POSTCAST: No Brotherly Love As Atlanta Hawks Crash Philadelphia 76ers Party
You are locked on Hawks postcast part of locked on Atlanta on the locked on podcast Network your team every day welcome into this edition of the lock on Hawks postcast your home for the best Hawks talk it’s local Insight you can’t get anywhere but right here at
Lockon I am your host tanra batist alongside me is deshun Tate and this episode of our locked on Hawks postcast is brought you to you by or part of rather the locked on podcast Network your team every single day now Deshawn the Hawks are 4 and 12 in the city
Edition uniforms this season this being their fourth win of the night but while that elicits some emotion some exciting this resulting thing H that makes me feel some type of way could be me but you got to tell me later on we’ll go into exactly what I am referencing
About that other emotion in the and one we’ll definitely talk about that tonight and of course we’re going to get into a really good win for the Hawks we’ll talk also about who should stay or who should go and we’re going to talk a little bit about next up for tomorrow night but
First you got to get excited Tate about the fact that the Hawks were able to go into Philly and do exactly what they should have done get the season series split against the Sixers and I say that because we know that when we looked at the hawk side of things you kind of
Already knew Clint capella would be out right and you knew it was a 5050 for DeAndre Hunter although he has been playing every game since he’s been back on a minute restriction so we figured okay we’ll probably get to see him as well dejonte Murray was the one you
Hoped had come back but as someone who is currently suffering from a back injury when I saw lower back tightness I’m like yeah that’s going to be that’s a tall order that’s a very very tall order so that’s kept him out the last couple of games but you’re also looking
At a Sixers team that are were out the obvious Joel andb DeAnthony Melton what we weren’t aware of until later today was that Tyrese Maxi wouldn’t be able to go due to illness so with their roster taking a little bit more of a hit and these new people like buddy hee not
Really jelling with this team looks to me like that was kind of a no-brainer this should have been a win for the Hawks and you said Deshawn that for you it came down to one thing everything but the nail is what we got tonight exactly everything but that nail which nail the
Nail in the coffin by the way I’m glad that you did mention something about de jante Murray and the back tightness because um listen that’s a that’s a real Beast as you know and outside of that fact you know that’s one of those things where you don’t just walk into a
Doctor’s office or and walk back out with a new back you know that’s that’s that’s just not something that that happens you can do knees and elbows and other extremities but you’re not just coming out with a new back um outside of that you know I was I I was thinking
About when thinking about this game outside of some of the new you know like you already said guys being out already New pieces that was already kind of I feel like Blasphemous already as it is you know they’re kind of premature with the chemistry and the um you know
Inexperience of of playing together so I thought that this was one that the Hawks really really had to hammer home um outside of that I was looking at some numbers and I’m just going to read it here forgive me for how bad it looks optically but I was thinking what does
This team need to do considering all of these things for me to feel confident and feel good about their win right realistically so I felt like that they needed to shoot at Le at least and all of these are minimum numbers 40% from the field they ended up shooting
51 a low uh 40% from three they shot 44% that’s another check 80% from the free throw line they shot 81% singled digit turnovers was one of the ones that I always keying on of course I didn’t get so lucky on that when 13 turnover for our Hawks and then
Um of course in the Fast Break points we started out most of the beginning of this year getting out to into transition being one of the faster Pac teams we always hear Quin Snider head coach talk about Pace Pace Pace four fast break points for this team on tonight I think
That depending on what side of the fence that you live on that’s good because it’s like well that’s something that we have always excelled at at what point in time this year for us not to excel at it in this game and still be able to come
Out away with a win think it’s good but you still got to consider everything all together I would like to see and they’ve been on this kick for whatever reason of not scoring very many points in uh in Fast Break it’ll be nice to see them
Kind of pick back up where they once were and kind of get back off to a uh get get back off to looking good in that department yeah I agree and maybe a lot of that is because of the way they get their three-pointers and kind of the way
That they want to go I don’t want to say with a half court offense by any stretch because that’s not the game they played we know that unfortunately that was kind of the undoing of the previous coach and trying to play a half court offense so
That’s not kind of what they do but I think what we saw tonight was just and maybe these last couple of games as well especially as we’ve seen Ana oku really really do well is whenever they go inside the paint it seems like they’re actually able to execute and Quinn
