Draft Atlanta Hawks Pick-Swap Watch Thread

[scott]

They'll still end up in the play-in because the East is that bad.
Maybe it's just me not being a gambler, I don't like pushing our chances when we've had so much lottery luck over the past years.

I guess it comes down to if you think Risacher is worth trading down 15ish spots in the draft.

He’s not, IMO, and I don’t think ATL will make the play in barring a major trade

 

[RC_Drunkford]

I could see ATL having interest in LaVine once they move Trae tbh. Either way, I do think this will end up being a multi-team deal.

https://twitter.com/x/status/2006106968872632354

the Bucks want LaVine and Sacramento might be the only FO dumb enough to want Trae Young

Yeah, they're never getting that much.

I think we should call the Hawks about Risacher.

I'd offer Sochan and both teams getting their picks back.
Give them back their swap and next year's pick, with us getting our '27 pick back.

I know it looks like an overpay right now, but last year we kept talking about those picks as if they were pure gold, but Hawks are an Eastern team that's looking to compete which means we can get a top10 pick from them only with blind luck.
If they trade for AD, no matter how injury prone, they're not giving us a top10 pick.

I'd rather have Lendeborg or Steinbach than Risacher tbh

 

[frenchfred]

the Bucks want LaVine and Sacramento might be the only FO dumb enough to want Trae Young

I'd rather have Lendeborg or Steinbach than Risacher tbh

It would be a bad trade for the Kings, they don't get any picks while taking on Trae.

 

[STAT88]

I can just picture Vivek rn harassing Scott Perry demanding Trae Young because it’s a chance to add another 25 point scorer

 

[Exstatic]

If they hit that worst case, and by your use of ‘still’ acknowledges the possibility, they will drop behind Milwaukee with Giannis back, into 11th, and out off the play in. Even if they make it, they’re fake news. They finished 8th last year,lost the 7/8 game, then lost to #10 Miami. That game gave us #14, and deprived OKC of a lottery shot.

They'll still end up in the play-in because the East is that bad.
Maybe it's just me not being a gambler, I don't like pushing our chances when we've had so much lottery luck over the past years.

I guess it comes down to if you think Risacher is worth trading down 15ish spots in the draft.

 

[BatManu20]

Damn. He's a difference-maker for them tbh.

https://twitter.com/x/status/2006123872492335558

 

[Arguendo]

Good god ATL, please please please trade for AD. That's our best bet to get good picks from ATL this yr and next. They play .550ish ball the 1/2 games he's on the court and .250 the 1/2 he's not, give us a top10 pick both yrs. Make it so!

 

[Arguendo]

If they hit that worst case, and by your use of ‘still’ acknowledges the possibility, they will drop behind Milwaukee with Giannis back, into 11th, and out off the play in. Even if they make it, they’re fake news. They finished 8th last year,lost the 7/8 game, then lost to #10 Miami. That game gave us #14, and deprived OKC of a lottery shot.

Also the East isn't that bad now, much better than predicted. Wiz are the Wiz and Pacers have been playing a G-league roster all season + Siakam. Those are the only two eastern teams they are clearly better than today and once McConnell and Sheppard get back I'm not sure the Hawks are actually better.
BKN might actually have something cooking on D + all their young dudes growing. Next yr, Pacers will be back, Boston will rack up wins, Nets and Cha could easily look clearly better than them. Jalen took his step up, Brandon Miller and Kon haven't yet, Sion/Kalk/Diabate look like real dudes, Salaun has been very efficient in limited minutes. Either lottery luck or just trick someone into buying Bridges (fools gold imo) for value, jettison LaMelo just unfixable (all the talent/tools but unfixable shooting instincts-just gotta shoot that pullup 3 with 19 secs on the shot clock, perfect for a Hawks/Kings type threadmill team though) they'll have something cooking.

 

[BatManu20]

OT but the Clippers are rollin' right now after an awful start to the season. Really hope they keep it up. Need to push that OKC pick out of the lottery tbh.

https://twitter.com/x/status/2006257141175157044

 

[RC_Drunkford]

Brook Lopez is playing great for them right now

 

[RC_Drunkford]

via Hoopshype

"I don't even know if anybody's even debating this thing anymore. So, I asked somebody in the NBA — we’ll do this every week on this — I said: ‘Just give me a kind of breakdown of the Trae Young trade market.’" “It’s hard to think of a team that’s trying to win this season that Trae would help, especially once you factor in what that team would be losing from the players they would have to send back as matching salary. He doesn’t defend. He doesn’t rebound. Guys hate playing with him.”