Atlanta Hawks: Draft mockery (UPDATE: Hawks trade with Nets, get Crawford)
UPDATE: The Hawks selected Texas forward Damion James with the No. 24 pick and traded him to the Nets for the second of their first-round picks (No. 27 overall) and their second-round pick (No. 31). The Nets selected Jordan Crawford for the Hawks at No. 31.
More updates later. . . .
I scoured the Interwebs to find some mock drafts for your consumption. This is also the place for my blog people to talk amongst yourselves as the night unfolds. I’ll be holed up at Centennial Tower waiting for the Hawks’ decision-makers to pick their guys before emerging to explain themselves, but I will checking in on your comments.
So think positive thoughts and hope your Hawks buck recent trends and find a gem late in the first round. . . .
MC
DraftExpress.com: Dominique Jones
NBAdraft.net: Hassan Whiteside
Ian Thomsen, SI.com: Jordan Crawford
Sean Deveney, Sporting News: Jordan Crawford
Chad Ford, ESPN.com (Insider): Lance Stephenson
Dime Magazine: Lance Stephenson
FanHouse: Larry Sanders
Bret LaGree, Hoopinion: Larry Sanders
InsideHoops.com: Daniel Orton
NBA Draft Room: Elliot Williams
Mike McGraw, Sports XChange: Terrico White
Sports Agent Blog: Quincy Pondexter
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Nooooo!!!!!
June 24th, 2010
11:47 pm
At least Pape Sy will force Marvin “Duck Butt” Williams to the bench! Bwahahahahaha!!!!!!
Nooooo!!!!!
June 24th, 2010
11:48 pm
Don’t Forget that Sirgey Gladyr is coming over for summer League. He might stay…
x-Mac-Town-x (West Macon's Finezt)
June 24th, 2010
11:48 pm
LMFAO@I typed Pape Sy’s name in google and one of the first links that popped up had this on it.
“The Hawks drafted little known small forward Pape Sy from France with the 53rd pick.
The last time they had a 6-7 forward from France (Dominique Wilkins), it worked out just fine”
lmao talk about wishful thinking and trying to make the best out of a bad situation.
freshd
June 24th, 2010
11:48 pm
i told you the hawks were gonna draft another forward. i guess BILLY KNIGHT must have taken over RICK SUNDS body. hate to say i told you so.
Pete Babcok
June 24th, 2010
11:49 pm
How you like me now!!!!
Najeh Davenpoop
June 24th, 2010
11:49 pm
So… how is the jersey situation going to work out next year assuming Jamal isn’t traded? Do they go with “Crawford” and “J. Crawford”, like how Chipper and Andruw went with “Jones” and “A. Jones” for the Braves? Do they go to “Ja. Crawford” and “Jo. Crawford”? Do they just list their full names on the back of their jerseys?
freshd
June 24th, 2010
11:49 pm
Enter your comments here
x-Mac-Town-x (West Macon's Finezt)
June 24th, 2010
11:51 pm
Ja. Crawford
Jo. Crawford
probably that one.
freshd
June 24th, 2010
11:52 pm
the hawks had a good draft, but they could have had a great draft. i give them a B-.
Athenzdawg
June 24th, 2010
11:52 pm
Thank You Atlanta Hawks for once again not drafting anyone over 6′9 im not saying any of those centers could compete with Dwight Howard down low but did the dismantling of our team in the playoffs prove that we need an inside force I mean do these guys even study tape on anyone?
Najeh Davenpoop
June 24th, 2010
11:54 pm
MC tweets that the Hawks got $3 million for Tibor Pleiss.
At least it’s more than the value of the contract he would have signed.
Still doesn’t change the message sent by the move, which is that money concerns are more important than assembling the best collection of players.
Pape Sy
June 24th, 2010
11:54 pm
J’aimerais remercier les Faucons d’Atlanta, Rick Sund, et Larry A Dessiné pour le dessin me et permettant à me dans cette Ligue. Je ferai mon mieux prendre l’endroit du William de Marvin de buste de brouillon.
