Atlanta Hawks clinch postseason spot with win over Detroit Pistons despite Malachi Flynn’s 50 points

Atlanta Hawks clinch postseason spot with win over Detroit Pistons despite Malachi Flynn’s 50 points

On today’s show the Hawks hold serve and win at home but it was not always easy in fact there was a lot going on in this game number one the Hawks clinch a postseason birth number two jayen Johnson has a triple double for the first time in his career and number

Three Malachi Flynn has 50 points for the Pistons we’ll get into all of that and much more on this podcast and all of that is coming up right now you are locked on Hawks your daily Atlanta Hawks podcast part of the locked on podcast Network your team every

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Course includes places like Spotify as well as Apple podcast and we’re on YouTube on the video side I should also plug a busy week already for the for the podcast including a show that posted on Tuesday Tuesday evening I should say into Wednesday talking about be C and

Mailbag questions and Final Four stuff and that’s all relevant at this point in time time but with all that out of the way the Hawks held surf on this Wednesday evening with a win over the jooy Pistons that we’ll talk about in depth on this podcast big picture they

Clinch a play in birth so a postseason trip for the Hawks this year that was not always a total lock of course this is sort of disappointing in some ways um compared to where they were supposed to be a couple of months ago but it was not

Always going to be this easy down a stretch and they got there in the end they’re now um staring down a game against Chicago in two weeks either in Atlanta or in Chicago we’ll see on that front um they’re now tied with the bulls with six games remaining as as as far as

The battle of the 9 versus 10 is concerned but we are going to see a Hawks versus Bulls playing game in a couple of weeks and we’ll touch on that quite a bit in the coming days but as for the game itself it was pretty ugly

For about a quarter and a half and the Hawks broke it open led by as many as 22 points in the second half of this game and then nearly gave it all way in pretty embarrassing fashion at the hands of Malachi Flynn and the Pistons Flynn

Had 50 points as we’ll talk about much more coming in for some context here you know any win is a good win I will be the first to say that um I at the same time like to give you the entire picture on this podcast I’ve been covered in the

Hawks for a decade plus this is what I do um but all that said in some ways a win is a win is a win I’ll firstly say that now the Pistons are quite awful honestly they came in losing nine of the last 10 not 10 of the last 11 they have

The worst record in the NBA this year they are now 13 and 63 overall and six and 31 on the road then you throw in the fact that Kade Cunningham their best player was a late scratch for this game they were also missing a couple other

Rotation guys in this one so the current roster that the Pistons had in this game was pretty Dreadful in some ways now the Hawks are not are not healthy either they’re still they’re still of course missing Trey young young kongu Etc um but they’ve been a little bit healthier

Recently Jay Johnson’s back now Kobe buffkin back now and through that lens the Hawks were actually favored in this game at tip off according friends at FanDuel Sportsbook by 12 and a half points that’s actually the biggest favorite the Hawks have been in a game this year um it was almost exactly the

Same situation as they had a week ago literally one week ago against Portland at home when the Blazers arrived with their g-league team basically and while the Pistons did have Jaylen Duren they did have um Jaden Ivy Evan fornier Marcus Sasser it was a pretty rough situation for the Pistons so pretty

Similar to that um only the third time all year the have been fa favored by more than 10 points in a game and two of those games were against Detroit at home which happened again tonight so all that said the Hawks supposed to win this game pretty comfortably it felt like they

Probably were going to at different points in this game and in the end they won it by eight points and zooming out you could say that that’s all that matters they held serve they won the game I would certainly agree with that sentiment but we’ll kind of dive in now

To how they actually did it so offensively they end up with a 116 or so offensive rating in the game they had some positives on offense they weren’t fantastic but they did enough they shot almost 70% on two-point shots in this game which was by far their best

Attribute on either side of the floor in this contest they also had 36 assists in this game so the ball moved pretty well they set up good shots at times some of that is Detroit being bad defensively and they were really bad defensively at times also the Hawks shot really well on

Long twos kind of unsustainably I think they were eight of 12 on Long twos that’s probably a number that you can’t Bank on we’ll come back to it later as well but jayen Johnson was excellent in this game with triple double his first of his career um Hunter was efficient

