After picking up three consecutive wins during the week of January 12th (capped off by an impressive road victory over the defending champions in Boston last Saturday), the Atlanta Hawks took a nosedive last week, dropping their last four games against the New York Knicks, Detroit Pistons and Toronto Raptors (twice) which pulled their record back down below the ‘.500’ mark for the first time since their loss to the Memphis Grizzlies on December 21st.
Though there were glimpses of quality* in all four of their losses this week, one particularly frustrating theme seen throughout all of them was that each game featured a quarter where the Hawks were outscored by 10 points or more.