Snyder is leaning into the fact that hey we’ve got a mismatch inside let’s just take advantage of that and granted that was a good call because what ended up happening was what you like to see more often than not even though the Hawks tend to be a solid three-point shooting
Team they I wouldn’t call them great like they you know once were if you will when they had more three-point threats out there especially when you’ve got to insert Bogi into the starting lineup that takes away an extra threep point shooter so when dejon’s out or sadique
Bay is out and you know that sort of thing although sadique was there tonight my point being a lot of what they spent time doing was just taking advantage of kind of bringing the ball up playing with some decent pace and not just trying to rush their shots really like
Taking advantage of going deep into the 24 second clock I felt like and I think that’s one of the things that kind of I like seeing with the Hawks because oftentimes in the past they’d kind of Rush shots and that would be frustrating didn’t see them Rush shots a lot tonight
Or have I nor have I seen them Rush shots a lot in this stretch where they’ve had more winning games and dare I say even when lot losing they played some winning basketball so if you’re going to give me 46 points in the paint even though that’s what they ended up
Giving giving away as well I’m okay I’m okay if that means that Ana oku if that’s a good night for him then I’m good with that and I felt like that kind of contributed to it being a good night for him however I had some concerns okay you
Know we we don’t overwhelm you with numbers on this show we try to give you numbers that are meaningful and substantive so I’ll give you the numbers that I liked tonight I like 37 I do I like 22 I do I don’t like seven at all
Let me tell you why great the for the 37 like that is so awesome when you look at an amazing stat line where Trey young has now notched the 30th game of his career with 30 plus points 10 plus assists five plus three-pointers made tying him with Dame Lillard for the
Second most such games all time behind both of them of course behind James Harden I’m absolutely always GNA love a stat like that because that’s that kind of thing that puts you in rare air in a space where he does it so very well so yeah I absolutely loved him walking away
This Trey with a stat line of 37 points off of 10 of 21 shooting five of 12 from three because that also tells me that he was shooting efficiently right no doubt and he was taking smart shots okay I like that 22 points I love when you get out to a 22-point lead
Because of course in this this era of basketball that’s seven plus possessions that that other team has to get in order to catch up to you I like that be down seven or 10 possessions and I’m feeling good about life seven points oh I’m not feeling good about life you being
Outscored 35 to 24 and no I do not care who was on the court in the fourth quarter still got outscored by 35 to 2 yeah so you getting outscored by 11 points you then walking away with just a six-point win I I didn’t like that part
Because yes the Hawks did close that’s a beautiful thing it’s something that you and I had had a lot of frustration about in the beginning of the season so we’re good with that but I just want to make sure that and you and I will talk about
It tomorrow night as well hopefully we don’t even have this conversation because it doesn’t Tighten Up This Much towards the end but ultimately speaking just don’t want to go back to that point in time where the Hawks used to Trend and you and I would get on this postcast
And be like what the heck just happened I know I just saw double digit 2017 16-point lead how the heck did they lose this game and you’re and your and your verbiage sounds a lot more Christian than mine let’s just put it that way you know I try to keep us clean
On this show I try to keep us on the air on this show so you know I do what I can do I do what I can do when we come back we’re gonna talk a little bit about being on the other side of the trade
Deadline and you know my co-host is a very intelligent man and I kind of figure I’m kind of smart too but there was some word term explanation of some sort about the trade deadline two of us got to make make sense we’ll tell you about it on the other side and we’re
Going to talk a little bit more of course Hawk Sixers in the and one a lot of people will respect respectfully disagree with you on that tanicha hey we are here at our locked on Hawks postcast and you can disagree all you want but I will tell you in a
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US language that I have never heard before before or that I’ve not utilized in a sentence until today Landry Fields joined 9290 game our local sports radio station and he also had a post-trade deadline presser with our local media what I want to do is read this quote
From you uh from him to you and I want to kind of dissect this because again we saw a trade deadline that was absolutely feverish and I know I’ve spoken about it before and I’m going to speak about it again one of the things that disappoints
Me is when I see something like I saw and I’m prefacing here before we go into Landry’s quote but when I see something like what the Knicks did and I’m seeing six players moving and I’m seeing them part ways with a guy and I know it was
