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I think the Hawks had a Great Draft! Djurisic average 14ppg for his club in Europe.. Averaged 10ppg in Draft combine in 2 games despite playing limited minutes in game one..Very athletic on his highlight tape..legit 6'8 average over 1 spg last season..better athlete and player than AJ Griffin..
AJ lost his baby nephew in a accidental drowning accident early last year for those wondering about that mysterious lengthily personal absence and reports were that his dad was with his nephew at the time but unfortunately didn’t see him go into the pool
Hoping if there is anyone within the ATL Hawks management that have some instrest in winning, sign available free agent bigs 6'11 James Wiseman and 7'0 Neemias Queta.
Atlanta Hawks Head Coach and GM, Quinn Snyder & Lundy Fields, will both also have a chance of scenery, in two years, if the Atlanta Hawks is at least not a second round playoff team.
Risacher won’t be a hawk in three years. The hawks are just historically bad at drafting, using the players they draft, over paying for players that don’t produce in free agency, and building around the wrong players. I’ve been a hawks fan since Dominique and some things never change. Also within 3 years the “two way wing” era will be over.
PREACH. I'm an Atlanta native, and the Hawks incompetent mangement has caused me to become an Atlanta Braves fan. Now that isca winning and competent organization.
Best of luck to AJ. Never really got a chance once Quinn took over. Still, Djurisic was a guy that I thought could be a steal in the second round. I really hoped that the Hawks would come away from this draft with a big man with so many intriguing prospects in this draft. Oh well...
Great show Brad. Hoping for more content on ZR and Nikola in the future, and for some more moves that give us some clarity on the direction this team is going.
Looks like Quinn has a “type” of player he likes. Matthews, Vit, this guy, all similar players at a similar size. Especially when Atlanta’s need is post presence. I don’t know what they’re trying to do. These including the #1 pick are just pieces. Not one of them really adds anything the Hawks didn’t already have.
sorry, I'm of a different generation... I don't have Tourette Syndrome, just can't believe the bull-shtick I'm listening to. It's like we're "woke" scary thought! Lets not make anyone uncomfortable! So lets just not win if that makes anyone uncomfortable! Best make everyone happy cause thats impossible but we'll try..... Landry grow a pair and stop babbling nonsense content! Your way way too PC! Pick a direction so we know what to root for!
We need real "students" of the game running this team, not amateur golfers!! You have to "eat, breath, sleep" this game and stop being armchair owners w/ $$$. It takes money but it takes knowledge w/ intuition and constant....just constant study of the game to stay relevant. We're using ideas 3yrs old now..... Winners are willing to "break the mold". We lost our innovation w/ Travis and it's still punishing us. $$ won't fix this, great minds needed in ATL!
BTW....BREAKING NEWS! We've traded AJ Griffin for the 2nd rnd 44th pick in this draft cause an 8pnt game proven NBA future player is worth less than a 2nd rnd late pick by this offices math! Nobody took the best player in the draft yet.... It wasn't 1-43... we just realized and had to get pick 44 in the 2nd rnd to turn around the prior poor choices ownership has made! Plz God don't be chasing the Bronny James Unicorn!!! If we actually use this pick for James I will be insulted as a fellow human with a brain in my head we'd do anything this shallow and retarded... or I mean mentally challenged..... sorry I don't wanna offend anyone who's retarded like our front office. Why are we so eager to trade someone who's panned out in the NBA and is a 2nd generation proven player who's showed at his most vulnerable was valuable his rookie year? We specifically want this pick 44?? Something stinks more than Resslers pits! 🤔
OMG listening to Landry talk is like watching an online ad that tries to sell you something but won't tell you what it is..... WOW!😵💫 He also exaggerates his size as a selling point lol! 😅 Guy can't even work a "tape measure" and is running our team!!! 🤣
Nikola Djurisic SG/SF 43 pick🤔.....Dude can play watch highlights if u dont believe me☝🏽...🤔Griffin gone Boga about too hit Twitter soon🫡..Can you say Trrrrrrrrade!!!!..Stay Tuned😉👍👍
Brad you gotta let your guest cook a little more and get their points off uninterrupted w/o coloring the conversation with your own opinion too much. We hear from you consistently, we wanna hear more of the outside perspective. You did a great job this draft cycle .
