Trae Young is having a rough start to his prospective return to glory after a devastating injury earlier this season.
In games where Young has played, the Hawks are a dismal 2-8 – on pace for nearly the worst record in the entire NBA. Without Trae, the Hawks have soared, winning an impressive 13 of their 21 non-Trae games. In total, they've sunk to below .500. Nobody expected Atlanta to be struggling to stay afloat with at the start of the year.
While Young is certainly not to blame on the offensive end for the Hawks’ struggles with winning (most evident of such a claim being his whopping 35 points and 9 assists on 7/8 from deep in a loss to the Bulls), his defense is a complete other story.