{"id":964,"date":"2007-06-28T20:57:07","date_gmt":"2007-06-29T00:57:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2007\/06\/28\/wtf-is-wrong-with-the-hawks\/"},"modified":"2007-06-28T20:57:07","modified_gmt":"2007-06-29T00:57:07","slug":"wtf-is-wrong-with-the-hawks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2007\/06\/28\/wtf-is-wrong-with-the-hawks\/","title":{"rendered":"WTF is wrong with the Hawks?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I think I have made it plenty clear that I no longer care for the NBA; it is just not compelling.\u00a0 With that said, I was interested in this draft because Atlanta had a chance (\u201chad\u201d as in they no longer have because they just f\u2019ed it up) to get better in a hurry.\u00a0 Instead they drafted Al Horford (F, Florida) with their #3 pick, followed by Acie Law IV (G, Texas A&M) with their #11 pick.<\/p>\n<p>Call me silly, but if Atlanta needed a point guard (and believe me, they did and still do), they should have taken Mike Conley, Jr. (G, Ohio St.) with the #3 pick.\u00a0 WTF is wrong with the Hawks?\u00a0 How many f\u2019ing forwards are they going to draft?\u00a0 This is the fourth or maybe fifth year in a row that they have gone with a forward with their first selection.\u00a0 I really do not have any idea what the Atlanta brass is trying to do to build this team into a winner.<\/p>\n<p>I was holding out hope that the rumors were wrong \u2013 Atlanta would not trade away their picks for a veteran to lead the young guys.\u00a0 I wanted them to stay young, and add a guard (Conley) in the draft.\u00a0 Atlanta did the right thing by holding on to the picks, but I cannot believe that they took another forward.\u00a0 Un-\u2018f\u2019ing-believable.<\/p>\n<p>I am not knocking Horford or Law, but this just does not seem to be remotely helpful.\u00a0 Hopefully I am very wrong.\u00a0 I would actually like a reason to start watching the Hawks again, but not even HD broadcasts can save this sick puppy.<\/p>\n<p>Oh yeah.\u00a0 The commissioner says that the upcoming 2007-2008 season promises to be the best ever.\u00a0 On what grounds?\u00a0 The big market teams (NY, Philly, and LA) are still going to suck, James needs serious help in Cleveland, the East in general is pathetic, and Hawks just had a bloody terrible draft.<\/p>\n<div class=\"addtoany_share_save_container addtoany_content_bottom\"><div class=\"a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_ addtoany_list a2a_target\" id=\"wpa2a_1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share', '');\" class=\"a2a_dd addtoany_share_save\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/add-to-any\/share_save_171_16.png\" width=\"171\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Share\"\/><\/a>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\nif(wpa2a)wpa2a.script_load();\n\/\/--><\/script>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I think I have made it plenty clear that I no longer care for the NBA; it is just not compelling.\u00a0 With that said, I was interested in this draft because Atlanta had a chance (\u201chad\u201d as in they no longer have because they just f\u2019ed it up) to get better in a hurry.\u00a0 Instead &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2007\/06\/28\/wtf-is-wrong-with-the-hawks\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">WTF is wrong with the Hawks?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"addtoany_share_save_container addtoany_content_bottom\"><div class=\"a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_ addtoany_list a2a_target\" id=\"wpa2a_2\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share', '');\" class=\"a2a_dd addtoany_share_save\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/add-to-any\/share_save_171_16.png\" width=\"171\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Share\"\/><\/a><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archive"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/964","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=964"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/964\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}