The Hawks have filled their open two-way slot by signing free agent guard Trent Forrest to a two-way contract, the team announced today in a press release.
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Forrest, 24, signed a two-way deal with the Jazz in 2020 after going undrafted out of Florida State. He spent most of the next two seasons on two-way contracts in Utah, eventually earning a promotion to the standard roster on the last day of the 2021/22 campaign in order to make him playoff-eligible.
Forrest has appeared in 90 regular season games at the NBA level in his first two professional seasons, including 60 in 2021/22. He averaged 3.3 PPG and 1.8 APG in ’21/22, making 49.0% of his shots from the floor in 12.8 minutes per contest. He even earned six starts in the backcourt over the course of the season.
The Jazz had the opportunity to give Forrest a qualifying offer in June to make him a restricted free agent, but chose not to, so he hit the market as an unrestricted free agent.
Having officially signed Forrest, Atlanta now has 16 players under contract. Of those 16 players, 13 have fully guaranteed standard contracts, while Tyrese Martin has a partially guaranteed deal and Forrest and Chaundee Brown are on two-way pacts.
Gives them good depth at guard defensively, and another guy they can play next to Trae Young and/or Bogdanovic, if need be. Still not a fan of the Huerter trade, but they definitely addressed other areas
What didn’t you like about the Huerter trade?
It traded current production for future production because of money, not wins.
I like Harkless and Holiday but if Huerter wouldn’t currently make a team better than them why would the team getting him also have to pay a 1st.
It does make them more versatile defensively but Huerter in a vacuum is just better.
Kev def makes Sacramento better but Atl didn’t really need him. Tbh we sorta needed him gone bc he’s just not good enough defensively for us to start him next to Trae anymore. Those 2 guys are both below average defenders & that drag on our team defense led to a lot of huge games for opposing guards. There were countless examples but what Steph Curry did to us (fairly early in the season if I remember correctly) was a huge sign that changes were necessary. Kev is a big time shooter but we already have Bogdan who plays the same position, is also a great shooter, is a better overall player & is more comfortable coming off the bench. So rather than pay Kev big $ for the next 4yrs to be our 4th guard we got 2 rotation pieces & a future mid 1st rd pick. Hawks lacked toughness the past few yrs. This was painfully obvious in both of our last 2 playoff series (Mil & Mia). Losing Kev while adding Harkless & JHoliday make us much tougher. I def agree that Huerter is better than both those guys in a vacuum (or in Sacramento) but it was a pretty brilliant move imo
link to m.youtube.com .. this was probably the most frustrating game of the season to watch (but also incredible bc of Stephs performance). Steph was just lighting up Dre & Kev while Cam Reddish, our best perimeter defender just chilled on the bench. And when Nate finally does give Cam some pt he still has Kev guarding Steph. If we slow down Steph even a lil bit we win this game smh I def understand why Cam wanted out
At the end of the day Huerter will represent more let’s say Wins Above Replacement than those guys combined next year. So that would include offense amd defense and it’s impact. And I’m not simply saying it as a WAR as a advanced stat, but however we want to calculate it. You know basketball, I respect that.
I dismissed it as cheap-O Atlanta management. They are both solid wing defenders but there has to be a Net overall loss with Huerter vs them. My opinion is Atl traded 70 cents for a 100 because they got a future 50 cent in the deal, which is valuable for them because they gave up a lot of picks.
I thought having both Trae and Huerter off ball but both good C&S from anywhere inside 30 would have made an interesting line up with DM roaming the middle as a ball handler.
I always liked this guy at FSU. Him & TMann were a vicious duo for a few yrs. He’s very similar to our other 2way player (Chaundee Brown) tho. Hopefully this means we’re gonna drop Brown bc tbh I’d much rather see Skylar Mays back than for us to go into the season with both Forrest & Brown as our 2way guys
He has a insatiable need to drive. I like it, especially on a 2 way
Tough defender too, like most guys that Leonard Hamilton recruits
Sad to see that Trent will no longer be with the Jazz.