Tough for him because I spoke with our locked on Nicks podcast host and Quinton Grimes was a tough guy to part ways with but when they saw the opportunity to get boy donovich and they saw the opportunity to get Alec Burks and don’t get me wrong they’ve been positioning
Themselves and repositioning they said hey the one thing that we’ve not been able to do when we get into the postseason is score our defense is fine our defense is tight but we can’t score against anybody and that’s why we keep exiting before we want to that said you
Can recall Des sha and you know I refused to talk about that Eastern Conference Final Run not doing it but what I will talk about is what happened in the years to follow and that is the were right there with the Knicks at that time the Knicks
However keep going up up up up up and yesterday they didn’t stand Pat and I think that’s the thing that we’ve heard from most people not that fans even the delusional on wanted them to make a move just to make a move but it is frustrating after you’ve gone through a
Couple Seasons with this so I prefaced enough deshaan let me get into it Landry Fields quote you don’t ever want to get caught up in this term which is called resulting a lot of teams you look at results and that’s where the Judgment comes in but from our standpoint meaning
The Hawks from our standpoint development is a key feature of who we are and we are watching players continually grow it may not completely cause the results today that we want but we also know that those results are coming we have to continuously hammer out the things we believe are going to
Net us those results and at this point in time yes there are opportunities and deadlines to continuously build that out but that’s where when you’re sitting in our seats you have to be weighing out the short-term and long-term results patience patience patience is key and there’ll be another time for us to make
Moves to the roster but in the meantime there are still moves being made with the roster and that is everything for our guys that are developing day in and day out that’s what we are leaning into and that’s where we ended up at this particular deadline okay DeShaun as we
Say as they say in radio I’ll hang up and listen so and and and listening to that and I mean I’ll just be honest a lot of it just kind of sounds like fluff um that’s why I read the whole thing because I was like dissected yeah no doubt
Um patience is key sounds cute it is also something that we all know is true um don’t blow my head up with things that we already know let’s get down to the bear what is it the bare bottom the Bare Bones the the the the the meat and
Potatoes the nuts and bolts I want those things right so I think there’s something to address when when there are Zero moves made and this roster is continuously starting to look the same each and every single time standing Pat when you have a record that
Is better than 20 no is it 23 and 29 I don’t 24 29 now um then we’re having a different conversation um and you mentioned something earlier about you know Eastern Conference Finals and whatever else there’s not nearly as many guys that are returning from that roster that we have
On this current one so we’re talking about a totally different team a lot of guys that contributed at that time and and you didn’t replace those guys that’s the thing for me where you didn’t replace you didn’t replace the Lou Williams you didn’t replace the cam
Reddish not that he did a lot of everything but just those very few moments where there were flashes you didn’t replace that you didn’t replace the Kevin herder you didn’t replace the John colls you didn’t replace Danilo galinari you didn’t replace you didn’t replace you did not replace yeah um so
There’s just that part the other part being about you know there may not be the results today when can I expect these results y because I want results today even if it just means that those are improving results it doesn’t have to be a championship that doesn’t mean just
Because it’s the that’s the Pinnacle of the results that we all want that that’s the Improvement that we have to have of course that’s what we’re all shooting for of course we want to feel like we’re getting closer to where we once were and that’s Eastern Conference Finals I’ve
Seen this team right go from looking like what they were right and then making the Eastern Conference Finals the first time losing getting swept to LeBron and those guys and then looking very similar all over again after that year Trey young and everybody else had to go through their lumps and you
Brought in you know Lloyd Pierce and blah blah blah blah blah you grew from that and then you took it a little bit further I’m with you on the whole results part but I don’t like the idea all the time of taking two steps backwards to take one forward why do we
Even have to go backwards in the first place there is a reason why the windshield is much bigger than the rearview mirror and I’ll land my plane yeah I would have to agree with you I mean there’s not much there that you said that I can’t just co-sign on but I
Think going back to the resulting piece and Landry saying a lot of times you look at results and that’s where the Judgment comes well no not a lot of times that’s pretty much where the Judgment comes all the time because that’s the that’s that’s what it is in
Sports I mean that’s why teams go all in right that’s why a a buck team that could have very well stood Pat like they had a quality team and they decided hey we’ve got a shot at Dame Lillard we’ll take it Boston Celtics you’re pretty darn good just couldn’t quite get over
