Breaking down the Atlanta Hawks 2017-18 SLOB offense

The Atlanta Hawks have added some new wrinkles to their sidelines out of bounds (SLOB) offense since I wrote about their sets in these situations in November 2016. With a new season comes a lot of new personnel and head coach Mike Budenholzer and his staff have changed things up to accommodate both the new personnel and the simple fact that innovation is required to stave off ineffectiveness in the NBA.

No team can run the same play multiple years in a row, as scouts have had the entire summer to dive into the film and see what every other team is doing. However, just because things needed to change doesn’t mean Budenholzer overhauled the entire system—the Hawks are still using the core of…