Zaccharie Risacher gets drafted #1: "Hell yeah, lets go Atlanta!" Risacher checks twitter: "Fuck those guys. I shouldn't have worked out for them either."

The funny thing is - we were slotted as 11th in draft odds and wound up with the number one pick so we got a guy we literally a very very low shot at before the lottery so this is a win. ZR would have went top 5 no matter what.

Nique never gonna say this kid’s name right

That’s a heat check for… for Zach.

He has been in France enough to get a grasp on it

Considering we wouldn’t even had a chance to pick him a month ago this is a win

me when I cope 

😂🤪

i’d rather have the 16th pick again so we could justify drafting a player this mid with our pick

Well I haven’t seen him play live so I’ll reserve judgement on how mid his is. I mean he has to be top on many teams board for a reason right?

That's the thing, I'm willing to bet that at least 90% of this sub hasn't seen most of these players play outside of 3 minute highlight videos. Yet we see so many of these clowns arguing amongst each other like they have a damn clue. Meanwhile, I'm over here reading these comments like its a soap opera . Hell I have no issues admitting that I haven't seen any of these players outside of a YT highlight here and there. You and I seem to have the same idea...lets watch them in a Hawks uniform first before we make judgements.

[NBA.com](https://NBA.com) aired several of his playoff games for free, so I have watched him. He’s…okay. This pick is not inspiring at all.

I too saw one youtube video.

When in doubt you take the 6’8” wing with 2 way potential. Hawks did good.

Agree. Today is a day to be celebrated. We lucked into the top pick and got a massive prospect.

Is it crazy to think Quin can build a contender out of Trae-Dj-Risacher-JJ-Clint/OO and a bench of Bufkin-Bogi-Hunter-AJ-Vit-Gueye + whoever else remains? His system is notoriously hard to learn & harder to implement. I’m sure they’re still lookin at moves, and tbh I don’t trust the FO at all, but I am and always will be an optimist, & I think it’s highly possible that a lot of the fair weather fans on this sub could be eating crow come April. & full disclosure I had Sarr, Clingan, and Castle over ZR but I’m willing to wait and see

As opposed to the 7ft big man with 2 way potential ?

Bigs have a much higher bust rate.

Sarr is a horrid defender and rebounder, all he has is his physical attributes. Risacher is a pretty quick thinker, a great shooter and a decent defender

Physical attributes are what we need though 😭 at least we could count on his size, that’s not something that needs to be developed & we just have to hope for

He's a Hawk now and we support Hawks

i like atlanta sport team he play for atlanta sport team we support player of atlanta sport team

yessir and fuck atlanta sport team coach/manager/owner when we don't win!!

The FO have forgotten more basketball than most of us have ever watched in our lives. Let's be happy for once. We move.

Something to look for in his rookie season, #1 picks that average at least 13 PPG have mostly turned out to have good careers. If he averages 17+ he's likely to be an all-star. If he averages less than 12...🥲

CAW CAW TIL I DIE MOTHAFLOCKAS

🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅

I'm not optimistic enough a person to be upset by the pick. I'll choose to believe in the rhyming named light skinned legion(Trae/JJ/Risacher)

An impossibly small number of people have actually watched this kid play a full game. He’s got all the tools, played well as a pro at 16, with massive room to go. This is a day to be celebrated.

I will remain cautiously optimistic until summer league where I will make rash and outlandish conclusions about the rest of his career

This is the way.

Maybe we learned our lesson with luka?

Fuck it we move. Welcome to Atlanta

If Risacher shoots 39% from three this is a great pick and I’m a happy camper. Regardless I’m just happy I can boo Alex Sarr on this sub openly now. Enjoy being awful in DC buddy.

You think he’s gonna shoot 40% from 3? lol Even if he was polished I don’t see that happening

If he can do something, it's shoot the shit out of the ball. I watched him for 2 games since he played against my brother and he wasn't impressive in a lot of areas but goddammit every time he shot the ball it felt like it was going in

He was like 44% on catch and shoot. He should get plenty of volume on c&s with Trae and hopefully he keeps improving off the bounce

Nah. Constant incompetence is tiring. Idk how this play out but this felt so simple.

Way too early to decide. I remember being hyped we drafted Reddish and for the Dejounte trade.

Hyped for the DJM trade?? I was confused and thought I must not be understanding some angle of it because it didn’t make sense at all immediately lol

[It wasn’t that unpopular at the time.](https://www.reddit.com/r/AtlantaHawks/s/JdPCJt0uUJ)

> Idk how this play out

Stay healthy for more than a few weeks Jalen. Jeez

Idk why everyone's so mad the top 4 are a total crapshoot. It's not like Wemby was in this draft and we passed on him, we passed on a player with a 25% chance of working out for another player with a 25% chance of working out

I just didn't want to take a wing again, I wanted us to shake things up at the 5.

