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Just wanted to throw out my thank you to Dolfan as well. I visit forums for the other sports teams in Atlanta and this one is by far my favorite one. This is the only one I actually even post on. To all the moderators, your hard work is definitely appreciated by many of us!

I don't get why everyone is high on the a Bulls either. Rose has not proved he is healthy yet.......I just get the feeling he is eroding like Gilbert Arenas did after knee injuries.

I don't get it at all. My only guess is respect for Thibadeau. He's more of a sure thing.

I keep telling myself after Bud has another year of success we will be in better shape. He made an all star out of Millsap and almost took down Indiana. If he does more with less again can they continue to ignore us?

He'd be a starter if we were doing an NBA city penal league.

Unfortunate but true.

As a GT fan, it's a little sad not to see Javaris Crittenton anywhere near this list.

His life went down hill fast after he made the poor decision to leave GT after his freshman year. He was a really talented PG.

We aren't just paying you to play Kyle, get out there and do some recruiting!

Zaza is from Georgia...

That was always a good line to play on friends that occasionally watched us didn't really know about the Hawks.

Nobody ever believed me that Zaza was from Georgia, so they'd look it up and I would always hear "Ohhh, that Georgia" lol.

He was pretty good for us up until the playoffs.

Hopefully he has a few more game winning/tying one legged fade away threes in him this year.

Uh....no. You don't trade away first round picks plus a guy whose contact is going to expire in one year for literally nothing. Ferry HAS TO make use of that cap space THIS season in some fashion or he literally pissed a first round pick away for nothing.

I agree. I fully understand that they might have wanted to move on from Bebe, but the entire point of that trade was for flexibility this off-season. There is still time left but we seem to be striking out on most of our targets.

Looks like they are getting Pierce, so.......

Even though they are a division "rival" I have always had a hard time disliking the Wizards. It probably has a lot to do with how bad they have been in years past.

Signing Pierce will make it extremely easy for me to hate that team. 

Yall acting like he is Danny Granger and cant play anymore ... When he does play Wade is still an amazing player. 

Key word is when he does play. He had the benefit of being able to sit out multiple games and take it easy while he was on the court last year since he played with the best player in the league.

He's going to have to do a lot more for his team now and I think that is going to make it even tougher for him to stay on the court.

Like I said, I don't typically believe in draft conspiracy, but I can't blame someone for looking at how this has played out and thinking, "Wow, really?"

Exactly, it just seems really weird.

Especially when you look at this years draft. They jump all the way up to first the year LeBron becomes a free agent. It's almost as if the league said "y'all really messed up last years first overall pick we gave you so here is one more chance to get it right".

Cue the conspiracy theories.  He leaves and bam 3 #1 picks and another top 5 pick.  Then, against all that makes sense, he returns.  I don't generally believe in draft theories, but that's fishy.

I mentioned this in another thread. I just can't believe that it was 100% luck for Cleveland, seems like there was something else going on.

Meanwhile at Miami International Airport...

 

Exactly what I was thinking lol.  All of the LeBron fans that fill up Phillips must be happy because they all surely have a Cleveland LeBron jersey somewhere in their closet.

No. I think what we are seeing is a lot of Journalist relying on the blogosphere and the twittersphere to give them content. Sadly, that content is mostly speculation. My suggestion is that CViv just take the time to get to know somebody on the inside.. They don't have to be high up, but somebody who can dismiss a speculation before he hits the send button. It's Dewey over Truman out here and Cviv has an obligation to just do a small amount of fact checking. IF he's the only one putting out REAL stories.. Great. But if he's speculating just like everybody else... then why do we need him??

We need somebody who we can look to for the truth. It's really bad that CViv has the title and the big bucks and JWalker doesn't.

It's quite simple honestly. If we think he is a fool imagine what the people in the know think about him. They probably laugh at his content just as much as we do.

Get somebody respectable in there and hopefully you will see some sort of improvement.

Viv is terrible, there isn't much more you can say about him.

I hope all of his sources are wrong..again.

Do you realize this team shot 38% with an average of 91 PPG as a team against Indiana in the playoffs? They did not play all that well. Indiana just played like crap.

I wasn't thrilled with our offensive execution but we basically missed a lot of open shots. We also didn't have our best player which you seem to think doesn't matter.

You just seem to think we suck with Al, wouldn't have improved as the season went on if we had him, and suck without him.

Yeah, it's a pretty mediocre record. Didn't the Nets have the best record in the conference last year after the all star break? It's very possible that Miami (if Lebron stays), NJ, Toronto, Indy and Chicago are all still better. It seems that NJ ans Toronto improved the second half of last year.

It's sad that fans basically have to get excited about watching last years mediocre team again next year.

You really don't think we would improve as the season went on? New coach, new system and you expect our record at 30 games to be who we were all season long,

Compare the team you saw lose to Dallas in the first game and our team during the playoffs. Let me guess..same team, right?

I understand the frustration, but look at what he's had to work with. His first offseason wasn't a full one but he got rid of two players that most of us didn't want. He also had LD coaching the team and I doubt any good player really had any interest in playing for Drew.

The next year he had a rookie coach. Many dreamed of CP3/Dwight but the minute Rivers went to LA that dream was shot. Still though, it would have been a tough sell because Bud wasn't a proven coach at the time.

Now you have this year and free agency hasn't really started yet. Once LeBron makes his decision we will see what happens. I doubt the results will make us into the team most of you want, but I still feel we are in way better shape now than we were before Ferry took over. I hope we can get Monroe or Deng, and I agree it wouldn't be a successful offseason if we only added Shefolosha and Bazemore but there is still a lot of time left to see what happens.

When I have a brain fart and forget, I always think that mill is a somewhat common word.

Mil is either a measurement or acronym.

So MILLsap. Or as others suggested, Sap.

I hope so. I'm ready for some player movement to start happening.

So if he winds up going back, you basically have a timeline of James leaving Cleveland for Miami, Cleveland winds up getting the first overall pick three out of four years and James winds back up in Cleveland.

Luck of the lottery ball? Give me a break lol.

Ariza is not Deng without the press. He just isn't that impressive when you watch him play.

I remember reading or seeing on a broadcast last year that Lou bought presents for all of his teammates around Christmas (or some holiday or event).

If Melo goes west, LeBron goes to Cleveland and Miami is left with Bosh/Wade it really opens up the East.

Whoever has LeBron is going to be the favorite but he will be playing with new coach/players. They aren't going to be as good as Miami has been the last three seasons.