(Ep. 461/ATL and 29) Kingston's Unspoken Statement

game? The starters still look a little sluggish, but it's amazing how much easier things get when Wendy's off the floor

for you.

You know, in that sense, the game went, like, in the Hawks' direction once they stopped playing him.

I mean, he's tough to deal with.

He's a nightmare to deal with.

You know, he's around the rim and all that kind of stuff.

But it was another sluggish first quarter.

But after the first quarter, the Hawks kind of found their footing and kind of fought back.

And I thought in the second half, their bench group played really well.

They played hard on defense and they were connected and all that stuff.

And it was easier to get to the rim when Wimby was off the floor.

Okay.

I don't know.

Offensively, I thought they were good that entire first half.

They were just missing open shots.

And then, you know, in the second quarter, they hit the shots they were generating.

Because, like, they were pretty consistently getting good quality looks from beyond the three-point line.

And so that was pretty good.

My concern is defensively.

particularly with these Aaron Wiggins is in the game because he's often in the game alongside another small basketball player, and he's clearly not at the level defensively he needs to be to be in these types of lineups.

So, like, that is a real concern for me right now.

You know, last game it was Wiggins, Kispert, or, you know, Kingston.

Like, pick – well, we'll talk about Kingston in a second.

But, like, this game, Wiggins and CJ, it just felt like neither of them had a real handle defensively.

um to me uh where it's just too soft uh physically um cj i just i think he was just going through the motions more than anything else but wiggins wiggins it just felt like wiggins wiggins it just felt like um like he physically could like it it's kind of kiss pretty um where he's just getting blown by physically and it's just too easy to get go through his chest um so that's really where I'm more concerned about offensively, even with Wimby in the game, I thought the quality of looks they were getting was good.