There still are “considerations” in the minds and on the board – to enact before the season starts…

will likely play whoever produces and plays well, in the doghouse: Wright, Bellie, Kosta: Randolph > Wright
Buke > Bellie
Turiaf > Kosta
11 man rotation;
Monta/Williams
Jax/ Buke/ Morrow
Maggette/ Randolph
Al/ Hendrix
Biedrins/ Turiaf

i hope that our bench players get minutes. i hope that nellie doesnt go back to his 6 man rotation again. going the pritchard route of stockpiling assets wouldnt be so bad

Let’s also not forget, we were UNUSUALLY lucky in terms of injuries last year. Depth is always a good thing.

that’s a good problem to have. I can see Nellie staying up at night trying to figure out how he’s going to distribute the minutes.

If they don’t play well then they don’t play and there’s someone sitting on the bench waiting for their chance to prove themselves.

Way too early to pencil in anyone or make calls about Hendrix, Randolph, Wright.

Kosta and Belinelli haven’t shown me that they belong in the league. If Belinelli can take some pointguardish minutes, he may play some. If not, he’s toast.

I’d not be surprised to see Harrington traded with another warm body for a single player.

but you have to remember, some are going to suck and some are going to be good. I am not sold on brandan and belinelli, i don’t think brandan is ready for the nba. i think anthony randolph, buke, and turiaf will make the rotation, everyone else is a huge question mark.

kosta iz back n euro and i dont tink hendrix will play that much and morrow. plus randolph will get time but probely start at bakersfield

but this bench is DEEP

its a good problem to have. nelly wont play his 6 man rotation, because he wont have to. the biggest problem i see is the SG and SF spot.

SG: Jackson, Belinelli, Morrow + maggette, monta, and Azubuike will all play here too
SF: Maggette, Buike, and Randolph + jackson for when someone else is playing SG

morrows obviously never gonna play but my biggest concerns are wit marco and randolph. both are going to want to play and both probably deserve to play…but theyre not gonna be able to start in front of steven jackson or corey maggete

None the less, we should all be pumped up for this “crowded” bench problem we have…this team is going to be a good TEAM…no true superstars as of yet but filled with a bunch of great players

I would rather have a crowded bench then a depleted one, BW better tart performing more. If he does not want to get bumped by AR. Marco better start hitting his shots if he does not want to gt bumped by Morrow, the gu can hoot the lights out…

Especially with Nellie who will go with any matchup he think he can exploit at any time. I like the bench because we have a combination of shooters, bruisers, tall, short, etc.

this year our bench is basically the same players who will have improved

minus the old ass weak fools

adding a solid point that we have needed for so long.

yes it is just you

were saying how good our bench was at the beginning of the year but our bench was horrible IMO last year. and one of our best bench players Pietrus who wasn’t that good is gone.

better than a nonexistant bench.

maybe we can pull off a kupchak… if not, it’s not really a bad thing though, competition means more energy because everybody likes pt which means more wins. plus if we have any injuries, knock on wood…

All I know is we were making a lot of excuses for Nelson, saying that he had no bench last season (even though I think if he would have played Wright or Belinelli earlier in the season they could have been able to contribute). This year we’ll see if he couldn’t play his bench or if he was too stubborn to.

This is so negative and a lot of it is wrong. Anthony Randolph does not have a “gargantuan confidence ” after every summer league game he talked about what he needs to improve on. Wright was fine all year character wise, he even said that he accepted that he was a rookie and would not play much. He will have more minutes this year and he knows that because Nelson said it so why would he be upset? You are saying that it is a burden now that we have a lot of young talented players on the team. This is ridiculous.

this of course would only work if:

1. Josh Smith wanted out of Atlanta and demanded a trade.
2. Josh Smith wanted to play for the W’s and forced Hawks management to negotiate with Mullin.

Al Harrington, Bradnan Wright, Marco Bellinelli, and Kosta Perovic
for
Josh Smith + 2nd rounder.

Smith’s contract $12mil x 5 years with player ETO

The Hawks need to fill roster spots. They add 3 players: a solid vet, two 2nd year 1st rounders with (questionable) potential. And a 3rd string Eastern Conference center.
They lose, of course, Josh Smith.

The W’s lose a few guys who might work out or not. They gain another chance at the playoffs.

It is going to be interesting but here is one thing we know, Kosta is gone. So looking at our team here is what it looks like:

Monta / Williams / CJ
Jackson / Belli / Morrow
Maggette / Buike / Randolph
Harrington / Wright / Hendrix
Beidrins(?) / Turiaf

If I remember right only 12 can suit up at a given time so the obvious choices to not suit is Hendrix and Morrow. Hendrix has a good possibility of going to the D-League first but we may want to keep him up so that for teams with bruisers he is available. Randolph will not get sent down unless something drastic happens and his wings come off and he falls from grace. Morrow will not sniff the court.

At some time this year it will be decided who gets dealt and the first to go looks to be Harrington. With Randolph coming with the shooters touch and Morrow some extra 3 pointers plus Hendrix to Bang down low, Harrington has got to go. Randolph will go to the 4 to mess things up every now and again but be a 3 most of the time. And if Beli does not beat out Morrow you might even see them packaged together for a future first rounder, young talent, or a solid vet.

Lastly CJ could very well be out of GS if the warriors feel they don’t need him. Monta needs to step up and Marcus most definitely be better than advertised for that to happen. But i do remember that the coaches one knock on CJ during summer league was his inability to run the team like a true point. This makes him a less electrifying Monta.

So really we could see a lot happen in one year. I am excited and hop that we do well enough where we don’t need to make deals.

Second paragraph I mean Belli and Harrington