Call this a doom post if you want but this is something I’ve been genuinely wondering for a while. For every team, the ultimate goal is to win a championship, and lately I’ve been wondering if we will be able to do that with this team. Don’t get me wrong, I think the team we have now is good, and Quin is really good as well, but even if we play to our fullest potential would we be able to beat another team in a seven game series to win a championship? We’ve got a guard in Trae Young who besides being an offensive maestro will never be passable on defense. We’ve got another fringe all star in DJ that besides having his moments I don’t think is the type of guy to win you a series. Looking at other legit teams, they’ve got 2 way stars that really give them a chance every game, which is something we don’t have the luxury of having. Some have said that our depth is the key to us winning a chip, but I have a hard time believing it. Is this team able to win a chip as currently constructed? Or do we have to make some changes if we want to win the first title in Atlanta during the Trae Young era?
Listen, DJ is not playing like a fringe all star this season, if things keep going this way the coaches will vote him in as our all star He’s improved his defense, shot selection and in 3 of the games he’s lost he at least gave us a chance with how clutch he was and was obviously clutch in our wins too.
And then, Trae has been passable on defense this year outside a couple games. He’s made major improvements on that end and is a lot more consistent. Trae isn’t the problem with our defense.
If Trae wasn’t shooting this bad and missing open floaters I genuinely believe we’d be 7-2 right now.
We have depth and two clutch star players. That gives us a shot against anybody except maybe Boston. So we will have to make some moves to beat them but that’ll come after this season.
This season the goal is to secure home court in the playoffs and make it to the second round,then we can talk about what we need to do win a championship.
Trae took us farther than we’ve ever been, and I believe this team is just as, if not more special than that team was. Keep your patience, I think by mid season we’ll be in great shape