Much was made of the Atlanta Hawks’ 2020 offseason. Travis Schlenk and the front office spent significant funds to fix their chronic depth issue, acquiring veterans Bogdan Bogdanovic, Danilo Gallinari and Rajon Rondo — who eventually became Lou Williams and two second-round picks — to go along with Tony Snell and Solomon Hill to bolster their roster from top to bottom. For much of the 14-20 stretch Atlanta suffered through at the beginning of the season, however, the Hawks struggled to integrate all of these pieces.
Injury was the biggest factor in Atlanta’s inability to mesh their promising young core with their cast of mercenary veterans early in the season.