In last season's playoffs, the East Hawks became the big dark horse, and in the case of not being optimistic, they reached the Eastern Conference Finals, a result that no one expected. After all, the core of the team, Trae Young, Collins, Schult and others are very young, but this season it is a bit of a prototype, and now it is only tenth in the East with a record of 26 wins and 29 losses.
In this home game against the Spurs, the Eagles were also powerless, and at the beginning the Spurs hit consecutive outside shots, and the first quarter exploded with 43 points to take a 14-point lead. After that, the Spurs have been occupying the initiative on the court, once establishing a 26-point lead, and then the Hawks' 11-0 offensive wave narrowed the point difference, but they failed to go further; after the Hawks counterattacked several times in the last quarter, they gave up resistance, the two sides replaced the bench lineup, the game lost suspense, the Hawks lost 121-136 to the Spurs.
This game is also a spectacle, the Eagles started 5 people played very dismal, as soon as they came up, they lost points. This time the Hawks started as Trae Young, Scholt, Hunt, Collins and Capela, which is also the main squad of the team, but this time the sum of their 5 plus-minus is -176, the lowest Trae Young, Collins and Squilt are -30, and Hunter is the highest at -41. That is, as long as the starter is on the field, the team is in a state of losing points.
This time, the Eagles bench players were very powerful, and the plus-minus of the 8 players on the court was positive, that is, winning points. Among them, Bogdanovic had a high of 23 points, plus 5 rebounds, 4 assists and 2 steals, plus or minus +17; Gallinari had 16 points and 9 rebounds, plus or minus +11. In other words, if it wasn't for the bench players this time, the Hawks would have lost more than 15 points.
Last season, the team that reached the Eastern Conference Finals, in fact, the team's lineup has not changed much, or Trae Young and Collins as the core, but unfortunately they can not achieve more victories this time. Before the trade deadline, Collins also spread a lot of rumors of trading, but in the end it stayed in the lineup. With the current lineup, it is still a bit difficult for the Hawks to achieve good results.