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I'd much rather have Biedrins than Zaza. He's a much better defender, has a great motor and has some very nice post moves.

Funny how much grief I took over at realgm.com and over here for wanting us to go after Biedrins and once again I was proven right in spades. I would have easily taken on Murphy's contract to get that kid.

I'm not sure Gasol can play center but being in the East and with Shaq about a year or two from retirement it might be something he is capable of doing.

I like Josh but he really does need to work on his shot selection. It also seems, and this is just a feeling, that in some of these games we're seeing a really great effort from him in terms of hustle and energy and other nights where its not even close to the same level.

I'd have no problems making a resonable offer toget Gasol. We never should have traded our rights to draft him. He's a legit low post threat, good rebounders, can get some blocks and would give Joe Cool a legit second scoring option every night to play with.

When I've had chances to talk to Lorenzen Wright and Crawford at the games or at fan meets before the games I called them by my pet nicks to their faces and they both had no problems with it. If I get a chance to talk to Shellhead I will have no qualms callilng him that to his face. Its not an insult. What is he going to do, beat me up at the game? lol please.

And I'm sorry but the "Landlord" is a horrible nickname. He should thank me for giving him a much better and affectionate nickname. No one likes a Landlord but everyone loves a Shellhead!

lol

That was a very, very telling answer: from a non-Chad Ford ESPN muppet we now now that anything less than a title will never remove the words "Chris Paul" from talking about Knight.

We all know who I thought we should have drafted but its insane to say that making the playoffs with the roster as it is now shouldn't cut Knight some serious slack. No GM in sports history AFAIK has ever had to work around court injuctions on player movement. I'm not a fan of Knight but this is insane and unfair.

No, Shellhead is an affectionate nickname for Iron Man just as "Webhead" is the affectionate nickname for Spidey. Excuse me, Spider Man. I don't want to you to be even more offended.

I believe I have the right to dub players whatever nickname I choose to give them. I am not responsible for why other people would call him that or use other nicknames that make fun of his physical looks. I am a huge fan of Iron Man comics and Shellhead just works for him. No one cares that I call Wright Lo Down, why care about Shellhead? Its just as silly a nickname as most nicknames usually are.

I have a nickname for most Hawks players, especially if they don't have one. When Crawford was here I was yelling Crawdaddy, with Lo Wright its was (and is again) Lo Down and I love to yell "Go down low with Low Down!" when he's on offense.

Shelden needed a good nickname and Shellhead works on at least two levels. I had to explain to Wright what the hell Lo Down came from and Crawford just laughed at the Crawdaddy nickname because of how obvious it was. If Shelden needs explaining of what Shellhead means I'll be happy to inform him. Its not negative.

BK also threw the max down for Kenyon Martin and offered a nice deal for Dampier. Thankfully both of them passed.

Whose heckling him? Haven't any of you guys read Iron Man? You know, Iron Man? The Marvel comics super hero? Shellhead is his nickname. I'd like to see Shelden be OUR Shellhead and our "Iron Man" and it fits the kind of player he's supposed to be: tough, rugged and always there.

I think he actually liked it. I was using it in support of what he was doing, like "Good board Shellhead!" or "Nice pick Shellhead!" and if anything he might have glanced in my direction with a confused-but-in-a-happy-mildly-surprised way. The other fans seemed to get a laugh at it sitting around me.

If he does indeed go Chuck Norris on me at some point though there is a cherry of an Alienware I've been scoping out that he would in fact be buying for me.

I've been at two home games calling him Shellhead from about two rows behind our player bench and he didn't show any emotion over it.

He is like Chuck Norris that way.

Shellhead and Ironhead eh?

Speedy missed all of the 01-02 season.

Claxton got injured. it was a freak occurence. all of a sudden the Hawks "wasted" capspace?

BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

Welcome back dude.

No one should be ragging on Bozeman. Anything we get out of an undrafted player is a positive and should be treated accordingly.

However, correctly pointing out that signing Claxton with his massive injury history was questionable is a different matter. Hopefully he somehow finds a way to stay healthy and shoot better than a one armed grandmother. We need it.

Claxton got injured. it was a freak occurence. all of a sudden the Hawks "wasted" capspace?

BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

I think Claxton got a 4 year deal with around 6 million per just off the top of my head without googling it. I'm glad to see others are questioning why we wasted cap space on him though.

Either Zaza or Chill, both are playing at a higher level and when you consider their ages, esp. for Zaza, it only means bright things ahead.

Amazon was down from me at 11am until like 9pm that night. I couldn't get it to load at all.

Look Walter I hated the pick of Shellhead as much as anyone and I don't hold much hope that he'll be a good NBA starter but I'm definitely HOLDING onto that hope as a Hawks fan. Its not wrong to be against the selection or signing of a player and still support them as a Hawk...

I agree, this was an ugly game. We almost did everything we could to hand the win over frankly in the fourth quarter.