[TheSteinLine]“It is also increasingly believed that Atlanta is willing to surrender Zaccharie Risacher in the proverbial rightscenario, since the No. 1 overall pick in the draft just 18 months ago has not developed as the Hawks would have hoped to this point.”
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Atlanta sports would be the team to jump 10 spots for the number 1 pick and not have a generational talent to pick from. Why are we cursed?
Damn Risacher can’t catch a W
“has not developed as the Hawks would have hoped”
Well goddamn I wonder who’s fault is that.
Trading Risacher would be a massive mistake this early in his career. How can hawks be considered about development when they don’t try to focus on his development?
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Fuck this shit if it was a Giannis type player sure but we’re gonna give up our No1 pick for an injury prone 32 year old. Do they really fucking think that’s gonna take us over the hump?
“Haynes also reported that Trae Young would not be included in such a swap,but that creates potential financial obstacles for a franchise not exactly known for lavish spending.
Davis is owed $58.5 million next season and is likewise known to be eager to secure an extension in August when he becomes eligible for one … whether that’s with the Mavericks or a team that acquires him.
Young, however, holds a $49 million player option for 2026-27. There is a growing belief leaguewide that the Hawks are more open to trading him away than they’ve ever been, but what happens to their payroll if no such trade materializes and Young winds up exercising that option? Can the Hawks dare to find out by trading for Davis this winter without Young exiting at the same time?
Hard to imagine that.
The Hawks nonetheless do appear to be the most determined suitor for Davis at this juncture with just under six weeks to go until the Feb. 5
trade buzzer.
**it is also increasingly believed that Atlanta is willing to surrender Zaccharie Risacher in the proverbial right scenario, since the No. 1 overall pick in the draft just 18 months ago has not developed as the Hawks would have hoped to this point. Yet even if the Hawks are prepared to package Risacher with the expiring contracts held by Kristaps Porzingis and Luke Kennard for Davis, it is unclear how much additional draft compensation they would be willing (or able) to add to the deal to convince the Mavericks part with Davis in-season.**
Just to be clear once again: Jalen Johnson and the 2026 unprotected first-round pick that the Hawks acquired from New Orleans to set the Pelicans up to draft Derik Queen are widely presumed to be untouchables from Atlanta’s perspective.”
lot of feelings here. why can’t quin and ZR BOTH suck?
Risacher is going to make a massive leap when whoever trades for him actually uses him in their games. Hawks are going to look like morons when they go from a team with everyone on insanely good deals with tons of free cap room from expirings to one with salary issues due to a center who cannot string 6 games together they sold their assets for.
I thought JJ was ass in his 2nd season. Turns out coaching and development matters.
I’m a Quin supporter but we need to develop ZR. He’s young and long and has a chance to be good
This is sad af. I want him to stay a Hawk for a long time. If he gets traded man, I hope he proves everyone wrong man. Bro must be stress rn being on the trading block.
He’d probably get a bigger role in Dallas and actually develop into a pretty good player.
Nooo
Issue is… ZR is more of a 4 over here than he was in France. We have a great 4 in JJ.
So… moving ZR makes sense. In the long run.
We’d get A.D. in the East. There’s no Center in the East he’d have to worry about, really. Plus, we’d still have JJ, DD, OO, Naw, and Trae.
We’d be a contender for at least the next two seasons.
I now honestly understand why the Hawks franchise has been bad for so long. They really gonna let Quinn Snyder who has never been a winner run the 20 yr old kid who was runner up NBA ROTY also Eurobasket Young Player of the Year and played very well this past summer for team France out of town for an injury prone aging vet absolutely is ridiculous. I’m willing to bet ZR10 gets traded and plays like an allstar for someone else
Man, I know he’s struggling this year but if the Hawks ship out ZR I truly hope he proves everyone wrong. I’m a believer I’m sure to a fault but he’s a young kid who has not been given the right tools or environment to develop.
We should just never trade with Dallas. Some bad history there. They just made their franchise worst ever trade for AD and the NBA world laughed at them and now we’re going to bail them out. Why??? In 3 years time, who would you rather on your team out of ZR and AD? ZR will at least be playing and not earning 70mil…
People in this sub were convinced last year he was the right choice at 1 smh
Isn’t it to early to give up on him? Most likely isn’t a first option but maybe a 3rd option
Would hawks take Jeremy sochan, salary filler and some 2nd round picks for ZR?
Anthony Davis is barely on the court. This screams desperation if it’s real.
The team is already losing, might as well experiment with Risacher getting more minutes and plays. Might increase his trade stock, might even turn the losing around.
It’s giving Brett Favre
Quinn should be fired if they trade Zacch not even two seasons into his career
Might as well. He’s not going to do shit here w
Rather fire Quinn than trade Risacher. What a joke
But zack synder keeps his dumbass job
God why do we always make these short-sighted decisions. I know it ain’t comparable but it feels like it’ll be some sort of Luka -Trae.
That being said, I hope if zach leaves he’ll ball out
I know he’s hasn’t been good this season, but giving up on a first overall pick in less than 1.5 seasons seems like a massive mistake.
The team is still relatively young. Making a win now move for Davis is not smart. Trae is not good enough to demand a team blow up their future.
Crazzzzzy that wayy earlier in the year the Admin gave me a 7 day ban for essentially saying Risacher is cheeks and that he’s basically unplayable in the 2H of ballgames because he is basketball retarded. Then the rest of the sub addeded he finished 3rd or whatever in ROY voting. Just Here for my apology
I said from the jump we should’ve drafted Ware smh
They must be seeing some bad stuff in practice. For his sake I hope it’s not bad habits forming
What a joke
They shouldve picked castle or reed hell even kelel ware.
While Zacch has struggled this year, I think his return in trade value doesn’t really match up to being worth his potential in a couple years even
He is so dependent on confidence and we have to figure out how to make use of that but i understand if he has to be traded in the right scenario
Even the mavs group is saying this is a bad idea for the hawks but they’ll take it. Please don’t trade for AD- it’s KP all over again but more expensive. Use the future picks to get a legit center.
We are an absolute dumpster fire. If we get a top 3 pick this coming draft we better not mess it up again. And it’s too early to give up on Zacc. Fuck this franchise.
If we end up letting Risacher go, a good guy with great dedication and work ethic, incredible basketball fundamentals, good size and physique, whom we recently drafted, I wouldn’t understand why they didn’t fire the useless coach in charge of training him.
I understand even less why we are considering replacing him with an octogenarian player who spends more time injured than playing and also does not want to play in his natural position.