The hump some of that was mental some of that was you lived too much and died too much by the three but you went after christops porzingis and you got him so that’s where the challenge comes like those teams at the top of the food chain of the NBA and particularly the Eastern
Conference we don’t even have to go across the association let’s just stay right in the conference Celtics and the moves that they made in free agency Cavs and the moves that they made in free agency I mean Donovan Mitchell is that’s an amazing move Boston but exactly you
We talked about the Bucks you looked at the Knicks and how they made yet again after they got jayen Brunson nope that’s not enough for us we believe Julius Randall is going to come back and be something but we don’t want to rush him back so we’ll go ahead and make some
Moves to make sure that we’re Shoring up the depth of our team so that we’re prepared when he comes back and then when we get into the postseason we got ourselves some more Shooters Sixers they believe hey we’re gonna struggle a little bit we’re not going to be able to
Probably be in the top three we’re probably going to just sneak into the top six but we know our boy Joel emb’s coming back like we believe so we’re gonna go stack things too to just make sure we got Shooters so that we can stay
Engage do there it is and what did they do tonight they shot their way back into this game because they know that they can’t defend their way back into a game so I could just go on and on but in looking at those teams and again I do
Not want to be disrespectful because the Pacers have been doing the darn thing that’s another team that keeps on saying hey we’re not going to just stand Pat we’re going to make some shifts here and there to make ourselves better because we also want to stay above that six line
Right so I say that to say we’re still all of some of these teams I’ll go Pacers I’ll go Sixers I’ll go Nicks I’ll even go heat and Bulls and and and Hawks and then you can the bottom dwellers for this year Nets Raptors Hornets Wizards P Charlotte exactly
Charl right they all kind of jump in and out of the seven through 10 but the top five that I just mentioned to you the Hawks have been with those top five those middling fives now for the last four years since that run M but of those middling five teams those teams have
Gotten to the Eastern Conference Finals those teams have gotten to the NBA finals those teams have gotten out of the first round those teams have not been in the playin multiple times and looking at maybe a third time getting in the play in I think that’s where the
Frustration comes in and despite Landry saying that hey he understands the frustration and he knows that hey fans he he gets it but he’s saying patience is key and I that’s why when you said it I was like I gotta touch on that because again yes patience is key but how much
Patience is the fan base of supposed to have now that we’re five years removed from those Glory Days and like I said I am not expecting it to be I wasn’t expecting ECF every single season because if every things happen desun team of course injuries happen it’s a
Long season all I’m saying is we’re having the same conversation multiple trade deadlines multiple free agency periods and It’s just tough after a while to kind of understand what the true direction is and when are you going to get to resulting I think maybe the most discouraging thing about moves not
Being made if I’m just being honest sure is the fact that this is a market and has always been a market that guys don’t want to come to for free agency and when you have that kind of seemed like it’s a revolving door of just disappointment
Time After Time After Time to the point where it’s like well free agency we’re not even looking at that so um you know we just bypass that you start to look forward to these times when you when deals can be made via trade and when you’re standing Pat on that as well on
Top of the fact that guys don’t want to come here for whatever reason that that may be um I think that that’s ultimately where things start to get a little bit discouraging for the fan base that’s a great call that’s a great call because your last two big moves clink aella that
Came in the middle of a season that was in February and you didn’t get to utilize him until that next season and jante Murray was not a free agent he was someone who was with a team that tank that said hey we’ll give you an opportunity to get out and go to a
Better space so you’re absolutely right that and that conversation we don’t have time for it tonight but we may need to revisit it because you make an excellent point that may be something guys that we want you guys to weigh and we may talk about it a little bit during the allstar
Break because it is certainly an aspect of the ongoing challenges that this Hawks team faces as it tries to get better when we come back we’ll talk a a little bit about who’s got next speaking of getting better who stays to help them either remain the same or get a little
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Come Off the Bench here and there for the Hawks but also has been on different 10day contracts he’s kind of been in and out even with the Skyhawks over the last couple Seasons but at this point because it’s the 50th active game he can’t be active for the NBA Club again unless the
