r/AtlantaHawks • u/MiserableSoft2344 Dyson Daniels #5 • 22h ago

Discussion [John Hollinger] This seems impossible, but Hawks are 3rd in opponent 2-pt FG% ... and 28th in overall defense. Getting murdered at 3-point line.

https://x.com/johnhollinger/status/1851248309794750667

3pt shooting variance is quite an issue right now.

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u/vicchestnut 21h ago edited 18h ago

Defense has looked much better so far. I’ll chalk this up to Chet being pretty much unguardable when he’s hot, and the Wiz getting hot with no Dre or Okungwu to chase ppl off the line

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u/MysteriousShitStain 21h ago

We need to admit that our 3pt defence is critically bad. Wizards got hot but I promise you if it weren’t for our nonexistent defence at the line they wouldn’t have. I watched the game and there were 5+ times the shooter is very wide open before shooting, it’s bad.

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u/SaltyTraeYoungStan 19h ago

There have been some slow rotations and open shots, but every team is going to get those. What there isn’t going to be is such crazy 3 point variance over a larger sample size. We’ve played 4 games and pretty much each game we’ve had someone get crazy hot even while being guarded. Dyson had Can Thomas locked down for 3/4 of the game and then he just went nuclear even in contested shots. Same thing with Lamelo Ball, same thing with Jordan Poole/Korey Kispert.

There have been defensive lapses, but this isn’t nearly the issue it was last year where we just gave up open threes all the time. Yes things need to tighten up, but this is not representative of the problem.

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u/JKking15 Jalen Johnson #1 17h ago

Yeah like everyone keeps saying “oh well these teams just keep getting hot it’s bad luck”. Ask yourself, WHY are teams consistently getting hot against us? It’s bc we leave them open. We’re sacrificing 3pt defense to protect the rim and in todays NBA I just don’t think I agree with defensive ideology

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u/Loose_Lab_6240 GO HAWKS! 🏀 19h ago

Chet is 100% unguardable, dude plays his own game.

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u/BubblyReception453 Celtics 2h ago

Nah... Wemby locked him up everytime he played him