Welcome on to a Sunday night edition, our first 15 and 60 mailbag of the season.

We're going to do the Easter conference start at the beginning of the alphabet and probably get through about half of the teams this evening.

And that means that we shall start with the Atlanta Hawks, Mr. Lurber.

The Atlanta Hawks who are 14 and 11 on the season, three and four since the last 15 and 60.

Their plus one, including the GlassNet rating, is 17th in the NBA.

They're 16th in offense, 15th in defense.

And ESPN's BPI projects them to win 46 games, which would be the eight seed in the east.

So that's a pretty strong eat seed for kind of

what we thought. And BPI gives the Hawks an 80% chance of making the playoffs. One thing to add is

that Christopps Porzingis did return on Friday in, he played 20 minutes, started and played 20

minutes in their fall from a head loss to the Nuggets. The Hawks led by

23 at one point in that game and then ended up losing, they ended up losing late, which

happens. But just wanted to mention it's good for Prasengis, even though these absences are

concerning. It's good to see that he's back. Well, it would be interesting to see if he gets

a starting job back as well. Coming off the bench, I think if he's not going to be consistently available, it does just generally make more sense

to bring him off the bench.

I mean, as does the fact that a congou has been better than him, quite frankly.

If he can be consistently available for a long time and he's out playing a congrew,

then you can always move him back into the starting lap. I think certainly having him start the season made the most sense as the player with the

most pedigree of Kongu is okay coming off the bench, but with Prozingus missing some time,

struggling to be available for all the games, missing, he's always going to miss back to back

regardless, it would seem of his health status.

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