There was stuff to like for the Hawks offensively but they also had trouble on the margins they had 16 turnovers in this game that’s a rough number 15 free throw attempts also a pretty below average number and they were also below average on the offensive glass so very

Little was positive outside of the two-point shooting in this game they got very careless in the fourth quarter nearly gave the game away it was within five in the final minutes or so so really it was mostly just the shooting but as I often say on the podcast if you

Had to pick one thing to be good at shooting is the one thing you want to be good at if if you only have one option and that’s what they did in this game defensively it was much more interesting like honestly more weird if that’s possible because the overall numbers for

The defense in this game were actually quite solid they had about a 110 defensive rating which is something that if you told me that the hwks do that every night you got to take that that’s a good number but as referenced before Malachi Flynn a reserve Guard from San

Diego State a former you know you know a guy who was a prospect at one point in time is now 25 years old first round pick like he’s not over the hill like he’s been he an NBA player but some crazy stats here so Flynn has 50 points

In the game he becomes only the third player in the modern era of the NBA to have 50 Off the Bench that’s one thing right there his previous career high was 27 his previous season high was 17 also he now has the lowest scoring average in his season for a player who

Had 50 points in a game ever in the NBA he came in the night averaging about four points per game for the year and I had 50 points in this one now credit to him first and foremost he was great as a shot maker in this game um is that

Sustainable absolutely not but he did it tonight he was I believe yeah 13 of 16 on twos and five of n on threes got the line 12 times he played very very well CL said the same thing after the game like it was certainly part of it was

Part of it was Flyn but part of it is kind of embarrassing for the Hawks to allow that to a guy who is a role player to be kind off the bench on a bad team so uh defensively it was kind of a mess at the point of attack at times in this

Game and Flint took advantage of that all the way around other than that not too much to talk about for Detroit in this game on offense but there were still some big picture issues for the Hawks they allowed 25 fast break points the Hawks were generally terrible

Getting back the entire game and it didn’t burn them in the end but that was a theme both during and after the game when watching the film also they lost the TR battle lost the free throw battle in this game um they didn’t rebound super well on offense they were pretty

Good on the on the defensive glass headline by capella who was awesome there as was jayen Johnson but that was kind of the only bright spot on defense in this game there was a huge split by the way in the starters for the Hawks versus the bench for the Hawks um in

Fact capella was plus 30 in a game the Hawks won one by eight points so and Murray was plus 20 so on all splits were kind of there um it was magnified throughout the game I’ll just say this overall it was a very super weird basketball game the end

Result was kind of in line so if you slept through this game or missed it or traveling or whatever listen to the podcast number one I appreciate it number two you might just think all right Hawks W my eight points ho home and yeah in the end that’s kind of what

The result was but the Hawks for me anyway and there’s no reason to Sugar cut this they didn’t play very well in this game if they faced a better opponent they might have lost um or on the other side of things you could say malkey Flyn had the game of his life

Which is certainly also true then maybe it wouldn’t have been so close so I kind of get all the sides of this I am I do believe I have conviction the Hawks did not play very well in this game but the Pistons as they were constructed without

Cade and all that stuff tonight are very bad and that gave the Hawks a lot of margin for error they took advantage of that margin for air in some respects to uh play poorly and still win but they still won so nothing is a g is a given

In this league as the Hawks have said multiple times um as I’ve said M multiple times they’ve lost to the horns a couple times this year like nothing is ever assured but the Hawks had their biggest point spread advantage in a game coming into the night all year long they

Didn’t cover it but they ended up winning I wouldn’t say comfortably they were never trailing in the fourth quarter so at least they were there on that front but um yeah PL to get to on this one we’ll have much more sort of a breakdown of the game and how it

Unfolded at the end of The Show by the way if you are new listener what I do is to go through all the players who appeared for the Hawks and give sort of uh my thoughts on all of them how they played how they fared what they

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The injury he stopped the 13 game Run of v c starting V still played fine in this game Off the Bench but he had been in the mix for a long time and uh actually Jaylen got started early and often and was their best player in this game had a

Dunk almost immediately and then had another one on the next possession after that all went up 13 to four in this one the Pistons missed 11 of their first 13 shots Detroit had four points in the first five minutes and that was one of the few times in this game where I

