Heading into Game 5, Heat have already exposed Hawks’ flaws

As a top-five scorer and playmaker, Trae Young faces box-and-1 defenses, face-guarding, double-teams and traps often throughout the NBA season.

The relentlessness of how top-seeded Miami has been gunning for him, however, is unique. It hasn’t been like this since high school, when Young obviously stood out from the crowd, and of course now that smothering pressure is NBA-caliber. It’s one of the reasons the eighth-seeded Hawks trail the best-of-seven Eastern Conference playoff series, 3-1.

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