Draft Atlanta Hawks Pick-Swap Watch Thread

[onechance87]

Heat and Magic are also on big W streaks.
11/15 Hawks remaining games are against playoff teams.

 

[Robz4000]

Didn't think the Raptors and Sixers would fall off this hard (Sixers are missing half their team tbf). Need the Hornets to pass up the Sixers and Craptors to beat the Hawks in the 7/8 game and hope the Sixers can get healthy and beat the Hawks for the 8th seed imo.

 

[Seventyniner]

bro.at this rate,They look like they can make top 6.

They can, but it's a crowded field. They can finish anywhere from 5th to 10th.

I won't project their recent record against mostly bad teams to the future where the schedule gets tougher.

 

[Raven_]

it is getting hilarious tbh

 

[MacNeacail]

I had high expectations going into this season (natural pick of 26-30)... and expected a swap into the 20-25 range. This is still better than even I imagined.

 

[CGD]

8 of their last 10 games have been against lottery teams so take it with a grain of salt.

https://twitter.com/x/status/2032450165282419112

Charlotte continues to impress, while Atlanta is buoyed by a cupcake schedule. That whole shitbird division (minus Wiz) seem to be playing well.

 

[onechance87]

We need to magic to whoop hawks ass tommrow,Cause atl on the brink of passing heat in the standings.

 

[Sugus]

I had high expectations going into this season (natural pick of 26-30)... and expected a swap into the 20-25 range. This is still better than even I imagined.

Yeah, there were actually a lot more folks doubting IF the swap would ever convey, than there were folks just expecting a lottery pick from the Hawks, from what I saw. We've been collectively much more blindsided by the Spurs' resounding success than Midlanta's continued middling, tbh

 

[Splits]

I had no expectations before the season, high expectations before the trade deadline and now winning streak. Presuming we finish with the 28th pick and they finish with 18, moving up 10 spots is like trading the 28th + a future/late first. Pretty good value all-in-all

 

[CGD]

I had no expectations before the season, high expectations before the trade deadline and now winning streak. Presuming we finish with the 28th pick and they finish with 18, moving up 10 spots is like trading the 28th + a future/late first. Pretty good value all-in-all

Plus they already gave us Carter Bryant + a piece of Fox.

 

[JJSPUR]

Plus they already gave us Carter Bryant + a piece of Fox.

Lets not forget next years 1st round pick as well. In retrospect, trading DJ Murray was a pretty good trade even if we had to wait a few years to reap the benefits. Even the hawks benefitted from trading Murray away.
Wonder if the Pelicans will trade Murray eventually.

 

[ginobilized]

Charlotte continues to impress, while Atlanta is buoyed by a cupcake schedule. That whole shitbird division (minus Wiz) seem to be playing well.

Don't shit on the Wiz, they just joined the NBA records books for the 2nd highest single-scoring game in history.

 

[spursistan]

On top of a piss easy schedule, The Hawks have been extremely lucky with amount of injuries to other play-in contenders which is going to hurt our pick : Warriors (Curry being out since Jan 31st), Blazers (Avdjia nagging back issue is shell of early season self)), Philly (Embiid & Maxey +PG suspension), Clippers (now Kawhi), Bucks (Giannis)

 

[Ariel]

Positive results today, with wins for Philadelphia and Toronto. Milwaukee win is irrelevant at this point tbh. Also glad Dallas won and tied Memphis in the wins column, hopefully they surpass them, last thing I want is Dallas landing a top 3 pick (actually second to last, don't want to speak you-know-who into existence).

 

[scott]

For reasons based fully on superstition and historical returns that are no indication of future results…

If our natural pick is #29 I want us to decline the swap option and just pick there. We’re golden at #29 (and #28 too, tbh)

 

[Raven_]

who knew traw was the biggest detriment to a team, in the league... except... a lot of people.

 

[BatManu20]

Positive results today, with wins for Philadelphia and Toronto. Milwaukee win is irrelevant at this point tbh. Also glad Dallas won and tied Memphis in the wins column, hopefully they surpass them, last thing I want is Dallas landing a top 3 pick (actually second to last, don't want to speak you-know-who into existence).

I've had a feeling Dallas is going to get another top-4 pick for a while now tbh. Will be annoying but I'm fully expecting it. Really need Philly and the Clips to keep winning though. Can't afford OKC making a crazy jump in the lottery. That'd be a disaster.

 

[Arguendo]

We need to be realistic, they're going to be in the play-in anyway ever since Milwaukee's season went to shit, we just need for Toronto to hold above them and one of Philadelphia or Charlotte to surpass them. That would put them at 9 / 10 in the East, and they'd need to win 2 games (probably vs Charlotte / Philadelphia and Toronto / Orlando / Miami) to make the playoffs, if they don't they'll pick 14 or maybe even 13, we need to come to terms with that.

Yeah, that's what I was implying noting they basically need to lose all 11 of those games, which was super unlikely.
Atl now has the 8th hardest remaining SOS, but still looks like a coin flip at best 76ers finish 8th given all their missing guys. Almost certain Por and GSW finish with worse records, LAC's a coin flip too. 14th pick is starting to look like the best case realistic scenario.

 

[Arguendo]

I had high expectations going into this season (natural pick of 26-30)... and expected a swap into the 20-25 range. This is still better than even I imagined.

Yeah, even worse case this is going to be a huge jump for us. Given how weak the East looked to start the season and how good the ATL offseason moves looked on paper, this will be great regardless of where it falls.
Vegas had ATL tied with Det to finish 4th in the East.

 

[bozhemoi]

My eye is on whether ATL ends on the bottom side of the play-in bracket or the top. On the top end, they can easily make the playoffs. I don't think they can win two games to get in, especially if one team is Charlotte.

 

[spursistan]

Hopefully we start to see some few Ls now that Hawks have finished their soft part of schedule.

https://twitter.com/x/status/2033576193661059440

 

[BatManu20]

Hawks up 15 early on ORL

 

[onechance87]

Yup we should look at players in the 20 range.Yaxel here we come

 

[spurraider21]

Yup we should look at players in the 20 range.Yaxel here we come

Cam Carr has been mocked in the 20's quite a bit...

 

[spursistan]

Hawks up 15 early on ORL

Starting to hate how that trade and a soft portion of schedule along with pristine health allowed them to turn it around and build momentum post-all star break..