Thought it was going to be a blowout I really did uh and then of course it wasn’t um Capello when he came out of the game Bruno checked in and was kind of a downturn it was not just only that but certainly was that was the theme throughout the game rotationally it was

The same in the first half of this game really the entire game as it was on Monday other than Jaylen starting and V coming off the bench only nine guys played for the Hawks in this game Off the Bench it was Bruno and Garrison Matthews V CI and then Kobe buffkin as

The back of point guard in this one Bruno had three fouls in his first four minutes they brought capella back a little bit earlier as a result of that um clip played more than he plays usually right now in fact Clint played 30 minutes that is um I’m looking this

Just to make sure I’m not crazy that that’s actually his second most in a long long time and number one was actually the game they went to overtime in so his most in regulation in several months for Clint which is partly because he was playing well probably because

Bruno was struggling had foul trouble Etc it was all kind of in the mix at one time uh the Pistons did have a 146 run at the end of the quarter to get back in the game boly scored um you know five six points down the stretch of that

Period they did actually make a three Kobe buffkin did the Hawks were actually though combined with the Pistons one of 14 from three in the first quarter I made a joke in real time I’ll say it again now uh the first quarter was not going to be sent s to Springfield in

This game it was not a Hall of Fame worthy quarter of basketball it was pretty ugly it got more interesting though as the game went along unfortunately for the Hawks so buffkin had some nice moments in this one he had a nice drive finish over James wisman in

The second quarter he had a nice St back jump shot on the right side he had a nice helps side block which I encouraged uh and sort of was certainly sorry encouraged by defensively um nice overall from him the Pistons though took the lead briefly in the second quarter

Quinn call timeout after a particularly bad moment getting back on defense Bruno was not alone but he did not get back Quinn was very upset about that and as I mentioned before that was a theme the whole game the Hawks did not get back defensively all night long and that

Definitely cost them different times the Pistons had about 16 points in five minutes or so and the Hawks were down one about six minutes left in the first half then they had a big run after that 16 to4 to kind of take control of the game capella absolutely obliterated

Duren on a block at the rim and generally outplayed him the entire game J had a lob to dejon kind of the inverse of what you’d expect there from from forward to guard for a dunk Bogi to three late as the Deonte and they were kind of in control up nine at halftime

Capella had his season high with 13 rebounds in the first half he was very good in this game Deon had a 14 points and the Hawks were shooting well inside The Arc in the third quarter Atlanta went up by as many as 22 points they were in control of this game

I will say positively there was a monster tret from Jaylen Johnson in the third quarter he had two or three super high level passes that were fun to see he had a three he had a good drive like he was in total control of the game of

The third quarter and I have to say Detroit’s defense had some breakdowns that were kind of funny they allowed bogie a wide open shot one pass away just for whatever reason they had a breakdown there they also doubled capella in the post which is something that I don’t think anyone should do even

As a capella Advocate as a weird defensive play by Detroit um they did have a uh so again basically between the middle of the second quarter and the middle of the third quarter the Hawks went from down one to up 2122 points but from that point forward it was not

Exactly smooth sailing for Atlanta Detroit had a nice run late in the quarter to get back within 10 um there was a nice three-point play by Jaylen Johnson to stop that run and Kobe actually had a nice play screening action to set up Jaylen for that play

But the Hawks R by 13 going in the fourth quarter it was not fully safe um they got to jail in triple double shortly after that by the way it was the first triple double for the Hawks since November of 2022 which was the jante

About a year and a half ago so that’s not a frequent occurrence for Atlanta although I think Jaylen will have many more in his career if I had to guess at this point in time but um that man again Malachi Flynn had 38 points with like

Eight minutes to go and it kept on coming from there now it felt like the Hawks are going to pull away two different times once when they score five points in a row to go by 13 I was like all right they’re back in control of this thing and they weren’t um and

Then they went back to the starters finally and it should have been easy from there but it definitely was not Flint hit of three and the Pistons were within five I think two or three times in the last several minutes Jay and Duren though threw one of the worst lobs

You’ll ever see in your life off the backboard hilarious play end up with capella getting a dunk on on the floor and it should have been over at that point in time the up by four sorry up by 10 with four minutes to go but it wasn’t

