How to Set Your Franchise Back a Decade

How to Set Your Franchise Back a Decade

In the 201718 NBA season the Atlanta Hawks had a historically Bad season for their franchise winning just 24 games their fifth lowest win total in franchise history they didn’t have any Bonafide stars or young upand cominging players that you could be excited to build with for your future maybe John

Collins who had a better than expected rookie season but for the most part this was a team that didn’t have any prospects or pieces to build around but losing that many games and finishing dead last in the East wasn’t all that bad because it would position the to

Land a top lottery pick that was projected to be a stacked draft class with the likes of DeAndre Aton Luca donic Trey young Mel Bridges SGA and when the Hawks landed the number three pick in the draft despite the Kings jumping up in the draft lottery for the

Number two pick they actually ended up still getting lucky by way of the Sacramento Kings incompetence in taking Marvin Bagley number two overall and the Hawks had right in front of them what it was expected to be a once in a generation level Talent a kid who had

Been dominating the Euro league winning the league League MVP as a teenager over other grown professionals Luca donic was theirs for the taking and while they did ultimately select Luca they decided to trade down in the draft to move to number five a pick held by the Dallas

Mavericks which the Hawks would use to select Trey young a guy who they had their eye on from the beginning and as compensation for sending the Mavs the number three pick the Mavs would then trade their first round pick in the upcoming draft in 2019 which the Hawks

Would later use to select cam reddish with the 10th overall pick this was of course the Hawk’s second lottery pick in that draft and also having the number four pick but here’s the thing while Everyone likes to talk about how badly the Hawks screwed up and not just taking

Luca and sticking with him instead of trading for Trey Young And how that will always be one of the biggest draft night trades that a team wishes they could take back I would actually argue that it’s not just that trade alone that has led to the current state of the Atlanta

Hawks and seeing the mess of the roster before us it’s the multitude of missteps poor decisions and transactions that has quite frankly set this franchise back for years and there’s really only one way the Hawks can conceivably fix this mess and turn things around before it’s

Too late how you might ask well let’s talk about it but first a big shout out to the sponsor of today’s video Underdog fantasy if you haven’t heard Underdog already let me tell you about their platform real quick because I absolutely love this app it’s super easy to use and

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Description if you’re interested and let me know what picks you guys end up making now while I think we all can agree unless you’re just an incredibly biased Hawks fan that trading Luca donic for Trey Young on draft night was a mistake now when it happened it didn’t

Seem so bad right because at the time while most assumed Luca and his game would translate perfectly in the NBA and he would go on to be a star- level player there was still some uncertainty of is this just going to be another one of those amazing Euroleague Players

Whose game doesn’t really take off in the NBA kind of like a Ricky Rubio who was incredibly hyped when he was 18 and was taking that League by storm and when he came to the NBA he was decent but he never really took off and became a star

Level player in the league and the other thing was the Hawks I mean they got that first round pick in the deal and only had to move back two spots in the draft to get the guy they had their eye on In Trey young a guy they knew was a stretch

To take at number three no one had young that high on their mock draft boards so instead you get a first round pick in the deal to get the guy that you wanted like really it wasn’t that bad of a trade at that time and let’s also not

Downplay the fact that Trey young would go on to be one of the best scorers in the game of basketball an elite level playmaker and an All-Star player himself like let’s not minimize that as if the Hawks traded Luca and got a bust in return You could argue Trey has actually

Exceeded expectations when a lot of people thought he was going to underwhelm in the NBA and would be too small to be effective but is Trey young a top 10 top five player in the NBA like Luca at such a young age no no he’s not

And as I mentioned it’s not the straight swap of Luca for trade that really set the Hawks back and will’ll even set aside the fact that they could have even traded in the draft to get Shay gild just Alexander because SGA fell far in the lottery anyway but it’s more so the

Fact that they didn’t make use of the first round pick they got in the deal for Luca and taking cam reddish who they later would have to move for pennies on the dollar in a trade taking reddish over guys like cam Johnson and Tyler her with the fact that they took DeAndre

Hunter fourth overall in that draft and then also giving him a big payday extension later on or how about taking a Kongo in the following draft sixth overall ahead of Tyrese halber or even Devon Vel or of course trading three yes three first round picks for Deonte two

Of those picks being unprotected that they owe to the Spurs now look while you could argue all of these moves were bad in hindsight you can’t necessarily say that they were poor decisions at that time because you don’t know what players are truly going to develop into at the

Time they’re drafted or if they’ll pan out and fit with the rest of the roster in a given trade but the biggest thing for the Atlanta Hawks that has set their franchise back for years to come I would even argue a decade’s worth and I know

It may sound odd but it was actually going to the Eastern Conference Finals in 2021 the year the Hawks went to the e Eastern Conference Finals it was this incredible Cinderella Story a Hawks team that started off the season poorly I might add in 2020 so bad that they had

To fire their coach and had Nate McMillan come in after McMillan took over the Hawks turned their season around going 27- 11 to finish off the year after starting 14 and 20 they would work their way up to the fifth seed in the East and while most thought they

