The Mega Super Rumor Thread (Part 2)

[EazyRoc]

31 minutes ago, Bigjmw said:

What would you all Want from CHI in a Collins deal?

 

Nothing They don’t have anything we need.

If it HAD to happen, Vucevic, White, and an unprotected 2025 1st

[HawkingAwesome]

22 minutes ago, JayBirdHawk said:

No, he said he will come back with a jump shot. At least let him develop any semblance of a midrange shot.  PnP player.

 

Yeah he said that specifically this year. His rookie year he talked about being a three point shooter 

[JayBirdHawk]

Where are all the Squawkers that were having 'the sky is falling' moment last night...oh it's the Falcons/Watson situation.  They were already bringing out the pitchforks for Schlenk. 

[TRW]

I said I was going to make 10 million next year. That probably won't happen. I love me some OO but playing him at power forward would be like trying to fit a dump truck into an old pinto. It's not happening, at least not right now.

[bleachkit]

12 minutes ago, marco102 said:

Why are you such a party pooper?  You were saying we weren't going to get him.  Now you're talking about if he doesn't resign with the team. Live in the moment bleachy.  Tomorrow, the sun could explode and we all won't have any worries anymore.

Just enjoy this man. You don't know how to be happy do you?

And you dont know how to not personally attack other posters. I was just making a point. You are so ridiculously defensive sometimes.

[h4wkfan]

4 minutes ago, JayBirdHawk said:

Where are all the Squawkers that were having 'the sky is falling' moment last night...oh it's the Falcons/Watson situation.  They were already bringing out the pitchforks for Schlenk. 

I 100% was mentally preparing myself for super max level disappointment. 

[theheroatl]

5 minutes ago, JayBirdHawk said:

Where are all the Squawkers that were having 'the sky is falling' moment last night...oh it's the Falcons/Watson situation.  They were already bringing out the pitchforks for Schlenk. 

It's been a long week.. we didn't get to 263 pages without a lot of emotional moments on the rollercoaster

[Threezus]

Just now, TRW said:

I said I was going to make 10 million next year. That probably won't happen. I love me some OO but playing him at power forward would be like trying to fit a dump truck into an old pinto. It's not happening, at least not right now.

For me it could happen if you paired him with a stretch 5 center.  Onyeka + Ayton could probably work well as Ayton's shot isn't that bad.  Onyeka + Capela or Onyeka + Rudy is where you run into some troubles if Onyeka doesn't improve big time on his shooting and offense to be a stretch 4. 

 

[RedDawg#8]

3 minutes ago, JayBirdHawk said:

Where are all the Squawkers that were having 'the sky is falling' moment last night...oh it's the Falcons/Watson situation.  They were already bringing out the pitchforks for Schlenk. 

@JayBirdHawk you are the only woman I know who can both make me laugh and make me think. You also do a good job of keeping me in check.

I’m just saying, what’s good? Wifey material all day! Lol

[Sothron]

So now I can talk a bit more freely...

In the insider only conversation I call your attention to this posted June 9th well before the draft and rumors about Murray:

 Sothron 14,789

Replied: June 9

Premium Member

Reached out after my last post. All he can say is we have a deal on the table for an All Star player but he won't say who it is. I asked him was it Ben Simmons and he paused and said I can't say any more and ended the talk. 

 

I don't want to go through all the things that @NBASupesand @thecampster and myself broke on here over just this season. But we have kept you guys and gal well in the loop before any of this broke on national news.  I only mention this because we have some people who feel the need to interrupt threads with their doubts or trying to call us out for one reason or the other. 

With that off my chest...

Ressler is far more hands on that he lets on. I can show it in one spot here from the insider only conversation:

 Sothron 14,789

Replied: April 29

Premium Member

I'm hearing that Travis is using Trae to talk to guys

 

So Trae went to bat for Ressler and Travis to go talk to guys. Trae flat out recruited Murray to come play in Atlanta and to tell SAS he wanted to come to Atlanta. When Trae tweeted earlier this month that "this is the summer that changes everything" he knew then that Murray was coming to Atlanta.

What was the hold up in the trade? Pops. He wanted OO included in the deal. And once that wasn't going to happen he wanted 4 firsts. Travis held the line. The back and forth was over pick protection and pick swaps. SAS wanted 4 firsts and 2 pick swaps once we made it clear OO was off the table. The compromise was the deal you all saw. 

There are more moves coming. I have two sources and my old source that is now my "new" source again is a more generic NBA source. This source told me that the feeling around the NBA is you NEVER trade two firsts with no protection unless you get an All NBA player back. And this source said we overpaid for Murray but felt it was a necessary cost.

I did get an update on Capela. He has went from "100% gone" to "most likely to be gone" only from Trae's campaign to keep him AND that Trae delivered to Ressler/Travis on delivering Murray. Both Ayton and Gobert are still options. The feedback they got from Gobert was worse than Ayton. Sources stopped short of calling him a team cancer but it wasn't good. 

