Hawks 121, Wolves 110: Wolves Can’t Overcome Lackluster Defense

Photo by Harrison Barden/Getty ImagesIn a battle between two teams dealing with several injuries, Atlanta’s depth ultimately won out. It’s clear that the Wolves do not have a huge margin for error, and the absences of D’Angelo Russell and Patrick Beverley in particular were killers tonight against Trae Young.

While Young did engage in a bit of his usual foul-baiting antics, it would be doing him a disservice to focus on that, and not on the complete mastery he showed in the pick-and-roll. Some of that does entail the foul-baiting, sure, but Young got whatever defender he wanted switched onto him all night by dragging the screen out, and then firing skip passes to either corner. Timothe…