Atlanta Hawks continues to tumble in the position with the trade deadline. They will wear an eight-game losing line in their game on Detroit on Monday night.
Atlanta’s prospects for the rest of the season look quite different than two weeks ago. In the last victory of the hawks, they won overtime on Boston’s home floor to move three matches over the .500 brand. It was more than two weeks ago.
They have not only fallen into the Win-Loss column, they lost one of their best players to a seasonal injury. The team announced on Wednesday that Jalen Johnson would require surgery to repair a broken labrum in its left shoulder.
The latest developments can convince the Front Office to make changes to the guard list. To the credits for the players who are still playing, they fight.
The hawks almost snapped their losing line at Indiana on Saturday. After Atlanta deleted an 18-point deficit, Pacers met some important 3-points into the route and pulled out a victory 132-127.
Trae Young did everything he could to keep his team in the game and raised 34 points and 17 assists. Young’s 11.5 assistant average leads the league.
“This is a team sport,” he said. “I tell everyone all the time, you want to be an individual in this sport, you play tennis, golf, all other sports. This is not. So I will continue to trust my guys and get them that ball.”
With Johnson out of the lineup, coach Quin Snyder searches for a steady compensation in the starting lineup. Dominick Barlow, who is on a two -way contact, got the nod against Pacers and contributed 10 points and three returns in just 13 minutes.
“Honestly, just excited about playing,” he said.
The pistons have won the first two races in the season series with four games against the hawks. All-Star Cade Cunningham recorded a triple bold and got the game-winning basket in the first meeting, a victory 122-121 on November 8. He recorded 29 points and 11 assists in EN 114-104 Piston’s victory on January 22, January 22.
Most recently, Cunningham led seven pistons in double figures with 22 points to go with 15 assists when they defeated the visitors Chicago Bulls 127-119 on Sunday afternoon.
The pistons registered 38 assists on 54 field goals and scored 80 points in color.
“Everyone is incorporated and involved and it makes everyone feel good,” said Tobias Harris. “That’s what this team is about – enjoying the whole development of this season and who we become as a group.”
NBA’s worst team last season has a record of 25-24.
“We keep an underdog mentality,” said coach JB Bickerstaff. “We are aware of what people’s expectations were for us to come into the season and it doesn’t change. We have to keep that edge and chip on the shoulder, so we don’t allow ourselves to be comfortable. We want to play a basketball style that is unique to the pistons. ”
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