Our FO and owner are doing backflips over getting Murray. The feeling is even if we did nothing else (we will, don't freak out) the team right now with Murray just put us into a 50+ win territory.  The idea is to split ballhandling with Trae/Murray and to rotate minutes to we have at least one of them on the court 48 minutes a game. It means our team will always have an elite playmaker at all times.

Ressler, Travis and some of the coaching staff and players are here on the Squawk. Some are lurkers and some are members. Just letting you all know. They DO pay attention to what we say. I was told that my post about "This is the most disappointing season in Hawks history" in the last season and everyone's responses was circulated around by Ressler. He was legit furious about the team's play and he has become more hands on ever since then. Ressler literally mandated this team get substantially better before next season. He told Travis to bring in at least one All Star. 

So we do have a team that does listen to its real fans. They don't care about other sites but they care about the Squawk. It is another reason why the insiders here have to be careful in what we post because the Hawks ARE trying to found out who our sources are and put a stop to the leaks. 

I think we should open a new thread and close this one to talk about free agency and summer moves. 

[JayBirdHawk]

2 minutes ago, RedDawg#8 said:

@JayBirdHawk you are the only woman I know who can both make me laugh and make me think. You also do a good job of keeping me in check.

I’m just saying, what’s good? Wifey material all day! Lol

It's a good thing my hubby isn't on the Squawk.  He'd ban me if he saw that. LOL

[Marvin24Williams]

Lets go!!!! So damn excited for the upcoming season

f*** it man lets get Ayton 

[EazyRoc]

4 minutes ago, Sothron said:

So now I can talk a bit more freely...

In the insider only conversation I call your attention to this posted June 9th well before the draft and rumors about Murray:

 Sothron 14,789

Replied: June 9

Premium Member

Reached out after my last post. All he can say is we have a deal on the table for an All Star player but he won't say who it is. I asked him was it Ben Simmons and he paused and said I can't say any more and ended the talk. 

 

I don't want to go through all the things that @NBASupesand @thecampster and myself broke on here over just this season. But we have kept you guys and gal well in the loop before any of this broke on national news.  I only mention this because we have some people who feel the need to interrupt threads with their doubts or trying to call us out for one reason or the other. 

With that off my chest...

Ressler is far more hands on that he lets on. I can show it in one spot here from the insider only conversation:

 Sothron 14,789

Replied: April 29

Premium Member

I'm hearing that Travis is using Trae to talk to guys

 

So Trae went to bat for Ressler and Travis to go talk to guys. Trae flat out recruited Murray to come play in Atlanta and to tell SAS he wanted to come to Atlanta. When Trae tweeted earlier this month that "this is the summer that changes everything" he knew then that Murray was coming to Atlanta.

What was the hold up in the trade? Pops. He wanted OO included in the deal. And once that wasn't going to happen he wanted 4 firsts. Travis held the line. The back and forth was over pick protection and pick swaps. SAS wanted 4 firsts and 2 pick swaps once we made it clear OO was off the table. The compromise was the deal you all saw. 

There are more moves coming. I have two sources and my old source that is now my "new" source again is a more generic NBA source. This source told me that the feeling around the NBA is you NEVER trade two firsts with no protection unless you get an All NBA player back. And this source said we overpaid for Murray but felt it was a necessary cost.

I did get an update on Capela. He has went from "100% gone" to "most likely to be gone" only from Trae's campaign to keep him AND that Trae delivered to Ressler/Travis on delivering Murray. Both Ayton and Gobert are still options. The feedback they got from Gobert was worse than Ayton. Sources stopped short of calling him a team cancer but it wasn't good. 

Our FO and owner are doing backflips over getting Murray. The feeling is even if we did nothing else (we will, don't freak out) the team right now with Murray just put us into a 50+ win territory.  The idea is to split ballhandling with Trae/Murray and to rotate minutes to we have at least one of them on the court 48 minutes a game. It means our team will always have an elite playmaker at all times.

Ressler, Travis and some of the coaching staff and players are here on the Squawk. Some are lurkers and some are members. Just letting you all know. They DO pay attention to what we say. I was told that my post about "This is the most disappointing season in Hawks history" in the last season and everyone's responses was circulated around by Ressler. He was legit furious about the team's play and he has become more hands on ever since then. Ressler literally mandated this team get substantially better before next season. He told Travis to bring in at least one All Star. 

So we do have a team that does listen to its real fans. They don't care about other sites but they care about the Squawk. It is another reason why the insiders here have to be careful in what we post because the Hawks ARE trying to found out who our sources are and put a stop to the leaks. 

I think we should open a new thread and close this one to talk about free agency and summer moves. 

