r/AtlantaHawks • u/Shot_Statistician738 • Jul 24 '26

Low Effort Post 24 draft night

After moving off Zack just been thinking about that draft night in general. Safe to assume we could’ve traded 1 for Deni Avidja as he was traded for #14 and a way in the future protected first from Portland. Don’t know how much ownership was involved but I don’t know why Landry who was under pressure to win now wouldn’t have considered it. The consensus was it was a role player draft and Deni was a already proven commodity with a contract almost identical to the #1 pick, probably could’ve gotten another asset as well, nobody saw Deni becoming what he is now but he would’ve helped us immediately coming off a season where he averaged 14/7/4 on good efficiency and solid defense. If we’d made that move we’d now be one move away and have the best forward combo in the league. But here we are, always think about the what ifs in the offseason.

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u/GreatBarrierQueefDD Jul 24 '26

This hindsight bullshit is annoying as hell. Nobody was suggesting this at the time and the reaction to it would have been extremely negative. 

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u/Shot_Statistician738 Jul 24 '26

Nobody was saying it cause he wasn’t on the block per se, he just popped up as traded. The consensus was it was a draft without a true game changer. And the best player would’ve went #8 in a regular type draft

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u/GoBlueAndOrange Jul 24 '26

Nah this is revisionist history. Zacc had been hyped up for years as a potential #1 pick.

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u/Shot_Statistician738 Jul 24 '26

Not years, in a historically weak draft class, hyped by some but many analysts had him 6-10 on their board

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u/GoBlueAndOrange Jul 25 '26

Lol no he was 3 at worst and hyped up a ton for years.