Kobe Johnson

Maybe Monday will be the closest thing that they get with their final home game.

in the exhibition's calendar, but they did treat this game relatively normally for three quarters-ish, and then the fourth quarter was almost entirely the third unit, you know, Jalen Wilson, Kobe Johnson, plus Richard Dennis, Zuby, etc.

But the Hawks, after the game on Thursday, I would say, admittedly, the third unit helped them to win that game on Thursday.

Today, they got a little bit hairy late in the game, which we'll talk about probably at the end of the contest, but I would say My overall takeaway is that this is an encouraging night at the office.

I think defensively, he's good right now.

Offensively, more of a mixed bag, understandably so.

And then Kobe Johnson didn't make a shot in his eight minutes, and Jalen Wilson made a couple of catch-and-shoot threes that were pretty good.

I think Kobe did bring some defensive intensity, which was very helpful down the stretch.

It was a nice block by Joc Landale against Luke Kornet on the final play of the, of that, of that period after Kornet was, uh, you know, using his size to his advantage throughout the game.

They had Zubi at center in the fourth to kind of signal that Landale was done, and they s- you s- kind of saw some really deep backups like Kobe Johnson, Cameron Korhan came in this game, Reggie Dennis, etc., etc.

I thought the fourth quarter run that, that Kingston had was, was really fun to watch.

He made a three in transition And then he found Zuby for a three, and then he got to the line to tie the game, and then after that he had a big dunk on a run out to give the Hawks their first lead of the game with a steal.

Um, so yeah, ve- very fun stuff there.

Uh, they had Zu- Zuby and Eisa playing together late in the game.

Um, Kobe Johnson came in, et cetera, et cetera.

There was a fun moment late when Quinn challenged a three-shot foul, and Reggie Dennis was asking him to.

I believe the final count of players deployed was 16 or 17.

Everyone who was active from the, uh, from the established roster got in the game, plus Kobe Johnson and Cameron Coran both got in the game as well.

Um, you know, that only leaves, you know, Dort and Mogay and McCollum as guys who missed the game, plus Hunter Basarms after the season.

So they used everybody, uh, um, for more than s- like seven minutes or more for everybody other than Cameron Coran, and I thought the, uh, the third unit was probably their most effective.