Without JJ we look completely dependent on Trae

He shoots the best or second best every year. Best 30ft shooter ever

He has a 13-17 game in there skewing the stats.

He had 3 straight games of 27 pts, 7-19, L 15 points, 4-12, L 22 points, 5-14, L

He wasn’t playing terrible but that’s not efficient my guy.

I promise you I’m a bigger Trae fan than you are, and that’s why I expect more. I’m not happy with a 6 game stretch where half the games he didn’t score well and we fucking lost. Last game he started out 6-8 and ended up 12-31… so until he puts together a string of games shooting over 40% that result in some wins, he’s not back.

If Trae is just a top 25 player then okay that’s cool. I believe he’s top 15 and can be top 10 if he gets his shit together. Do you see what Steph, Luka, SGA, Fox, Hali, are on??

Yeah that’s the kind of production and consistency we need from Trae. We already saw Trae play like that for a whole season in 21-22.

So until he’s playing on that level he’s not back. Don’t hate on me for expecting more out of our franchise guy and my favorite player.

If Trae got 55+ wins while putting up 30 and 10 on 50/40/90 he would win MVP lol. Nobody is gonna go that hard with the narratives if the results so clearly say otherwise. Everybody who has won MVPs has against them. The problem with Trae is the hawks stay at .500 and that’s not enough to get peoples attention.

Also since 21-22 he hasn’t been anywhere close to 50/40/90 so him doing that would be huge considering the narrative that he’s Westbrook 2.0 with efficiency.

If Trae is that guy from the 21-22 season he has as good of a shot as anybody. Hawks just gotta win

Great but 3-4 of those games he was under 40% and we lost. He’s gotta put together an efficient stretch and he’s done it before. Before I say he’s back fr he’s gonna need a long stretch of great and efficient numbers to make up for last season and how he started this one

Exactly Hunter is really an empty stats, garbage time points type of guy

MPJ as an all star caliber guy is a HUGE upgrade

MPJ is a HUGE upgrade over Hunter and would definitely move the needle

Other than the bogi part I don’t see why you wouldn’t want MPJ. He gets 17 and 8 in his sleep in Denver not even being prioritized as a scorer. Playing with Trae he’d average 20 a game easy while giving us better rebounding, and more hustle as well

I love watching Denver so I can tell you right now MPJ is all star caliber

He can do it this season if he lets the game come to him

Yeah man. We’re cooked. Trae is playing well but he’s just not at top 5 PG level anymore. He’s not top 20 he’s top 25. His swag and ability to takeover are gone.

This team is built around 27 and 10 on 45/36/90 Trae young who could put up 40+ on nights like this. But Trae isn’t that guy anymore so changes have to be made to get more high volume scorers and shooters around him.

Hunter and CC gotta go to see what we could get

Trae is obviously not a problem in this game at all but man it feels like can’t go back and forth with Hali and that sucks

Halis passing is overrated, but his scoring is underrated. I’m legitimately afraid every time he shoots the ball

I’m just tryna understand what exactly about watching Trae makes you think he shoots like he’s Steph…

Taking deep 3s? He takes and makes more, and is much more efficient than Steph. Best 30 ft shooter of all time and shooting 45% on them this season.

Other than taking deep 3s which Steph doesn’t even do as much as Trae, I don’t understand what about their games is the same

Tbh I don’t even see his assists going down, but the problem is nobody knows if this is just a really bad cold slump and he’s the same guy he was from 2020-2022 or not. Cause if he is he’ll turn it around soon and do what you said. It’s normal for guys to have down years but they usually come out great the next year. Trae has been struggling for a season and 12 games that’s not really normal for a star. You can’t blame people for being concerned about his scoring the guy is shooting 35% from the field and 27% from 3.

I’m the biggest Trae fan in this sub but the truth is if he was playing up to his standards, we wouldn’t be 6-6 we’d be 8-4 at the very least, possibly 10-2 with the way he was able to take over games. We’ve seen what he’s capable of and it’s hard to watch right now. But I think he’ll turn it around

23 and 11

Yeah it feels like we should be 8-2, but I’ll take 7-4 Philly will be super tough tho and so will Indiana next Tuesday

Yeah I’m not sure he even plays

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

Why is holiday of ahead of Trae as an all star, enlighten me

Holiday ain’t ahead, and there’s still 10-15 games before all star voting