Atlanta Hawks: The ‘big’ issue

My blog people have spoken, and the vast majority of you say the Hawks need another center now and should sign a free agent or trade for one. Rick Sund also has spoken, and he says: “It all depends on who you match up with [in the playoffs] and how you do it.” “Some teams you’ve got to be able to match up big and some you’ve got to be able to match up small,” Sund said. He’s right about that. Miami goes small a lot. Philadelphia does so when Spencer Hawes is on the bench. Chicago is smallish when it’s Joakim Noah instead of Omer Asik (though that’s happening less and less). But the problem for the Hawks is they can’t always go big when they need to. Zaza Pachulia is it as far as effective two-way centers. At power forward, they’ve got slim Josh Smith, green (and limited) Ivan Johnson and perimeter-oriented Vladimir Radmanovic. Al Horford, Josh Smith and Joe Johnson all came into camp saying the Hawks needed another center. In Sund...