We need defense Atlanta Hawks roster 06/07

Staff:

Assistant head coach:Jose Castillo rumors-d development a+ leadership d specialty none
Assistant coach:Ricardo Alvarez offense d- defense a+ athletics d-
Team doctor:Elias Potel overall f specialty none
Scout:Vincente Najera offense d- defense a athletics b
Assistant:Ivan Garcia offense b- defense a athletics c

Training camp focus-We focused totally and completely on offense, both assistants.
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Opening day roster:
Centers
Z.Pachulia
S.Williams
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Power forwards
M.Williams
E.Batista
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Small Forwards
J.Smith
D.Smith
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Shooting gaurds
J.Johnson
J.childress
S.Stoudamire
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Point gaurds
S.Claxton
T.Lue
R.Ivey
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Our go to guy is Joe Johnson and our two team leaders are Joe Johnson and Josh Smith, we will build our team around Joe Johnson though. Our goal is to make the playoffs by the next couple of seasons, we have a long way to go though. But with our assistants training our players, and our scout scouting potential rookies, we should be good in the near future, especially with proper training and the right abilities improving. The draft is weak this year so we'll only draft one player, we will be struggeling a lot this season so we should have a top 15 or 20 draft pick this year and draft a star rookie. As i look at this roster, i see that we are extremely weak at the point gaurd position, so we'll probably draft a point gaurd if there are any with good or excellent potential in the first round.


A Joe Johnson interview:

JJ:I want to bring a championship to this team, and the city of atlanta. I love this town, its a fun place to live and work. I'm going to do everything i can to bring an nba championship as soon as possible, our staff and our gm are very smart people and our gm will bring in some great talent to this atlanta hawk franchise.

Joe Johnson leaves to go to the gym to work on his game.

Updates will come soon.

We are currently scounting a 6'1 189 pound point gaurd by the name of Thomas Pearson. He struggles with his midrange shot, but he handles the ball like an extention on his hand, a very good ball handeler indeed, but he'll need to get as strong as possible because he is very, very weak. If we draft this guy, he'll definitely need to hit the weight room.
We want a point gaurd who can pass the ball, the only thing i need my point gaurd to do is pass, the other players on the team will take care of the rest. Most of the season i'll send my assistants to train my big men, mainly Pachulia, Sheldon Williams and Marvin Williams in their offensive skills and defensive skills, mainly because of Dwight Howard on the orlando magic.

the atlanta timesnews the philedelphia 76ers have defeated the atlanta hawks by the score of 117 to 95, our two standout men were Joe Johnson with 18 points and 6 assists. And our other go to guy was Zaza Pachulia with 17 points and 8 rebounds. We had plenty of bench points, just not enough offense from Josh Smith as he only scored 7 points, but he shot the ball well as he went 3-6 from the field and he attempted no threes.
On the philedelphia side though, the long time veteran Chris Webber scored an unbelievable 41 points and chipped in 8 rebounds. Iverson had 22 points and 12 dimes, those two guys were just unstoppable in that game, it looks like we're going to have to get some big men as well. We can't have old guys, or anybody for that matter scoring 41 points against us! What happend to our interior defense guys!!!?

Column by Jay Scanton sports writer for the atlanta times

Major trade Hawks and Bobcats
Hawks-Send Josh Childress and Tyrone Lue to the bobcats for Adam Morrison .

Gm-The trade between my team and the bobcats was to boost our bench, Morrison provides three point shooting off the bench and he can play two positions. He can play small forward and shooting gaurd, Morrison will be the main back up behind Joe Johnson and he will have some playing time behind Josh Smith as a small forward.

Morrison-I think i'm going to like it here in atlanta, playing with great players like Joe Johnson and Josh Smith. i love being on a team where i can play two positions. On the bobcats i was only a gaurd, hopefully i can make a big contribution to this team and make this team into a winning franchise.

Gm-There will probably a couple of more trades this season, we would like to add a quality big man, and another first round draft pick. We need a couple of more scorers and a playmaker, so our playmaker can dish it out to Joe Johnson and other scorers. We'll draft a point gaurd if we can find a quality point gaurd in the first round, and if we have another first round pick, then we'll draft an offensive minded small forward.
Coach-I think we should trade Sheldon Williams and Salim Stoudamire for Portland's Lamarcus Aldridge, and he could be our starter if some how we can make the salaries match.
GmGood idea coach, I think i'll make that trade proposal to the trailblazers.

Another big trade, this time between the hawks and the trailblazers.

Hawks send Sheldon Williams and Salim Stoudamire to the Portland trailblazers, for rookie center Lamarcus Aldridge

Gm-This trade helps us tremendously on the defensive end, although Sheldon Williams is a good shot blocker and rebounder, we need someone who was a better shot blocker. Someone whom our assistant can teach to become a defensive stopper as soon as possible, it would have taken Sheldon mucher longer to become a defensive stopper than it would Aldridge, but i'd say this deal helps us more than it does Portland.

Dynasty is over, will probably do a dynasty with live 07 for the pc, now that i got that back, my raptors and hawks dynastys for the ps2 got boring.