Current Status

[sillent]

The league has improved majorly from top to bottom yet we still sit at the top 4 in the Eastern Conference.

If we look at the standings though every team even squads like the Lakers still have a chance to completely turn their season around. That's one reason I was surprised their were so many predicted over 50win teams because their are only so many wins to go around.

Our Hawks have been off to a great start record wise but a mediocre start if we're talking about individual players.

Trae Young is having his least efficient yr.

Dejounte started off hot but still hasn't nowhere near gotten the chemistry down with our players yet. Has he even thrown an alley to John or Clint yet? Until DJ gets fully acclimated Nique will struggle to say his name properly.

John Collins after the 1st 2 games has struggled to find consistency in anything but trade rumors although his defense has definitely took some steps up.

Clint is starting to look more like himself although he still will frustratingly airball a point blank range airball a time or two. (Note to CC: just dunk when you're that close)

DeAndre Hunter hasn't been the X Factor most have expected so far but he's still been solid.

AJ Griffin has been one of our biggest surprises this year and that's our rookie. 

All this yet we still sit 11 - 7 good for 4th in the East. Not too mention we finished one of our tougher stretches over .500.

That could be scary for the rest of the league if we keep our core together and individually they all get their ish together.

It's still a tough league but the cream of the crop will start to show themselves 40 games in and we are right there.

At this point I wouldn't make any trades that would alter the chemistry that is already a work in progress. At most maybe Bogi for Jae Crowder/Shamet to bolster our defense since we've yet to see Bogi this yr plus he's getting older and could help shave money but nothing too significant.

Like Nate said our percentages will eventually average out (in our case get a lot better) and it's going to be scary for the league when we do. We've seen glimpses of what we look like when we move the ball around and play like a real team. Can't wait for that to be more of our standard. 

Teams like Utah are doing so good because they've made it a team effort not individual ball. Imagine what we'd look like as we continue to build chemistry and play even more with a team philosophy.

[Gray Mule]

Bottom teams are:

East:  Detroit - 5/15

West: Houston - 3/14

And, in the South East Division, Atlanta Hawks are the #1 team!

(4th in the entire east but #1 in our division!)

If you were told, "At Thanksgiving the Atlanta Hawks will be leading their division," Would you have been happy?  

Enjoy the day.  Tomorrow, back to work for this Hawk team!