The Atlanta Hawks announced on Tuesday evening that they are parting ways with Nate McMillan, and with that dismissal, superstar Trae Young is all out of excuses. Now it's up to him to prove that he can lead this team, help them become contenders, and that he's not part of the issue.
John Fricke and Robb Tribble breakdown the pressures that fall on Trae Young now to show that he can be coached and that he can be the solution and not the problem.
"Trae Young is on notice. Two words have been floating around and you're on notice about being that (coach-killer). We're one move shy of Trae getting that rep," says John Fricke. "You're going to try to build around Trae, but if there's a 3rd coach and it's not working and we're having the same issues again, you have to go a different direction."
There are other Hawks players also not living up to their end of the bargain, but the focus now shines brightest on Trae Young, who has finally gotten what he's indirectly been asking for, a new coach.
"You can't oversell it, but you can't undersell it either," says Robb Tribble. "His value has gone down, If the Hawks are sitting where there are right now next year you're going to revisit that."