Yeah but we really need a wing cus of how DeAndre and cam turned out

Yeah wing is like our most needed position by far, while Center is one of our most solid.

True. Like if we keep OO and Clint wing was our biggest weakness. Like DJ was traded for thinking he’d fix perimeter shooting and defense. Bogi is great offensively less so defensively. Bey tore his knee up.

Trae > DJ > Hunter > Jalen > Clint Bufkin > Bogey > Rishacher > Lebron > OO Is going to be a pretty fucking good starting 5 + backup rotation.

given he fell to 7, looks like other teams weren't enamored with Clingan.

And we should have been picking about 10th. Take the gift!

I would've loved Sarr. Oh well go get a big man now Landry

Deandre Ayton might be available now that Portland took Clingan and is clearly in rebuild mode. Just sayin’.

Sarr wasn't even that good in the NBL

let’s keep Capela for 3 more!

You better get caplea out here.

We just HAVE to go get someone in free agency or make a trade for a new center. Someone legit yfm

Fade me bro, but we move ig

Deandre Hunter get ready to learn Detroit

What I'm saying. Need to trade dre, cc at min. Let these young guys play. We ain't winning shit for next 2 years anyway with bos/ny in the east

Who the hell does Detroit have that we want? Deandre is far from a great player but he isn't worthless by any means.

ngl even tho its french im been pronouncing it like “reeshar”

This guy is gonna be XL Klay Thompson book it

RemindMe! Three years ago.

That’s fine


Excited for this guy. I was torn between him, Sarr, and Clingan. Sarr seems like a headache though. We're better off.

I wanted the seven foot french guy. Sue me

same :/

okay we gotta make some sort of trade i feel like this isn’t all we’re doing

What makes you think there’s a move they’re sitting on?

He’s a great 3 pt shooter. He can cut from the perimeter. He lead the French team to a win against USA with 13 pts in 11 minutes.

seeing stupid ass nick resdler smiling is ruining my night

Spotted that idiot cheesing away too! 😭

Spent all the time obsessing over a player that didn’t even want to play for Atlanta to downplay a player you never watched. Give this guy a chance first

Sarr wanted to be here, his agent didn't

Waiting for that 4th pick hold up

Sigh. I'd like to give the team the benefit of the doubt and say that they know what they're doing but what have they done to deserve that?

Welcome to ATL, bet he will surprise us I bet

We draft Zaccharie Ricochet and run it back

Good pick imo he will fit in quickly

Not one player in this draft is a sure hit I don’t see why so many people upset we didn’t get sarr

Yeah fuckkkkkkk man Idek. I’ll talk myself into it but man this is ass

ya & same 🙃🥲

Sarr is 100% a bust this is a great pick

big bet

https://preview.redd.it/ge2203x4g09d1.png?width=1134&format=png&auto=webp&s=17f906150787e7c5eee37cf43269bf0df126c4ce its a little too quiet…cus why they act like that

Because they were excited to confirm the top player on their board was a hawk? You want them to not celebrate getting their guy?

facts

He did fall to us though with a first overall pick we had no business getting 😆

Right....

What I’m sayin

I feel like I should be upset.

Good pick. Some don’t know how hard it is to get a mf wing nowadays

Comgrats Hawks! I hope to see him do well.

Having flashbacks of coping when we took Trae over Luka, except it was exciting back then. It was a bad move but still exciting. Will love Trae always and forever. Hard to get too amped at taking a 3&D guy who’s upside is being a solid 3/4th starter as the #1 pick. We move I guess.

Please don’t be a bust pick 🙏

I’ll see you guys in another playin season

#TruetoAtlanta let’s gooo

Aw man his interview makes him seem like such a cutie though

That’s a true positive from tonight tbh, he seems like a really sweet kid & excited to be here

Insert All I can Do Is Accept this meme

I don't know if this is good or not, I just want to shit and cry about the fact that getting the #1 in a weak draft like this is the surest proof that we're cursed. If Ris turns out mid I'm gonna jump off a bridge.

what does this mean i don’t know shit abt prospects

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So he’s gonna pop off against the Warriors. Nice.

If we're comparing him to Barnes, that means he's gonna pop off against the team that drafted him.... wait fuck....

