3inthekeon wrote:
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Reference to Atlanta as a treadmill team was in regards to the JJ/J-smoove Hawks, as has been highly documented by all sorts of basketball reporters/experts/etc...
Nobody was suggesting that they'd turn it around as much or as quickly as they have. I certainly wasn't trying to imply that I expected them to be elite this year or ever. I was just pointing out how they transitioned from a treadmill team into a rebuilding team, by shedding their false-stars and starting over with a core of Horford & Teague.
You can't take a post in a thread debating tanking and cross-reference it to another thread about which team has the brightest future.
I'm also not talking about the future of the Hawks. I'm not saying that the Hawks are definitely contenders, nor am I saying that this group of Hawks couldn't possibly become a treadmill team in a couple seasons. The only point I took issue with was your assertion that the current Hawks team is still the same treadmill Hawks. This is a completely rebuilt, revamped team from the JJ/J-smoove treadmill Hawks, regardless of what they become.
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