Over I am not g to go through all the plays for everyone’s mental health because it was really really rough from the Hawks but if you want to be frustrated watch the last four minutes of this game on one hand the Hawks were never in total disaster mode because

They were still up by five or more in the entire way through but they kept opening the door for whatever reason um for example Jon had a turnover that was really bad to Jon had a couple of really bad plays a bad shot a bad turnover

Missed a free throw like it was equal opportunity everyone was kind of bad at the end of the game they just didn’t quite totally give the game away but there was some flashbacks to early in the year when the Hawks had some lead and they blew them um Detroit other than

Flynn who was definitely trying to cook at the end of the game as he probably should have but uh yeah it was it was rough the Hawks held on they were never um a situation where they could have been tied whatever else like they’re up five or more in the whole fourth quarter

But uh if you watched it you will certainly understand what I’m saying it was on pins and needles at at times in the fourth quarter and nothing was at all easy but again full circle the Hawks had several guys play well as we’ll get into in a second especially headlin by

Jaylen and triple double and cck capella I would say and Hunter um but it was also a situation where they lost the fourth quarter um they were really never able to pull away which is kind of kind of frustrating for a team that was up by

22 points if you’re up 22 points against this Detroit team and this version of Detroit in your home building the game shouldn’t be close at the end that that’s kind of the what I would say fundamentally about why the Hawks didn’t play Super well in this game is that

Really the whole way through they had a couple stretches where they played well but the Hawks should have been in total control of this one and they just worked and again Kus to Flyn for carrying the Pistons offense but um it was too wobbly for my taste alas they won the game they

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Play you about a half of a minute of audio from que Snider so I get asked every day basically about when try young will be back and I totally get that he’s the best player he’s the most valuable player on the team and the Hawks has not

Been giving a lot of information on his timeline about a week ago was the first official release update on Trey since his surgery and all basically said was that he’s making progress and he’s going to be starting some quote small finger motion exercises end quote that is the

Last on reccord update of any kind from the Hawks but tonight Alice Mr Angelo of WSB asked Quinn pregame about Trace status and here’s what Quinn had to say I know last week you gave us an update on Tryon so do you have any more about what he’s doing or at this point

In the season are you just hoping to get him back by the plan yeah I mean there there’s he’s got a a program that that they’ve put together with you know collaboration with our health Performance Group and Trey um and trying to you know to go through that return to play protocol but

The first thing that’s got to happen is he he’s got to heal um and I know garen’s kept to the extent that we can um kept everybody updated on that all right so you can certainly see there that everything is very vague right now so you you listen to that I

Don’t think you know anything more than you knew before if that makes sense so I do want to say one correct thing number one I played you that I play that for you just to get an idea of what we’re dealing with when we’re listening to this stuff and people ask for updates

And that’s all we have right now from Quinn now I keep seeing some stuff on social media about like Trey having like a sprain or a dislocation or something that’s just not the case he tore a ligament tore a ligament in his finger and from what I

Was told I said this on the podcast a month ago there was risk of long-term damage without the surgery so any attempt to kind of downplay the severity of the injury is pretty silly I understand it’s his pinky finger he tore ligament that’s a serious thing he was

In a cast for a month for a reason he still has a very heavy brace on that on that pinky I get it but um there you go I don’t have answers for you I wish I did the Hawks um as I talked about actually a lot yesterday on the show if

You missed it a nice PL another plug for that on the mailbag show the Hawks have generally just decided as an organization to not give returnto playay timelines they only give reevaluations I don’t love that I’m sure fans of either but as for like whether

TR will be back for the play him TBD is the answer I’ve said since the moment he went down there was at least a chance he doesn’t come back I said that that day and I wasn’t trying to be pessimistic but but just the nature of the injury

All that stuff that’s still the case now he still he may not play again this year but we just we just don’t know so TBD on that all right to the actual player stuff from this game we’ll go to the bench first it was not always pretty on

The bench in this game Bruno Fernando um I’ll get this out of the way now I I I like Bruno a lot I think Bruno has given him some good minutes recently he’s obviously the third Center playing as second center right now with the Kong wo

