Atlanta Hawks Shine Without Trae Young: 5-Game Streak

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00:00the atlanta hawks are playing really good basketball with a record of nine and five with a

00:06record of seven and two away from the friendly confines and a team uh that has won a bunch of

00:13games in a row i do believe they were on a five game winning streak and the key thing is is they're

00:19doing this without trey young so what about atlanta has been really good to me it's their depth you

00:28gotta look at the fact of jalen johnson getting you 21.8 nikelle alexander walker right and coming

00:35over from a free agency uh from memphis uh minnesota i should say uh giving you 17.8 trades give me

00:4317.8 poisinga 17.3 akongu 15.7 researche 12.9 right uh cruxie getting you 11 and then you saw dicey

00:53daniel's giving you 8.3 and luke canard getting you 8.7 or 8 percent 8.3 switch so they're getting

01:00you with their depth and i always thought that this team was going to be good because i also put my

01:07chips in the middle of the table with atlanta i felt that they had to be a top six team i did say before

01:14the season that they need to be a top 16 to quiet the noise with trey but what happens when they play

01:24better without trey and that's become apparent right now you know you've slide dice and daniels over to

01:33the to the point you put alexander walker at the two obviously you have poisingas at the center spot

01:39he's missed some time right researche at the power four with jalen johnson and then you bring guys

01:45like akongu canard you know off the bench um so it's been a really good run i'm going to say something

01:54that's going to be very unpopular i said if trey didn't play well trey gets moved i'm going to

02:01double down the other way and they continue to play well without trey do they still consider moving him

02:08and moving dyson daniels to the point and they become way better defensively may not be explosive

02:15offensively but more diverse and balanced what a good run for the hawks winning five in a row well

02:22you know who's won more games than that in a row that's the denver nuggets nicole yokich after a slow

02:29start is absolutely rolling and this team is on not a one two three four five but a seven game

02:37winning streak sitting in second place in the western conference behind the oklahoma city thunder

02:44and it's just it's a testament to the job that david adelman is doing when you sit there you talk

02:51about coaching your candidates you're hearing about jb bickersham you're hearing about mark dagnell

02:56right you're hearing about quince now you're hearing about jj reddick and no one's talking about the job

03:02that david adelman's doing in his first full year at the helm so what is going on folks

03:11nicole yokich is giving you 28.7

03:1513 10.9 right so you're like oh yeah it's great numbers it's a typical nicole yokich number but how

03:23about the fact of he had a game over the weekend or last week if it's clippers we went for 55 points

03:31on 78 from the floor and 80 from three like what are we what are we doing here and to me i was

03:40high on this team because i said personally that cam johnson was going to be a better fit

03:47than michael porter jr now cam johnson's only giving you 7.2 points per game so he's not really

03:54giving you what i thought you were going to get but jamal murray give you 22. aaron gordon now getting

04:03you 20 points remember aaron gordon was a big time score when he was with the orlando magic but christian

04:09brown gets the contract extension playing well valentunis giving you good minutes off the bench

04:13right bruce brown back you know paint washington back watson back and then there's tim hardaway jr

04:20a temporary jr that has always been a really good score and he's so much better off the bench

04:27all of a sudden denver is deeper because of you know obviously valentunis because of hardaway jr

04:35right because of bruce brown being back but that makes the joker more dangerous because he can pick

04:43his spots and his spot is right now and with all due respect he's playing like the best player in the

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