A History of Hawks Drafts from 2000 to present

I voted “for a superstar, yes,” but I would also be willing to give up a 1st round pick for the “right rotational player” if that player was in his early to mid 20’s. I think there has to be some upside or long term value there. I don’t think you can justify trading a 1st round pick for an older player with a short contract even if the reasoning behind it is that you don’t develop the players you draft anyway. Maybe that, in itself, is the problem. And I don’t think you should ever have to include 1st round draft picks in a trade where your sole purpose is to dump big contracts on another team. There are always teams out there that are willing to take decent players with big contracts in exchange of expiring contracts if you want to clear cap space. All of that is just bad business, in my opinion.

I agree that blowing this team up is risky. As Hawks fans, I think the one thing we can all agree on is that most of our problems start with management, so I don’t know how anyone can trust them to strip this team down to nothing and rebuild a better product. If we do that, we’ll most likely be stuck with our worst players because they’ll be the hardest to get rid of. If we do trade our best players, it would be difficult to get an upgrade in return. We’ll most likely trade them for slightly worse players who make the same amount of money. Either that, or we might have to take a chance on talented guys who are injury prone or talented players who have a ton of off the court problems. And I would be willing to take that chance if this team wasn’t so fragile or if we had a proven coach that could work with players like that.

If you look at a majority of the trade suggestions on this site, the only beneficial trades that I’ve seen suggested are unrealistic, and the realistic trades only make us worse. And that’s not a knock on anyone on this site or their trade ideas. I like seeing the different scenarios people come up with. It’s just that making one good trade is easier said than done, so before we decide to trade everyone on the team and start from scratch, we have to remember that we have some good pieces right now and we might not get much in return for those pieces if we decide to trust management to “BLOW IT UP!!!!!!!!!!” Maybe making one good trade, adding a proven coach and picking up some useful free agents, who do more than ride the bench, could help us salvage this team.

Now we can see we should have gone with Monta or Lou over Salim. The other picks I can’t really complain about ..who knew?? Demarr was ballin’ in college, Diaw still has good talent he just doesn’t have the “it”, Marvin, Acie all played well in college. Really it was the second picks that were wasted. Because there was talent available and they went with just getting a body.

If you think we are gonna fall apart completely and end up in the lottery then no, we should never trade a draft pick.

If you think we are going to continue to be better than most of the NBA then you might as well trade the picks.

TBH though I’m uncomfortable trading 1rst rounders for players that are older than 28 or so.

Should Hawks EVER trade a first round pick? Ever is a strong word. If the right trade comes around, then of course I think it’s the right time to make a move for this team. But in a weak draft like this year, I think they’re best bet is to hold on to it and hope to draft a nice 6th or 7th man.