The Hawks Might Have a Trae Young PROBLEM
The Atlanta Hawks are playing great basketball right now despite Trae Young being out and just knocked off the Phoenix Suns in a huge comeback headlined by Jalen Johnson, Onyeka Okongwu, Dyson Daniels, Zaccharie Risahcer, and Nickeil Alexander-Walker. They were expected to compete with the Cleveland Cavaliers, New York Knicks, and others in the East, but not without Trae and now there are questions about if Trae Young is even necessary. Could it be time for a Trae Young trade?
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0:00 – Intro
0:45 – The Hawks are on FIRE
1:23 – Jalen Johnson is an All Star
2:14 – Dyson Daniels, Okongwu, and NAW
3:22 – This team is DEEP and COOKING
5:02 – Are the Hawks better without Trae Young?
8:57 – Is a Trae trade coming?
11:24 – The rest of the NBA
16:06 – Outro
21 Comments
Tingus Pingus ain't worth the hype.
every year when trae goes out & the hawks start winning people bring up trade trae convos
God I hate I can't enjoy my teams success without people constantly trying to trade off Trae. Can we please just see how he looks when he's back🙄🙄
hawks being better without trae makes that pels pick so interesting, if they get like peterson or something then theres no way he comes back next season
Trae Young not the problem, we just have a better team now. The past rookie got better & great free agent signing. Can't wait to see the Trae back and everyone healthy
I like Trae but he's simply not going to be worth the contract he's going to be wanting. The ball is at least in the Hawks hand, they've been gifted a lot of good players and circumstances of late.
If anything bring him off the bench. I feel like most people saying this don't like Trae on the hawks and want them to get rid of him for their own benefit. This team would be deadly with Trae and the league knows it. They been trying to get him off the hawks since he got here. He finally got a good team and now you want the hawks to sabotage their roster by trading the engine that put it all together. The team is built around him and his style. It's dumb to trade him now
Trae Young is the only player not allowed to have a deep squad. Literally every other star can have a supporting unit but the smallest pg in the league has to do it on his own
U aren’t gonna win a championship with Trae Young starting period… that’s what u should’ve said… I appreciate his game and success but the limitations are obvious always have been… reaching conference finals and actually winning the title are way far apart
The Hawks have had a Trea Young prob since they drafted him . Besides Steph there isn’t a tiny guard you can have as your best player and win .
I think what we should take from this is that the Hawks aren't better without Trae, but that they're a competent team lol. Not a direct comparison, but if the Thunder won like 20 games without Shai people wouldn’t bat an eye and he's a top 3 player lol. So when we win 5 in a row against mid comp at best why is it trade Trae all of a sudden.
I'm a big Trae fan, but it's undebiable what's going on. I hope that he's watching and learning and comes back as a big plus rather than dragging them down.
Sigh, tired of this narrative. We complained forever that Trae doesn’t have help. And now that he does we want the Hawks to trade him???
Traes issue is the iso freestyle offense we play with him, he also rarely shoots the midrange anymore which he had a lot of success with in the 21 season. He needs to play like curry and run off ball and use his playmaking and burn defenders for over committing.
The whole team wasn’t playing well. They got a great run way to gel when Trae got hurt cause we played most of the bad teams in the NBA. Team is playing great, why would you not want to add an allstar guard to that
small guard inafficient, who would have known?
Every lame who says trade trae don't have a trade target, it's just goofys that don't know ball saying that. Hawks aren't trading him literally everything is going to plan. Real fans are enjoying the ride.
Stinks that the Hawks being good is just fuel for anti Trae Young propaganda. Everyone thought the Hawks were gonna be good this year with or without him now suddenly because they’re good with him out people are assuming he is the reason they were mediocre the previous 5 years when the roster was abundantly unimpressive after that 2021 playoff run.
No we have a porzingus problem. Terrible center that never plays and puts up the most empty 18 ppg in the league
I think the overall skill of the league, both offensively and defensively, has raised to the point that offensive-only players like Trae and Zach Lavine are becoming outdated, we just haven't collectively come to terms with that yet. Coaching and offensive schemes are just too smart on average now. Having one of your five players on the court be a complete defensive liability for every single play they're on the court for is a way bigger deal than people make it out to be. That's 20% of your defense that's just gone, for most of the game. More than that, the entire game is about creating advantages, 2-on-1s etc.
When you have a player who's a complete non-factor like that on the court at all times, you are at a disadvantage at all times. You'd need to play extremely efficient offense to offset that, but at that point you're just playing catch-up, rather than elevating your team above average. This is part of why the hawks have been cursed to be average in recent years, because even an elite offensive player like Trae simply can't do enough on a consistent basis to offset what he actively takes away from the team's defense, at least not enough to win much more than they lose. I know we like our superstars with their flashy stats and clutch shots, but defense is a massive part of the game. It's why OKC is obliterating everyone right now. You can't just ignore it and expect to do well, especially in the pace and space era.
It's not so much a Trae Young problem as it is a scheme problem, clearly they don't need him to playmake for everyone and to run the whole offense, the other guys are talented and having this heliocentric offense with Trae is more predictable offense than one where a bunch of guys can make plays on the ball. You say you don't want Trae to sit in a corner, why not do that at times? Lower his usage to keep defenses on their toes might be the play to unlock this team's offensive potential and increase the quality of the shots they take.