The Trae Young Problem, Explained

The Trae Young Problem, Explained

Spurs news tonight dejon Murray traded away to Atlanta for three future first round picks this definitely the most young exciting back court in the East am I wrong in thinking like the Hawks that’s the best back court in the NBA right ATA Hawks at their Peak what does

That look like the talent we have and just everything around if we could put it together top three team in the East I really believe that Celtics finally able to turn out the lights on Atlanta win a championship you know what I’m saying not just not just be in the picture just

Be in the running like I want to come into the season like people look at that they can they can win and they got a chance now Dro five consective games essentially anyone other than Trey young and and now Jaylen Johnson’s coming on as kind of a foundational piece for them

Everybody else that includes Murray should be available fair to say after a year and a half that transaction is not one that you would want to sort of do again if you were the HW ever since making the 2021 Eastern Conference Finals Trey Young and the Atlanta Hawks have had disappointing

Season after disappointing season and after about a third of the way into the 2023 2024 NBA season it’s looking to be another one of those Seasons as they’re sitting at 14 and 19 currently but what it feels like nobody’s talking about is how incredible of a season Trey young is

Having at 25 years old he’s averaging 28.2 points per game and 11.3 assists so who’s the blame for the Atlanta Hawks continual disappointment and where should they even go from here today in this video we will dive into how the Atlanta Hawks are quietly wasting Prime Trey Young when the Hawks first traded

For Trey young in the 2018 draft giving up Luca donic and gaining Trey young in a 2019 first round pick although controversial at the time it seemed like the Hawks were poised to start building something in the Eastern Conference and after two losing records and Trey Young’s first two seasons they would

Break out during the 2020 2021 season going forward 41 and 31 and at the time it seemed like the Hawks had a super talented young core they had Trey young at 22 years old Kevin herder at 22 DeAndre Hunter 23 John Collins 23 cam reddish 21 not to mention Clint capella

At 26 years old they acquired in a trade and signing Bogdan bogdanovich they would finish fifth in the Eastern Conference That season defeat the Knicks in five games in the first round and then shock the NBA World in a game seven that broke Ben Simmons defeating the number one seed Philadelphia 76ers

Although they would fall to Giannis and the Milwaukee Bucks in six games the future was bright for Atlanta they had their superstar in Trey young they had draft Capital they had their young and Veteran pieces around him but then 2022 they would take a little bit of a step

Back going 43 and 39 finishing 9th making the play in and ending up getting the eight seed in the 2022 playoffs where they would lose in five games to the Miami Heat Trey young would have an absolutely abysmal series averaging 15 points per game on a shocking 32% from

The field that off season they would make some adjustments trading Kevin herder to the Kings acquiring in a blockbuster deal dejonte Murray from the San Antonio Spurs coming off an All-Star season basically for three firsts but yet they’d have a very similar result going 41 and 41 finishing eighth in the

Eastern Conference somehow beating the heat in the 78 play in game but losing in the opening round in a six-game series versus the Boston Celtics and at this point we started to wonder what is Atlanta’s plan from here they had made a decently risky move that off season to

Acquire a rising star alongside Trey but yet they would get pretty much the same result matter of fact they were second in the league in offensive rating and 26th in defense in 2022 and then we’re seventh in offensive rating and 22nd in defense in 2023 and would actually drop

Four spots in net rating and that brings us to the 2023 2024 season where the Hawks are 14 and 20 they’ve been terrible at home this year had a pretty poor December but yet quietly with no one really paying attention Trey young is having arguably the best season of

His career averaging 28.2 points per game and 11.3 assists which is good for second in the league behind Tyrese halberton but he’s also hitting 38% of his threes on a w 9.3 attempts per game matter of fact in December alone Trey averaged 30.4 points per game 12.2 assists per game on 48 42

84 splits becoming the only player to average 30 and 12 over a month in the three-point era yet the Hawks would go 4 and 10 in December and as much hype as Trey young was getting in 2021 and 2022 after a Down Season last year by his standards he’s completely back to 2021

Trey but yet nobody’s talking about it and obviously that’s because the Hawks just aren’t that good of a team so who is the blame for this let’s take a look at their roster first and foremost the demise of John Collins is something that is somewhat puzzling I know he had that

Weird finger injury in his last season with Atlanta the team didn’t want him to get surgery he played through it but two to three years ago nobody saw this coming for John Collins it’s really a sad story as he’s now a below average NBA player in Utah then if we take a

Look at bogie he may be 31 but he’s surely not showing any signs of slowing down averaging 17.7 points per game shooting 38% from three as well on almost nine attempts per game he’s also having one of the best seasons of his career and is one of the favorites for

