Atlanta Hawks: Takeaways From Shocking Win Over Bulls
Hawks Heat Up From Outside
We’ve discussed three-point shooting at great detail on Soaring Down South. For most of the season, the Hawks have been a very bad team when it comes to outside shooting. Wednesday night they looked like the 2014-15 Hawks. When everything else was going wrong, their three-point shooting kept them in the game.
Atlanta finished 17-for-30 from behind the arc. In case you weren’t a math major in college, that’s 56.7 percent. When you take 30 threes and make over half of them you’ll usually win. That’s my unscientific assessment.
Paul Millsap made three, Dennis Schroder made four, Thabo Sefolosha made three, Kent Bazemore made two, Tim Hardaway Jr. made four, and Mike Dunleavy Jr. made one. That’s a lot of three-pointers. If the Hawks shot like this every game they’d be a top two seed in the Eastern Conference (probably not, but it sounds good).
The most important three-pointers came during the beginning of Atlanta’s 19-4 run that closed out the game. Three three-pointers on three consecutive possessions trimmed Chicago’s lead from 10 points to one point in just over one minute of action. I’m still not sure it actually happened. Okay, I just re-watched it. It definitely happened.