Hawks head on the road to face Rockets

The Hawks captured a home win on Monday at State Farm Arena against the Pistons.

The club recorded a season-high 10 blocks, marking the most blocks by the Hawks in a regulation game since 10/26/22 (12 blocks, at DET) . Atlanta had 6 players score in double digits.

Trae Young led the team in scoring  31 points , marking his fourth straight game with 30+ points and 10+ assists, the longest such streak of his career and the longest such streak in the NBA since the 2021-22 season (Luka Dončić: 4, 1/29/22-2/4/22) .

Over his last four games, Young is averaging 34.8 points, 13.3 assists and 4.3 rebounds on .500 FG% (47-94 FGM), .468 3FG% (22-47 3FGM) and .885 FT% (23-26 FTM).

Saddiq added 21 PTS, Dejounte Murray landed 20 PTS, DeAndre Hunter  collected 19 PTS | 6 REB ,2 AST, 2 BLK, Clint Capela gathered 17PTS , 15 REB, While Onyeka Okongwu rounded off the scoring efforts with 14 PTS, 2 REB.

The Hawks (11-15) are on the road to take on the Houston Rockets (13-11). Atlanta enter Wednesday’s game having won four of their last six matches against the Rockets, averaging 123.0 points and 26.2 assists on .508 FG%, .412 3FG%, .815 FT% .

Today’s injury report: It was reported earlier by the team that Jalen Johnson and Kobe Bufkin have cleared to return to full team practice. Bogdan Bogdanovic had treatment on his ankle. Mo Gueye has been cleared to begin light on-court individual work and will be re-evaluated in approximately four weeks.