Hawks general manager Travis Schlenk was wondering openly not long ago whether he made a mistake keeping last season’s roster mostly intact. He wasn’t the only one. Now, with the trade deadline looming, the Hawks have made a case that they can make another deep run with no major changes at all.
That’s how far they’ve come in only two weeks. Schlenk can take until Feb. 10 to decide whether he’ll stick with the roster he has or make changes via trade. He already sent away Cam Reddish in a deal that mostly was about getting a first-round draft pick in return.
At the time of that deal, I argued that the Hawks needed another significant move to have a chance to go far. They’d been without key players for stretches, but their problems ran deeper than that. Since then, the Hawks have seemed to figure out their issues with no outside help.
