With their starting backcourt playing limited minutes (Kent Bazemore sat for rest and Dennis Schröder scored 21 points in 23 minutes), Atlanta won on a clutch three-pointer from second-year player Taurean Prince.
On the other end, rookie Tyler Dorsey played excellent one-on-one defense on gifted scorer/shooter Devin Booker, forcing him to put up a difficult shot, which went begging as time expired.
Though in-touch, “woke” fans know that tanking hard at the end of the season is the easiest path to the get the number one overall pick, winning a game here or there is not the end of the world for this Atlanta Hawks team.