Talk about hyperbole. I would take Collins/Huerter/Hunter/Reddish/Graham/Teague over anyone on our team not named Dame/CJ/Nurk. And Whiteside getting the ball more would only gimme an aneurysm. He took more shots than anyone outside of CJ that game. 14 is plenty for him. Sidebar: With Reddish and Hunter coming on well, I wonder if ATL would part with Huerter. He'd be great as our SF.
That's fine....the Hawks are #4 in the Lottery for a reason. It's not my opinion, just how they have played this season.
They had also won 7 of their previous 9 at home. Young team on the upswing. We, otoh, are an old team on the downswing with our youngins not looking like NBA players.
Well, no shit. We were talking about the current roster and what CJ is playing with. Thanks for making my point.
Lol....this is fun. So with having won 7 of their 9 last home games, they are STILL the 4th worst team in the league?
Its gotten to where if the league likes you... they really like you. Its so inconsistent though, sometimes Dame cant be touched other times its like he should get an attorney and file assault charges and no call...
Your post I responded to was you commenting on one game thus my rresponse. Now you want to move the goal posts to justify your response.
How many games did they play without their Collins? What's their record with and without him? That used to be the case, but your anti-CJ shtick has grown to the point that that's one of the most laughable things I've read on this board.
I was actually surprised by Hueter's ability to put the ball on the floor and create offense. I knew he was a decent shooter but I was thinking he was kind of one-dimensional. Looked up his stats and he's actually averaging 3.5 assists in 31 minutes. That's around CJ's level. More impressive is that he carries a 2.2 assist/turnover ratio. And he's playing with a PG who is even more ball-dominant than Dame. He has a 62% assisted FG rate, and I consider that an optimal number for a supporting player but I doubt the Blazers could convince Atlanta to part with him. If Portland has something like the 12th pick, give or take a couple of slots I'd wonder if that would interest the Hawks. Might have to be the pick + player (Little?)...too much? One thing is the Blazer and Hawks front offices have a relationship. Two trade in 8 months so at least the talk to each other
I was screwing around with this seeing if we could give them CJ for Huerter but they really don't have a ton of unreasonable contracts. Would be pretty hard to match them up and they aren't getting rid of most of the young guys like Hunter.
Why on Earth would Atlanta want to pair CJ with Trae Young? I can't think of a much worse back court than that on the defensive end.
You know what would be interesting though is that the Hawks have a ton of cap space this summer and could take on a big contract. What if it was something like this: CJ to Orlando Gordon to Atlanta Isaac and Huerter (or Hunter) to Portland Maybe picks involved somewhere? For Portland it would shed over $20 million off their cap number and they'd be a lot more cap friendly moving forward.
Dame and CJ. Lol. Ok its not worse now that Dame has figured out to play defense. I think Young will work on his defense a lot going forward too. Maybe they think he would help Young get a breather or something I dunno.
I would too given their current contracts. Curious since I've repeatedly said how well I think CJ would do with his own team. Pointing out his rank in efficiency on his own team is not exactly so 'laughable' take, but simply just the way things are and have been for a while.
This is extremely skewed in Portland's favor. Orlando is not giving up Gordon + Isaac for CJ. I doubt they'd even give up Isaac alone for CJ. I could see Gordon + minor asset (2nd round pick) for CJ though. I can't see Atlanta giving up their young guys for Gordon either. I don't see the incentive for them.
I think Orlando would probably be willing to do Gordon and Isaac for CJ especially if they got like a protected pick or something. CJ's going to give them a better Combo guard then they currently have. It sounds like their mostly done with AG too.
