Landry Fields knows he will be expected at the turn for his big first as GM of the Hawks in the next Draft. Atlanta will approach the meeting with the 15th choice, a place which does not guarantee to recover some of the best talents of the class of 2023, but which can still hold good surprises. His predecessor Travis Schlenk also demonstrated this last season by recovering AJ Griffin with the 16th pick, a player who finally had a more than encouraging rookie season. He had done the same in 2017 then in 2018 with the 19th choice, getting his hands on John Collins then Kevin Huerter!
“I can understand it, and I can see it that way too, but I don’t necessarily feel it that way” he replies about the pressure of being on the front line. “Maybe it’s a good thing if I’m sitting in this seat. You have to feel it a bit, but I don’t necessarily feel overwhelming pressure from it all. I have the impression that the NBA is like that, and that we are made for that or not.
Choosing the best player available and the one who will fit best with the Hawks
To make the best possible choice, Landry Fields will be able to rely on the skills of the rest of his staff. Whether it’s assistant GM Kyle Korver, personnel director Dotun Akniwale, salary cap specialist Ryan Silverstein, sporting director Nick Ressler, and even his new coach, Quin Snyder, everyone will have their say and their point of view. view to defend. “Then come the evening of the Draft, when our turn comes, it will be up to me to decide for us”, he added.
In recent weeks, the Hawks have been able to observe a hundred players in their infrastructure to get a better idea of the profiles sought for the 15th and 46th choices. If nothing is set in stone yet and Atlanta reserves the possibility of exploring potential avenues to climb the hierarchy in the Draft, Landry Fields is rather satisfied with the work done by his team and the choices likely to be made. offer to Atlanta when the time comes, keeping in mind the idea of recruiting the best talent, but also the one who will fit best into Quin Snyder’s collective.
The possibility of recruiting higher or … lower
“We are comfortable. I think it is very likely that we will choose the 15th player in the draft. But we are still studying options to go higher, or others to go back because we will have the feeling that there is a lot of richness in this Draft”, he added. “The Draft is always an opportunity to acquire talents who will most likely become better players in the future. If you look at the league’s star players, they continue to be drafted high. And you don’t necessarily get that type of player with the 15th pick. You have to go a little higher. But the balance is rather the opportunity to have guys who have great potential. It is therefore not necessarily a specific need. It’s about the DNA of the Hawks and how they fit into the system we’re building under the leadership of Quin (Snyder) and ultimately what they can become as players and the level they can reach. It is all this that is at the forefront in the evaluation of our choices”.
| Shots | Bounces | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Players | GM | Minimum | Shots | 3 points | LF | Off | Def | Early | pd | bp | Int | CT | party | Points |
| Trae Young | 73 | 34.8 | 42.9 | 33.5 | 88.6 | 0.8 | 2.2 | 3.0 | 10.2 | 4.1 | 1.1 | 0.1 | 1.4 | 26.2 |
| Dejounte Murray | 74 | 36.4 | 46.4 | 34.4 | 83.2 | 0.7 | 4.5 | 5.3 | 6.1 | 2.2 | 1.5 | 0.3 | 1.4 | 20.5 |
| De’Andre Hunter | 67 | 31.7 | 46.1 | 35.0 | 82.6 | 0.7 | 3.6 | 4.2 | 1.4 | 1.2 | 0.5 | 0.3 | 3.0 | 15.4 |
| Bogdan Bogdanovic | 54 | 27.9 | 44.7 | 40.6 | 83.1 | 0.4 | 2.6 | 3.1 | 2.8 | 1.2 | 0.8 | 0.3 | 1.6 | 14.0 |
| John Collins | 71 | 30.0 | 50.8 | 29.2 | 80.3 | 1.1 | 5.4 | 6.5 | 1.2 | 1.1 | 0.6 | 1.0 | 3.1 | 13.1 |
| Clint Capela | 65 | 26.6 | 65.3 | 0.0 | 60.3 | 4.0 | 7.1 | 11.0 | 0.9 | 0.8 | 0.7 | 1.2 | 2.1 | 12.0 |
| Saddiq Bey | 25 | 25.1 | 47.0 | 40.0 | 86.2 | 1.6 | 3.2 | 4.8 | 1.4 | 0.7 | 0.8 | 0.0 | 1.5 | 11.6 |
| Onyeka Okongwu | 80 | 23.1 | 63.8 | 30.8 | 78.1 | 2.7 | 4.5 | 7.2 | 1.0 | 1.0 | 0.7 | 1.3 | 3.1 | 9.9 |
| Aj Griffin, Jr. | 72 | 19.5 | 46.5 | 39.0 | 89.4 | 0.5 | 1.6 | 2.1 | 1.0 | 0.6 | 0.6 | 0.2 | 1.2 | 8.9 |
| Jalen Johnson | 70 | 14.9 | 49.1 | 28.8 | 62.8 | 0.7 | 3.3 | 4.0 | 1.2 | 0.6 | 0.5 | 0.5 | 1.6 | 5.6 |
| Garrison Mathews | 9 | 9.4 | 41.9 | 40.0 | 87.5 | 0.1 | 1.1 | 1.2 | 0.3 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.7 | 4.8 |
| Justin Holiday | 28 | 14.7 | 38.4 | 34.5 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 0.8 | 0.8 | 0.9 | 0.4 | 0.2 | 0.4 | 1.3 | 4.5 |
| Jarrett Culver | 10 | 13.7 | 39.5 | 8.3 | 69.2 | 1.0 | 2.8 | 3.8 | 0.6 | 0.7 | 0.6 | 0.2 | 1.4 | 4.4 |
| Aaron Holiday | 63 | 13.4 | 41.8 | 40.9 | 84.4 | 0.4 | 0.8 | 1.2 | 1.4 | 0.6 | 0.6 | 0.2 | 1.3 | 3.9 |
| Bruno Fernando | 8 | 5.2 | 57.9 | 0.0 | 83.3 | 0.8 | 1.1 | 1.9 | 0.1 | 0.6 | 0.0 | 0.4 | 0.8 | 3.4 |
| Frank Kaminsky | 26 | 6.8 | 56.8 | 47.8 | 83.3 | 0.1 | 1.3 | 1.4 | 0.8 | 0.3 | 0.2 | 0.0 | 0.8 | 2.7 |
| Trent Forrest | 23 | 12.0 | 41.7 | 0.0 | 66.7 | 0.2 | 1.4 | 1.6 | 1.7 | 0.7 | 0.3 | 0.1 | 0.7 | 2.3 |
| Donovan Williams | 2 | 2.1 | 40.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 1.0 | 1.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 2.0 |
| Tyrese Martin | 16 | 4.1 | 39.1 | 14.3 | 100.0 | 0.3 | 0.4 | 0.8 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 1.3 |
| Vit Krejci | 29 | 5.7 | 40.5 | 23.8 | 50.0 | 0.2 | 0.7 | 0.9 | 0.6 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.0 | 0.6 | 1.2 |
