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As Expected, Hawks Have Quiet Night
Posted by: Micah Hart on June 27, 2008 at 10:46AM EST
I was at the office for the duration of it, but the Hawks never really made any progress towards getting into the 2008 NBA Draft and, as expected, added no new players last night.

GM Rick Sund, speaking with Sekou Smith afterwards, basically said it came down to the team not wanting to give up any future assets to make any moves into this year's proceedings. This is pretty consistent with what he told me when I interviewed him a few weeks ago, when he sounded less than enthused about this current crop of players.

I can get behind that line of thinking, as I too don't look at this draft as one we'll really see a ton of great players from, but it certainly makes for a boring night when you have no picks, I'll tell you that much.

I won't get into too much draft analysis, because you can't really judge anyone until at least a few years into their careers, but I will say this. I think Chris Douglas-Roberts is going to make a bunch of teams regret passing on him. I thought he was the best player on Memphis' team last season, and just because he doesn't play the game in a prototypical manner doesn't mean he won't be successful at the next level. CDR dropped all the way to 40th, where he was scooped up by a fortunate New Jersey team, and I fully expect him to be on their roster come opening day. Just wanted to state that for the record.

Otherwise, not too much to report from these parts. July 1 is the first day of free agency, so I imagine we'll have much to discuss come next week.

(6) Comments
Posted by: Chris on June 28, 2008 10:11AM EST
I was wondering if the hawks may try to go after James Mays(Clemson) or David Pagett(Louisville) to shore up the center/PF position on the bench and to bring in intensity like the lakers bench used to do.

Posted by: Big Al on June 28, 2008 1:20PM EST
Any details on the summer league, where we'll play, invitees, etc

Posted by: virgil leonard on June 28, 2008 10:08PM EST
OK so has there been any news on us possibly signing an undrafted player or the signing of a young center or something. I want a 7 fter in the middle with solid d good passing and ball skills. are there any whispers

Posted by: J-Mill on June 29, 2008 9:27PM EST
vigril,

I heard the Hawks put Brian Butch (Big men from Wisconsin) on their summer league team. Butch has great post skills, a great three-point shoot and was the team leader in points and rebounds last year for the badgers...pretty good pickup for a player who went undrafted... now that we got a center who's probably going to backup if he gets signed by us... WE NEED TO FOCUS ON THE JOSHES!!!! Two more days and Smoove will be getting HUGE offers from Philly and Detroit and Chillz will be getting crazy money for a west coast team!!

Posted by: dre on June 30, 2008 1:52PM EST
sign the joshes because josh smith will be a future all star with joe and j-chill will be the next manu

Posted by: Carlo Singleton on July 4, 2008 8:08AM EST
I feel like the Hawks should trade Josh Smith, and Marvin Williams to the Mavs for Dirk and Stackhouse. I know these are two vets that have 5 years left,but if you look at the Celts(we took them to the brink)they were able to load up in one year. Josh and marvin will be an all-stars. Stack could win 6th man two years in a row. I feel that Dirk will be best as a second or third option. We still would have young talent(Horford,pachila,law)and I feel that defensively,Josh Childress can outrebound the best.

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