Tuesday, June 26, 2007
Sports YouTube clip of the day
Posted by Scott Freeman on Tue, Jun 26, 2007 at 5:44 PM
Two days before the NBA draft Thursday, SI.com's Kelly Dwyr takes the occasion to rank the NBA's general managers. According to the list, the Hawks' Billy Knight should be grateful that Michael Jordan and Kevin McHale are in the NBA; otherwise, Knight would have ranked dead last. Writes Dwyr:
Knight is the biggest reason why the Hawks can't get out of the lottery. For starters, Knight continually suggests that he's often after the best player available in the draft, which would be an admirable philosophy if he actually selected the best players available. Instead, the Hawks have gone with Josh Childress (instead of Luol Deng, Andre Iguodala or Al Jefferson), Marvin Williams (instead of Chris Paul or Deron Williams), and Shelden Williams (instead of Brandon Roy, Randy Foye or Rudy Gay) in three consecutive drafts. He also sent two first-round picks and Boris Diaw to Phoenix for the right to pay Joe Johnson.Bottom line: The Hawks are stuck with a swingman-heavy roster of young talent. If they keep their two lottery picks (third and 11th), they'll be a few million under the salary cap this summer, though we're not entirely sure if this is a good thing. Knight's two veteran signings from last summer, Speedy Claxton and Lorenzen Wright, were two of the worst rotation players in the NBA in 2006-07.
And now, without further ado, Fresh Loaf's look at the possible Hawks to come out of the draft. This is something of a long shot, but today: Florida's JoaKim Noah.
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Kelly, You obviously know nothing about sports, specifically pro basketball. The only reason the Hawks have been in the lottery the last 4 years under Knight is because they are young and Knight blew up the old team. Remember that team with no cap space, old veterans who were getting us nowhere, bloated contracts with players like Alan Henderson? NO of course not, you don't know anything of what you write. No star wanted to come here either. Now we have: Cap space an AllStar Joe Johson (the one u complain about us getting, btw) and up and coming allstar Josh Smith a 6'9 slashing power forward with a sweet Jumper Marvin Williams April 2006 rookie of the month Sheldon Williams. Young players playing together, growing together, getting better together. 2 top 11 picks (options) All because of guess who? BK For the record (something you don't bother to checkout): The same year we got Josh Childress we also got Josh Smith who was passed by 16 other teams. You left that part out . I'd rather have both of them than the people you just mentioned and so would alot of other teams. Hmmm Marvin was the conscensus #2 by everyone, including you i'm sure unless you considered the village idiot back then to suggest we take a midget gaurd that does not fit the vision of a tall athletic team that plays multiple positions. We needed interior defense help not another shooting guard or small forward (Roy, Foye and Gay). Plus you would have complained that we took another wing player. Moron. And saying and Injured Speedy was rotation player is incorrect. He was hired as a veteran starter (with a championship ring he earned with SA). But you wouldn't know that. Nor would you know that the starters played less than 10 games together last year. And still we improved our win total, something else you left out of you piece of "journalism. Next time leave the negativity in therapy and state the facts.
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