The Atlanta Hawks and Trae Young are confusing

The Atlanta Hawks and Trae Young are confusing

A little over a year ago the Atlanta Hawks were heading towards the town of mid also known as Midtown and they had Nate McMillan at the helm and they were kind of like reeling back from their Eastern Conference Finals visit a couple Seasons before and they decided to get

Rid of McMillan and hire Quinn Snider with Quinn Snider they go about 10 and 11 that year and then make the play him that also ends up with Trey getting absolutely locked up by the entire Boston Celtics roster but that wasn’t what that season was about the season

Was about getting an upgrade in head coach in Quin Snider making some moves for the next season or giving Quinn Snider just some time to work with this unit and I was really excited you know as I’m a Detroit Pistons fan but I really like Trey young he’s one of my

Favorite players in the league and I really like this Atlanta Hawks team I just like how that Eastern Conference Finals Hawk team was like some one of my favorite teams ever honestly unon like weirdly enough like you had you had Trey young you had now Detroit Piston Danilo

Galinari you had uh Lou Will you had bogy still you had John Collins Clint capella and you had I think oh yeah Kevin herder as well if you’re new here welcome in and if you know me welcome back thank you guys for supporting the channel liking subscribing feel free to

Take the time and do that now it’s free and it helps me out see how easy that was and looking at Hawk Sands I totally understand why there’s a lot to be excited about this year um you had Quin Snider who’s an offensive upgrade over Nate McMillan I was so tired of seeing

Nate McMillan run these same plays over and over and over again needed to see a little bit more variety buddy we at least expected the Hawks to be over 500 but as I make this video that is clearly not the case this is one of the most confusing basketball teams I’ve ever

Looked at honestly and I’ll explain why why soon and it might just be me I might just be confused by this team now for starters I just want to say that Trey young has been having a phenomenal year he was having a increase in his three-point percentage and I feel like

That can be directly attributed to Quinn Snider honestly I feel like having Quinn Snider there and Nate McMillan his offense was a little bit stagnant at times and would force Trey into forcing up these threes which would then tank his three-point percentage but I digress but the thing is is that

No matter how good this Atlanta Hawks offense is and they’re really good like they are really hard to stop and they’re really fun to watch in the offensive end but when I tell you that this team is absolutely horrendous on the defensive end I am not saying that lightly and

We’ll get to that later but first I do want to talk about Trey a little bit more it sucks to me that Trey young is having this good of a season he’s just not getting the credit that he deserves I feel like and I feel like key evidence

Of that is the absolute Allstar snub now if he becomes an injury replacement when I make this video or when it gets released then that’s fine but I think that Trey young should have been an outright Allstar now I don’t I’m not going to advocate for All-Star starter

But I will Advocate that Damen Willard should not be the All-Star starter I’d rather have Brunson or Mitchell at this point I think that Trey young Trey young is doing something that few other players in the league do and I think we’ve gotten so used to it as ball

Watchers it really goes unnoticed throughout the season how good Trey young is it’s really interesting to me because we saw it feels like Trey young and halberton are like spy versus spy because now I think the the mirror of this is Trey young versus Tyrese halberton where like I know that they’re

Not the exact same player that’s not what I’m saying but they’re both floor generals of very high Tempo offenses and in my opinion two of the best passers we have in the league feel like that’s consensus at this point where halberton gets praised currently Trey young it

Kind of gets like and I feel like it all stems from the Eastern Conference Finals where Trey young embraced the villain role and made enemies with like multiple fan bases which she has done over multiple playoffs fan bases like the Knicks the Sixers the Cavs like he’s not like liked amongst those

Franchises of course and again I’m not saying that Tyrese halberton and Trey young should be looked at equally I’m just saying that Tyrese halberton has not had a villain run yet but I think that it’s coming that’s a prediction I’m probably not correct but I think that Tyrese halton’s villain run it’s coming

And I’m so excited for it I love when NBA players become villains don’t get me wrong on this but you can still be a villain and a likable player as well that’s not that’s not not it either like for me an NBA villain is someone that

You really really just want to beat you don’t want to lose to these people because you know that they’re going to rub it in your face and seeing Tyrese halberton do the Dame time in the inseason tournament I said I’m like yeah he has some potential in there now the

Other difference between halberton and Trey young is their record right now the the Hawks are under 500 and the Pacers are a playoff team right now so that’s the main difference as well so I wasn’t just trying to like mirror the two and be like they’re on the same right now no

And I really think that Trey Young’s overall team record somehow hurt his All-Star Game chances Trey young is not the reason why VI Atlanta Hawks are losing basketball games I want to just there’s difference between being on a losing team and like helping your team to lose and Trey young isn’t doing that

Also there are a couple of narratives here that Trey young has actively been fighting and one of them is that Trey Young is the worst defender in the league Trey young has made some absolute strides this season and people have been talking about it on Twitter they’ve been

