This isn’t what any of us expected. The Atlanta Hawks are 11-16 and they haven’t even played any of the hardest parts of their schedule yet. Well, this year, the whole schedule is hard, but you know what I mean.
And they’ve lost in seven of their last eight games. It’s been a bewildering thing to watch as they seem to have no capacity to make plays offensively in the fourth quarter, and that puts them in a position in the closing minutes of games to have to take risks on defense as to create additional possessions.
Atlanta seems so turnover prone in the fourth quarter that, even on actions they run 50 times a game, they find creative, new ways to cough the ball up.