Mystikal
June 24th, 2010
11:54 pm
Hope hawks bring in Mikhail Torrance, Charles Garcia and Manny Harris for summer league team
Pape Sy
June 24th, 2010
11:56 pm
Après la moitié d’une saison avec moi, vous oublierez complètement Joe Johnson. Je suis l’embrayage et il est un aucun spectacle dans les match décisifs.
Mystikal
June 24th, 2010
11:56 pm
If the hawks do manage to get McGhee from the Wiz, all is forgiven in my book. Whomever we get in free agency though, better be no joke.
RaJaH
June 24th, 2010
11:57 pm
Bouldin to PHX?
Pape Sy
June 24th, 2010
11:57 pm
Crawford de Jordanie et me mettra des sourires sur les visages des ventilateurs de Faucons d’Atlanta et détrône le Los Angeles Lakers pour le championnat la prochaine saison.
Clyde
June 24th, 2010
11:58 pm
Typical draft from the Hawks. We needed a center and we get a sg and a 6′7 power forward. SMGDH
Clyde
June 24th, 2010
11:59 pm
I’m with mountain jim is it football season yet?
darrell starks
June 24th, 2010
11:59 pm
The atlanta hawks picks are like cow manure 2 fertilize the earth.
GO HAWKS!!!!!!!!!
RaJaH
June 25th, 2010
12:00 am
No Duksters got drafted?
Mike Bibby
June 25th, 2010
12:00 am
Now all you have to do is trade my sorry azz (and Mo Evans) and sign one of those quality undrafted guards like Sherron Collins, Jerome Randle, or Mikhail Torrance!
Mystikal
June 25th, 2010
12:00 am
Give both Crawford’s similar numbers as well and put them in the game together, maybe we can try to confuse other teams.
Pape Sy
June 25th, 2010
12:01 am
Atlanta Colporte des ventilateurs n’a pas de foi dans moi, mais j’amènerai un championnat à la ville d’Atlanta.
ccrider
June 25th, 2010
12:01 am
Anybody that are fans of Pro Basketball in Atlanta ( and I have been one since they moved here), understand this franchise is financially incapable of competing with the best teams. The ASG is cash poor and are running on fumes(thus the trade of the 1st pick of the 2nd round for cash).
So, if you are content to watch the other great teams come thru Phillips Arena on their way to playoff success, pay ticket prices for inferior product, and become ticket buying fools for an organization, that until new owners are found , will be unable to sniff an NBA Championship Finals. Well be my guest! Otherwise, stop supporting this team by buying tickets and helping to prop up the underfunded ownership group that can only offer the opportunity to watch Championship teams pass thru town and not be able to build one in Atlanta
darrell starks
June 25th, 2010
12:02 am
Well it doesn’t matter now 2012 is almost here.
THE END OF THE WORLD.
GO HAWKS!!!!!!!!!!!
Najeh Davenpoop
June 25th, 2010
12:02 am
Sherron Collins going undrafted is pretty surprising. Wouldn’t hurt the Hawks to have him in summer league.
darrell starks
June 25th, 2010
12:05 am
THREE DRAFT PICKS 27# 31# 53# not one big man drafted how retarted are ASG and rick sund.
GO HAWKS!!!!!!!!!!!
Billy Knight
June 25th, 2010
12:06 am
I told you the ASG ownership group sucked!!!
x-Mac-Town-x (West Macon's Finezt)
June 25th, 2010
12:07 am
Psychic Forecast: Hawks bring in a few interesting guys for summer league, only for them to lose spots to Randolph Morris and Mario West on the last day.
Mystikal
June 25th, 2010
12:11 am
PLEASE FIRE SUND!!!!!!!! and hire Kevin Prichard before he gets snatched up. What ever the reason for his firing the Blazers rebuilding project took half the time the hawks did. And he could teach a class on wheeling and dealing in the draft. Plus, a much better judge of talent!
Big Ray
June 25th, 2010
12:12 am
I sure hope that $3 million goes towards a free agent center. Or maybe they know Joe is leaving, and are trying to get all the cash together that they can, so we can spend on more than just a center.
Nah…
Rick Sund
June 25th, 2010
12:12 am
No, How do you really Feel?
darrell starks
June 25th, 2010
12:12 am
This crawford guy is like rodney monroe who the hawks drafted in the early 90’s 3 year from now will be playing ball over in europe.
