With the NBA on hiatus for at least 30 days, I'll be coping by posting an article every day with 30 random/interesting facts from each of the 30 teams. Hopefully, the season will resume when I hit publish on the Wizards' article.
First up, the...
Atlanta Hawks
Stats are mostly from Cleaning the Glass, but also RotoWire, NBA.com and Basketball-Reference.
- Atlanta's most frequent lineup -- Trae Young, Kevin Huerter, Cam Reddish, DeAndre Hunter and John Collins -- has a +10.7 net rating in 442 (non-garbage-time) possessions.
- The Hawks' worst lineup that has played at least 100 possessions together (including only players still on the team) is -11.0. It's the same lineup as above, but replaces Cam Reddish with Bruno Fernando.
- Both Trae Young and John Collins are top-12 fantasy players in eight-category formats in terms of per-game value. The Lakers, with Anthony Davis and LeBron James, are the only other team with two top-12 players.
- Trae Young draws more non-shooting fouls than any other point guard in the NBA -- on 4.5% of team plays.
- Atlanta scores 11.8 more points per 100 possessions in the halfcourt with Trae Young on the court -- a difference than ranks in the 98th percentile.
- Opposing teams shot 5.3 percent better at the rim with Trae Young on the court -- a difference that ranks in the seventh percentile.
- John Collins scores 132.8 points per 100 shots, which ranks in the 88th percentile for bigs.
- John Collins is shooting 41% on non-corner threes.
- The Hawks have a net rating of -8.1 with Collins at power forward. That improves to -3.6 when he's at center.
- Overall, Atlanta has a -3.9 net rating with Collins on the court -- the first time in his three-year career that he hasn't been a positive.
- With DeAndre Hunter on the court, opposing teams score 5.3 fewer points off putbacks per 100 misses -- a difference the ranks in the 94th percentile.
- DeAndre Hunter is in the 77th percentile for forwards in both long-mid-range frequency (13%) and accuracy (43%)
- Damian Jones is in the 96th percentile in points per 100 shot attempts (137.3) of players classified as bigs.
- Damian Jones commits 6.0 fouls per 36 minutes.
- Kevin Huerter has a 0.96 assist-to-usage ratio, which ranks in the 88th percentile for wings.
- The Hawks are 6.6 points better per 100 possessions with Kevin Huerter on the court.
- Since the All-Star break, Cam Reddish is 20-of-37 on mid-range jumpers, with the 54% conversion rate ranking in the 89th percentile for wings.
- Since the All-Star break, Cam Reddish is shooting 44% on non-corner threes.
- Vince Carter has only made 11 shots at the rim this season.
- For combo guards, DeAndre' Bembry is in the 95th percentile in steal percentage (2.4) and in the 89th percentile for block percentage (1.0).
- The Hawks' defense is 7.1 points better per 100 possessions with Dewayne Dedmon on the court -- a difference that ranks in the 93rd percentile.
- Atlanta has had the worst transition defense in the league for two straight seasons, giving up 133.0 points per 100 transition plays in 2019-20.
- The Hawks create the seventh-most transition plays in the NBA (15.9% of team possessions), but convert at the ninth-worst rate (119.3 points per 100 plays).
- Atlanta is the worst three-point shooting team in the league (33.6%) but shoots the 12th-most as a percentage of team plays (36.7%)
- The Hawks have been favored in only 11 games this season, and never by more than 6.5 points. They posted a 6-5 record in those contests.
- The Hawks' point differential in relation to the spread is -2.6, which is the worst in the NBA.
- Against top-10 point differential teams, Atlanta has the second-worst point differential in the league on the road (-19.6), plus the third-worse spread differential (-7.1)
- Against bottom-10 point differential teams, Atlanta has the worst point differential at home (-6.2), plus the worse spread differential (-6.6).
- The Hawks are the worst back-to-back team in the league, at the bottom in terms of net rating (-17.7) and spread differential (-11.4).
- With their three rookies sharing the court -- DeAndre Hunter, Cam Reddish, Bruno Fernando -- Atlanta has a -0.3 net rating in a 279-possession sample size.
