they have now drafted 4 wings with high picks in the last two years

diaw childress smith smith

they are likely not even trying to get their best player back who was young in Jackson because he plays the same position--they have 0 size NO PF no C and probably made the biggest reach in the draft by selecting ivey at 37--they couldve got him as an undrafted rookie and taken some size somehere - i really dont know who will be worse atlanta[who will be worse than last year] or charlotte. the NBA should put Atlanta on some kind of probation of threatning of expulsion.

Atlanta will be worse than Charlotte this year. That team is completely directionless. At least Charlotte has some semblence of a plan. Atlanta's got Jason Terry, but even he might be moved and he seems to have peaked.

Its the Donald Sterling plan for making $$$ and sellling jerseys. you get a bunch of fast running dunking kids like Odom, Miles, Richardson and Maggette and you have a team that gets a log of highlights and no wins, but your payroll is $30mm so your making cash and happy.

I have said it in years past, compared to some of those teams, even Laydog is not as bad when compared.

The ability to spend foolishly is better than no abilty to spend at all.

Posted by fishmike:

This is why its silly when you say we have zero zilcho chance of getting guys like Crawford or Swift. The amount of retardation around the league is unreal. Your talking about Atlanta right now... How do you think Bulls fans feel about trading Artest, Brad Miller and Mercer for Jalen Rose?

Don't forget trading Elton Brand for a high school kid

Posted by nyballer:

itd be nice if we could try to trade for one of those wingman if they are too overloaded. i really like childress he reminds me of a better verrsion of tayshaun prince - hes long and is a strong defender and has a shot and is athletic, and i think he would take over nicely for houston if they moved him to the 2, which his skills would fit. plus, he can be our main perimeter defender and a backcourt of him and marbury would be awesome. i dont know if atlanta would be willing to give him up (probably not if they drafted him 6) or if they were, i dont know what it would take.

How many of these hyped up wing players will be the next Calbert Cheaney?

Posted by Nalod:

I have said it in years past, compared to some of those teams, even Laydog is not as bad when compared.

The ability to spend foolishly is better than no abilty to spend at all.

I agree, I live here in Atlanta and everyone here thinks that the hawks are a joke, I mean Billy knight is a jackass, he is even more of a idiot than layden, believe me, the Hawks went into the offseason dumping talent for cap space, and hoping to get Howard in the draft, they are a rudderless ship, they should have taken Jameer nelson, they should have traded Reef and ratliff for some young talent instead of hoping to sign a whole bunch of free Agents who do not want to come to a losing team, who's ownership doesn't have clue and the team has no head coach, they let Rivers and Scott get gobbled up without even making a run at either... That is why I think the knicks will do good this offseason, there is just too much incompetency in the league for zeke not to do well..

Posted by Nalod:

Knicks just seem to not able to take advantage of much since we got Spree.

I don't think we got lucky with marbury, we took on Pennys huge contract. I don't know why penny gets such a big pass around here. Shandon is brutalized, and everybody wrote off Allan and wants Finely or StackWeed to replce him. Or throw 5 million at Stephan Jackson!

Im not saying getting marbury was not worth Taking on penny, but not too many teams were willing to do it. That is why some think we could have held onto Lampe.

Funny, Isiah's big signature deal was from notes left by Laydog!

Yeah, thats the ticket, Laydog will long be remembered for being the misunderstood genious! LOL!

Penny's a thousand times better than Shandon. And a contract with 2 seasons remaining is not an awful contract. It's one season away from being a very valuable expiring contract actually

Nalod writes the same thing in each post.