The Hawks won the No. 1 pick, triggering a 4 chain reaction: Trae Young or be traded, and the Rockets will rise?

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2024-05-13 16:14Published in Guangdong

The NBA playoffs are still underway, but other work is underway beyond the games, and the much-anticipated pick-up lottery is on schedule. Among them, the Eagles exposed a big upset with a probability of 3% and won this year's champion signing. You know, although the Hawks did not enter the playoffs, they also made the play-offs, and they are not considered a fish belly team in terms of strength, so getting the top pick is definitely a surprise, and at the same time, it will also trigger 4 chain reactions: Trae Young or be traded, and the Rockets will rise?

In the past 3 years, the Hawks have indeed explained what it means to celebrate the New Year with Wang Xiaoer, reached the Eastern Conference Finals in 21, advanced through the play-offs in 2022 and 2023, and made a round of the playoffs, and this year is simply a round of the play-offs, going home early to fish. With Trae Young as the core of the team, there are indeed relatively large shortcomings, the most obvious is the defensive end, which is almost the intensity of 10,000 stabs, and the ceiling will not be too high. In fact, it's hard to succeed with a point guard as the core, and not everyone is Curry, so if the Hawks want to rise, it's best to pick an interior line now. Trae Young will most likely be traded away and then the Hawks will completely rebuild.

The Rockets are really going to rise, and a wave of spurts at the end of the season shocked the Lakers and Warriors into a cold sweat, and they are only one step away from the play-offs in the involuted West, which is undoubtedly a huge incentive for young people. Although they didn't have a first-round pick, they made a lot of money in the Harden trade, and the Nets are also 11th in the East, but they were selected and sent to the Rockets. Of course, now that the Rockets have a lot of talented players, there is no place to develop young people, and they are more likely to use this signing to trade and strengthen, and strive to make the playoffs next season.

The NBA is really going to hit the swing, look at the pick of the lottery, the Hawks first, the Wizards second, the Rockets third (Nets pick), the Spurs fourth, the Pistons fifth, the Hornets sixth, and the Trail Blazers seventh. Among the teams that deliberately put it badly, only the Wizards made it into the top 3, but the Wizards were bad in the first year, and the other 4 teams were all in the second year, or even several years. The NBA does not want to see this happen all the time, so it will not continue to sign these teams with high picks, which is also a warning to them to stop in moderation.

The Spurs are about to end the slump, last year they got the rare talent of Wembanyama, but the result continued to be a bad year, the bottom of the West, and the top three could not enter. However, the 4th and 8th picks are high enough, and with first-round picks from other teams, the Spurs can choose a point guard to grow with Wembanyama, or simply package up and trade a player who has shown some potential. According to the strength shown by Wemban, the Spurs can first build a top defensive team, once the offensive end is also developed, it will be unstoppable, the most concerned among the young teams is the Spurs, can they regain the glory of the year?

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