Is it time to blow it up?
Atlanta Hawks Fans Reaction to the 2023-24 Season.
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Monday um got a
real busy week
sportswise and we gonna tackle a couple
of topics this morning before I hand it
over
to OG big
Sam with uh
Monday with the
showstopper um first off um our bra
Sherman Wood what’s going on Southside
what’s happening son how what’s going
on
um our bra dropped one last night to the
world Champion Texas
Rangers taking two out of three in the
series
um they record dropped the 14-
six but it still Remains the
best record in
baseball um the bravs just keep on
keeping
on um
they one guy goes down next guy steps up
um they got hit with inur bug a little
bit Spencer stri out for the season with
UCL chair um but great news on that
front he doesn’t have to have Tommy JN
surgery he is still out for the season
but that’s a significant significantly
good news that he doesn’t have to um
go under the knife like
that a Al is gonna probably be out for
another maybe three weeks with a broke
toe but Luis G I think his name is
G has filled in well for him also Shawn
Murphy is out for the foreseeable future
with an
oblique but
Travis Ruth I’mma start called on Travis
roof hit four over the weekend um he hit
three Friday
night and he hit one again on Saturday
so the bres are okay
um starting pitching
is
yeah they’re hitting the
baseball best offense in baseball right
now
um and that Bullpen back end that
Bullpen is almost like South so 14 and
six after first 20 games it equates
to um 114 and
48 over 162 games so um I’ll take that
right
now as a brave as a brave fan Marcel
Ozuna been swinging a pretty hot bat had
a 17 game hidden streak
snapped on
Saturday and what he do Sunday he hit a
three-run shot so Marcel Ozuna is locked
in early good for him um you know he
ain’t got no women problems and he ain’t
got no DUI so um it bows well for the
Braves that he starting out hot usually
he starts out he’d be he be missing in
action for like the
first 30 to 45 days of the season and
then he’ll turn it on late and he was
like that last year and he had a 40
Homer 100 RBI c campaign
so the sky is the limit for Marcel so
far this
year
um we G also talk Falcons and
Hawks let’s get the Falcons part out the
way NFL draft is
Thursday right now and a key thing I’m
saying is right now we hold the E
pick
um I don’t
know what direction we’re going
in there are multiple Endless
Possibilities I’m not going to go too
hard on the analytical part of it um
and I would think I it’s probably that’s
probably the sentiments of the of the
entire crew here we just gonna uh tackle
whatever we do this Thursday Friday and
Saturday
we’ll we’ll discuss we’ll discuss it and
chop it up about
it next week now
getting to this
pick or
reason why I say it for now is because
it it it appears
that the uh NFL has found the
Falcons uh liable for
tampering with Kurt Cousins um you know
kurk shouldn’t have talked to the
manager you know I said I see a few
people going in on you
know kurk for opening his big mouth
he probably opened his mouth because he
didn’t think nothing was [ __ ] wrong
and and to me I think this is some
frous
[ __ ] but hey right is right wrong is
wrong we got accept punishment then go
on and just get it on out the way and
get it over with and one of the options
which is the least likely to happen in
fact I don’t think nothing’s going to
happen this year at all is um
a pick swap with Minnesota since they so
butt hurt off this they so tore up that
they
didn’t want to keep Kirk Cousins they
didn’t want to offer him the money but
they pick 11th and we pick
eightth but more than likely the
punishment is gonna be levied next year
and probably lose a third or maybe a
fourth round pick so we’ll cross that
bridge when we get to it we’ll worry
about it
then um now let’s go ahead on to get
into it that’s
Southside the Atlanta
Hawks season ended
last Wednesday uh this past
Wednesday we were to 10 seed uh Went to
went into
Chicago and played the nine seed bulls
and that was a
extremely disappointing end
to
uh a disappointing
season
um a lot of people blame injury
but I just mentioned with when I just
mentioned how the bravs
handle their
injuries
and the OG and I tomorrow on the
realistic ogs we gonna discuss the exit
interviews and it was some pretty
interesting things said by a few of the
players in the exit in interviews and
one of them one of the points that was
hit on was talking about injuries so
we’ll go into that
portion
tomorrow here is the skin
