God, we shoulda re-signed Smoove....

[bumpyphish1]

I hope he DOESN'T make the All-Star game....yet. I mean this season. Do you guys think he will command a max contract? We have to keep in the ATL.

[BHayley]

We got Smoove locked up--don't worry. I am not a huge fan of his, but he is really stepping up right now

[Johnnybravo4]

Yep now it will cost 70 mill instead of 55.

[flava]

it's possible he might NOT be playing this well if we had...

flava

[AtLaS]

It's so funny seeing everyone praising Smith after trying to trade him for scrubs like Biedrins just a week ago. Anyone with patience knew he was going to play better. WTF would y'all be saying had we dealt him and he started playing like this?

[bumpyphish1]

Atlas, I never wanted to trade Smoove when he was "struggling", and by "struggling" I mean shooting a low percentage while still getting boards and MAD BLOCKS. I actually started threads talking about he was a game changer even when he didnt score.

You need to watch who you call out.

[AtLaS]

lol I wasn't calling you out, I was just replying to the thread. My comment wasn't even intended for you. That's the one knock on Hawksquawk, there is no quick reply, you have to respond to a certain post.

[TheNorthCydeRises]

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Good post. If we ever did trade him, you trade him for a legit impact player. Not some one dimensional role player. Now you're starting to see the same types of things in regards to JJ, like he's going to be a sub 40% shooter for the rest of his life.

The majority of the fan base is truly schizophrenic.

[mrhonline]

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Except that Smith himself admitted to hurting the team with his play. He was AWFUL to start the season.

[AtLaS]

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Except that Smith himself admitted to hurting the team with his play. He was AWFUL to start the season.

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He was awful on OFFENSE, but he was still playing great on the other end. Young players who are in a system like our offensive system will struggle, it's just gonna happen. He probably just wanted to help the team score because noone else could, even though he wasn't doing much better. I'm just saying, it was only a matter of time before someone laid into him and told him to stop shooting jumpers. I'm sure something like that happened behind closed doors, or he saw himself on film, and that's how he learned. It could've been Nique that convinced him.

Look at Gordon, Deng, and Iggy. They have also started this season horribly. Does that mean they need to be traded? No, it doesn't.

JJ will turn it around as well, many of the shots he's been missing are just rattling in and out. Most of those shots he usually makes, they are the same ones he's made his entire career. Regardless, even though JJ hasn't shot well, he has still constantly found open men.

[HawksFan87]

Everyone needs to thank Dominique Wilkins, ever since him and Smoove sat down an talked it has changed a lot. Also turning 22 was a big deal for him. He is only going to get better.

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Except that Smith himself admitted to hurting the team with his play. He was AWFUL to start the season.

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Of course he was awful OFFENSIVELY. Overall, he still helped us stay in, and/or win games with his defense. Yet, people wanted to trade him after 10 bad games?

A lot of people who are fans of this team, wanted to write us off after that Milwaukee loss ( ironically, that was the game that Smoove first went off in ). The majority of the fan base just KNEW that the game @ Miami would be the nail in the coffin. But this team scrapped, and clawed, and fougt hard to win the game. Smith was a big reason for the fight.

9 games and 6 more victories later, we're at .500 this late in the season for the first time in 8 years. Yet some still complain.

I bet if Smoove and JJ have completely awful shooting nights, that people will dog them out again, completely forgetting how both of them helped secure a big road and DIVISION WIN just 24 hours earlier. LOL . . . damn . . . we're 3 - 1 vs the Southeast.