably will be next season too. Boozer just doesn't have a history of staying healthy."
Bulls have their own problems and hopefully for us Hawks fans they will hamstring their own depth.