Out I thought he was probably the worst he’s been in any game this year tonight I thought he was awful honestly and I don’t mean that in a negative way like big picture he just wasn’t good in this game minus 22 is not all on him by any

Means but um in a game that you win by eight points to be minus 22 is hard to do almost did have three assists and a block had four fouls one rebound um couple just glaring mistakes like just didn’t have an impact at all in the game

Uh Duren for Detroit I thought was really bad in this game too as a young talented player but his only good minutes came against Bruno basically so you know it’s one game I don’t want to make too much of that in any direction but I thought this game Bruno really

Really hurt them in the way he was not executing on offense and defense uh Garris Matthews had a weird game so he had nine points on three shots he made all three of his threes great three rebounds no no assists all that stuff minus 17 I thought he played fine honestly it was

Just the bench units did not work even with Garrison making all his shots KOB buffkin nine points on four from the floor one five from three had two Steals and a block I thought sorry two Steals and two blocks and an assist I thought Kobe’s defense was really impressive

Like lots of flashes in this game I’m a Believer in Kobe buffkin he looked good um the bench unit him kind of creating with him on the floor wasn’t like necessarily his fault either offensively was not quite as good as as it was on defense but he had some nice moves nice

Nice plays on the whole I thought he gave him solid minutes off the bench V Cree was the only bench bench player I should say in the positive in plus minus at a plus six four points one assist I talked about V extensively on last night’s show and I recommend listening

To that podcast but they have decisions to make about V in the future about his conversion or not conversion or whatever on the playoff side so listen to that show for for a breakdown there but I asked Quinn prame tonight about V and uh he gave a very positive answer about the

Way he stepped up um kind of out of necessi is the way he put it and certainly that’s the case but um I think V still give him good minutes we’ll see how much he’s playing moving forward he was obviously in a smaller role tonight

And while I’m high on V you can’t really argue with them starting DeAndre and Joe Johnson those guys are just better than V so that’s the reality and they started their best gu in this game and I think that’s probably going to be the plan moving forward uh to the starters in

This game uh mix bag bogie had a rough one to be sure now on one hand he made a three in his 84th consecutive game that is the ninth longest streak in the history of the NBA and it’s still ongoing so bogie is in some Rari air

There but he was two of 10 from three uh two of five on two so it was a rush shooting night for bogie he had a four assist two Steals and two blocks which is actually nice to see but uh a rare night when bogie is actually on the

Wrong side of the uh impact numbers he’s had great impact numbers all year long plus minus all that stuff but tonight he was kind of it was kind of a rough one for bie um everybody else though starting lineup played at least pretty well I thought Deonte wasn’t like his

Absolute best but had 24 points 11 assists that’s obviously pretty good he was not good in the fourth quarter as most guys weren’t but uh kind of rough a couple times there but he was eight of 13 on twos that was very helpful two away from three he played fine uh plus

20 rough in the fourth quarter but it fine uh Del Hunter was super efficient in this game 2 six points on 16 shots he was eight of 10 from two 3 six from three seven rebounds four assists did a five turnovers which is actually way more than he usually would have but he

Was uh economical in this game in a good way very productive a nice stay Hunter game on the whole uh I thought capella was once again quite good now I said it on Twitter I called my shot on this one I was right I’m in the building of

Course so I’m a little bit ahead of the TV feed Clint missed a layup in ugly fashion it was a bad Miss I’m not arguing otherwise it should have been make but I tweeted that immediately this is that’s the kind of bunny that people will kind of react to and it was true

Aside from that play he was very good at this game a game bless a game best plus 30 that I think he I think he probably earned honestly he was the best rebounder in the game he was the best defender in the game in my opinion like

He was very good and yet I’m still getting replies now several hours later about missing a layup so it’s the epitome of of Cella experience the last five six weeks in a row he’s been very very very good now earlier this season he was he was not this good I’m not

Saying he was but like he has been really good for a long time now and yet he misses a layup and that’s all that matters but I’m here to tell you he played very well in this game plus 30 16 rebounds 11 11 points two blocks he was

Five9 from the floor which is not great but that’s pretty good uh the one bad Miss was the only one that was really bad in this game so yeah I get it I understand how frustrating it is and by way it was a horrible Miss shot it

