No surprise Gallinari, Reddish are on the trade block for the Atlanta Hawks

Tuesday was quite eventful for the Atlanta Hawks. Coming off of a gut-wrenching 136-131 to a severely short-handed Portland Trail Blazers team, their general manager went on the radio and eviscerated their effort. All of this after having to endure an active roster comprised mostly of players on 10-day contracts.

There is no denying this is a broken team right now and that it has been since before their COVID issues began in mid-December.

At any rate, Travis Schlenk made clear the current level of play was not good enough.

Cam Reddish and Danilo Gallinari being made available makes sense for the Atlanta Hawks

He was so frustrated by it that he admitted he couldn’t fully appreciate Trae Young’s career-high 56 points on the night. It was the biggest among many other notable stats from the game. Young was also 15-for-15 from the free-throw line, the most any player has gone without a miss.

Clint Capela was 10-for-10 on his 22 points to go along with 11 boards but, as Schlenk pointed out in Tuesday’s interview, their offense hasn’t really been the issue.

The Hawks became the first team this season to score at least 130 points and still lose. It was the same for Young’s feat which makes Schlenk’s frustration from “seeing the same thing every game” that much more understandable. His assertion that the Hawks would be active at the trade deadline was also inevitable given what they’ve done so far.

They are 16-20 and have given up 130-plus points in three of their last four.

What he also gave us (should he actually go about making moves) is an idea of who could be on the trade block. That came ahead of a report from The Athletic’s Sam Amick (subscription required) that the Hawks are looking to make a move with Danilo Gallinari and Cam Reddish as the likely chips.

Part of the issue is the contracts signed (and performances) by the likes of Clint Capela and Kevin Huerter, in addition to De’Andre Hunter’s injury limit who can be moved.

Schlenk did try to downplay the significance, or at least the amount, of any potential moves. But Reddish’s name has come up in trade talks for some time now. And with how he’s performed of late, it makes sense the smoke is building once again with the Hawks struggling. He was also playing well before spraining his ankle.

This has been another season of inconsistency for the third-year wing though.

Gallo’s contract having just $5 million guaranteed next season helps. Just not enough at $20 million this season for another team to take him on with adding something, especially for something of value in return.

He hasn’t offered much outside of a big body on defense in some time and, this season, his offense hasn’t been good enough either.

We went over potential targets should they look to make upgrades on the wing position awhile back. And we identified targets if they wanted to upgrade at center before they re-signed Capela. Those targets are still valid and could even warrant doubling down on the position until the offseason when they can move some of their recently signed deals.

That is what Chris Kirschner and John Hollinger touch on in regards to the Hawks making a move for Indiana Pacers big man Myles Turner, one of our targets, in their joint discussion on how to fix the Hawks for The Athletic (subscription required).

They also mentioned Lou Williams as a player whose minutes would be best allocated elsewhere.

The bottom line is that moves are coming and, understandably, Gallinari and Reddish are the ones primed to be on their way out.