Final Thoughts on Vegas
The Hawks Summer League squad bounced back from two tough losses to win their final three games in Las Vegas. As predicted, or at least hoped, Jeff Teague and Jordan Crawford stood out as the most talented players on the team, although each of them had their fair share of hiccups along the way.
Teague looked awful in Atlanta’s loss to San Antonio in Game 2. He had seven turnovers in the first half, including getting ripped in the back court leading to an uncontested layup for the Spurs. He summed it up well with a Tweet the next morning: “my bad yesterday didn’t have a good one”. The good news is that Jeff seemed to re-commit to taking better care of the ball, turning it over just four times in the next two games.
Mr. Nickels (we’ll try that one for Jordan during this post) had a good Summer League. I don’t want to say “great” because some of the areas where he still needs some seasoning were exposed (he had nine turnovers in yesterday’s game). But Summer League is the perfect place to not only work on your weaknesses, but to also to learn about where you need to focus your efforts when you get back to the practice court or weight room.
We all knew that Jordan could score, but in my opinion he was even better than advertised as a scorer. Similar to Jamal, he regularly hits tough shots while making them look easy. We will have to see if it carries over into training camp/pre-season, but Mr. Nickels was able to get to the line on a regular basis this past week. Summer League has a ton of fouls (three different players fouled out with 10 in one game out in Vegas) but one slight against Joe and Jamal as scorers is that they don’t get to the free throw line enough for easy points.
The most disappointing part of Summer League for me was that Pape Sy was limited due to a strained Achilles. He played the first game and made a cameo against the D-League Select, but he never got the chance to get in the flow and have a big impact.
Sergiy Gladyr had his best game of the summer yesterday, hitting 2-0f-3 shots, picking some one’s pocket and dishing out an assist in eight minutes of action. This kid (he is the only one on the team that is still too young to purchase alcohol in the States) showed again that he has a lot of potential, but he still needs some work before he is ready for meaningful minutes in The League.
James Augustine may have made the biggest impression on me outside of the guys we have previously drafted. He gives you what you look for in a big man role player. He hustles, works hard, fouls hard and hits the glass. He doesn’t score a lot (he had more rebounds than points) but there are a lot of first string big men in the NBA that don’t score a lot, much less third string.
There were other players that had good showings in Vegas (Aminu, Hendrix, Gilder) and players that had their ups and downs (Morris) but it is hard to see any of them battling for meaningful minutes for the Hawks this season. But that is just one man’s perspective. What did you think? Let the conversation begin…
I think if we resign Jason Collins Im going to puke
ESPN reports Hawks will re-sign Jason Collins…….@ Tyer, dont get any vomit on the floor…….lol………….CHUUUUUUCH
were resining JCOllins! Oyeah Eastern COnerence champs for shure!!……………….NOT
well tony if you are out their some of these big men that we could have drafted in the 2nd rd. like sanham & whiteside and aldi are making a dent on the defensive side & rebounding side of the ball. cousins had been putting up good #’s so far but ran into trouble against sanham and i also hear whiteside has been swating shots.
i dont understand the hawks to save my life we needed a bigman in a desperate way even if he is just a 7′ goon even if he was the secound coming of priest lauderdale.
i mean we pick some pop sy dude that we are only going to send to the euro leauge. what good does that do us.we are not going to pull the triggeer for shack. i mean what was the harm in at least trying to find a big man.
iTHINK MARVIN WiLLiAMS SHOULD HAVE BEEN iN THE SUMMER LEAGUE LOLz
ALSO HASSAN WHITESIDE WOULD HAVE HAD A HUGE IMPACT FOR THE HAWKS..BUT THEY CHO PAPE SY (SUCKS) INSTEAD
I think we should’ve drafted a C but not White side he’s going to be gould just not anytime soon, thats why he was good for the kings
Were Shaq’s only suitors so sign him, sign-al to an extention, and trade him zaza, and bibby, and future pick for CP and Okafor.
1:Paul/Teauge
2:Johnson/Crawford
3:Williams/Evans
4:SMith/Augustine or Aminu
5:OKafor/ONeal
hawksfanman i think that wont work chris paul and okafor combined saleries are 23 milloin mike and zaza are 9 million and hawksfanman got a question do you think joe will avereged more than 25
awd
never
hawks stupid. i bored. uhh. and who cares. y’all hawks fans should see a phsychiatrist.
What does everyone think about the signing of Josh Powell? Chris Paul says he is ready to leave the Hornets. Will Atlanta PLEASE just look into it!! #thisisgettingveryfrustrating. Big moves are being made everywhere except Atlanta (Jason Collins)<—– COME ON, HOW ARE WE GOING TO COMPETE!!!!!
signing JCollins is a dumb move. if you’re gonna sign him, then do a sign and trade and get a young prospect, or at least someone who is able to contribute.
did i just here that we signed josh powell? if we get we should sign a true backup point gaurd. We need to sign EDDIE HOUSE!!!
Sign Eddie House Rick Sund. He is a true point gaurd. He is way better than mike bibby. He can find people all over the court and is a terrific shooter.
the only thing that this team lack is a true center, not a forward that can play center. thay have a good rotational line up and dept. gaurds are ok. they have speed talent and a veteran. they really need a good center that dont even need to score. Just grab those rebounds swat some shots and wrestle with other centers like howard, garnet.. they can even use M. williams and other bench for a trade to get that C!
HOW MUCH WILL JOSH POWELL IMPACT OUR TEAM???