De’Andre Hunter thought he had done the hardest part. His challenge to DeMar DeRozan’s last shot was so good that the Bulls player found himself swinging an airball. The Hawks, then tied with the Chicago franchise, imagined they could go into overtime.
Except that John Collins, who had repelled Patrick Williams well on the rebound, dropped the leather and Ayo Dosunmu, who came out of nowhere, recovered the ball which was lying around and scored with the buzzer under the circle. The Bulls point guard had not been challenged by the Hawks defense when he had just made the throw-in…
Here is a raging defeat for the Hawks and John Collins, author of this fatal hand fault. “ He is already hard on himself. He knows we support him. He was told that it’s not all his fault, it’s just one action in the game. However, the match is long, and if we had managed our affairs during the first two quarters (note: 61 points received), we wouldn’t have to be there », notes Trae Young.
This feeling is shared by Dejounte Murray, who points to these often decisive little details. ” It shows that we have to make an effort throughout the game. It’s the little things, diving on the court, being there for your team-mate… The ball is so precious, you have to make sure it’s taken care of, it starts with me. I’ve always said I don’t like losing the ball. Whether it’s the 1st, 2nd, 3rd or 4th quarter, I don’t like it. (But) i know it happens “Notes the former Spurs player, whose new team is one of the very good students in the league (4th) with only 13.5 “turnovers” per game.
Lack of regularity
This good average does not prevent the Hawks from suffering regularly when a tight end to the game is announced.
Georgia players thus show a balanced record of seven wins for as many defeats when the gap is five points or more in the last five minutes of play.
” When you make mistakes, by not screening, not taking care of the ball or not taking the rebounds, it can be expensive. […] You have to make the right choices down the stretch to win, and we didn’t. We didn’t make the ‘stops’, we didn’t take the rebounds, we didn’t take the necessary shots. So it is something that can be corrected. We need to improve in this area “claims Nate McMillan.
It is undoubtedly at this price that the Hawks, whose ambitions have taken on another dimension with the summer recruitment of Dejounte Murray, will be able to take off for good. For now, they occupy 8th place in the East with a balance sheet there also balanced at 16 wins for 16 defeats. Since their start to the season with seven wins in ten games, Atlanta has been skating and failing to chain more than two wins in a row…
“ We’re not going to look for excuses. We know what to do in difficult times. […] Less than five minutes from the end (against the Bulls), we are eight points ahead. We saw what we did on the video, we have to do better. That’s what it boils down to “, concludes Nate McMillan.
| Shots | Bounces | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Players | GM | Minimum | Shots | 3 points | LF | Off | Def | Early | pd | bp | Int | CT | party | Points |
| Trae Young | 29 | 35.8 | 41.1 | 30.7 | 90.4 | 0.8 | 2.1 | 2.9 | 9.8 | 3.9 | 0.7 | 0.1 | 1.4 | 27.6 |
| Dejounte Murray | 27 | 35.8 | 44.8 | 34.8 | 84.3 | 0.7 | 4.7 | 5.4 | 6.3 | 2.7 | 1.7 | 0.4 | 1.8 | 20.4 |
| Bogdan Bogdanovic | 9 | 29.3 | 43.1 | 41.5 | 85.7 | 0.2 | 4.0 | 4.2 | 2.1 | 2.0 | 0.7 | 0.1 | 1.0 | 17.6 |
| De’Andre Hunter | 27 | 30.9 | 44.9 | 35.5 | 82.3 | 0.7 | 3.4 | 4.0 | 1.2 | 1.3 | 0.3 | 0.2 | 2.9 | 15.2 |
| Clint Capela | 26 | 27.6 | 63.3 | 0.0 | 58.3 | 4.4 | 7.6 | 12.0 | 0.8 | 0.9 | 0.6 | 1.3 | 2.3 | 12.1 |
| John Collins | 24 | 30.6 | 48.9 | 21.3 | 85.0 | 1.1 | 6.3 | 7.4 | 1.3 | 1.3 | 0.9 | 1.3 | 3.2 | 12.0 |
| Aj Griffin, Jr. | 28 | 21.5 | 47.4 | 38.1 | 85.7 | 0.7 | 1.6 | 2.3 | 1.0 | 0.8 | 1.1 | 0.1 | 1.3 | 10.8 |
| Onyeka Okongwu | 31 | 21.9 | 62.2 | 0.0 | 73.5 | 2.5 | 4.2 | 6.7 | 0.9 | 0.9 | 0.5 | 0.9 | 3.0 | 8.5 |
| Aaron Holiday | 28 | 17.3 | 43.4 | 41.9 | 82.6 | 0.5 | 1.0 | 1.5 | 1.6 | 0.8 | 0.8 | 0.2 | 1.8 | 5.1 |
| Justin Holiday | 23 | 16.6 | 38.6 | 34.2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.8 | 0.8 | 0.9 | 0.5 | 0.2 | 0.4 | 1.5 | 5.0 |
| Jalen Johnson | 30 | 15.8 | 43.5 | 21.3 | 69.6 | 0.6 | 3.0 | 3.6 | 1.0 | 0.6 | 0.5 | 0.5 | 1.8 | 4.7 |
| Jarrett Culver | 10 | 13.7 | 39.5 | 8.3 | 69.2 | 1.0 | 2.8 | 3.8 | 0.6 | 0.7 | 0.6 | 0.2 | 1.4 | 4.4 |
| Frank Kaminsky | 14 | 8.1 | 55.6 | 47.1 | 100.0 | 0.1 | 1.6 | 1.7 | 1.0 | 0.4 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 1.1 | 3.3 |
| Trent Forrest | 13 | 15.1 | 47.6 | 0.0 | 66.7 | 0.4 | 1.5 | 1.8 | 2.0 | 0.5 | 0.5 | 0.2 | 1.1 | 3.2 |
| Vit Krejci | 14 | 7.0 | 37.5 | 31.3 | 50.0 | 0.1 | 0.6 | 0.7 | 0.7 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.7 | 1.7 |
| Tyrese Martin | 9 | 3.9 | 35.7 | 20.0 | 0.0 | 0.2 | 0.3 | 0.6 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 1.2 |
