Hawks fire Lloyd Pierce

[Celtics2021]

It looks like the Hawks are making a coaching change.  It will be interesting to see if they make some on-court alterations as well.

https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/30986230/atlanta-hawks-fire-coach-lloyd-pierce

[Roy H.]

Blow it up!  Send Collins and Dunn to Boston.

[Ed Monix]

It looks like the Hawks are making a coaching change.  It will be interesting to see if they make some on-court alterations as well.

https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/30986230/atlanta-hawks-fire-coach-lloyd-pierce

This is GM hot seat 101, Shlenk knows his job is at risk so fires the coach to hopefully buy himself some more time.

When nothing improves he too will be fired probably by season’s end.

[RodyTur10]

Makes sense. Atlanta made investments in building a much deeper and more experienced roster, but currently they're well outside the playoff spots while teams like New York, Chicago and Charlotte have a better record with less starpower or depth on paper. Their record is very disappointing.

[Moranis]

Makes sense. Atlanta made investments in building a much deeper and more experienced roster, but currently they're well outside the playoff spots while teams like New York, Chicago and Charlotte have a better record with less starpower or depth on paper. Their record is very disappointing.

And that was just dumb.  They weren't ready to really compete.  should have spent another year building up Young, Hunter, Collins, Huerter, Okongwu, Reddish and Capela.  Never should have brought in Brogdon, Gallinari, or Rondo.  Messed up chemistry for only nominal gains.  Just dumb.

[hodgy03038]

Makes sense. Atlanta made investments in building a much deeper and more experienced roster, but currently they're well outside the playoff spots while teams like New York, Chicago and Charlotte have a better record with less starpower or depth on paper. Their record is very disappointing.

And that was just dumb.  They weren't ready to really compete.  should have spent another year building up Young, Hunter, Collins, Huerter, Okongwu, Reddish and Capela.  Never should have brought in Brogdon, Gallinari, or Rondo.  Messed up chemistry for only nominal gains.  Just dumb.

You mean Bogdanovich (sp?) not Brogdon.

[gouki88]

He was always on the hotseat after the hiring of McMillan

[Roy H.]

Classy:

Chris Kirschner: One Hawks player told me he found out Lloyd Pierce was fired from Twitter. There was no heads up. Pierce coached the team in practice today in Miami. – via Twitter ChrisKirschner

[liam]

I don't get firing a coach midseason. The Hawks are also only a few games out of the play in tourney. They had some injuries and added a lot of new pieces. Is Kenny Atkinson available?

[footey]

I guess taking 2 out of 3 from the Celtics wasn't enough to keep his job LOL.

Nate Mac will be their next coach, right?

[Who]

Makes sense. Atlanta made investments in building a much deeper and more experienced roster, but currently they're well outside the playoff spots while teams like New York, Chicago and Charlotte have a better record with less starpower or depth on paper. Their record is very disappointing.

And that was just dumb.  They weren't ready to really compete.  should have spent another year building up Young, Hunter, Collins, Huerter, Okongwu, Reddish and Capela.  Never should have brought in Brogdon, Gallinari, or Rondo.  Messed up chemistry for only nominal gains.  Just dumb.

They were going after the wrong types of players too.

The Hawks needed a stretch five to space the floor for John Collins instead of a paint dweller like Clint Capela. They needed to surround Trae Young with defensively talented teammates who play largely off the ball on offense instead of offensively orientated players who want touches like Gallo and Bogdanovic. Guys who overlap and create too many diminished returns and thus fail to make as large an impact as they could elsewhere.

The whole is less than the sum of the parts due to bad roster construction.

[gouki88]

Makes sense. Atlanta made investments in building a much deeper and more experienced roster, but currently they're well outside the playoff spots while teams like New York, Chicago and Charlotte have a better record with less starpower or depth on paper. Their record is very disappointing.

And that was just dumb.  They weren't ready to really compete.  should have spent another year building up Young, Hunter, Collins, Huerter, Okongwu, Reddish and Capela.  Never should have brought in Brogdon, Gallinari, or Rondo.  Messed up chemistry for only nominal gains.  Just dumb.

They were going after the wrong types of players too.

The Hawks needed a stretch five to space the floor for John Collins instead of a paint dweller like Clint Capela. They needed to surround Trae Young with defensively talented teammates who play largely off the ball on offense instead of offensively orientated players who want touches like Gallo and Bogdanovic. Guys who overlap and create too many diminished returns and thus fail to make as large an impact as they could elsewhere.

The whole is less than the sum of the parts due to bad roster construction.

It's as if they just wanted to spend money to appear to be doing something.

[Tr1boy]

It looks like the Hawks are making a coaching change.  It will be interesting to see if they make some on-court alterations as well.

https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/30986230/atlanta-hawks-fire-coach-lloyd-pierce

So nate mcmillan takes over?

Management spent money on the Hawks. They wont accept anything less than a playoff spot

GM probably had enough .... when Hawks lost to Heat yesterday. 

[Wretch]

Another team that won't be selling at the trade deadline. They're going for the play in games.

[SparzWizard]

Didn't the Hawks go aggressively this summer signing all these players lol