Wurider05 Posted February 21, 2013 Report Share Posted February 21, 2013 what the rest of the league thinks of Josh Smith. If he was so good like the Josh lovers claim we would have gotten better deals. We got offered garbage even from the bad teams. Max player my ass!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Member BrazilianHawk Posted February 21, 2013 Premium Member Report Share Posted February 21, 2013 This. And that our GM sucks for not unloading him last offseason. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alex Posted February 21, 2013 Report Share Posted February 21, 2013 More ammo to feed the Josh haters apparently. You are wrong though. The rest of the league wasn't going to give up much to acquire two-three months of Josh Smith and have him test the free agent market. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ruckus Posted February 21, 2013 Report Share Posted February 21, 2013 This. And that our GM sucks for not unloading him last offseason. Dude are you Billy Knight or something? Only that will explain the amount of hate you have for this man. Give it up dude. He hasn't even been here a year. In two years, if we still suck rip away. Until then... well... I don't think I can post that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Member BrazilianHawk Posted February 21, 2013 Premium Member Report Share Posted February 21, 2013 More ammo to feed the Josh haters apparently. You are wrong though. The rest of the league wasn't going to give up much to acquire two-three months of Josh Smith and have him test the free agent market. That's why I said "last offseason". It was pretty obvious no decent trade proposals would be made at the deadline. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drzachary Posted February 21, 2013 Report Share Posted February 21, 2013 None of us know what was actually offered for Smith. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
plskeepbibby Posted February 21, 2013 Report Share Posted February 21, 2013 Quick question I don't believe has been brought up yet. Does anyone feel that this is a salry dump because the ASG is finally trying to sell the franchise??? I may be reaching but what are your thoughts? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted February 21, 2013 Report Share Posted February 21, 2013 Quick question I don't believe has been brought up yet. Does anyone feel that this is a salry dump because the ASG is finally trying to sell the franchise??? I may be reaching but what are your thoughts?Salary dump how? Explain. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
plskeepbibby Posted February 21, 2013 Report Share Posted February 21, 2013 Salary dump how? Explain.Over the last 10 yrs I don't believe the Hawks have ever been going into a season with only three players on the roster, salaries that add up to around 15M. Ferry's first order of business was dumping Joe's albatross deal and ridding the Hawks of Marvin Williams 8M.,, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
plskeepbibby Posted February 21, 2013 Report Share Posted February 21, 2013 Also he was extremely stubborn with the fact that he was only accepting expiring deals for Josh Smith... Hence the Milwaukee trade broke down. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted February 22, 2013 Report Share Posted February 22, 2013 Also he was extremely stubborn with the fact that he was only accepting expiring deals for Josh Smith... Hence the Milwaukee trade broke down.I think it was more important to Ferry to have the capspace this offseason. If he took the deal Udrih was expiring, Boute and Udoh would be taking up a total of 8.9 million combined from this summers capsapce. I'm assuming Ferry's thinking is he can get a more impactful player for that 8.9mil this summer.Why give up Josh and lose 9 million of your space this summer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
plskeepbibby Posted February 22, 2013 Report Share Posted February 22, 2013 I fully understand that side of it too.. The ASG finally selling the team is probably more of wishful thinking... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DrReality Posted February 22, 2013 Report Share Posted February 22, 2013 what the rest of the league thinks of Josh Smith. If he was so good like the Josh lovers claim we would have gotten better deals. We got offered garbage even from the bad teams. Max player my ass!!Useful info at contract time Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DJlaysitup Posted February 22, 2013 Report Share Posted February 22, 2013 Quick question I don't believe has been brought up yet. Does anyone feel that this is a salary dump because the ASG is finally trying to sell the franchise??? I may be reaching but what are your thoughts? Ding, ding, ding...a prize for plskeepbibby for his phenomenal grasp of the obvious . In truth though - the ASG has been trying to sell for awhile...probably before when the deal fell through with the pizza/casino guy who wanted to take the team to Las Vegas. ...and who knows...if DF can maximize cap space maybe quality ownership will be more interested. In the meantime at least we get to watch our core players for the rest of the season and into the playoffs. Smoove will have to bring effort most of the time since he's playing for his next contract too. Personally I just hope we buy out the guy we got back for Morrow as from what I've read on other sites he has a worse than bad attitude (albeit an expiring contract). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
plskeepbibby Posted February 22, 2013 Report Share Posted February 22, 2013 Huge fan of pointing out the blatantly obvious Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wolvetigers Posted February 22, 2013 Report Share Posted February 22, 2013 Dude are you Billy Knight or something? Only that will explain the amount of hate you have for this man. Give it up dude. He hasn't even been here a year. In two years, if we still suck rip away. Until then... well... I don't think I can post that. Exactly...Ferry got us Flexibility now lets wait until he has been on the job for a year first..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AHawks89 Posted February 22, 2013 Report Share Posted February 22, 2013 He has a half season left on his contract... What do you expect to get in return for someone who isn't a superstar & could leave your team after 30 something games? Dumb theory you have there. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PureGreatness Posted February 22, 2013 Report Share Posted February 22, 2013 When I saw who made this thread I knew what he was about to say before I even opened it It's simple. No one is going to give up valuable asseets for 30 games of Josh Smith with the HIGH possibility he walks. Josh only wants the max from the Hawks or any other undesirable team in my opinion. He will take less for The Rockets, Bulls, Nets, Celtics, Knicks or Mavericks. My prediction is he go to the Rockets. Perfect spot for his skillset. I heard Ferry rejected a JJ Hickson or Amare deal when he was in Cleveland. Not surprised. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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