GO HAWKS!!!!!!!!!
Mz. Hawkdafied
June 25th, 2010
12:14 am
Enter your comments here
Mystikal
June 25th, 2010
12:16 am
DON’T BUY TICKETS!! HOLD OUT FOR BETTER OWNERSHIP!!!!!!!!!
crider is right, this BS is just going to continue until ownership changes hands. Every year it’s going to be early playoff exits (if we make it) and be pissed all over again.Joe will wise up and leave and it wouldn’t shock me if Horford ultimately demanded a trade.
Rick Sund
June 25th, 2010
12:16 am
I just felt like we werent headed in the right direction. I will promise to get us in the lottery in 2 years. Will draft 2 or 3 more power forward and hire Woodson III and go from there.
How do you guy feel bout that . Lottery In 2…. I actually never meet a power forward I did not like…Have you?
Rick Sund
June 25th, 2010
12:19 am
We guys thanks for staying up. I am really overwhelmed with tonight’s draft! Wow! Im gonna get a beer and just kind of let this one soak in. I suggest you do the same.
Mz. Hawkdafied
June 25th, 2010
12:20 am
??????????????????????? sucky playoffs followed by a sucky draft. Okay at least there’s free agency! :-/
Rick Sund
June 25th, 2010
12:23 am
My legacy is still intact!
http://www.bullz-eye.com/paulsen/2007/0307.htm
N.D.T.K.A.
June 25th, 2010
12:23 am
Drafting a 6′4″ shooting guard who dunked on Lebron James, moving down to pick up an extra pick, and blowing the pick on 3 million in cash for the ASG, while passing on cheap upside bigs, priceless!!!!
Rick Sund
June 25th, 2010
12:24 am
Who’s the worst GM in the NBA?
By: John Paulsen (jpaulsen@bullz-eye.com)
03/07/2007
Paulsen Home / Sports Channel / Bullz-Eye Home
ALSO: Got an opinion on who is the NBA’s worst GM? Let’s hear it at The Scores Report!
Over lunch, I asked a friend of mine, “Who’s the worst GM in the NBA?”
His answer?
“Besides Isiah Thomas?”
Over the past few years, Thomas has certainly staked his claim as the very worst in franchise management, but I don’t think it’s fair to rush to judgment. There are some other perennially awful teams in the league, and in most cases, poor management is to blame. So who else should be in the conversation? I came up with a list of nine GMs who are leading teams that have gotten appreciably worse (or haven’t improved much) over the last few seasons:
Isiah Thomas (Knicks), Kevin McHale (Timberwolves), Billy King (Sixers), Billy Knight (Hawks), Danny Ainge (Celtics), Rick Sund (Sonics), Chris Mullin (Warriors), Bernie Bickerstaff (Hornets) and Larry Harris (Bucks).
Rufus1
June 25th, 2010
12:24 am
For 3mil, I would have traded the pick also…The Hawks lost 50mil last year…you can’t be cheap, when you are losing that kind of money!!!!!!
I don’t think any of those players would have contributed this season…so why keep the picks. They are going to spend the money in free agency…Maybe.
Rick Sund
June 25th, 2010
12:31 am
Outside of Dick Motta here is Sund’s legacy for Coaching Hires
♦ 2. John McLeod (Dallas, 1987-89): Also a veteran coach who had reached the finals with Phoenix. In his first season with Dallas, McLeod coached the team into the Western Conference finals (Sund’s only conference finals appearance). But the Mavs failed to make the playoffs the following year and Sund surprisingly fired him only 11 games into the 1989-90 season. GRADE: C.
♦ 3. Richie Adubato (Dallas, 1989-93). This started a string of colossal failures by Sund. Adubato mostly had been an assistant, with one unsuccessful year as head coach in Detroit. He made the playoffs in his first season with Dallas but exited quickly. In the next two-plus seasons, the Mavericks went 52-141. He was fired after a 2-27 start in 1992-93. GRADE: F.
Quinn Buckner made the mistake of trying to emulate the ways of Bob Knight, his former college coach.
