Hawks sign Paul Millsap & Demarre Carroll

Asik is a valuable asset anyways, Atlanta could still easily take him, then flip him for a nice package of young assets and picks

 

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>FWIW, Hawks can't afford new deals with Millsap, Korver &amp; Carroll AND cap holds for J.Smith &amp; Teague. Gotta think Smith S&amp;T is in the works.</p>&mdash; David Weiner (@BimaThug) <a href="https://twitter.com/BimaThug/statuses/353353128688619520">July 6, 2013</a></blockquote>
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Milsap at 9 million is a lot better than JSmoove at 15 million.

 

So, the Jazz went from a solid 4 and a solid 5, to Derrick Favors (developing nicely) and Enes Kanter (...developing).

Dang. Trey Burke's team?

 

The 2 year deal surprised me. Surprised PM couldn't swing a deal for 4 years.

 

Wow, didn't see that coming. I like the move for the Hawks, although personally I would have signed a center and moved Horford to the 4.

Wonder where Smith ends up now? Especially with the Anderson rumors?

 

Paul Millsap to the Hawks = No Josh Smith to the Rockets

Which is fine.

 

asik for horford? maybe?

 

I always wanted to see Horford and Howard together.

 

I thought this out and I like it...safe and legit pf.

ATL needs a SG/SF....s&t j.smoove for a sg/sf if I were the Hawks.

 

Wow! The Hawks got a great pickup. I wish we'd been able to sign him to a deal like that. Solid value.

 

I doubt they'd do that.

 

How about Smith for Chandler and Hamilton? Or for Thorton? Or maybe Eric Gordon (if Anderson-Asik doesn't pan out)?

 

Wow.

Would've loved Millsap in a Rockets uni for only $9mil a year. Absolute steal.

But I guess this means goodbye to any JSmoove S&T possibilities... have yet to decide if I'm happy or sad about that.

 

Nice signings for them. Can't believe they have gotten back so quickly.

 

Maybe Millsap will be their sixth man?

I dunno, I hate to not be able to get J Smoove because of this.

 

People can interp this anyway...

1. Perhaps, the Hawks do want Asik, but might try to scalp the Rockets
2. If they do get Asik, Horford moves over to PF
3. They can build around : Teague, Lou Williams, Milsap, Horford, and Asik

4. Or all this Asik for Smith stuff is just pure media hogwash and the Hawks made these moves to build around Smooth: Teague, Williams, Smith, Milsap, and Horford.

#4 just seems more likely...I really do think a lot of teams were just waiting on this Rockets signing

 

Wow, if we only had shipped out Asik / Lin + D-Mo / Tjones, we could've had him.