of it ain’t
working we gave it a try
and now some
drastic not tweaking drastic
changes needs to be made with this
roster I don’t
know how they
how all these heads in the front office
that they got you got a general manager
you got assistant general manager assist
got an assistant and they got two more
people up
there which is
mindblowing the Hawks don’t have much
draft
Capital um
so right
now all right now we got 10 pick
major moves need to be made in order to
recoup some Gap draft capital and if you
go espec especially if you decide to
blow it up and go into a rebuild you g
to get picks back
um naturally the elephant in the room is
Trey Trey young um Trey had
another off offensively had another
solid season
average 26 and a half 10 a little bit
over 10 assists a
game but there’s a clear
issue when it comes to
him I’ll go into that in a minute
whatever goes
on that particular back court can’t
start together moving
forward you can’t bring one of them off
the bench as somebody
suggested that’s not
realistic one of them needs to be
moved preferably for me
it should be Trey
young but being that I know that Tony
wrestler probably too chicken [ __ ] to
Trey Trey
young because quite frankly honestly
Trey young turning money for the
organization folks going down to that
safe Farm Arena to see Trey young so as
a fan I’ll get it if he don’t trade
him I’ll get it
um but it has to
be either Trey young or dejonte Murray
not both of them I would hate to see
dejonte Murray
go
but we can’t go further with that two
guard system it’s not working and it’s
just it’s mindboggling that it’s
actually a few of my fellow Hulk fans
who feel like they think they think it
could still work that is crazy Pat
what’s going on um injuries bad front
office
moves and decision is the reason for I
mean everything team have
injuries every team have
injuries but in injuries can’t play A
Part
bad front office
moves see this is the part I was talking
about on my video
yesterday or I talked about this a
little bit this morning in one of the
Hawks groups on Facebook shout out to
new pack City Atlanta Hawks at home
court in Atlanta Hawks
Nation uh that I just rejoined after a
five or more year Hiatus unless it’s
another Atlanta Hawks
Nation
um let’s go back to
2017 that’s about when the rebuild
started that’s about when Travis link
took over as the G
GM uh it was the last year of Mike buen
hosen and his first
pick I’m G just go through the first
round picks I don’t remember all the
second round I only really second round
I remember was the guy we drafted guys
who we drafted this year moay Seth Lundy
and I and I remember Bruno
Fernando
um in
2018 he happens to be on the hwks
now um you brought in John Collins John
Collins was the first
pick John Collins gave the Hulk six
years not spectacular years but not bad
years
either
um
played played okay in the playoffs he
didn’t make a whole hell of a lot of
noise he had a pretty decent Series
against the
Sixers
um in the in the in the 2021 Conference
Finals run gave six years
we traded him to Utah and he’s starting
there and then you go to
2018 that was the year where we had
three first rounders we took Trey young
at third or fifth however you want to
view the
trade
um we of course we made the trade for
Luca and
we um they we also got the cam reddish
pick the next
year
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um we had Kevin her at 19 and you had
Amar Spelman at 30 now Amar Spellman was
a Miss
piit he was a missp
piit Kevin hurder played four years as a
spot starter he started more than he
came off the bench but when he came off
the bench he was the first or second guy
off the bench uh provided good
outside uh
shot
range not a plus Defender but he had
size and a low
length to uh supplement for his lack of
Defense
we traded
him M all these people who I’m
mentioning the majority of
them played well enough to get a second
contract
just talking about bad front office
moves
um we traded him to
Sacramento um right
now we traded him
for mo
harkless Justin
holiday and now it’s gonna turn into a
second round
pick if you want to consider that a bad
front office move go right ahead I think
that’s a bad
one a lot of people were thinking that
was a great one because they thought
Sacramento was going to get into the top
eight and we get we we would have got
a 15th pick or something like
that butar Spellman like I said we
missed on that the next year we drafted
DeAndre Hunter we didn’t draft we did a
draft day
trade for DeAndre Hunter he was the
