This is not rocket science. After several insufferable years under Stan Bowman's incompetence, Hawks have finally come to the realization that they need to start over and with that, they are bound to be terrible for a few years as they rebuild from the ground up.
We have seen other teams try to rebuild on the fly. Pens come to mind ... TB as well.... it rarely works. And not to mention the teams that will likely make the playoffs every year only to fail miserably when it comes to winning the big prize. No one wants the Hawks to be included in that also-ran category. The franchise knows all too well what it is like to be mediocre for a decade or more.
You need to come back here in 3 years time. Only at that time will valid criticism be appropriate.
Ok first off, Bowman is a piece of shit and a disgrace, but he also won three cups. He also had a maxed out cap to work with most of the years and did what he could with very little wiggle room to maneuver. He also didn't have a generational talent fall into his lap.
Davidson has a generational talent, draft picks, and cap space, and has done nothing with any of it instead of sit on his thumb and sending thru the media manufactured excuses. He's clueless.
If there was an ounce of improvement, even while losing, that's one thing. This team is the joke of the league and instead of some people pointing that out, like me, most are clutching onto the excuses and buying into this facade there's going to be light at the end of what looks like five more years of suckage tunnel.
Bad trades, bad drafting with the picks received thru those trades, bad free agent signings. It's a trend.
Davidson is killing this team. You all will wake up later then sooner.
