Brandon Roy is averaging 6.2 APG the last 5 games

[jerrywest]

Dude, if you are not working for the Hawks already, you should become a consultant with them. You know your NBA.

[drzachary]

Nice observations, northcyde! Thanks for posting a well-reasoned reply.

[drzachary]

northcyde, can you put together a similar eval of Foye? He was the other combo guy a lot of us wanted (including me.)

[exodus]

There is one little problem with your analysis. Roy's career is 30 games old.

If you are going to preach patience with our young guys....

I wouldn't want to see someone do a similar analysis on Shelden.

[Diesel]

Foye was actually a more reasonable choice than Roy.

Mainly because Foye did come and workout for us whereas Roy turned us down. Also, Foye does have real PG skills. I think what happened though is that BK and his people said that it's easier to find a good big in the draft than it is to find one in FAcy and they took Shelden in the draft. They must have also reasoned that they can get a good PG in FAcy. Hence, you see us offer Sam Cassell 7.5 million per year over 5 to come to Atlanta... When Cassell turned us down, we went after the next highest rated FA PG...

I don't think that the plan was wrong. I think we did what was best for our team. Moreover, when Speedy and Shelden are 100%, I doubt we hear any more of these stupid Hawk hate posts. Mainly because Speedy has shown the ability to be a 8-9 apg PG.. while Shelden could be a double digit rebounding guy.