fourth overall pick the Lakers took him
we traded the eighth pick which turned
out to be Jackson Hayes and there was a
whole lot of other [ __ ] going on with
that trade but nevertheless the main
players in that trade was Jackson Hayes
DeAndre Hunter DeAndre
Hunter um has gave us five years as a
starter it uh issue with him is staying
healthy staying on the floor but when
he’s there he is the guy who three
coaches has made the primary
Defender um Mt Mike what’s going on man
Mike says I think I think this is an
example of two ball dominant players
Clint Capella’s time is up I’m gonna get
to
that
um if the Suns get bounced in the first
round I can see Booker warning warning
out uh we need a
true they need a true point guard trade
for Booker straight up you think they do
it match DJ Booker and trade KD and bill
for the Suns that could
be um a possibility Chris what’s going
on
um oh yeah okay gotcha
uh we’ll go we’ll get into that that’s
not a bad trade idea
um we’ll get into
that um but back to the DeAndre Hunter
um a lot of
people it’s funny he gets the eye of a
certain group of Atlanta Hawks
fans um it’s it I find it
interesting um
I could go in a little differently
but um it’s a new show new
day
uh later on in that draft we drafted cam
radish that was a missp
pick I mean
he played two years and then he
requested to be
traded the following year we drafted a
yaka conu at six spot and a lot of fans
feel like he should be the guy to
replace Clint capella but here there’s
an issue with
him the same issue with DeAndre
Hunter but this is a guy
who has been a rotational player not a
starter and we took with a six overall
pick and he can’t stay healthy I can’t
blame the organization for drafting
him uh
he needs to stay
healthy um 2020 was Jaylen
Johnson now Jaylen Johnson hold on hold
on Anda conu was 2020 I’m sorry Hunter
reddish was 2019 2021 was Jaylen Johnson
Jaylen Johnson is right now possibly the
next face of the franchise if we move
Tre
young um and the the other two drafts
they you know you know you got these
guys inside three less than three years
you got AJ Griffin who has been a very
big incomplete at this point for
whatever reason you know a lot of fans
say he’s not getting a burn but when
it’s time for him to get burn has been
Med either medical issues with him or
personal problems or
personal reasons with him hopefully he
gets that together and of course this
year we drafted Kobe buffkin out of
Michigan
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who we could have saw more out of him
but he was
hurt um I can’t blame the organization
for guys who get for guys getting hurt
can’t do that I
mean what the [ __ ] a lot of people blame
emmer Healthcare I’m
like y’all blame what you blame em
healthcare for you can’t blame him for
for getting
hurt what y’all y’all gonna blame him
for keep getting hurt I don’t think only
thing Healthcare can do is help get them
well and get them back on the court
as soon as
possible
um let’s go to the free agent signings
because we speaking
on bad front office movement or bad or
good um the major free agent signings
that we had was I think we brought aboki
bu doovic
um Danilo galinari
um Lou
Williams it’s safe to say that those
were good free agent
signings all three of those guys were
that were
major players on the Eastern Conference
Finals run
team and one of them still here right
now and he’s been a spot starter six-man
type of guy and he’s one of the best
Shooters in the
league um
trades here we go I just mentioned a
couple a couple of draft day
trades
um that was the trade the two trades the
year ago for
Murray and sadique
Bay we gave up two first rounders in
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the and did a pick
swap
um we did a pick
swap with the third
pick and we gave up five second rounders
for sadique Bay sadique
Bay had
a pretty decent year up until he got
hurt
um toore his knee up so now we in a
pickle because he’s set to be a
restricted free
agent
and good chance ain’t no team G gonna
throw no boatload of money at
him while he’s recovering from torn
ligaments in his
knee so
if nobody offers him I don’t know if he
turn I don’t know how that goes if
nobody off I don’t know if he turned
into an unrestricted free agent or he
comes back to us and we
uh I guess he’ll play it out with
us a lot of the front office moves that
was made
a lot of stuff was was was
demanded and requested by the
fans a lot of fans
wanted Lloyd Pierce
fired the front office fired Lloyd