Would get taken out in the first round they surprised the NBA world and not only beating the Knicks handily in five games but then they would go on to take out the number one seated Philadelphia 7 Sixers in seven games beating Philly on their own home court in game seven a

Sixers team that was thought to be one of the title favorites that year and hell even in the Conference Finals they gave the Bucks a run for their money taking it to six games to the eventual NBA champions like really that run was nothing short of amazing for a team that

No one would have predicted to get that far at the start of the season and by the Hawks having so much success That season it gave them this false sense of belief that they were right there they were right there for a shot at the title

If they could beat the Sixers and go toe-to-toe with the Bucks and they had a younger team with players that hadn’t even entered their primes yet why couldn’t they be on a path to being one of the best teams in the league the problem though is not all runs like that

Are sustainable first and foremost as good as the Hawks were they were severely lacking defensively Trey young was getting away with a massive amount of foul baiting which the league would then go on to alter the rules of foul baiting they played a Knicks team that collapsed in the playoffs who hadn’t

Been there in over a decade and while beating the Sixers was impressive the Sixers had been notorious and that Still Remains the case to this day for choking in the playoffs and of course who could forget Ben Simmons crumbling in that series but because the Hawks thought

They were right there right there on a path of being a title team and with Trey young being that franchise player to build around to get them there they moved way too quickly thinking they were better than they actually were the fact of the matter is teams started to figure

Out Trey young they learn how to guard him better they learn not to fall for his attempts to draw contact to get to the line and they learned to just attack attack attack him on the defensive end because Trey wasn’t stopping anyone and wouldn’t you know it The Following

Season after the Conference Finals run the Hawks would disappoint finishing the year ninth in the East they made it into the playoffs by way of the play in otherwise they would have missed the playoffs entirely but then would get beat down in the first round by the

Miami Heat so what did the Hawks do they panicked well we’ve got to do something we’ve got this franchise player in our hands we went to the Conference Finals and then slid majorly this past season we’ve got to get Trey some help and we need someone in the the back court with

Him that will mask his defensive deficiencies so what did they do they made an all-in Type move to acquire dejonte Murray who was coming off an Allstar season in San Antonio and while I don’t mean for this to come off as disrespect to Marie because I actually

Love his game and think he’s one of the better two-way players in the game of basketball but Murray is not a player you trade three first round picks for I know goar that same offseason would later get moved for four and really five if you include Walker Kesler five first

Round picks but even goar shouldn’t have gone for that many picks either the biggest difference though is look at where the wolves are now compared to the Atlanta Hawks and the Hawks a team that could very well be on their way to the lottery both for now and for the

Foreseeable future are going to be sending out unprotected picks to the Spurs three first round picks for what I would call a fringe level All-Star player and a fringe All-Star player who doesn’t fit well alongside Trey young because Murray thrives more with the ball in his hands and playing point

Guard over the two and now you’re in a situation where the Hawks are sitting 10th in the Eastern Conference they’re getting blown out of games not not even looking competitive guys are visibly frustrated and now just after trading for dejonte Murray a year and a half

Later reports are now out that the Hawks are looking to move on from Murray which they’ll most surely not get that kind of return that they had to pay to get him but if you’re the Atlanta Hawks and over the cap team that doesn’t have much

Wiggle room to work with for the future with guys like young Hunter bogdanovich Murray and a kungu all locked up on pretty sizable deals for the next three to four seasons after this one the best course of rather than trying to salvage what they have and see if they can magically turn

Things around or just do a retool around Trey young and see if they can get back on track to where they were in 2021 the best course of action is to tear this roster down and yes that also means trading away Trey young you see while everyone is focusing on trading Deon

Murray because he’s still a high level player in his prime and the thought is well Murray just didn’t fit well with Trey the problem is the Hawks will continue to just set themselves back further and further if they try to build around Trey Young Trey young is your

Franchise player your number one option isn’t winning you a championship like as good as Trey young is and he is an elite player he’s still not that guy he’s not Steph Curry as much as Hawks fans would like to think that he is and the sooner the front office recognizes that and

Accepts the fact that he’s not that player the better because the longer they kick the can down the road the more coaches they fire the more roster adjustments they make to get the right pieces around Trey and they still don’t work the lower and lower Trey’s value is

Going to be right now you can get a big haul for Trey young who’s only 25 his contract isn’t very favorable on a Max steal but he’s a big enough name and enough of an offensive Juggernaut that you could secure multiple first round picks and potentially some young players

For and if you’re trading young you might as well just start over get maximum value for guys like Murray bogdanovich capella you start over now and build for the future because switching it up and getting different pieces around Trey isn’t going to make you that much better and yes tanking

Being bad doesn’t really favor them when they owe some of their picks to the the Spurs but if they move all of their highest valued assets the hope is that they would be able to obtain a fair amount of draft capital in return to set

Them up for the future so I hate to say it and I know Hawks fans are going to go nuts on me in the comments but what really has set this franchise back is building around Trey young and thinking that he was going to be the player that gets them multiple championships after

This false sense of Hope in that 2021 playoff run let me know what you guys think though and what do you think the Hawks should do to save their season let me know in the comments as always be sure to subscribe and I’ll see you in the next one

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