Overall takeaway: the hawks are super young. Trae has different responsibilities and thus has been worse overall. Defense is harder than it's ever been. Nothing really groundbreaking here.

If you go super granular and start looking at rolling averages the story is very interesting. It highlights how important Hunter, Bogi, and Zacc are overall. This recent run has coincided with Hunter coming out and Risacher's offense looking real. His defense has been good enough that if his offense (read ts%) can get to league average he could be our second best player this year. As his shooting improves his overall value skyrockets. Dude is real. Super low key. Bogi has been straight bad, him being good would be such a huge boon.

On the other hand Daniels offense being as bad as it is does make him being great really difficult. His offense has been very bad.

Last thing, probably a bit controversial. JJ looks like he is stabilizing around all-star level. Which is great, but it limits the ceiling if Trae can't find a way to be more productive at his lower usage.

I think the preseason takes seem to hold. Zacc is going to be so good, and so unknown.

I don’t keep up to date with college hoops too much, however I’ve heard all this talk about how deep this draft class is. In this if we forget about what position we may be the in draft, apart from probably top 10 id say, are there prospects you’ve watched that would really fit into the hawks.

I’d say in particular we definitely need to focus on a big man. But does anyone know if there’s a big athletic, shot blocking centre in this class who would fit perfectly with Trae. Or maybe a wing or shooting guard who would fit in perfectly off the bench?

I'm a self-admitted Hunter defender, but some people in this sub seem to be actively rooting for him to fail to push their own agendas. If he plays well, it's good for the team, end of discussion. Some of y'all in this subs are weird, definitely have your own ways of showing "support" for the team.

A lot has been said about Trae’s lack of shooting lately, well that’s on purpose. Snyder wants to use Trae more as a decoy. Opening lanes for others. It’s working, Jalen has become a great playmaker.

This is the kind of win that a turn our season around. Struggled and gritted their way to a road win. That’s 3 the hard! Ah ah ah caw Caw

If enough people tell Wade and Will to drop the jersey, I bet we can make it happen!!!

• Record: 10-11
• 107-104 @ Hornets

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3 wins in a row CaCawwww 🦅

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They defeat the Hornets.

Hawks had 5 players in double figures.

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If the Knicks beat the Magic by less than 15 points, they would end as the 2nd seed in the east. The Hawks are locked as the 3rd seed because of point differential, therefore the matchup would be Hawks @ Knicks

Imagine Trae owning the Knicks again in the Maddison Square Garden during an elimination game

Heard Brad Rowland say this at the beginning of the year but as I’ve watched him play I totally agree. Nance is by no means a terrific center but he’s too good to ride the bench game after game. A player of his caliber is normally playing decent rotational minutes on a mid-low tier team.

I don’t think he’s better than OO or Clint, but for him to never play feels like a waste. For example look what he did in our win at Boston (19 pts on 7/10). If we’re not planning to get rid of Clint (and again, I think Clint is much better), I don’t see why we waste Nance’s time keeping him around. Maybe we can swing a second round pick or free up some money by trading him? My guess is that if he’s not gone by the deadline we buy out his contract. What do y’all think is this a decent take or am I severely overrating Nance?

• Hawks IR: Squeaky clean (as of Friday night. It's not unlikely both Dre and Bogi sit this game out for fresh legs)
• Hornets IR: LaMelo is questionable with left calf soreness, Grant Williams is out.

WE DID ITTTTTTTTTTTTTTT! ANYTHING IS POSSIBLE. I'll be looking forward to the youtube essays in 10 years about the "weirdest basketball team ever". Anyways: thrilled that Trae had an efficient game last night. Sign for things to come?

Someone help me lol

• Record: 9-11
• 117-101 vs. Cavaliers

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