Pierce Nate mcmiller was on Lloyd Pierce
and staff a lot of the fans welcome Nate
McMillan because they wanted Lloyd
Pierce gone Nate McMillan helped lead
them to the Conference Finals and then a
year and a half
later he was fired because the fans
wanted him
gone now we have Quinn Schneider we’ll
see how that
goes a lot of the fans wanted
Travis slink
gone Travis slink is basically the guy
who built the Conference Finals team a
lot of fans wanted him
gone now we have Landry fields and Kyle
corver and these other Talking Heads Up
there a lot of the fans requested for
guys like Kevin herder John Collins
um to be gone um we had Don donon right
in here during the co year played very
well a lot of fans felt like he wasn’t
scoring enough even though he was
playing he was keeping his turnover rate
down and he was playing playing
excellent
defense organization
obliged the fans
or a certain
portion of the
fans so if the organization is making
bad
moves they listening
to they listening to
y’all they listening to the
fans
um now we at a Crossroads
to where we got to make some
moves and I’m I’m seeing a lot of people
in the fan base
say yeah everybody’s available but a or
everybody’s available but A and B and
everybody’s available but a b and
c no [ __ ] that
when it gets to this
point nobody’s
safe the
window brothers and
sisters has
closed nobody’s safe I’m not defending
I’m not defending
nobody nor am I advocating for anybody
nobody’s safe
if there’s any thought of
trading the face of the franchise that
means nobody else is
safe because if I got to
trade Trey
young I mean anybody else can get
it because what I’m what I’m about to do
if I trade Trey
young is I’m about to lose fans first of
all which which is a good chance I’m
about to lose some
money but if I’m willing to sacrifice
doing
that for this team to get where we need
him to go then nobody’s safe see you
can’t see you can’t demand
for the
GM to do his job but then put
restrictions and handcuffs on the GM
when it’s time for the GM to do its job
now I’m gonna say that to say
this I’m simply
saying when Landry Fields who claims he
has
no he he he he’s free to do whatever he
want to
when Landry Fields go in there and talk
to folks he don’t need to go in there
talk to f i he don’t need to go in there
saying okay I I’m listening to anybody
but Trey
young oh no I’m listening to anybody but
Trey young and de jante
Murray I’m listening to anybody but
treay y J Murray and Jay Johnson no [ __ ]
that I’m listening to anything for
everyone because anybody can get it
after three straight years in the playin
two of those years were first round
exits in five games no first year was
five games to Miami second year was six
games which was last year to Boston and
this year we went out the back door as a
10
seed and we finished the regular season
10 games under
500 nobody in safe the only reason why I
said don’t have thoughts or
consideration of firing the coach is
because if we fire Quinn Snider at this
point that means we will start next year
with three we will have to go at least
one year paying three guys to do one job
Nate McMillan’s contract isn’t up until
the end of next year unless it’s
something else that went on that I
hadn’t heard about his contract is not
up to the end of next year he ain’t took
a job nowhere else and I don’t blame
him if I can sit at home and get
paid so be
it Quinn Schneider got three years left
on his deal and if we let him
go we will
basically bring in a coach and we’ll be
paying three coaches for one year and
two coaches for at least three years
other than
that nobody’s
safe I don’t
care how they go about it but
significant changes need to be made all
look we tried
tweaking the
roster when we tweak the
roster fans complain
anyway people keep having these pipe
dreams of they need to go out there and
get Trace some help
well help was
here maybe not Superstar meast star type
help help was here when you had help
when you had a good mixture of Youth and
Veterans you made a Conference Finals
run then when you start
folks
start we traded Gallow in the Mur trade
but Gallow turned around and signed with
Boston for pennies we could have brought
him
back Rish a to be traded [ __ ] him you
don’t want you don’t want to be here
[ __ ] you you go
we let guys walk solo Hill who was an
integral
part of that
team from a locker room standpoint and
for the time he the time he gave us on
the floor he went in came ready
straight Tony snail incal
part we we moved on from him Lou
Williams probably retired now
