Despite committing a monstrous 21 turnovers, the Hawks took advantage of their depth and used 46 bench points to propel them to a well-fought victory at Philips Arena.
The Wolves seemed to play with little intensity and were quite nonchalant in terms of their pace, as the Hawks outran the away team to the tune of 25 fast break points; the Wolves could only manage 8.
This was generally an even affair, which was definitely unexpected when accounting for these two teams’ exceedingly different trajectories. The Wolves are on pace for a top-5 seed in the extremely competitive Western Conference, and the Hawks have one of the worst records in the entire league.