Rick Sund? Who is this guy, whydid we hire him, and do we feel he can take the Atlanta Hawks from mediocre to good to eastern conference great? I mean we know he's an old-school guy, he knows alot about the game of basketball, and he has done alot, but for all his 30 years of experience in the NBA, has he ever been a part of a championship team? In all his 15 years from 1979-1994 as a director of player personnel and vice predident of basketball operations at the Dallas Mavericks Organization, did they ever have playoffs success? They had one year, the 1987-1988 season where the Mavericks led my Mark Aquirre got to game 7 of the Western Conference Finals, but were defeated by the dynasty and eventual champion Los Angeles Lakers. Even when he served as a consultant to the General Manager of the Seattle Supersonics in 1995, it was after he left in 1996 when they went to the finals and got beat by Micheal Jordan's Bulls.
The real history of this guy we can and will evaluate this guy is by his General Manager position of the Seattle Supersonics from 2001-2007.
My question is why couldn't we stay within the organization to bring in a GM? No one outside our circle knows this team's roster better than the people who have been here beyond Billy Knight and Mike Woodson, therefore, why couldn't we make STEVE SMITH the General Manager of the Hawks? I'm not sure about this RICK SUND guy for the hawks, probably a little because he's a 67 years old white man, and the Hawks are the youngest team in the league consisting of mostly black players, really, actually ALL black players exept for ZaZa, who needs to stay, because he's a good role player.
To me, this man can change the Atlanta Hawks culture for the positive if he hires the head coach with the highest winning percentage in the NBA, and keeps the head coach with the lowest winning percentage in the NBA as an assistant, meaning this:
HIRE AVERY JOHNSON AS HEAD COACH
KEEP MIKE WOODSON AS ASSISTANT COACH
This way the Hawks get a new look, a new,powerful, respectable voice in the locker room and Mike Woodson gets to stay to some extent, even he has to recognize Avery as the better coach and follow his lead with the young Hawks. Also, for RICK SUND to make himself credible he must do the following:
RE-SIGN JOSH SMITH - that must be top priority, our big three consists of HORFORD, JOHNSON, and SMITH and if SMith lives up to his potential, he might be the biggest of the three, he is surely a future all-star, but he needs to continue to improve to get there
RE-SIGN JOSH CHILDRESS - he is our 6th man,our most productive bench player, and an afro that is just as important as the ben wallace fro was to detriot, exept we can't let him leave, sign him at mid-level and he'll stay
SIGN-AND-TRADE MARVIN WILLIAMS - everybody knows Marvin Williams is/was a mistake, he is not a starter in this leauge, he is not a impact role player on this team, and he is hindering the statistical growth of Josh Smith, and he is the person-symbolism of the foolishness of Billy Knight, we already traded Shelden Williams, let's package him with Bibby and get a Great Point Guard like Baron Davis or Allen Iverson or Monta Ellis or Gilbert Arenas or SOMETHING
As long as we keep our core together; Josh Smith, Josh Childress, Joe Johnson, and Al Horford we can be eastern conference contenders for the next few years, if we get a great PG on that level, and a shot-blocking center (DESANGA DIOP!) we will possibly be title contenders.
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