Showcasing his active hands he’s eighth in the league in Steels I know that Steels doesn’t equal defense but I I like to believe that that kind of indicates at least some awareness like more Awareness on that end I don’t know Paulo banero talked to JJ reic on uh

JJ’s podcast and was like yeah Trey young was like good on defense that we stopped hunting him and that’s coming from Paulo bankera all right so I think that while Trey young isn’t like a plus Defender and we’re not expecting him to be a plus Defender anytime soon the fact

That he’s not as much of a minus Defender anymore is something that I would like to celebrate but I feel like we can’t because the Hawks are not improving they haven’t improved and like the Hawks defense was already bad last season and it got worse this season and

I’m not like an NBA expert this could be a couple of things it could be Quinn Snider’s scheme and the fact that the Personnel doesn’t fit with it that could be a thing I there are a few NBA teams that I can like look at and be like wow

They give up a lot of Threes the backdoor Cuts man this team falls asleep at the wheel on back door cuts and they give up a lot of layups which you know would be great if you had a rim protector but capella is not the same

Clint capella that he used to be like he’s not Houston capella he’s not even capella for two from two years ago and now capella can still like protect the rim like fish but he’s taken a step back and I feel like that that step back as a rim

Protector can be all the difference between bad defense and like an okay defense but again don’t take it from me I don’t know anything what I would love to see the Hawks do is trade capella and stard oonu it’s also really really tough when it’s also really tough to watch

Clint capella be switched onto a guard o Bry those are that’s brutal that’s brutal basketball man and I feel and it’s not like the Atlanta Hawks are good to help it’s just it’s just a mess to watch them like play now as I make this video opponents are averaging

39% from three that’s the whole league they’re averaging 39% from three against the Atlanta Hawks while the Hawks are shooting like 35 36% that’s not a recipe for winning games y’all they’re currently seventh in steals and 25th in blocks which means that like it feels like it’s weird it’s weird that a team

That’s this bad defensively is this good at stealing the ball does it mean the Hawks are gambling too much I don’t know there’s a part of me that feels like it might be an effort thing I don’t know and it might be a scheme thing it might

Be a combination of a lot of things but all I’ll say is that I do understand why the Atlanta Hawks are looking to trade basically everybody but Trey young and jayen Johnson and when you look at this Hawks roster you would like see on paper if you know by name another thing about

The NBA is that if you have a couple of great years defensively you can Coast off of that reputation to like the Casual basketball fans like myself or whatnot I’m a casual basketball fan I’m a casual basketball fan I just wanted to make that clear yeah if you if you’re

Great at defense for like a couple of years like you can Coast off of that reputation because I feel like when we talk about the NBA it’s easier to analyze and assess offense than defense right because sometimes you get scored on it’s still great defense what can you

Do about it but I think that dejonte Murray and Clint capella have regressed a little bit compared to like seasons before even that little bit when combined with the rest of this roster that needs these players to be the defensive players that they once were and it’s just not working

Which kind of sucks because I think it kind of takes away from Trey Young’s Improvement on defense you know Trey young has come up with some clutch steals uh this year and people have been taking note of it with the Hawks overall record and the team having an overall

Bad defense it’s really hard to look at that as a bright spot I don’t know where the Hawks go from here I I I don’t know it’s just that I’m very confused at these last couple of seasons from them because you have that Eastern Conference Finals and then the team just stays the

Same get rid of you get rid of John Collins I we all thought you get rid of John Collins that fixes everything no team stays the same another thing about this team that makes it so frustrating is that there’s so much to root for here year like Trey young is having arguably

His best season okanu great bogie could be a potential Sixth Man of the Year candidate and then on top of that you have the emergence of Jaylen Johnson like all these things if I was a Hawks fan I would look at and be like wow that’s that’s some positive stuff and

Then it like doesn’t really show up in the win loss column right now now I will also talk about the injury Factor the Hawks have had injuries to Jaylen Johnson and DeAndre Hunter over the course of the season and I feel like when the Hawks have both of these two

They’re a way stronger basketball team and when they only have one of them you can clearly like see the deficiencies they make up for on this team they really come to light in a really interesting way also Jaylen Johnson’s Jaylen Johnson as a passer is so fun to

Watch Trey young Jaylen Johnson one of the best point guard big man passing tandems in the league I would say and they’re only going to get better from here but I will say like maybe maybe there’s a maybe the Hawks are just were just injured maybe the Hawks were just

Injured and they’ll write the ship and win over 41 games who knows maybe Quinn Snider will make some adjustments and get the team together and figure it out who knows but at this time this team is just like very very confusing every time I see that Trey young Victor wanyama

Spurs Photoshop the more I watch this Hawk team the more I want that Spurs thing to happen cuz I’m tired of seeing Trey being disrespected due to things kind of out of his control like Trey young is having one of his best seasons he is not losing this team’s games he is

Doing his best a Trey and WB pick and roll would feed families I think that would be Incredible

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