Hawks make the decision to convert him to a full contract so as we’re talking about this roster and kind of looking at which one will at least help it to stay Pat or maybe even improve a little bit for the remaining games of the Season where do you see Trent Forest kind of
Falling in there do you feel like he should be someone the Hogs extend a contract to and try to keep on this 15-man roster respectfully yeah absolutely not um not something I was you know looking forward to um yeah and we appreciate your contribution appreciate your contribution thank you for your um
Thank you for your service thank you for your service but um I don’t think that that’s something that’s ideal for me I don’t think that that’s something that is helping me add a number to the left side of the result column yeah the positive spin on that is I don’t think
That Trent Forest is someone that I’ve seen um you know helping or assisting the Hawks and losing either yeah um but in this particular space and time and position is not one where I think that they can afford to have spinning wheels on any player that is not going to
Certainly help them win in insignificant ways and not and and that’s not a dig and that’s not a Trent Forest thing that is a message to the front office and the decision makers of the last segment of which we were just talking about when you’re not upgrading your depth when
You’re not getting anything for the players that you’re shipping out and you’re not getting nothing in return when you’re sending out John Collins and you’re getting Rudy Gay in return for a half of day um those type of things so um no yeah same yeah I I would say and
It’s one of those things where even you and I we will give you flowers if you deserve flowers and we’re going to say oh okay wow you stepped up and you did the thing and we we appreciate the services like a Bruno Fernando you know
Y thanks yeah I mean there have been a couple of games now where we were like bet couldn’t have Clin capella had Ana in that starting position and Bruno Fernando came in and gave you some quality minutes that’s the Bruno Fernando that Quinn Snyder referenced asked was okay with going back to
College park so that he could get some minutes and get some reps and just keep on working his way back up to the main roster that’s the kind of guy that you give more opportunity to that’s what you want to see so and Mike we appreciate
You stopping by great that you think we had a great show tonight we like to think the same and we appreciate that you love the show don’t forget to tell a friend about us as well and also if there’s anything that you ever want to chime in and let us know your thoughts
On please we appreciate that and Antoine Willis hey we appreciate you as well you say we back what’s up guys great win for the boys yeah we hadn’t seen you in a minute so it’s very very nice to see you and you’re right this was ultimately a
Great win I was disappointed in the fourth quarter result but I will say this to your point Antoine a great win overall because I still don’t feel like it was that you know deshaan how sometimes we say a win is a win is a win
I don’t feel like that was what we saw tonight I feel like no it was still a quality whenn we just don’t want to have this conversation too many more times because the Hawks had really gotten away from the fourth quarter struggles to close out games hopefully this was only
A one-off but hey we’ll talk about it tomorrow we hope you guys will join us again and we’ll have some reaction to a hawks Rockets game those guys haven’t played in about a month and a half hopefully these Hawks get back home safely get themselves some rest and they
Get the ball out at State Farm tomorrow thanks again for stopping by this Hawks postcast it’s locked on Hawks postcast pleasee remember to like And subscribe to our YouTube channel and of course for more on Hawks check out locked on Hawks with our guy Brad Roland come back tomorrow night we’ll see you
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On Saturday eve the Atlanta Hawks tipped off the weekend (and the front end of a back-to-back) on a positive note when upending the Philadelphia 76ers on the road in the city of brotherly love.
Without various key contributors due to injury such as Dejounte Murray, Joel Embiid, Clint Capela and Tyrese Maxey, this eastern conference matchup didn’t prevent a 4th quarter rally by the Sixers after trailing by as many as 22 points nor did it deter a determined Trae Young from pouring in yet another 30-plus point scoring outing while tallying his usual 12 assists.
Tenitra Batiste and DeShaun Tate share their thoughts on what led to the 127-121 outcome in favor of the Atlanta Hawks including comments from General Manager Landry Fields following the NBA trade deadline and a looming decision for a bench role player.
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7 Comments
Hard to preach patience to your young superstar wanting to win.
Wire to wire win on the road it was a good team win
O should be starting over CC, 20 points from the center position is what the hawks r missing consistent scoring in the low post, a threat under the glass, O has shown he can score on all 3 levels
Dre looks as if he's figured it out also, another plus for the second half of the season, clearly the hawks need a dominant big man, that can score like O and rebound like CC
U guys touched on something, y won't players come too Atlanta, real talk make it make sense 4 me, r they that afraid of magic city or is it something else, the Dwight Howard effect 😂😂😂
I like mikes honesty
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