Hawks Young asserts that they will be in the playoffs this postseason
“I think we have a chance to make the playoffs this year,” Hawks Trae Young told Chris Haynes of Yahoo Sports about his intuition that his team has a fair chance to clinch a playoff position next postseason. “And I know that there are going to people out there that don’t believe it, which is fine and that comes with it. But I truly do.
“Without Vince Carter on the team, we’re the youngest team in the NBA. We’re still building chemistry, but as long as the chemistry is there and we click early in the season, I think we’re going to be a tough team if we connect on the defensive end because we can score.”
“We have the talent to score and we play hard,” said Young, whose Hawks finished with a 29–53 record last season. “We just have to be able to put a full 48-minutes up each and every night and treat every game like a playoff game. If we do that, then I feel like we have a really good chance of making the playoffs.”
It’s bound that the Hawks will be a little bit better this season with the additions of players like power forward Jabari Parker, shooting Evan Turner (who was traded by the Blazers in exchange for point guard Kent Bazemore) and small forward Chandler Parsons. Nonetheless, teams like the Orlando Magic, the Miami Heat and Detroit Pistons are the three teams alongside the Brooklyn Nets that will encounter each other in a big fight for one of the playoff tickets next April but can the Hawks enter this frame? The Hawks guard Young might be ambitious and of course that’s a good trait for him, but I can’t really see how the Hawks will get there, when teams like the defending champions Toronto Raptors, Milwaukee Bucks (who added some good pieces but didn’t really improve their roster this offseason, especially with them allowing Brogdon to sign with the Pacers, a valuable piece that should have kept even if that move would put them beyond the limit and would pay taxes that they would pay anyway), the Pacers will see Victor Oladipo back in the court (last season made it to the playoffs without him so this season I guess that they will be there again), the Heat even without Wade but with their new leader Jimmy Butler they will have a strong season, no doubt. So a lot of teams got some powerful weapons and we are going to see a huge battle in the East because, besides the Sixers and the Bucks, no other team can really be called as the favourite to win the East.