EVERYBODY is sleeping on the Hawks. Ridiculous.

[smoovegittar]

Hawks are a great team. Any fool knows this. But you gotta get some post season wins if you want the pundits and idiots to get on board.

..and stop listening to the media.

[Doranku]

LeBron swept the same shitty Hawks last year with a bunch of janitors. Nobody will ever take them seriously and rightfully so.

[Gileraracer]

LeBron swept the same shitty Hawks last year with a bunch of janitors. Nobody will ever take them seriously and rightfully so.

Ok Kyrie is a janitor now.

[KembaWalker]

I do fall asleep watching em tbh, so not surprised everyone else is sleeping on them

[keep-itreal]

pretenders.

last season was a fluke. They're going to get swept again by the Cavs

[CelticBaller]

[RidonKs]

they're easy to sleep on

they pose no threat whatsoever to a healthy cavs team

which puts them in the same category as the bulls, raptors, heat, wizards, pacers and bucks

it's like... who cares





on the other hand, they have a few assets they could entertain in a trade that could bolster them up a big notch.

scott
hardaway
bazemore

pair any two of those guys with either shroeder or millsap or even korver and see what comes?

teague and horford are the nucleus and they can be the 2nd and 3rd best players on a championship team

but they need somebody who can be better than they are

you do not need both millsap and korver. each have their own lanes in which they excel... but end of the day, they're both excellent offensive players.

it'll be hard to find takers for millsap at $20m the next three years. meanwhile korver and shroeder are on bargain deals for the next two years.

how about a package for brook lopez and joe johnson?

[greatest-ever]

OP, you realize that the Cavs swept them in the ECF with no Kevin Love and with Irving hardly playing? I don't see how they'll be better this year, all of their players have peaked aside from maybe Teague.

[dhsilv]

The hawks fell asleep in large part because of lack of competition and really stunk it up the last 20 or so games of last season. As a result they didn't get it back in the playoffs.

The big question mark for this team is if they can play the kind of defense to make it to the next level.

All that said we're not even 8 games in. Nothing matters at this point outside of injuries.

[atljonesbro]

It honestly doesn't have to do with the Hawks level of play why people sleep on them, it's just the branding. You look over at the Bulls, every year they are overrated as hell with tons of people thinking they can make it out of the east and they fail absolutely every year without fail for only the next year people to say the same thing. They have a much stronger brand than the Hawks which is why people say this every year

[Duderonomy]

I think the Hawks have a good chance on getting 50 wins and should make the second round, in media coverage they are the Grizzlies of the East.

[fsvr54]

Let them sleep.

[macpierce]

They're the Cincinnati Bengals, they have to have post season success before anyone respects them...

[atljonesbro]

They're the Cincinnati Bengals, they have to have post season success before anyone respects them...

I'm confused on what quantifies post season success because when you look at the Bulls they have none yet they get overrated every year. Like I said, it's all branding. Level of play doesn't matter when you're the Hawks due to a weak brand

[ArbitraryWater]

Ok Kyrie is a janitor now.

Kyrie didnt play dummie.