The Atlanta Hawks earned a B on Bleacher Report’s Midseason Report Card released Wednesday.
While the Hawks have the NBA's worst record, Bleacher Report's Grant Hughes wrote the goals of new general manager Travis Schlenk in the team's rebuilding process was not to have a winning record, but to try to get younger and create financial flexibility in regard to the salary cap.
“Atlanta has seen intermittent flashes of starter-quality play from rookie John Collins, whose energy and bounce have at least added some excitement to an otherwise unexciting season,” Hughes wrote. “Taurean Prince has shot it much better in his second year, and the Hawks are nicely positioned to sell off veterans—Dewayne Dedmon, Ersan Ilyasova and Kent Bazemore, to name three—for more future assets.
“Ideally, Dennis Schroder would have taken a bigger step forward in scoring efficiency. But it's hard to be too critical of his play considering the lack of talent surrounding him.”
To read the grades the other 29 NBA teams earned on Bleacher Report's list, visit Bleacher Report's official website.
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