Before the draft, the talk was that he was a) a game changing player who b) could be one of the greatest of all time. He’s been the first, but nowhere near the second. People see that the Spurs are losing and take that as confirmation that he’ll never be the second.

Also controversial takes like “Wemby’s a bust” get a lot more people interacting with them compared to more nuanced takes, and thus get a lot more circulation due to algorithms

1-0 in the Harry the Hawk OnlyFans era

1. r/NBA is one of the best and worst places for NBA discussion online. On the positive side, it’s the largest collection of fans from every team, and that alone makes it a valuable environment for discussion. Most of the time, discussion tends to be more tied to reality rather than in team subs where hype trains all too often get off the tracks. However, there reaches a point where discourse turns into a hot-take-fest, and at that point it’s off to the races. This is more of an issue with reddit more than with r/NBA, but other sports subs do seem to have it a bit more under control. As for something that’s a lot easier to implement, I’d go with improving clips by requiring replays (either in the main clip itself or in a pinned comment) and actually enforce it so that people follow it.

2. 16th overall, 7th in the East. I haven’t given the overall ranking too much thought at the moment (if I had to give a range they’d be somewhere between 13th and 19th), but Atlanta seems pretty solidly the 7th best team in the east at this moment.

3. I usually end up on r/NBA a few times a day, but almost always in the evenings to check the post-game threads of any games I didn’t get to watch live

4. I do my best to watch every Atlanta game, although I do miss ~5 on average over the course of a season due to having a life outside of basketball. I try to watch every team at least once a month (I’ve actually planned out which games to watch in past seasons in order to do this), but could probably up that to watching every team at least once every two weeks.

5. If I could pick any person on earth, Brad Rowland. Dude is arguably the most knowledgeable person about the Hawks that doesn’t currently work for the Hawks, and he tends to have the most objective takes on the Hawks I’ve seen from a beat reporter. If I had to choose among reddit users, probably u/gmzeno. They’ve been writing up really in-depth summaries of every preseason game so far, and he’s been rather blunt with his analysis.