This may have been the dopest post in Squawk history. To know that the team hears all our crazy ish just made my day.

 

Trae you been my boy since before Day 1.

Hunter we still believe in you becoming baby Kawhi.

Let’s go Hawks.

[akay]

5 minutes ago, Sothron said:

So now I can talk a bit more freely...

In the insider only conversation I call your attention to this posted June 9th well before the draft and rumors about Murray:

 Sothron 14,789

Replied: June 9

Premium Member

Reached out after my last post. All he can say is we have a deal on the table for an All Star player but he won't say who it is. I asked him was it Ben Simmons and he paused and said I can't say any more and ended the talk. 

 

I don't want to go through all the things that @NBASupesand @thecampster and myself broke on here over just this season. But we have kept you guys and gal well in the loop before any of this broke on national news.  I only mention this because we have some people who feel the need to interrupt threads with their doubts or trying to call us out for one reason or the other. 

With that off my chest...

Ressler is far more hands on that he lets on. I can show it in one spot here from the insider only conversation:

 Sothron 14,789

Replied: April 29

Premium Member

I'm hearing that Travis is using Trae to talk to guys

 

So Trae went to bat for Ressler and Travis to go talk to guys. Trae flat out recruited Murray to come play in Atlanta and to tell SAS he wanted to come to Atlanta. When Trae tweeted earlier this month that "this is the summer that changes everything" he knew then that Murray was coming to Atlanta.

What was the hold up in the trade? Pops. He wanted OO included in the deal. And once that wasn't going to happen he wanted 4 firsts. Travis held the line. The back and forth was over pick protection and pick swaps. SAS wanted 4 firsts and 2 pick swaps once we made it clear OO was off the table. The compromise was the deal you all saw. 

There are more moves coming. I have two sources and my old source that is now my "new" source again is a more generic NBA source. This source told me that the feeling around the NBA is you NEVER trade two firsts with no protection unless you get an All NBA player back. And this source said we overpaid for Murray but felt it was a necessary cost.

I did get an update on Capela. He has went from "100% gone" to "most likely to be gone" only from Trae's campaign to keep him AND that Trae delivered to Ressler/Travis on delivering Murray. Both Ayton and Gobert are still options. The feedback they got from Gobert was worse than Ayton. Sources stopped short of calling him a team cancer but it wasn't good. 

Our FO and owner are doing backflips over getting Murray. The feeling is even if we did nothing else (we will, don't freak out) the team right now with Murray just put us into a 50+ win territory.  The idea is to split ballhandling with Trae/Murray and to rotate minutes to we have at least one of them on the court 48 minutes a game. It means our team will always have an elite playmaker at all times.

Ressler, Travis and some of the coaching staff and players are here on the Squawk. Some are lurkers and some are members. Just letting you all know. They DO pay attention to what we say. I was told that my post about "This is the most disappointing season in Hawks history" in the last season and everyone's responses was circulated around by Ressler. He was legit furious about the team's play and he has become more hands on ever since then. Ressler literally mandated this team get substantially better before next season. He told Travis to bring in at least one All Star. 

So we do have a team that does listen to its real fans. They don't care about other sites but they care about the Squawk. It is another reason why the insiders here have to be careful in what we post because the Hawks ARE trying to found out who our sources are and put a stop to the leaks. 

I think we should open a new thread and close this one to talk about free agency and summer moves. 

Wow ton of stuff, crazy Atl has a superstar with pull to get another star. 

Thank you v much for the updates sir

[JayBirdHawk]

4 minutes ago, Sothron said:

Ressler, Travis and some of the coaching staff and players are here on the Squawk.

 

 

All HAWKS, ALL THE TIME!!!

[kg01]

9 minutes ago, Sothron said:

So now I can talk a bit more freely...

Oh good, now you can tell us how you really feel about ..... oh, you meant ..... nevermind.

[JayBirdHawk]

7 minutes ago, Sothron said:

What was the hold up in the trade? Pops. He wanted OO included in the deal. And once that wasn't going to happen he wanted 4 firsts. Travis held the line. The back and forth was over pick protection and pick swaps. SAS wanted 4 firsts and 2 pick swaps once we made it clear OO was off the table. The compromise was the deal you all saw. 

[marco102]

16 minutes ago, bleachkit said:

And you dont know how to not personally attack other posters. I was just making a point. You are so ridiculously defensive sometimes.

My bad. I didnt think that was a personal attack. It was literally a joke.  

Edited June 30, 2022 by marco102

[theheroatl]

 

 

[kg01]

10 minutes ago, JayBirdHawk said:

It's a good thing my hubby isn't on the Squawk.  He'd ban me if he saw that. LOL

Haha, burd finna be in trouble.

Aye @Sothron, tell the brass to rank best posters.  I wanna know which one-a you clowns is fightin for that #2 spot behind the cagey one.