Hawks’ top offense too strong for decimated Portland?

The Atlanta Hawks and Portland Trail Blazers face off on 3/15/2022. The hosts continue to be a bit shaky on the road, with six wins and four losses in the review of their most recent ten duels highlighting a slight lack of consistency in their performances.

Atlanta Hawks – statistics & current form

“Hotlanta” brews up the aforementioned lack of consistency mainly due to unconvincing defensive work. Only three teams in the league-wide comparison allow more points to 100 opponent possessions.

At least the home strength of head coach Nate McMillan’s squad has increased recently.
has increased recently: The past five games on home turf have all been victorious. In addition, Trae Young has been reliable on offense: The guard delivered 47 points in the last game against Indiana, his second-best output this season.

Portland Trail Blazers – statistics & current form

Portland travels in dismal shape: Only one of the last seven games was won. The reason for this meager balance is the tense personnel situation: With Damian Lillard the best shooter of the team of Head Coach Chauncey Billups is missing and recently also the second-best scorer CJ McCollum was given away to New Orleans.

As a result, the Trail Blazers are without their previous backcourt, and the rest of the squad obviously can’t compensate for that shortcoming. While they did fairly well immediately after McCollum’s departure, the positive defiance at the time has long since evaporated.

Atlanta Hawks – Portland Trail Blazers Tip

For the game between Atlanta Hawks and Portland Trail Blazers, the forecast includes more than 122.5 points by the home side. While the defense of the hosts is admittedly very weak, at least the offensive game is right for the Hawks. Utah alone is ahead of the hosts in the NBA’s offensive rating!

Furthermore, Atlanta has been very strong at home lately and Portland is a decimated opponent. Without many regulars, the Trail Blazers have been wild in their defensive work lately

As can be seen from the fact that the selected limit of points for the Hawks already exceeded five of the last seven opponents. Since it is now for the guests against a, as described, also still very offensively strong team with a best-performing Trae Young, can be expected again a basket festival against the Trail Blazers.