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Let's see Shellhead do this in the real games on a consistent basis before we get too excited.

I like Hollinger but his comment about the SEC was out of line. The fact he trumpeted his own witticism later shows he has no respect for the Hawks or the players we have.

I do agree that we got rid of Harrington for basically nothing.

What points? I have never heard Mahorn say he thought this. Where did you get that from? Why would Mahorn say something like that? The Hawks actually hired him as an assistant coach so where's the racism?

Er...yeah, he's as white as snow.

I love the fact that they have to justify drafting Shellhead a good ten spots ahead of where he was going to go that they are going to literally steal minutes away from our best/second best player in Smoove. If it wasn't the Hawks I wouldn't believe it.

I've met both Pete Babcock and Kasten a number of times over the years and to call either of them a racist is a joke. Why the hell would we have hired Lenny if that was the case? Or have teams that were almost 100% black?

Get that weak [censored] out of here.

That is where I was born. I lived in Poulan, which is a small town just east of Sylvester on Highway 82 until I went to my four year university.

This is exactly the kind of injuries Claxton gets over a season. He's never played a full season in the NBA. Hopefully he'll break that record with us...

Good God where did all the rest of our Thrashers games go? I'm glad to get more Hawks games since I never got the local UPN down here in Columbus though.

I live in Columbus, Georgia. I am from Worth County down in SW Georgia originally and have lived in Georgia all my life.

JR Rider

Danny Manning

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He's not on here yet but I fear Shellhead will come in at #5.

I think we will look back at drafting Shellhead and lock it up as another Hawks bust. Hope I am proven wrong but I think Shellhead is El Busto Magnifico in the making.

Chill is one of the first names people bring up in trade discussions with the Hawks. We have to face the fact that Chill and probably either Smoove or Marvin are out the door if they can not start here. Some other team will give them the starting spot and money to go somewhere else.

Call it an educated guess if you will. Dion Glover never showed what Chill and Smoove have at the NBA level.

There's no chance Childress stays on this team if his role is still as a bench player. Some other team will offer him a starting job and the money that goes with it. We aren't going to tie up our cap in a bench player nor do I think Chill as competitive as he is sees himself as a career backup on a lottery team.

Could be just me though.

I would love to see Blank own all of Atlanta's teams.

The article is right about the first item. Everything after that is moot until the first item is settled. They are not going to spend the money to get a "superstar" until the ownership situation is settled. Period, end of story.

As for KB21/Walter, I do have to say that I can not recall one time where KB21 offered a specific player or plan of action for the Hawks. Although to be fair at this point there's almost no need to speculate since we won't be adding salary.

It is funny though to see how blatantly he contradicted himself in the past.

Nope, I am still bitter than Smitty was traded away for that POS garbage in Rider. I know Petey only wanted to do it to get out from under Smitty's contract and it was unlikely that we would resign Rider but still...that whole season started the ditch we have found ourselves in for almost a decade.

this might be the worst typo ever

I've heard it was only top 10 protected as well.

This could be the best D line in football now. All Grady needs to do is take up space and absorb blockers in the running game. That's it. We can bring in Babs off the bench on passing situations to compliment the other 3 10+ sack guys.

Hartwell may actually get to show if he was worth the money or not.

I don't blame Al and I really can't disagree with him. I hope he does well in Indiana, just not against us.

How did I get a vote?

You can certainly have a high opinion on him if you want. I am not trying to keep you from that opinion. I just don't understand the description of quickness when the last game action he was in against semi-NBA talent he was universally described as "lumbering" and the slowest player on the court.

Hopefully Shellhead works out for us but we could have easily traded down five, heck ten spots, and still gotten him and picked up more pieces at the same time. We did not even work the guy out to see if he held up against better competition since at Duke he was simply manhandled by legit big men.

Again, I'm not sure where you are hearing anything about his quickness. All of the scouts and media that were reporting on the SL came back and reported how slow Shellhead was and how he lumbered up and down the court. He was reported by several sources as being the slowest player on the court. Where exactly is "quickness" coming into that conversation?

Every report from the SL listed Shellhead as the slowest player on the court so where do you see quickness at? The only combine number he put up that was good was the bench press.