"Obviously we're not excited about falling back three spots from five to eight but we went into the season, when we made the trade last year during the draft to give ourselves two lottery picks, and we got that. So we're excited about it," Schlenk said.
"I think the system, in general, accomplished what the league set out to do."
But having two picks in the first round could be used to the Hawks advantage.
"I think what it does give us to do, the opportunity to do, is to look at all the options available," Schlenk said. "Whether it be to try to package--you know we have five picks in this draft and they're all in the top-44 of the draft."
"We like all our picks but maybe we look to package some of those picks to move up in an area of the draft. Or maybe like last year, maybe we see that there's a guy we like that maybe we can slide back from one of those spots and still get him...Anytime you have five picks, it gives you a lot of optionality."
"I think everyone knows that there was a guy in this draft that a lot of people think is going to be transformational and we were excited to have a 10 percent chance to get that pick but it didn't happen. But we like where we are."