Moderators AHF Posted July 21 Author Moderators Report Share Posted July 21 3 hours ago, JeffS17 said: Bufkin is the backup PG. He looked good in his minutes last year and needs to step into that backup role this year. Just like JJ needed to step into the starting PF role last year. Hope he doesn’t get injured and submarine the team like last year when JJ was hurt and we didn’t have viable backups. My hope would be that Daniels and Bogi could hold down the fort better than that but TBD. Hopefully Bufkin is getting his injury out of the way early. We need our young guys to step up if we intend to truly compete. In general being as young as we are isn’t a great bet in the NBA but a lot will depend on the rest of the summer to see what the minutes weighted age is for this team. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JTB Posted July 21 Report Share Posted July 21 Mitchell and Mobley are signed long term now. lets see what happens with Jarrett Allen now! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theheroatl Posted July 21 Report Share Posted July 21 10 hours ago, JTB said: Mitchell and Mobley are signed long term now. lets see what happens with Jarrett Allen now! He is the odd man out but will they go through this year first without trading him. I hope he comes to the Hawks somehow.. that move would get me excited. Wishful thinking I guess Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Member JeffS17 Posted July 21 Premium Member Report Share Posted July 21 13 hours ago, AHF said: Hope he doesn’t get injured and submarine the team like last year when JJ was hurt and we didn’t have viable backups. My hope would be that Daniels and Bogi could hold down the fort better than that but TBD. Hopefully Bufkin is getting his injury out of the way early. We need our young guys to step up if we intend to truly compete. In general being as young as we are isn’t a great bet in the NBA but a lot will depend on the rest of the summer to see what the minutes weighted age is for this team. I also hope we dont have any injuries 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Moderators AHF Posted July 21 Author Moderators Report Share Posted July 21 1 hour ago, JeffS17 said: I also hope we dont have any injuries I don’t hope for that in any real way. I take it as a given we will have injuries. Nearly every team does and we have no one I can think of who hasn’t had some significant time missed due to injury over the last couple of years. My real hope is the team has better depth to keep competing when those happen and that none of them are major injuries. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Member Peoriabird Posted July 22 Premium Member Report Share Posted July 22 Who still wants this bum? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Member Vol4ever Posted July 22 Premium Member Report Share Posted July 22 What a terrible off season this has been. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
REHawksFan Posted July 22 Report Share Posted July 22 6 hours ago, Vol4ever said: What a terrible off season this has been. The team has gotten significantly better. You are way too negative. 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JTB Posted July 22 Report Share Posted July 22 9 hours ago, Peoriabird said: Who still wants this bum? 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Member JeffS17 Posted July 22 Premium Member Report Share Posted July 22 2 hours ago, REHawksFan said: The team has gotten significantly better. You are way too negative. Should have traded Murray for Anthony Edwards 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Hawkish Posted July 22 Popular Post Report Share Posted July 22 4 minutes ago, JeffS17 said: Should have traded Murray for Anthony Edwards All Minnesota had to do was reduce the protection on the multiple 1sts coming our way. 1 1 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kg01 Posted July 22 Report Share Posted July 22 3 hours ago, REHawksFan said: The team has gotten significantly better. You are way too negative. Offseason has been pretty boring if you were expecting a lot of bells and whistles. There being no clear top guy in the draft also makes it feel 'bad', I guess. I agree we got better. Even if it's just from the standpoint of just being a better composed unit. Most, particularly the eggsperts, won't see that until they see it. All that being said, I agree with @JeffS17. They should've just traded Murray for AntMan. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post marco102 Posted July 22 Popular Post Report Share Posted July 22 14 hours ago, Peoriabird said: Who still wants this bum? 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Final_quest Posted July 22 Popular Post Report Share Posted July 22 This offseason hasn’t been thrilling, but the progress has been more foundational. If you look at our contracts like debts and our draft picks like money in the bank, we’re smoothing quite a bit. We added young exciting players while subtracting some veterans who were good on paper but not working out. I still want to make more moves to add some vets, but we got to acknowledge our progress. Wiping out mistakes and adding picks and youth is progress. 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Popular Post AHF Posted July 22 Author Moderators Popular Post Report Share Posted July 22 30 minutes ago, Final_quest said: This offseason hasn’t been thrilling, but the progress has been more foundational. If you look at our contracts like debts and our draft picks like money in the bank, we’re smoothing quite a bit. We added young exciting players while subtracting some veterans who were good on paper but not working out. I still want to make more moves to add some vets, but we got to acknowledge our progress. Wiping out mistakes and adding picks and youth is progress. As I've said before, the main foundational risk in the approach we've taken is losing our franchise player over the next two years. We can't take this too slowly or we will be ripping up our foundation and starting over again while we still owe a pick to the Spurs. We need to progress to being more competitive as well and having landed the #1 overall pick there is really no excuse not to be able to both erase some mistakes and get more competitive at the same time. Just have to strike a balance to avoid leaning too hard in either direction. 9 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ShayD Posted July 22 Report Share Posted July 22 Take it slow and you risk losing Trae but at this point, I don't know if losing Trae is in the near future. I don't know how much he cares about money but how many teams out there are willing to max out Trae when he is entering FA? His max should be 50 or 60mil+(not sure) but how many teams want Trae on that amount. I think he signs an extension first before he starts asking for trades but it's still risky to not put a competitive roster around him and expect him to be happy Right now he is getting bad rep around the league with players, GMs, coaches all because he can't win enough games by himself with this roster that some would say is decent enough. It's affecting his Allstar game call ups and player recruitment. He is probably on the same level as Haliburton/Brunson but when he tried to recruit Siakam he preferred to go play with Pacers than Hawks. If you were in his shoes you will also be losing your patience, I think he has so much committed to Atlanta that he is willing to give them more chances (and they can also pay him the most) but at the end of the day winning cures all and we will see with this team this season. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Member JayBirdHawk Posted July 22 Premium Member Report Share Posted July 22 57 minutes ago, ShayD said: His max should be 50 or 60mil+(not sure) but how many teams want Trae on that amount. Trae's next 2 years salary is $46.9 and $48.6 mil (player option). His max extension is 140% of his $48.6 mil. His next contract will be determined by his level of play and team success. If he plays out his contract, becomes a free agent AND makes ALL-NBA he'd be eligible for 35% max of whatever the projected salary cap is in 2027-28 2025 - $155 mil 2026 - $170 mil 2027 - $187 mil Players who have done less than him are already making $40 mil. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ABH Posted July 22 Report Share Posted July 22 16 minutes ago, JayBirdHawk said: Trae's next 2 years salary is $46.9 and $48.6 mil (player option). His max extension is 140% of his $48.6 mil. His next contract will be determined by his level of play and team success. If he plays out his contract, becomes a free agent AND makes ALL-NBA he'd be eligible for 35% max of whatever the projected salary cap is in 2027-28 2025 - $155 mil 2026 - $170 mil 2027 - $187 mil Players who have done less than him are already making $40 mil. So he has basically 1 more year Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Member JayBirdHawk Posted July 22 Premium Member Report Share Posted July 22 1 minute ago, ABH said: So he has basically 1 more year After this season, yes. He can be offered an extension next offseason. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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