Draft Atlanta Hawks Pick-Swap Watch Thread

Will the 2026 Hawks Swap Convey?

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scott said:
I cannot unsee the Bryant/Salaun comparison now... hopefully CB learns how to play basketball
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CB can at least defend at a high level and his 3-pt shot is fine. Worst case he's LDN-lite imo.
 
Salaun had that hustle and motor that people fell in love with but man what a dodged bullet.
 
scott said:
I cannot unsee the Bryant/Salaun comparison now... hopefully CB learns how to play basketball
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I don't see it. Bryant is a crazy athlete who already plays pretty decent defense who they hope they can develop into a defensive ace that can hit wide open threes and he was chosen with a mid first round pick. Salaun was a PF with okayish size who could maybe shoot the three and do nothing else whatsoever and was picked sixth.
 
Kick-Stand said:
I don't see it. Bryant is a crazy athlete who already plays pretty decent defense who they hope they can develop into a defensive ace that can hit wide open threes and he was chosen with a mid first round pick. Salaun was a PF with okayish size who could maybe shoot the three and do nothing else whatsoever and was picked sixth.
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Player APlayer B
Height6'6.5"6'8.75"
Standing Reach8'10"9'2"
Wingspan6'11.75"7'1.5"
Career 3P%.222.286
Career 3PA/10011.08.0
Career 3PM/1002.42.3
Career DRB%19.119.0
Career TRB/10012.012.3
Career AST%0.08.4
Career STL%1.81.1
Career BLK%1.21.1
Career DBPM-2.8-0.9
 
This is a long con.. TJ will be a Spur in a few years
 
They even kind of look the same tbqh

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https://imgur.com/a/jOM6O8r
 
LeBowen said:
I don't really follow college basketball, but a lot of forum members were saying Salaun doesn't know how to play basketball long before the draft.
On the other hand, some people thought he was the Spurs target at #8 and Hornets taking him was the reason we traded the pick away.
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He was, and still is, a classic high reward high bust player.
 
scott said:
Player APlayer B
Height6'6.5"6'8.75"
Standing Reach8'10"9'2"
Wingspan6'11.75"7'1.5"
Career 3P%.222.286
Career 3PA/10011.08.0
Career 3PM/1002.42.3
Career DRB%19.119.0
Career TRB/10012.012.3
Career AST%0.08.4
Career STL%1.81.1
Career BLK%1.21.1
Career DBPM-2.8-0.9
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We also have CB's season at UofA to look at too, where he shot 38% from 3 tbh.
 
scott said:
Player APlayer B
Height6'6.5"6'8.75"
Standing Reach8'10"9'2"
Wingspan6'11.75"7'1.5"
Career 3P%.222.286
Career 3PA/10011.08.0
Career 3PM/1002.42.3
Career DRB%19.119.0
Career TRB/10012.012.3
Career AST%0.08.4
Career STL%1.81.1
Career BLK%1.21.1
Career DBPM-2.8-0.9
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Yeah this is my concern. There are a lot of similarities in their games early.

Let's just hope CB develops better than Salaun. Surely the Hornets have a shittier developmental staff than we do, right?

... right?
 
At this point, Cavs are just another one-season-wonder fugazi East pseudo-contender ...losing at home to this Hawks in a cup game..smh
 
Scrub ass NAW turning into SGA-lite this season was not on my bingo card. Nor was Jalen Johnson becoming a top 15 player in the league.

Hopefully Trae Young returns ASAP and slows down their roll.
 
STAT88 said:
Scrub ass NAW turning into SGA-lite this season was not on my bingo card. Nor was Jalen Johnson becoming a top 15 player in the league.

Hopefully Trae Young returns ASAP and slows down their roll.
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Shit is wild.They for sure taking their sweet time bringing back young.
 
STAT88 said:
Scrub ass NAW turning into SGA-lite this season was not on my bingo card. Nor was Jalen Johnson becoming a top 15 player in the league.

Hopefully Trae Young returns ASAP and slows down their roll.
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FWIW
Jalen Johnson was playing pretty damn well before going down with an injury last year. He was also considered a top talent in the draft, but dropped due to concerns about his behavior.
NAW is completely unexpected to me also.
On his 4th team in 7 years
 
timtonymanu said:
Yeah Donovan Mitchell led teams do not do well in the playoffs.
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Darn, could he be a Demar DeRozan type player in the playoffs (his team results are similar when finishing with higher seeds). Having said that, Donovan has had some huge playoff games whereas DeMar disappears in some, so maybe not a direct comparison.

I actually wanted NAW for the Spurs. I didn't think he's a scrub at all.
 
Ice009 said:
Darn, could he be a Demar DeRozan type player in the playoffs (his team results are similar when finishing with higher seeds). Having said that, Donovan has had some huge playoff games whereas DeMar disappears in some, so maybe not a direct comparison.

I actually wanted NAW for the Spurs. I didn't think he's a scrub at all.
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Yeah, me too. Maybe you can be surprised at how well he's doing, but not that he's doing well. I also wanted him last year, Atlanta basically got him for free, they ended up framing it as a S&T to be able to use an exception so they sent out a second rounder but they could have landed him in free agency outright. This is my point when I call out the Vassell contract, you can find guys who can match (or exceed) his production at almost half his salary, and that matters when you need to build a roster. Then he has a career game where he can't miss and everyone forgets about it until, predictably, the following game evens things out. Spurs should have gone after NAW and tried to move Vassell, TBH.
 
LeBowen said:
The East is complete garbage, Hawks will make the playoffs.
The pick will be in #15 to #20 range, no need to obsess over it.
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Most likely, unless Jalen Johnson ends up out for the year and a couple others too. Anyway, Spurs have been pretty damn bad drafting outside the top 4 for a while now, they have a whole year to do some introspection and find out where they went wrong. Personally I think they were trying to hit the jackpot with lower picks and had a narrow conception of what that should look like, hence they favored freshmen with physical tools but questionable IQ, skill and (paradoxically) character, maybe now that they have their top end guys they will reassess and go for guys with a viable archetype who can actually play and we'll end up with a Christian Braun , Andrew Nembhard or Jaime Jaquez rather than a Samanic, Lonnie Walker, or Blake Wesley.
 
Ariel said:
Most likely, unless Jalen Johnson ends up out for the year and a couple others too. Anyway, Spurs have been pretty damn bad drafting outside the top 4 for a while now, they have a whole year to do some introspection and find out where they went wrong. Personally I think they were trying to hit the jackpot with lower picks and had a narrow conception of what that should look like, hence they favored freshmen with physical tools but questionable IQ, skill and (paradoxically) character, maybe now that they have their top end guys they will reassess and go for guys with a viable archetype who can actually play and we'll end up with a Christian Braun , Andrew Nembhard or Jaime Jaquez rather than a Samanic, Lonnie Walker, or Blake Wesley.
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Well, we took Bryant who's best case projection is a high-end 3-D wing with no self-creation.

All I want from the next draft is an athletic rim protector that could take over as Kornet's backup within a few years. Should be doable.
 
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