and I mentioned it before I mention d
right we’ve had guys in
here
now I’m not gonna spend a whole lot of
time on
this but I’m gon say
this the same help or lack thereof Trey
Young
had when the ball was in his
hands did jonte Murray had when Trey
young went out and the team played
significantly if you don’t see if you
didn’t see this you just Wen trying to
see it the team played significantly
better when the ball was in dejonte
Murray’s
hands it was glaring the difference
it it it it really reared its ugly head
in the playing gameing against Chicago
we we were down 18 after one quarter and
when Trey young left the floor we we
went on a 14 to zero
run with guys on the floor
like Garrison Matthews Wesley
Matthews um Bruno Fernando
of course and with the other regular
guys Hunter capella
bogy moves need to be made and drastic
moves it cannot we cannot go into next
season making minimal to Mo to no moves
that’s basically the front office
telling
us the
fans I’m no longer blaming players at
this
point and let me explain this because a
lot of people say that just to be saying
it I’m G explain myself on this
we all see what the issues
are so front office fix
it or make an attempt to fix
it Landry Fields has no idea he’s
probably the next scapegoat or the next
guy out the door it’s a reason why they
bringing all these other guys in the
front office the more guys you bring in
the front office the
less power you hold as a
GM I get it this is first major GM
job
but it’s your three now
bro you need to get it
right sou say yet and now I’m not trying
to kill Trey because he he was he was
clearly not right with that with that
left hand and and he still
played played anyway he showed heart
okay he should have stayed his ass
out I get that
I’m not handing out moral passes I he
you know Southside but I’m not handing
out moral
passes leave them just
look leave him out I’d have left him
out I would have left him
out and then if we come if we make it
out of the play
in he would have played them last
four games of the season and he wouldn’t
have played in the play in if we make it
out of the play in and he’s ready to go
that’s more time for his hand to
heal of course you bring him
back
but I I hear a lot of people using that
hand as an excuse and I’m not and I
understand where you coming from but
no a lot of [ __ ] that was going on
with his hand at
50% what’s going on with his hand at at
100% that’s my
issue and no it ain’t all on
try I Ain gonna say most of it is on try
it’s Collective whole lot of
[ __ ] criticism can go for everybody
again nobody’s
safe moves need to be
made
period the first move need to be made
is to split that back court up that need
to be the first order of business that
ain’t
working people come up with these
elaborate trade packages that just don’t
make no [ __ ]
sense a lot of people in the fan base
want to get R Hunter and
capella because they ain’t averaging 60
between the two of
them we were top five in offense and
offensive points per game and offensive
efficiency
folks we were bottom five in
defense you’re asking to trade two of
the three best defenders on the team
not many of them out
there but we were bottom five in
defense
28th to be exact 27th or
28th we were fifth in offense we were 36
and
46 47 counting the play in loss to
Chicago and you think magically you can
go out there and pop a
trade by trading them and we’re gonna
get better but
again that ain’t defense of them because
nobody can get
it [ __ ] what’s going
on moves need to to be made and they
need to be made
now or whenever it’s time to do
whatever that’s within the league
guidelines we don’t need another team
suffering from moving a little too quick
like the Falcons are about to have to
endure that I alluded to
earlier
so my my iron now as a
fan
goes to the front
office y’all saw what happened the front
office the last two to three
years the fans are not
happy they destroying Trey Young on
social media
and in the
media and to me as a Hawks fan that’s
embarrassing because he’s the face of my
franchise a good portion of the fan base
feel like he’s
blameless I see it Mr the foot who just
came on here here he sees
it they’ll
argue different but we see the
interaction and we see what’s going
on
nevertheless no time to be
bullshitting no time to be waiting
Landry fields
Cal corver and the rest of the Talking
Heads y’all on the clock
bro we gonna go ahead on wrap it
up get ready for OG big S to come up in
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