There is simply too much work to be done this off season to have another lackluster off-season. Rick Sund was like plugging a tire for the Atlanta Hawks franchise, but he can make this tire brand new with the off-season decisions this year.
We have the assets and we have the players, but I believed this past season was the ceiling for the team we have currently. Change is needed and we need a change of heart.
When the Hawks have made changes, they were ho hum. Obviously Craig (I dare not call him Speedy) Claxton is not what I had in mind when it came to a big off-season addition. Drafting the Williamses (Shelden and Marvin) were also lifeless acquisitions. Mike Woodson's appointment to coach, atrocious. We can talk about what Billy Knight has done to harm this franchise. But Knight did not leave us in a bad situation. We can right those wrongs. Its up to upper management to do so.
With that being said, the change has to come within. The Atlanta Spirit must come together on some things and not be selfish. Its already bad enough that there are six people with majority ownership. All of them have ego problems just because of who they are. So when it comes to differences, they do not want to compromise. Hence the situation, regarding the Joe Johnson acquisition, that had one of the owners in court.
We cannot be cheap but we can just throw money at people and assume that is the answer. I don't have a problem with keeping Mike Bibby but it has to be at the right price. We would also have to get the eventual replacement. At pick 19, I like two point guards. Eric Maynor and Ty Lawson are solid picks at that place in the draft. Me personally I would like something more sure fire.
Trading the pick to someone else is an option. A package deal is also an option.
We have the options this off-season to make this a better situation in Atlanta but we cannot sit still. While others are making the necessary changes to improve, we can not give the impression that we will return to the playoffs doing what we did last season.
This draft is rich with point guards, there is a but to selecting a point guard where we are right now.
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