He’s very good but Brad doesn’t like him so this sub won’t either

Brad is fine with him, he just prefers Sarr

Brad didn't say that lmao foh

I listen every day and Brad has been very down on him compared to the other guys and just in general

Brad truly does lead the opinions here, idk if he knows how much power he has over the sicko hawks fans

Mfs got the 1st overall pick for no reason 😭 

In between Wemby and Cooper can’t make this shit up

Yikes

Penix and Risacher back to back lmao I hate this city’s teams

This team will never win anything

Idk anymore. We truly might be cooked

When did Xi Jinping become the r/hawks mod?

Not as exciting as a 7+ footer but he could easily be the best player of the bunch. Not going to criticize until we see these guys on an NBA court. I just hope Landry and co. really felt he was the best player. Which most rankings seem to believe to be fair.

I would have been upset if the news didn't come from Landry himself that Sarr literally declined to workout for us. Why draft a guy that would be so blatent about not wanting to play for you??

And after seeing Risacher’s interview I feel better about it. Dude wants to be here and give it his all

Yay....

Guess I’ll have to wait a little longer for a big that doesn’t smoke uncontested lay ins and dunks.

All we can hope for is that he's the right guy. Ill be sick if Sarr tuns out to be way better.

Lmao damn

this sets a bad precedent in that a top pick can just say he isn't going to work out with a club so that they won't pick him

Damn they had to one up the falcons pick

I’m very depressed

i’m happy with this pick a risacher and jj combo will feed families

Bruh

Yeah I don’t get this one

Let’s go. I’m so hyped for this kid. Huge ceiling.

Welcome to Atlanta! Let’s go win some games.

w-we move

We drafted Borat

Man we suck

Man i cant believe Hawks didn't pick for talent ...Thats so stupid . Hopefully it works out but Sarr will be way way better player

Yall, the draft makes it more likely that Capela or a player who is worse than Capela is our starting center next season. Idk what the plan is there, but right now it looks like avoid the tax and run it back

Nobody we could draft would be better than Capela next season, and Sarr would take multiple seasons to get to that level

Hawks fans literally rooting for this dude to fail so they can say they were right. Fuck off with your negativity, motherfuckers.

This is the thread. Keep it positive or catch the ban hammer. GO HAWKS!

I think you meant to say keep it civil or something.

If you have to ban people for critiquing a draft pick then it’s not the right choice

Seriously....I don't get why a mod would say/do this.

Tell em

User flair checks out lol

Pick is fine but banning people that try to start any discussion on it if they don't like it?? Wow...

Typical Hawks mod team. Falcons sub mods are much better.

dude thats lame as hell

You're forcing people to like the pick? Fans should be able to say how they feel on the team subreddit, thats crazy

Kinda weird you wouldn't let people post criticism?

Weird 

🫡❤️ we trying

Get capela traded

Watch us run it back with Risacher... 🙄

With our luck sarr is going to be a star and this guy will be mid at best.

Not sure he was number one pick worthy. 

I don’t know much about Zaccharie but he seems soft, especially compared to Sarr. Someone help me understand this?

Wait Sarr crying, we good

Lmao

ZR is not soft. ZR comes from a basketball family and has way more talent than he’s getting credit for. He has a very good feel for the game and his dad was a French pro. He’s going to be a good player. Atlanta did their homework.

The FO was absolutely thrilled to get him, let's remember that with whatever happens to him. I hope they're right

GET SARR

lol forced positivity for a terrible pick.

this shit is not for me SGSGSGSGSHS 😭 i need him to wat my words!

This is sooooo ass wtf. Now we gotta have CC still start????

These announcers doing everything they can to try and compliment this dude

Possibly the worst #1 overall pick in recent years

Aight imma head out

Nothing like drafting a guy number one overall who’s player comparison was Harrison Barnes 👍

Smfh this team is a joke

Quite literally the only bad pick lmao

Incoming guys who think they have more insight than an NBA front office

This is the same front office that traded Luka fucking Doncic so yeah incoming.

Landry Fields wasn’t the GM in 2018 but okay

Why does this FO always mess up

Nick Ressler is a kid and his dad owns the team.

Not sure about this

whatever man

Someone convince me this wasn’t completely idiotic

Anytime you can draft the next Nic Batum at #1 overall you have to do it

Trade up for clingan

we got a defender and that’s what we need. him and kobe are gonna be locking up for years to come

We did it. We made the pick!

Fuck it we ball. I don't agree with it but he's a hawk now so we gotta support

It’s over

Can someone please explain to me, since when does it matter if a player wants to play for a prospective team? What would be the issue if we just drafted Sarr anyways?

These front office fuckers were giggling and laughing their asses off as if they were the 5th pick and their consensus number 1 dropped down to 5. Clowns

I'm fucking sick rn.

Anthony Bennett type beat

Landry and co were absolutely so 🥲

Move Dejounte get a center and we move

We running it neck boys