Happens but uh kind of the epitome of Clint and I would say top to bottom but he was very good in this game so I’ll leave it there and then lastly Jaylen Johnson had you could say the best game of his career I’m not sure I’d go that

Far but he was obviously the most productive he’s ever been in his career so number one his first career triple double that’s obviously awesome I’m not the biggest triple double guy in the world but it takes a lot to get one so there you go he also had a career high

Or at least he Master career high with 28 points he was very good there he was efficient he was eight of 10 on twos two four from three and got the line seven times made six of them so he was very good as a score in this game 14 rebounds

Not a career high but obviously very very good second most in the game behind only capella and he was a he’s always been very very helpful on the glass that will be the the case moving forward and he also set a new career high with 11

Assists so you do all that in one game you can stop there it’s a fantastic performance his passing really popped I thought at times in this one it’s always a skill that he’s had had but I thought it was really good in this game and then

He also added in four Steals and a block and that combination of triple double plus four steals put you in some rarified erir especially when you also have 28 points so like it was a fantastic you know Standalone kind of statline for Jaylen Johnson he was very

Good in this game uh and yeah I don’t have much to add like it’s the future he’s obviously a monster Prospect he’s already a really good player and uh it was a showcase night for him in a lot of ways so unfortunately for Jaylen a lot

Of the national attention is going to be on Maliki Flynn because 50 50 points from a bench guy is a bigger story quote unquote nationally but Jaylen was the best player on the floor in the game even with Flynn going absolutely nuts I would argue Jaylen was better but I I

Get the points thing so whatever but put that to the side Jaylen in his second game back off the injury was uh fantastic and leave it there for now so there you go okay from here the Hawks have six games remaining in the season we are almost to the end uh four of

Those six games are on the road including a back-to-back with travel to Dallas on Thursday so a pretty tough turnaround after a game that took a lot more energy than they probably should have taken tonight they’re going to play on the road in Dallas tomorrow that game

Was actually rescheduled so if you have a schedule that’s old it’s supposed to be in Friday originally now it’s tomorrow it was rescheduled also it supposed to be a TNT game at one point and now it’s not so it’s going to be Thursday on Val it’s an early game in

Dallas because it was supposed to be a TNT at one point so 7:30 Eastern even though it’s on the road Dallas did just lose on Tuesday but they are 11 and two in the last 13 games they’re playing very well right now also they had the rest advantage in the game because they

Did not play tonight and they’re playing at home so situationally it’s a very very tough spot for the Hawks not only did they play tonight but they had to kind of try tonight in a big way now they got to travel Dallas was off today also injury-wise Dallas is missing a

Couple guys Derrick Lively is out as is Josh green but their key key key guys are all playing Luca Kyrie um you know D Gafford it’s Etc so a tough spot for the Hawks in some specs on the road on Thursday I’m trying to find this now

According to our friends at FanDuel yeah right now the Hawks are actually 11.00 dogs right now for tomorrow’s game which seems like a lot I get that but situationally it’s a brutal spot and Dallas is healthier they’re playing really good right now so that’s an

Uphill climb to be sure we will see also if you remember the first time these teams played this year the final score was 148 to 143 and Luca had 73 points so that was memorable in some unfortunate ways for the Hawks but uh the the rematch will be happening tomorrow we’ll

See if the Hawks are at full strength or whatever well not full strength definitely but we’ll see who if anybody misses the game tomorrow that play tonight Etc and again six games left four on the road the Hawks then go by the way from D from Denver to sorry from

Dallas to Denver on Saturday for a very tough game against the Champs and we’ll cover that game as we always would on the podcast as well all right I’ll sign off now it was a weird night all the way around the Hawks got a win Jaylen Johnson got the triple double um they

Clinched a playoff a play playoff well I should say playoff postseason birth because postseason includes playin playoff does not I’ll say postseason at this point in time the Malai Flynn game all that but uh hopefully you enjoyed this podcast and hopefully you will subscribe to the show anywhere you get

Your podcast places like apple and Spotify we’re also on YouTube so please share and like and rate and review and tell a friend about the podcast I really would appreciate all the support on that front Auto download all that is appreciated follow the show on Twitter

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