A number of months in the past, loads of folks felt the Atlanta Hawks had been going to make noise this season within the NBA’s Japanese Convention.

That they had acquired Dejounte Murray, an ascending guard who had averaged 21.1 factors, 8.3 rebounds, 9.2 assists, and a pair of.0 steals final season en path to his first All-Star recreation nod.

However the Hawks have turned out to be a disappointment this yr, as they maintain a 38-38 report and sit in eighth place within the East.

This set of stats offered by ESPN’s SportsCenter reveals how constantly mediocre they’ve been all season.

This Hawks stat is ABSURD 😱😳

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— SportsCenter (@SportsCenter) March 29, 2023

Offensively, Atlanta is doing pretty properly, as they’re third in scoring at 118 factors per recreation and ninth in offensive ranking.

Nevertheless, the protection may be very substandard, and their twenty second rating in defensive ranking merely isn’t befitting of a playoff workforce.

Murray’s numbers have dipped a bit, and whereas franchise participant Trae Younger is placing up 26.5 factors and 10 assists per recreation, he’s taking pictures simply 43.2 % from the sphere and 34.5 % from 3-point vary.

He makes an attempt 6.4 treys a contest, which has led some followers to criticize him for making an attempt to play like elite level guard snipers akin to Stephen Curry and Damian Lillard, sans the correct marksmanship.

The Hawks are in an attention-grabbing place, as they might must make important adjustments to their frontcourt this summer season to be able to take the following step and end the nice work they put in two seasons in the past after they reached the Japanese Convention Finals.

With the Boston Celtics, Cleveland Cavaliers, and New York Knicks enhancing, Atlanta might want to maintain tempo with them.

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