Atlanta Hawks: The Trae Young narrative will keep changing with winning

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Even prior to the Atlanta Hawks making the trade to secure the services of Trae Young, the talk has always been that he is too small. Add to that he goes hunting for fouls and that he can’t defend and you have a narrative of a one-way hero player who wants stats over wins.

Well, having watched the maturation of Young this season, he is still small. He still can’t defend to the level that he or his coach would want to. However, that is where it ends, Young has started to show the rest of the league that he is a player in this league.

As far as foul baiting goes, we all saw the New York Mayor, Bill De Blasio, call out Young for this…