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Don't look now, but Jalen outplayed Mr. Banchero. W

lol I'm done with this trash ass media. I would say national media, but NBA gametime isn't big enough to be considered National. All they are doing is talking about how Trae is basically selfish and can't get his teammates going when he has it going. Any other star drops 41 on good efficiency they'd be praised. They also said he was doing cardio on defense, but tonight I thought he still showed more effort and played good positional basketball. He wasn't the main reason the defense was bad tonight.

It wasn't pretty, but they got the W! 5-3 great fight. This was a tough game. We needed all of Trae's 41. Jalen is really turning into something!

Is it that they are progressive or they've noticed their ratings dip on voting days and just do it for PR purposes?

This is where I'm at. The Hawks missed a ton of open looks. The three balls needs to get around 36% for this offense to truly take off.

Had to pick my mouth up off the floor.

Watched the game on delay tonight. The Ballysports app crapped out with like 3 minutes to go. This was a very solid team win. New Orleans has been a top 5 defense this year I believe and the Hawks dropped 123 on them easily with an injured Dre and the three not falling. The defense this game impressed me the most. The Hawks are having really good defensive quarters whereas last year that would rarely happen. Trae - There's a debate in this thread about him. All I know is he's playing some really good defense this season and that's all I care about. His shots will start falling and he's going to be right were his normal average is, around 25 pts and 10+ assists again. DJ - People will focus on his offense, but his defense and rebounding were great this game. This season he's really stepped up on the defensive end and that's what the Hawks really need if they expect to not be in the play-in. Dre - I didn't expect much from him offensively after the finger injury, but I'm loving the effort this season. He's rebounding at a much higher rate than year's past. JJ - Mannnn! Where do I begin. Nate should be in Jail! You can literally see this kids confidence growing and the shooting has been a plus. I'm looking forward to see if he can turn into an All-star caliber player. Clint - Fantastic game. No missed bunnies and the defense was great. OO - Finally locked up his bugaboo Valanciunas. Great game from him and getting his first couple of threes of the season. Bey - Really plays hard. Bogi - Off night, but stepped up when the Hawks were reeling. AJ - No minutes. Hopefully Quin has a development plan for him and he's not out of Quin's good graces. Quin - Brought a modern offensive and defensive system to our young team and it's like night and day. Starting to believe we won't be in the play-in this year, but don't want to get ahead of myself. Last year really broke my faith in the Hawks. Sorry for the novel.

Yeah, I like them too. Am I the only one not really excited about this? I guess the newness of it, but the format doesn't really make much sense to me. Maybe it's just me because I haven't read up on it.

Is this supposed to make us feel better? Refund our money for not providing your service.

I'm about to write these mfers and tell them I want every cent of my money back for the days I do not have service. This is completely unacceptable. Edit: In my rage, I didn't spell it correctly. LMAO

I'd just sign him in the off season. Did the Pistons pick up his option? If not, that would be a solid signing for back up center with some upside. Trae would make him better than what we've seen with other teams, but I'm not sure of the cost of $12 million this year. I'd like to keep Patty around for his leadership.

I'm aware...lol. It's not like Quin has eliminated the midrange either. They still seem to be shooting a ton relative to other teams, but the player and ball movement is night and day. It's probably because Quin let's anyone initiate the offense, but Nate's system always had the guards doing it.

Rewatching the highlights of the game, the spacing Dejounte and Trae have to work with is night and day between last year and this year. I now see why you guys disliked Nate's offensive scheme so much.

I was thinking about this last night. I agree 100%. Quin's playing the guys more early so they get comfortable in his system. Once they do and hopefully the wins are piling up, he'll expand his rotation to keep everyone fresh for the playoffs. I don't want to get too far ahead of myself with the playoff talk though.

Some of that has to do with the Bally app crashing the last two games for most of us.

That fourth quarter defensive effort was horrendous. The win was never in doubt though. Seems like the Hawks put in two dominate quarters and then coast. That's a big improvement from the past few seasons, but got to finish better. Quin is going to have a lot teach on in an otherwise blowout win.

Way to put these guys away!

Should have gave the ball up with the quickness..lol They are still showing me something. Last year, against clearly inferior teams, they'd be close going into the fourth quarter and find a way to lose. I'm loving the offensive and defensive scheme Quin is installing. Finish this fourth strong and get this dub.

The one thing I honestly need Trae to improve on is to not relax when we get 20 point leads. Have that freaking killer instinct. If we're up 20, get it up to 30. Up 30 get it up to 40.

The one thing I'm loving this early season is the Hawks are starting to string together quarters where they are beating their opponents by 10+ points. That is the key to winning a lot of regular season games and what good teams tend to do..

As I posted that, they started playing like cheeks and not the ones on your face.

Slow start, but the guys seem to be locking in. Great pass there by Trae and DJ with three!

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Just watched the highlights because the stupid Ballysports app wasn't working until the game was over. What a comeback!!!! This team was down 20+ and just turned it on and beat the breaks off Minnie as Nique would say. Murray was on fire from the highlights looks like Trae was moving the ball and everyone just played well on the second night of a back to back. This team is looking different.

This sucks. I'm about to find some other means to watch the game.