Among the teams far below expectations and who preferred not to move last Thursday, the Hawks occupy a place of choice alongside the Lakers and the Knicks. Surprise team of the last playoffs to the point of reaching the final of the Eastern Conference, Atlanta had a very bad month of December to fail in 12th place in the East with a record (17-25) unworthy of the aspirations of the team.
So much so that at the beginning of January, the team’s GM, Travis Schlenk, assured “ that there was no reason to be inactive (before the trade deadline) see where we are. […] I wouldn’t be doing my job well if I put my head in the sand saying that everything was fine. This is not my vision of this job. “
But unlike the other two formations mentioned, the Hawks have been able to chain a series of seven straight victories (the second this season) to get back in the right direction. Also, a few days before this sequence, the Hawks had retouched their workforce by sending Cam Reddish to the Knicks, in exchange for Kevin Knox.
” We are satisfied with the impact it has had. We have a fixed rotation of players who know their role “, supported a few days ago Travis Schlenk at the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. The departure of the young rear, who played 23 minutes on average, has indeed made it possible to redistribute playing time, insofar as Kevin Knox has hardly been used since his arrival in Georgia.
Find minutes for everyone
” When you have too many guys, and everyone feels like they should have minutes, it can create problems.”recognized the leader. “We had a great wealth of staff last year, like this year. But last year we always had someone injured, so it was never really a problem. This year, we finally have everyone healthy, which is great, but we also have to find minutes for everyone.“
If this exchange coincided with the series of victories of the Hawks, the latter are aware of being still far from the account. The proof with yesterday’s defeat in Boston, their fourth in five games. With their record still negative (26-30), the Hawks are now in 10th place in the East, three games from the Top 8.
A few days before the transfer deadline, Travis Schlenk would have positioned himself on several large transfer files, in particular those involving Ben Simmons and CJ McCollum, as well as Derrick White. According to The Athletiche would have notably proposed John Collins, Bogdan Bogdanovic and draft rounds to the Sixers to secure the services of the Australian.
” We looked at a lot of different things.” confirmed the leader of the Hawks, “But we are good with this group. We know that this group has the ability to succeed, as we saw last year. And we want to give them the opportunity to prove to the world that they can do it again.”
Otherwise, it is very likely to change in the next off-season…
| Shots | Bounces | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Players | GM | Minimum | Shots | 3 points | LF | Off | Def | Early | pd | bp | Int | CT | party | Points |
| Trae Young | 50 | 34.5 | 45.7 | 37.6 | 89.6 | 0.6 | 3.3 | 3.9 | 9.4 | 4.2 | 1.0 | 0.1 | 1.6 | 27.6 |
| John Collins | 50 | 31.3 | 53.7 | 38.8 | 79.4 | 1.8 | 6.1 | 7.9 | 1.9 | 1.1 | 0.6 | 1.1 | 3.1 | 16.8 |
| De’Andre Hunter | 27 | 28.6 | 45.3 | 38.9 | 70.1 | 0.4 | 3.0 | 3.4 | 1.2 | 1.4 | 0.6 | 0.4 | 2.9 | 12.9 |
| Bogdan Bogdanovic | 37 | 28.6 | 42.3 | 37.2 | 80.9 | 0.3 | 3.5 | 3.8 | 2.9 | 1.1 | 0.9 | 0.2 | 2.1 | 12.8 |
| Cam Reddish | 34 | 23.4 | 40.2 | 37.9 | 90.0 | 0.6 | 1.9 | 2.5 | 1.1 | 1.3 | 1.0 | 0.3 | 1.3 | 11.9 |
| Kevin Hurter | 48 | 29.1 | 45.9 | 37.0 | 80.0 | 0.4 | 2.8 | 3.2 | 2.9 | 1.4 | 0.6 | 0.3 | 2.2 | 11.6 |
| Cameron Oliver | 2 | 21.6 | 66.7 | 33.3 | 66.7 | 1.0 | 2.0 | 3.0 | 1.5 | 0.0 | 0.5 | 0.5 | 2.5 | 11.5 |
| Clint Capela | 47 | 28.0 | 58.6 | 0.0 | 45.6 | 3.8 | 8.3 | 12.1 | 1.4 | 0.6 | 0.7 | 1.3 | 2.3 | 10.9 |
| Danilo Gallinari | 44 | 23.2 | 41.9 | 39.2 | 91.8 | 0.6 | 3.9 | 4.5 | 1.4 | 0.6 | 0.5 | 0.2 | 1.5 | 10.4 |
| Chaundee Brown | 3 | 27.7 | 36.0 | 40.0 | 83.3 | 0.3 | 4.3 | 4.7 | 1.3 | 0.0 | 0.7 | 0.0 | 2.3 | 9.7 |
| Onyeka Okongwu | 23 | 22.0 | 71.7 | 0.0 | 73.6 | 2.3 | 3.3 | 5.6 | 1.2 | 1.1 | 0.7 | 1.4 | 3.3 | 8.7 |
| Wesley Iwundu | 3 | 27.4 | 44.4 | 60.0 | 75.0 | 1.0 | 3.3 | 4.3 | 0.0 | 0.3 | 0.3 | 0.0 | 2.7 | 7.3 |
| Lou Williams | 37 | 14.6 | 39.8 | 35.4 | 88.9 | 0.3 | 1.3 | 1.6 | 2.0 | 0.8 | 0.5 | 0.1 | 1.0 | 6.9 |
| Malcolm Hill | 3 | 15.3 | 62.5 | 60.0 | 100.0 | 0.7 | 1.3 | 2.0 | 0.3 | 0.0 | 1.3 | 0.3 | 2.3 | 5.7 |
| Delon Wright | 50 | 18.2 | 43.9 | 38.0 | 82.5 | 0.6 | 2.0 | 2.7 | 2.5 | 0.7 | 1.1 | 0.2 | 0.7 | 4.4 |
| Timothe Luwawu-cabarrot | 35 | 12.8 | 39.1 | 36.8 | 85.0 | 0.3 | 1.1 | 1.4 | 0.7 | 0.4 | 0.3 | 0.1 | 1.3 | 4.3 |
| Gorgui Dieng | 36 | 9.1 | 47.9 | 42.3 | 70.8 | 0.9 | 2.2 | 3.0 | 0.8 | 0.5 | 0.3 | 0.4 | 1.2 | 3.6 |
| Skylar Mays | 22 | 9.2 | 50.8 | 32.0 | 88.9 | 0.2 | 0.9 | 1.1 | 0.7 | 0.4 | 0.3 | 0.0 | 0.3 | 3.5 |
| Jalen Johnson | 13 | 4.5 | 47.4 | 42.9 | 66.7 | 0.0 | 1.2 | 1.2 | 0.1 | 0.2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.2 | 1.9 |
| Kevin Knox | 7 | 6.6 | 37.5 | 10.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 1.1 | 1.1 | 0.6 | 0.3 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 0.4 | 1.9 |
| Lance Stephenson | 6 | 11.6 | 38.5 | 0.0 | 50.0 | 0.2 | 2.3 | 2.5 | 1.8 | 0.7 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 1.3 | 1.8 |
| Sharif Cooper | 10 | 3.5 | 21.4 | 16.7 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.5 | 0.5 | 0.5 | 0.5 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 0.7 |
| Solomon Hill | 13 | 10.7 | 15.0 | 15.4 | 0.0 | 0.5 | 1.3 | 1.8 | 0.9 | 0.1 | 0.3 | 0.2 | 1.2 | 0.6 |
| Cat Barber | 3 | 4.3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.3 | 0.7 | 1.0 | 1.0 | 0.3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.3 | 0.0 |
