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The Hawks Stayed True to Themselves in Game 4

KL Chouinard @KLChouinard

Trailing by four points with two and a half minutes in Game 4, John Collins and Trae Young worked together to make a hugely successful play on a night where not everything they did worked out successfully.

Collins secured an almost-out-of-reach offensive rebound by slapping the ball to Trae near midcourt. Trae drove the lane and became the focal point of the Philadelphia defense, a group that, just before tipoff, claimed three of the ten spots on the NBA's All-Defense Teams.

With one of those All-Defense honorees, Ben Simmons, trailing him from behind on the drive, and another, Joel Embiid, waiting as one of two Sixers to bracket him near the rim, Trae leapt, faked up as if he was taking the shot and then whipped a hook pass around Embiid into Collins' waiting hands.