Onyeka has also been playing wayyy too many minutes since he’s the only healthy center on the roster rn. He’s a good player but should be playing like 25-28 minutes a night not 33. Honestly this is a rough streak but I’m honestly not too worried yet. Still integrating Trae and we finally signed another center yesterday.

120.8 would be 3rd worst in the league this season after Washington and Utah.

I never really paid attention to Jalen Johnson’s defense prior to this season. In the two Spurs games vs the Hawks I noticed him often rotating late or not even rotating at all, there was multiple times the Spurs caught him ball watching and made the Hawks pay for it. But even his on ball defense looked lackluster, he was easily getting picked off by screens.

The defensive tools are right there, he has the athleticism, speed, and length to be a capable defender. I’m not sure if the offensive load is expending too much of his energy to make his defensive effort suffer, someone on that coaching staff has to sit him down and go over film of his defensive woes if they haven’t already.

That’s AD’s music!

OO is a monster in 2K. Or, at least, he is when he is on my team.

We haven’t been able to rebound all year. It looks really bad sometimes. Great wing defenders, but when the team is on their 3rd shot of the possession, you just have to hope Dyson steals the ball.

Sounds like they need AD

Crazy thing is, Trae’s been less of a defensive liability than years prior. Still not great but not a cone anymore

Trae just isn’t a winning player

lets be fair tho, the only player who plays defense on the Hawks is Dyson thats it.

Jalen took a huge leap on offense maybe he is finding out how hard it is to play a little defense whiles doing that because i dont remember him been that bad last year before the injuries.

Onyeka tries but hes undersized against nearly every big he plays against…

We all know Trae as you stated, Nickeil and Dyson are the only guards who play any type of defense.

The Hawks were never a team to beat you with their defense anyway.

I also think that Nuggets game a couple of games ago fucked them mentally, the way the Nuggets dog walked them in the 2half was disgusting to watch if you are Hawks fan. They toyed with them knowing didnt have to play well against the Hawks…. just my 2cents .

In the next 20 games the only beatable teams are Pelicans, Grizzlies, Trailblazers, Pacers, and Bucks if Giannis doesn’t play. Pelicans won’t be easy because they are on a hot streak. Trailblazers are one of only three teams to beat OKC, and aren’t an easy win. Pacers stink. Grizzlies aren’t gelling right now. So realistically it’s possible Hawks could only beat Pacers and Grizzlies.

lol

I don’t see how they don’t go 0-6

this is like being a fat antelope in the Serengeti.

Yeah even if he does have DPOY candidate level defense I’m surprised they pulled the trigger on that considering he hasn’t shown like any offensive potential

It’s way too early to say that. This is going to sound like cope but he’s fine at offense other than shooting, he’s a good passer and efficient rim scorer. Dyson is the least of our worries right now.

It’s crazy how quickly people have soured on that contract. I think it’ll age just fine.

Luke Kennard is giving us nothing and played more minutes than Zacc last night who is at least physical and a plus defender, while we were shorthanded without Dyson and Mo. Quin also plays 3 guard lineups that get diced by every team in the league. Players need to play better but Quin’s worst habit is playing vets who are positive offensive players, but worse players in totality due to their lack of defense and size. Honestly he has likely cost us 7-8 games this year by refusing to put size on the floor.

Having no other center than OO is the real issue

What’s the sad version? Maybe “ca-ca” said like a Nelson “ha ha”?

Even before the POTS thing KP was never reliable. Now I doubt he doesn’t retire this offseason

This should be the expectation with Porzingis at this point in his career

Is he great? To be a bad defensive center in this era, you really need to be something special on offense. Hes very good, but not special

Which is sad because he was a solid defensive player the last two seasons. Hopefully with Trae back he won’t need to do as much offensively but it hasn’t looked great so far.

Deni is clearly better than JJ and I’m done getting downvoted for saying that

It’s pretty clear to me that Quin Snyder can’t coach a defense without a rim protecting big man like Gobert and Capela.

Players are shooting 2% better at the rim against Okongwu than they are on the season. I would argue that no one can coach a good defense if Okonwgu is your primary rim protector.

Not a bad take, but you think Dallas will be sellers on Naji/etc. now that they’re putting some Ws together?

It’s been a few years and I think he has installed a good offensive system, but he has not demonstrated an ability to instill a defensive identity into any team. Gobert and Capela merchant for sure. He also heavily leans towards offense with his rotations which regularly take size off the floor, which kills both our defense and rebounding. We drafted Risacher to put size and length around Trae and are simply not using him to do that for more than 24 minutes a game because Quin feels that he needs to play Vit (who is an awesome player, but negative defender who can’t cover for Trae and Jalen’s defensive fall off) and Kennard is who is barely a offensive contributor because he refuses to shoot the fucking ball who is a massive negative on defense.

Quin’s unwillingness to play Risacher and Mo Gueye is costing us games regularly.

I think the rest of the league can agree the Spurs deserve a little luck, just this one time. /s

Top tier comedy if you get a top 3 pick, as does OKC

I’m a Spurs fan and we have no business getting a top 10 pick. We’ve been lucky for the next decade, but hey, not gonna be mad, gotta fight against the OKC clips pick

Sitting out every game is pretty consistent

The only place KP is getting moved to is the retirement home

He’s an off-ball player, not an on-ball player. He need to get open and hit open shots. He’s only shooting 35% on wide open threes and 28% on open threes. He shoots 35% on threes where he touches it less than 2 seconds and 21% on threes when he touches more than two seconds. He probably shouldn’t touch the ball unless he is wide open in the right corner or left wing.

Playing 4 on 5 on offense and 3 on 5 on defense is a terrible spot to be in

100%, there’s too much talent on this team for them being the 0.500 Quin special. 

They’ve had 3 head coaches this decade. The issue is the players

They will be 500 ( +/- couple games ) team again. They got sub 500 strength of the schedule rest of the way.

If you’d have NOP pick, now you talking about some legit stuff. 

My body can only take so much pleasure

Licking my lips

Let’s not

Edit: fine yall, but I’m holding this comment accountable if the pick ends up being shit. Still have nearly 3 quarters of the season to go, a lot could happen

Mavs are 7-4 in their last 11 and are half a game behind the 10 seed. They might just keep AD and try and make a run

Mr PRA man aint fooling me. The JJ hype is absurd. Watch the games idiots.

Mickey Mouse calendar doesn’t make us a better team without Trae

The Hawks have been in the positive with Trae on the floor their last two losses. Like the previous 4 seasons, Trae is not the problem.

130.2 DRtg with Trae on the floor. That’s over 6 points worse per 100 possessions than the last place Wizards. They should have traded him while he was hurt instead of waiting for him to come back and completely immolate what’s left of his trade value. Even if they couldn’t get a first, they should have just moved him for whatever decent rotation players were available.

Trae Old.