Hawks fanbase wants a big man until it’s time to get a big man
We desperately need a 1a or guard that can create for himself on this team, but I’m tired of this fanbase philosophy.
This has been a problem for most of the decade. We’ve been mid to bottom ten in rebounding and rim protection, but for some reason the fanbase seems to value scoring guards who don’t play defense and power forwards over rim protecting/ rebounding bigs. This has been a problem in the Trae era. Instead of upgrading at the 5 spot from Capela/OO, we’ve tried to surround scorers/playmakers (Kobe, Zacc, AJ, Sharife) to pair with Trae, which doesn’t work when our defense isn’t good. Now in this era we’re asking Dyson and NAW a lot on the defensive end with a weak front court defense.
Regardless of how you feel about picking 8th with Aday Mara, this fanbase has always been against picking bigs over guards in the draft for some odd reason knowing we got killed by bigs all the time . We can find some bigs in free agency, but even fanbase worried about that because they can’t “space the floor “.