It was an off color coaching strategy. It was highly inappropriate. If you want, I’ll demand he’s taxed.

Not at all

No.  Not even slightly lmao. 

Cocaine is kind of like sand in that way.

Given the Hawks changed front office personnel etc it could make sense that was the case

At the time Risacher was supposed to be a pretty low bust rate pick because his profile was a lanky wing that could shoot and every team can use a 3 and D player no matter what the system.

Frankly if Risacher were the 5th pick I dont think Hawks give up on him like this. Although if he were 5th pick his contract would also be much smaller whereas currently he is gonna get paid close to 30 m combined for next 2 years (similar to MLE) whereas 5th would be around 20m combined.

A big part of the problem was that the hawks didn’t go into last season with a real backup PG with Trae on an expiring year when the new FO had already said he wasn’t going to get a max extension. They decided to go into the year with Dyson, Nickeil, Luke, or Vit handling some role of their backup PG minutes. It was a big miss by Onsi and a large part of why the team was under .500 at the deadline and finally partially remedied by CJ coming.

I don’t think it was a Trae move since all Trae has ever needed was a defensive center/ lob threat. There was multiple of them in the draft (clingan,edey, Sarr).

Landry literally just couldn’t draft and overrated the wing archetype. Trae pairing with him was just a by product.

To be fair to risacher we also didn’t have a small forward so he did fit a position of need.

Except on paper Sarr was the best fit and now Sarr is Trae’s teammate.

Trae Young had John Collins averaging 21 PPG as a lob threat, and then the best Atlanta did was Okongwu/Capela instead of finding a star

Using the 1st overall pick to draft the player that fits best sounds crazy ngl

That just seems pretty plainly obvious to me tbh

I wouldn’t really say that.  It was more of a “we don’t know who to pick so we’re taking the most valuable archetype” move.

I remember at the time hearing that Trae was the one who was most vocal about drafting Risacher

It’s kinda crazy in their evaluation they didn’t realize that Castle was a stud. It’s not like he hadn’t shown anything, he was a starter on one of the greatest college basketball teams of all time. Hawks, Wizards, and Rockets all screwed that pick up.

I mean the main reason is that Sarr basically forced his way to DC. Refused to meet with Atlanta and his agent told them not to draft him.

He played the players that led the team to go 20-6 after the All-Star break and only playoff team to make the Knicks sweat.

I mean he looks like Willem Dafoe when he’s gone full green goblin. He’s definitely evil.

seems like the opposite. all you ever hear is how much the players love quin and how he’s a player’s coach

The players love Quin

I like how all the non-Hawks flairs are commenting that Snyder was hated by players and all the Hawks flairs are commenting that the players love Snyder.

I wonder who is right and who is wrong….. hmmm……..

Absolutely not he made Jalen Johnson’s career.  Pulled him off the bench and turned him into a star.  Onyeka Okongwu could not shoot three’s before Snyder. 

The players that are still on the team love Snyder.  So does Trae, this is him just being a dumbass.

Zacch didn’t like Snyder’s expectation that he play aggressively. Do with that what you will.

Trae’s frustration isn’t with Snyder; it’s the fact that the Hawks didn’t want to max him. Do with that what you will.

I’d say Trae definitely didn’t. It’s likely that in his eyes they had the best success of his career in 2021, failed to build on it in 2022 even though he had the best year of his career , and then in 2023 they bring Snyder in who changes the system in a way that doesn’t really fit Trae. Then couple that with frustration from injuries, I could absolutely see why Trae would think Snyder was a big source of his problems and why his career didn’t keep going as he thought it would.

Free to get the minimum

Yeah I’m not really sure what the issue with him is. Shoots from three, solid defender, only thing I really have heard is lacks playmaking. Seems like he’ll eventually end up a solid role player.

Is the issue he was drafted one and the expectations are high?

Because the rest of the class was mid and McCain got hurt lol.

Sarr didn’t heat up until towards the end of the year.

wtf is basketball

neither do GMs. they see 6’10 and long wingspan with no jumper, no reliable finishing moves, no lateral quickness, no strength and throw millions at it and assume it will work

This is how it feels to be a Celtics fan reading the most unhinged takes about Jaylen Brown

Why? enlighten

Number 1 picks don’t get traded for essentially nothing unless the original team is fully convinced they’re nothing special.

Zacc was never seen as a high potential wing anyway.

He could still turn out to be a decent 3&D wing, but “all the tools?” He sucks at dribbling, passing and rebounding. If you ignore those facets of basketball then yeah, he has all the tools.

In what world has Risacher ever looked like a “very high potential” wing

Respectfully, he most certainly is not a very high potential wing

People didn’t even think that before he got drafted so it’s certainly not the case now after he got traded for peanuts 2 years after being drafted #1

“Very high potential”

lol man people here just say anything. You can really tell who actually watches games. His upside at this point is maaaaybe a solid 3&D wing.

So many players kill their careers because they are forced to be the #1 while having the skillset of an exceptional #2 or #3. I think Risacher is one of those. Being the top pick piled on too many expectations.

He’s a 0 way player

Ball out at the end of the bench

He absolutely can. He’s shown flashes especially his rookie year. This young man’s career is not over at 21.

Depth chart:

Kyrie, Sasser, de Larrea

Christie, Klay, Risacher

PJ, Naji, Tarik, Caleb Martin

Flagg, Aldama

Gafford, Morez, Cisse, Lively (injured)

Fuck ya life ya heard

My guy, he has the most chopped haircut of all time. He’s already fucked.

Tf has he done to warrant a 30 for 30 let alone an interesting one?

Lol there’s 10 other point guards that would get a 30 for 30 before Trae ever does

Would it be? He’ll be remembered in Atlanta for the Knicks series and all the clutch shots he hit during his Hawks tenure. No bad blood from either side

He’s not really that interesting

This is the type of comment that the subbreddit simulator for /r/nba would throw out. Sounds exactly like something someone here would say, but its completely wrong in context.

You gotta be more than just a merely good NBA players with spurts of very good to get a 30 for 30. I feel like HOF gotta be the minimum

How lmfao

He isnt a champ

He isnt even an elite player lmfao

What has he done to get 30 for 30