TheSuzerain wrote:League Circles wrote:TheSuzerain wrote:Zach, Coby, Pwill, Caruso seem to be our positive assets.
Not sure what that deal looks like though.
I just think you can organize a top 5 offense around Trae. Can't do that around any of our guys.
The problem is how hard it would be to organize anything other than a bottom 5 defense around Trae. He has severe talent/ability deficiency on defense. Very hard pass on him for me.
Hawks have put together some mediocre defenses around him.
But yeah you'd definitely be offense first.
The Top 11 offenses this year all had a Net Rating of +2 or higher. So I think there's merit to that as a "plan".
Hawks have been bottom 5 in defense in 4/6 years with Trae and bottom 9 6/6 years. And he missed 1/4 of the season in one of the years they weren't bottom 5.