Why Atlanta Hawks Restructured Their Front Office
you could say Nick wrestler younger core who they’ve kind of pushed out and they wanted to bring in maybe adults into the room and not saying that there weren’t but Salah seems to be you know someone who comes from a reputable reputable background credible they brought in other people especially the other day they announced that Bryson Graham and I forget the other individ so tell me what’s that all about and what’s the mood going on there yeah I think the big thing is just you know as you mentioned filling out with some experience i think the big thing is that you know they try to to go in a different direction with an a front office that’s really big on collaboration and at some point you have to realize that you can’t have too many cooks in the kitchen like yes you can have as many point of views as possible but I think the big thing is you need somebody who’s okay with you know making those big decisions and that’s not to say that Landre Fields wasn’t that guy but I just think that he’s still so new in terms of what it means to run a front office and I mean I think the big thing is that Anie Salah comes from as we mentioned quite a few different places like San Antonio um and Golden State and in both places you know he built so much of a reputation of trust that some of those big wigs were willing to to kind of you know loosen the reins a little bit and let him you know do quite a few different things and so um when you’re able to do those jobs quite early on you know with I guess you could say the the guard rails or the bumpers on um you know you’re able to to to kind of uh not necessarily fail so to speak but you’re able to learn from experience a little bit quicker and I think that’s kind of you know what we saw with ANI i think in terms of filling out the front office with say Bryson Graham and Peter Deny Peter Denwy you have a guy in Bryson Graham who’s you know known for his acumen in terms of scouting for the draft and so that’s something that the Hawks have really needed especially over the last couple of years where they’ve struggled to find the right pieces in the draft i mean Zachary Reese Shay is kind of the anomaly right now just because with a number one overall pick um you know yes you can swing and miss but it’s still a number one overall pick you do have to take that risk but I don’t think that’s the case for Zachary but the previous two drafts with Kobe Buffkin a guy that now has been injured for his first two years and then AJ Griffin the year before who now is out of the league um those are two guys that you haven’t really been able to get really much production out of over the last three years and so I think you want to add a little bit more experience in terms of finding talent from those young players and obviously Bryson Graham has uh is known for being able to do that and what a way to start with this draft class which is so good and then Peter Denwy is of course somebody who’s very analytical and uh you know you want to have that sort of voice in in this space so do they not give Landry first off is Kyle Corver cuz I saw him at the com I literally sat next to him at a restaurant he’s still with the organization because he was also at Hoop Summon and he was Is he still assistant GM too yes yes okay because I know teams can have multiple assistant GMs so I didn’t know so I think the big difference though is that um Bryson Graham and Peter Denwi they they are senior uh executive vice presidents of their roles and Kyle Corver is still technically an assistant uh general manager aisala is a general manager and the way that the I guess the the system or the the structure of the office is sort of yes you know Graham and Denwy are going to report to Anie but they’re seen sort of on the same level as him um is how it’s been explained to me um so I don’t know how that you know will totally work out but they are on cease hires and the interesting thing I think about all of this even going back to Landry Fields is everybody is interconnected going back to the Spurs in some way either either they over overlapped with the Spurs somewhere else but more than all of them even Quinn Snder is a former Spurs assistant in some sort of way either coaching or personnel and we even knew that like was a big reason with like the whole Dejonte Murray trade and all that so I just want to know what and yesterday it’s funny that this kind of came out that the Knicks even reached out to the the Hawks about Snider’s availability and they were firmly denied yes what is because again I when I originally reached out to you I was like Snyder was like the big hire the big fish available they brought him in midseason on what was supposedly a big deal there was rumors that he had a voice on the roster then that was dispelled the in the off season what is I guess his the new regime’s thoughts on him i assume like their kumbboya and does he have a say on the roster and is he credited with the development on guys like Garrison Matthews and am I saying this correct vic cr like crayon but creri yeah crayon wait crayon like cray cr okay okay yeah Vic Crerache and a few of the the other young guys on this like uh Mo and you know just really a lot of the uh hidden gems on that roster definitely i think that’s the thing with you know these past couple of years it’s really been about development of of the roster just because you know they’ve lacked so many like star-studded pieces that it it’s hard to to really not develop those guys especially because they had so much playing time with so many injuries to this roster that’s something that the Hawks have severely lacked these last couple of years as well is depth um so definitely Quinn Snyder has been you know a credit to the development of those guys because he’s put them in he and his staff have put them in positions to succeed and I think the big thing is that he he does have a voice i don’t think that you know the front office would totally discount his his opinion on what his you know his roster needs but at the end of the day it was always told to us that the final say was Landre’s and so um I I guess you could kind of see it in terms of the lack of depth the lack of size and the fact that Garrison Matthews was getting so much playing time and that’s not a knock against Garrison Matthews because he is a tremendous person and he did what you know he was expected and needed to do at the time but unfortunately that’s just not what the Hawks needed in order to be a championship contender and so um yeah I think you know they did the best with what they had but unfortunately it just ended up putting them in the middle of the pack still but I definitely think that you know as we said Snyder has a voice but I don’t think he necessarily has the final say yeah and I think that was a a great way to put it is like no one’s going to disregard your coach unless obviously it turns out to situation we saw in Denver yeah where you know the GM and the the coach clearly were not on the same page now moving forward I think you touched about it their injuries are a concern with this team yeah I loved Kobe Buffing as prospect and everything I’ve seen and heard it’s just it’s an unfortunate thing that the best ability is availability and the backup point guard position has cursed Atlanta since I guess Lou Williams left town and Lou Williams wasn’t even a legit backup point guard for them cuz Chris Dunn was a failed failed signing due to that I think what a hand injury or thumb or something something like that weird just popped him out of my head yeah and then the thing I want to ask is moving forward it seems like they need a repeat of what they and obviously different regime but the year they went on a run they brought in a bunch of older guys it felt like they had Solomon Hill Denil Gallari that’s when they first brought in Bogdan Bdonovic it felt like they surrounded themselves with at least like five or six established guys and I feel like they were able to bring some of those guys in carris Levert and George Nyang what is like I guess maybe just the outlook in your opinion that they are going for a playoff push or is this another transition year
The Atlanta Hawks made bold changes to their front office heading into the 2025 offseason. Cyro Asseo breaks down what led to the restructuring, who’s now calling the shots, and what this means for the team’s future with Trae Young still at the core.
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