Quinn Buckner made the mistake of trying to emulate the ways of Bob Knight, his former college coach.
♦ 4. Gar Heard (Dallas, 1993): He took over as interim in 1993 and couldn’t stop the downward spiral. Record: 9-44. GRADE: Incomplete.
♦ 5. Quinn Buckner (Dallas, 1993-94): The grease fire of Sund’s hires. Buckner, who had no coaching experience, attempted to replicate the dictatorial ways of his college coach, Bob Knight. Didn’t go well. Dallas started the season 1-23 and finished 13-69. When it was over, Sund was gone too. GRADE: F.
♦ 6. Doug Collins (Detroit, 1995-98): Collins had a decent coaching run in Chicago but couldn’t win a title. He was replaced by his assistant, some guy named Phil Jackson. Collins lost in the first round twice in two seasons with the Pistons, then was fired in year three following a 21-24 start. GRADE: C.
♦ 7. Alvin Gentry (Detroit, 1998-00): Gentry is having a great run with Phoenix in the Western Conference finals. That wasn’t the case in Detroit. He mostly was a well-traveled assistant (save for one season as head coach in Miami) before he took over for Collins. The Pistons missed the playoffs in that first year and made a quick postseason exit the following season. Gentry was gone after a 28-30 start in 2000-01. GRADE: C-minus.
♦ 8. George Irvine (Detroit, 2000-01): Sund’s time in Detroit clearly was running out (the Pistons hired Joe Dumars as vice president of basketball operations in 2000). Hiring Irvine didn’t help his cause. Irvine’s record: 46-60. After the season, he and Sund both were gone. GRADE: F.
Bob Weiss represented one of Sund’s biggest coaching mistakes.
Bob Weiss represented one of Sund’s biggest coaching mistakes.
♦ 9. Nate McMillan (Seattle, 2001-05): Sund inherited McMillan, who had taken over as interim the previous season. He kept him. The Sonics made the playoffs in two of the next four seasons and won 52 games and a division title in 2004-05. But after the season, he opted to leave for Portland, taking a reported five-year, $30 million offer over Seattle’s four-year, $18 million deal. GRADE: B.
♦ 10. Bob Weiss (Seattle, 2005-06): The only explanation is that when McMillan left, Sund went insane. Bob Weiss? He was fired after 30 games (13-17). GRADE: F.
♦ 11. Bob Hill (Seattle, 2006-07). A step up from Weiss. But not by much. Totals: 53-81 in a season and a half, no playoffs. Neither Hill nor Sund (who had several draft mistakes in Seattle) survived. GRADE: D.
Many believe Sund had it right when he said the Hawks needed a new coach to take them to the next level. To find that guy, he’ll need a bit of a turnaround.
Clyde
June 25th, 2010
12:31 am
Someone on cbssportsline.com could not have said this any better….
“The Atlanta Spirit group are just complete and utter morons. You trade a draft pick for cash. If you can not afford the franchise, then give it up. I am calling on all Atlanta Hawks fans to boycott the team if they do not resign Joe Johnson. Rick Sund is just a puppet for the ownership group and I hope that he is proud of himself. The Atlanta Spirit wonders why people do not support the team – it is because of moves like this that show that they do not care about winning. They are soo far over their heads with the Hawks and Thrashers that they do not know which way is up.”
cp
June 25th, 2010
12:32 am
x-Mac-Town-x (West Macon’s Finezt) if Mario makes this team next year I’m done with the Hawks and switching to the Thunder. I wonder what the summer league roster will look like. Knowing the Hawks some guys are going to play well only to have the Hawks not offer them a contract.
BILLY KNIGHT
June 25th, 2010
12:34 am
RICK SUND WTF YOU SAY ABOUT ME YOU SORRY BASTERD.
Progeny
June 25th, 2010
12:34 am
That was a terrible sequence of events. I wonder if every hawks fan chipped in 20 dollars if WE could buy the team. I really hope that we have a better off season than that draft.
Rick Sund
June 25th, 2010
12:36 am
Progeny I got 20 and will raise you 20
BILLY KNIGHT
June 25th, 2010
12:36 am
RICK SUND ATLEAST I DRAFTED CHILL, JOSH, HORFORD.