The NBA draft has come and gone and while there was some speculation and rumors as to whether or not the Atlanta Hawks could make some potential moves on draft night, the Hawks stood pat sticking with their 15th and 46th selecting Kobe Bufkin from the University of Michigan at 15 and Seth Lundy out from Penn State at 46. And while the NBA free agency could still allow Atlanta to make a significant roster shake up, questions surrounding whether or not the team is going to enter into the luxury tax has lead 92-9 The Game’s Jon Chuckery to believe that the Hawks will enter the 2023-2024 season with their current starting five intact as well the same players returning to the bench for the most part.
“I think by in large they’re going to run this thing back.
They’re going to give Quin Snyder an entire off-season to get this thing right, to get this thing on track and they’re going to run it back with their starting five and most of their bench pieces,” Chuckery said as he shared his thoughts first with Lauren Williams, Hawks beat writer for the Atlanta Journal Constitution. Williams echoed Chuckery’s sentiments, particularly due to giving Snyder a fair share of time to see what he can do with the current roster. “If they want to give Quin Snyder a chance to make things work with what he has right now. I mean you can point to he didn’t have a full season to really get the most out of these guys,” Williams shared with Chuckery.
Later while talking with Kurt Helin, lead writer for NBA/NBCSports.com, Chuckery shared his thoughts as to whether or not the Hawks would bring their current roster back and at least wait until the trade deadline before making any type of roster shake up. “I think they will go to the trade deadline and if this thing isn’t working out, then they start to cut bait. Then they start to move Murray, then they start to move some of their pieces and then they don’t stay in that luxury tax at that point,” Chuckery said during his conversation with Helin. “They don’t know what this roster looks like with Quin Snyder running it,” Helin respond to Chuckery’s statement adding that with the fact that Snyder came in to take over the Hawks so late in the season that their simply has not been enough time for him to get the player full on board with his system.
“You just can’t install that overnight. That’s going to take a training camp and frankly, the first part of the season to kind of get used to what he wants to do and playing how he wants them to play,” Helin said, adding that ideally the Hawks will want to wait until the trade deadline before deciding “this is working, this isn’t work or more specifically, player x isn’t working in this system or this isn’t working and how do we change that,”.
