If I had to divide the blame on how this season went, it would go 40% to the front office, 30% to Nate McMillan, and 30% to the Players. The front office traded our best catch-and-shoot 3pt shooter, Kevin Huerter, for two terrible players who aren't on the roster anymore for a first-round pick that we will probably have to trade this offseason anyway. This team failed to have any good 3pt shooting until after the all-star break with Bey, and the Hawks had to rely so much on AJ Griffin (while great who is a rookie and we shouldn't have to put so much on a rookie). The front office also failed to get any good perimeter defenders on this team besides Hunter, so defensively this team is absolute garbage. We also needed an actual backup PG to take the load off of DJ and Trae instead of loading them up with minutes, but the front office didn't care...(shout out to Nick!)
Nate McMillan put so many bad habits into this team's head with long twos, constant iso play, and lack of passing that it is disgusting. It is no wonder we are so bad in the 4th quarter. Quin Snyder has to try to fix these hopefully habits. No excuse why this team that has one of the best passers in the league has such low pass attempts and catch-and-shoot attempts. It's disgusting. Players obviously deserve a bunch of blame here. DJ's defense isn't what people thought it was, and he has done a terrible job running the bench. Hunter's perimeter defense isn't that good, Capela is getting worse as the season goes by...everyone knows about JC. The only bright spots this season are AJ, Jalen, and Onyeka. Onyeka is ready to be a starter...I don't know about Jalen and AJ.
Finally, is it a coincidence that after Ryan Cameron, the Hawks best PA announcer ever, got fired for asking for a pay raise, we had two mediocre years....just saying