Six man of the year then we have Jaylen Johnson the 20th overall pick in 2021 having an absolutely breakout season if you have not watched Jaylen Johnson this year I encourage you to go check out some highlights he’s absolutely ball in check out this poster he had on chat

Last night in a game where Atlanta beat the Oklahoma City Thunder and he had 28 points seven rebounds four Steals and shot 61% from the field this man went from averaging 5.6 points per game last year and only 15 minutes of play and shooting 29% from three it’s now playing

30 minutes a game 15.3 points 8.1 rebounds 41% from three shooting 59.6% from the field with an insane true shooting percentage of 67.7% Jaylen Johnson and bogey are not the problem even Clint capella has been fine to above average this year he’s pretty much been the same player

Statistically for the past three seasons however he is $2 million and almost 30 the Hawks should consider moving him at the deadline depending on what offers are actually out there when it does come to issues on this team let’s start with maybe not the biggest one but certainly

An issue DeAndre Hunter he was drafted fourth overall Atlanta made a pretty big move for him now luckily they had taken Jackson Hayes at eight so it still was a good trade looking back on it even now however what happened to DeAndre Hunter’s supposed 3 and D utility this

Man has been absolutely abysmal on defense this year he has the worst defensive rating of anyone on his team that plays over 11 minutes per game and he hasn’t even been remotely a good Defender since 2021 now he’s shooting the crap out of the ball this year so we

Have to give him that a career-high 40.4% from three on a career-high in attempts he has been sidelined for the past couple weeks with a knee injury but I feel like if you’re Landry Fields the Hawks GM you have to move him at the deadline he’s not serving your team in

The long run and the type of team that you need to build around Jaylen Johnson and Trey young and when it comes to AJ Griffin I don’t even know what’s going on with AJ if you’re not familiar he had a pretty pretty good rookie season last

Year as the 16th pick in the 2022 NBA draft and then this season he’s just not in the rotation barely playing and he did have a stretch I know a couple weeks ago where he was out for personal reasons but he’s been back for three or four games and he’s recording dnps at

This point my assumption is that Quinn Snyder has just deemed his defense completely unplayable but I’m hoping post trade deadline if the Hawks do in fact sell a couple pieces that AJ will get 18 to 20 minutes a night the rest of the season so that Atlanta can at least

See what they have in him let him develop and see if he can come out of this sophomore slump at the end of the day the two biggest pieces of blame I’m putting on the Hawks starts with number one Deon Murray it’s time to trade him I’m not exactly sure what the Hawks

Could get for deante but if you can get 50 cents on the dollar for what you paid for him I think you have to do it his contract’s going up next season 7 or 8 million plus it’s just quite clear to me that dejon Murray does not fit this team

As long as you have Trey Young and shooting this is going to be a good offensive team you don’t need more offense in my opinion you need defense and dejonte Murray has been pretty average defensively for the past two seasons with the Hawks and even if you go into some Advanced metrics including

EPM and defensive EPM heck even defensive rating with the Spurs he wasn’t that great he just filled the stat sheet by Leading the league in steals That season as I was finishing up this video a report came out yesterday that the Atlanta Hawks are open to trading anybody on their roster not

Named Trey young and Jaylen Johnson which I believe is 100% the correct move just a few days ago when I first recorded this video there was talks about them acquiring Pascal cakam being buyers at the Trey deadline forcing this roster construction to try to compete more which I thought was a huge mistake

So for Trey Young’s sake for Atlanta Hawks fan sake for Jaylen Johnson’s sake for Quinn Snyder’s sake and for their young pieces like AJ Griffin and Kobe buffkin sake I’m glad to hear they are willing to trade at the deadline I’ll believe it when I see it you could

Easily keep someone like bogey who’s having a career season and is on a team-friendly contract while still trimming the fat and retooling for the future plus let’s be honest I still think this roster can contend for the playing tournament without some of these pieces while setting themselves up

Better for the next 2 to three years and giving their young guys some time to develop if Hawks fan what do you think do you want them to stand Pat at the trade deadline would you actually want them to go out and buy another piece or

Do you want them to retool and reenter around Trey young and Jaylen Johnson I’m confident to say that if the Hawks do what they say they’re going to do in this report that came out yesterday that I will completely reverse my course on their idea of wasting Trey Young’s Prime

And I’ll actually be pretty hopeful for the future of this franchise as Trey young enters the best years of his career but make no mistake the majority of the blame goes on ownership the owner’s son Nick wrestler and Landry Fields they were the ones that lobbied for this Deon Murray trade throwing

Previous GM Travis schlank under the bus we will see what happens over the coming weeks if you guys enjoyed this video check out this video I made on how Tyrese halberton became the NBA’s newest Superstar here and as always we’ll see you on the hardwood

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