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Weekend Draft Workout Roundup
Posted by: Micah Hart on June 22, 2009 at 10:47PM AFT
The Hawks front office and coaching staff came down to the Arena for morning workouts on both Saturday and Sunday this weekend, with a few big names coming in to strut their stuff. Saturday saw Wake Forest's Jeff Teague as the headliner, with Jermaine Taylor (Central Florida), Lester Hudson (UT-Martin), Aaron Jackson (Duquesne), Dar Tucker (DePaul), and Manny Quezada (San Francisco) on hand as well.

Sunday brought Tyler Hansbrough from national champion North Carolina as well as Memphis' Shawn Taggart, Georgia Tech product Alade Aminu, and Syracuse G Eric Devendorf.

Here are a few nuggets on the action:

- Teague looked smooth. He seemed very calm and self-assured going through the paces, and showed off a lightning-quick crossover.

- Lester Hudson turned some heads on Saturday. The 24-year old reminded some of Flip Murray with his story (in the diamond in the rough sort of way), and with his performance. No doubt about it, the guy can score. He stroked it pretty well from the perimeter in the workouts, which backs up his reputation (he averaged 26.6 ppg in his two seasons at UT-Martin).

- Hansbrough showed why his nickname is "Psycho T". His intensity is really something to see close up, as he really got after it with Taggart and Aminu. That's not to knock any of the other players who've worked out for the Hawks so far (and Taggart and Aminu both returned the favor), but Hansbrough does seem to take it up a notch, much as he did throughout his career.

- Taggart was somewhat of an afterthought at Memphis playing with teammates such as Derrick Rose, Chris Douglas-Roberts, and Tyreke Evans, but he showed some nice skills inside and out on Sunday. At 6-10, he could create some match-up problems in the NBA if he can hit shots as consistently as he did in the workout.

That concludes the scheduled individual workouts for the Hawks in advance of Thursday's draft. One more possibility that has surfaced – after initially declining prior invites by the Hawks, Ty Lawson’s camp has reached out to the club regarding a potential Wednesday workout. This one may or may not happen, and for good reason. Being the day prior to the draft, Wednesday is the single busiest phone day for the Hawks’ decision makers.

Stay tuned….

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