25% of the Season is in the Books

[jayu70]

We ended our first 18 games at 9-9, good for 7th in the East and 1st place is the SE. (we should be 11-7, the Cavs and Knicks losses were bad) Considering we have been playing mostly 'The Core 5' plus Capela with a little sprinkling of the offseason acquisitions it's not a bad place to be.

What I want to see for the next 25: Consistency and overall team health. I would love for us to have a game with no minutes restrictions for all those that play.

Trae: regain that floater touch, limit TOs, keep up a consistent effort on defense

Huerter: I love the 4th quarter heroics, but we need you for the 1st 3

Reddish: Slow down on offense, maintain defensive principals

Hunter/Collins/Capela: I like what they are giving us on both ends of the floor

Gallinari: Please stay healthy

Bog/Dunni: Get back soon and stay healthy

Rondo: I'm disappointed so far,

Okongwu: Needs minutes

Goodwin: Stay ready

Hill/Snell: hopefully with other guys getting healthy, they'll see less minutes

Bruno/Knight/Mays: To the GLeague


Lack of any real practice is killer for the young players, but nothing to be done. Remember Pierce said - those who can't keep up will be left behind with the shortened season and crunched schedule.

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“I really admire what Lloyd (Pierce)’s doing,” Nets coach Steve Nash said. “This is a tough matchup for us. They stretch you out. They space the floor. They put the ball in players’ hands and give them some freedom of confidence but within a structure. It’s very difficult to guard. They have a little bit of diversity in their offense. They play hard. They got length. Lloyd is a great young coach and only getting better. The Hawks are really lucky to have him.”

Irving, unprompted, said, “This is a good Hawks team, and we could have folded at any point in the fourth quarter.”

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Hawks have 10 wins in 19 games. Took us 42 games last year to get 10 wins. Baby Steps!

[Jamaaliver]

11. Atlanta Hawks (↑Previously 15th), 10-9, +2.7 net rating

Weekly slate: Win over Clippers, Loss to Nets, Win at Wizards

First-quarter grade: B

While the Atlanta Hawks season has been a bit of a roller coaster, it feels like they’ve stabilized things enough to feel good about it overall. They got through some potential chemistry issues with the Trae Young-John Collins thing. They’ve absorbed the loss of Bogdan Bogdanovic and kept moving forward. Lloyd Pierce has this team playing defense and competing on offense. Clint Capela has been a great impact on the court. Young has infuriated much of the league with his savvy foul-drawing, and the Hawks are getting under the skin of opponents. Solid step forward so far.

Needs a makeup assignment: This team needs to be more stable on offense. Crazy to say about a top 10 offensive team, right? It’s currently held up by their free-throw rate, which is best in the league thanks to Young. The Hawks are just 24th in effective field goal percentage, though, and bottom 10 in both 2-point and 3-point percentage. Hawks need to make shots.

Why are they ranked here? Very good week for the Hawks. Beat a Clippers team without its two stars, which is what you’d expect a good team to do. Loss to the Nets was tough, but they rebounded by again beating a bad Washington team.

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