Salty on this pick.... This doesn't fix our defense, we are now just sloppier handling the ball and will get eaten alive defensively from 3 positions now instead of 2. Less defense, more offense... but our defense is the hemorrhaging issue here! We can't keep Clint and Hunter till next season and expect to not lose value when we have no draft picks left. We're log jammed at SF already! We shouldn't be playing JJ at PF! He's gonna be injury prone from inside contact when he's best at SF opening up the floor. Lebron James isn't stuck playing PF if you want to look at his prototype! We're paying for 2 starting centers as well when we get 2 back-up centers production because we won't commit. Shit or get off the toilet! Our future we've invested and nurtured is Okongwu, move Clint now. I love Clint, but I love my team more. I have 35years with this team and only 5 with Clint who's gonna fall in value every game he doesn't double double now! We can't get FA's here w/o overpaying so we gotta make trades to improve since we've blown our next 3 drafts. Hunter and Clint gotta go! I feel we just stole SA's playbook here because we're unoriginal. Worst case scenario Ressler figures we atleast get more European publicity for market share sales NBA wise by this pick. Shoulda fixed our defense with Clingan, it's slow reacting and not proactive like it was a few yrs ago. Risacher is gonna face the insane swing players in the NBA as a rookie and the league is gonna call fouls everytime he tries to steal. A big gambler, which you get punished 4 outta 5 times you gamble on a steal, and that's his defensive upside in an NBA that discourages defense.
Brad you have little emotion... are you a robot? I sure hope I'm wrong but I have an insane track record on calling Rookie of the Year along with busts and I see this our next Marvin Williams. High pick underachiever at a huge differential. It is the same. Doesn't matter what draft..... #1 pick is #1 pick... you can't take Jon Koncak and justify standing pat with that as "what you wanted" when using skewed statistical equations. This office has never been told.... excuses are like assholes, everybody has one! They better keep Trae and move what needs moved, Griffin wasn't the real issue here.... we have priority issues! We do superficial things that make no difference. Ressler/Landry... don't act like your so smart, bend to a child's stubborn ignorance, then copy successful teams from 2 steps behind! Lets keep drafting forwards because that's all the rage in the NBA now! Collins, JJ, Griffin, Lundy, Hunter, Risacher... so far jury is out on these but there is the definition of insanity that comes to mind here..... we shoulda gotten Clingan w/ Brook Lopez potential playing w/ Trae. Clingan w/ any luck ROY!
we've doubled down on dumb.... we're log jammed at SF playing JJ outta position limiting his ability to maximize positives while putting more wear and tear on him undersized rebounding. We drafted for business reasons, we want a bigger piece of the European sales markets which is what businessmen would do...... If we keep Clint, we will pay dearly by losing more than we gain. He's not the healthiest and is jamming up O's impactful youth. We're overpaying for 2 starting centers playing back-up minutes now! And I'm sure all Hunter worked on this offseason was saving more on his car insurance by switching to Geico. Which is truthfully more than last offseason, but doesn't quite help the team again.....
Brad do you see a scenario where the Hawks are pairing ZR, Hunter, and Johnson together with one of their PGs? I say this because Johnson could function as a ball handler in that scenario
This man just described hunter. Not that athletic Not a defensive stopper May guard 1-4 Not a great finisher Potentially good shooter So a hunter who can pass.
They really don't play similarly at all. Hunter is more rigid and box-y. Not a natural mover. Hunter is very slow to process. Risacher is the opposite. Risacher is an off-ball mover on offense. Hunter isn't. etc. etc.
yup, your right... and Hunter was more NBA ready than Risacher is. I agree, not to say he's gonna be bad, but he's going in "Baptized by Fire" into the NBA now and is gonna face the very best of the NBA night in and night out. If he just stays healthy then he's better than Hunter for consistency reasons and we can adjust, but we're banking on a foreign rookie who played in a weaker league at 19 to be a defensive stopper. Rookies don't do that! Not at SF since Adam Silver wants 200pnt games so he can try to eclipse the greatest commissioner of any league ever in David Stern. So he's ruined ALL-Star game into an open gym and created meaningless tournaments with play-in play-off games for more cheap content gimmicky publicity. It's all broken along with our teams front office again. $$ over morales or depth of content. Us Atlanta Hawks have sold ourselves out in this draft by being bullied into our pick.
