The 60 Win Team that got SWEPT in the Playoffs 

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This is nothing. There was a 67 win team that lost in the 1st round. Even worse, there was a 73 win team that blew a 3-1 lead in the Finals.

Korver's shooting was amazing. To put it in perspective. He almost became the first 50-50-90 player in history.

I never realised that all 5 got traded/left...

Don’t let this distract you from the fact that the Raptors were the one seed in the East

This is a really cool and unique team! Thanks for sharing MDJ!

Kyle korver for threeeeeeeeee

"In 20 years, most nba fans will forget that this team even existed" Nah bruh. I think most people forgot about this team right after they got swept.

To be fair, injuries played a major role in the way the 2015 Hawks season ended. No I don’t think they had a real chance against the Cavs but losing Carol before the series started, Thabo right as the series started, and Korver thanks to a cheapshot from dirty Delly ruined any chance the Hawks had to make the series interesting. I’m from just outside of Atlanta so after the way that season ended coupled with the Falcons blowing it in the SB I was on suicide watch. Luckily now the Bulldogs have a chance to win for us but I’m sure they’ll do what all Georgia teams do in big moments...choke. Thanks for the great content as always MDJ! Edit: You heard it here first. Dawgs pulls a Falcons and choke it away. Being a fan of Georgia sports team really is a masochistic hobby

The 2014-15 season proved that it’s a superstar driven league and soon after this, superstars started recruiting other superstars to create super teams. The era where a team like the 2004 Detroit Pistons or the 2014 Spurs can win an NBA Championship is over

Atlanta must hate LeBron with a passion 😂

Will always be a hawks fan, but that team has a special place in my heart

Prime Kyle was so awesome

The most underrated channel on RU-vid. You are definitely my favorite NBA youtuber. I don’t know why you don’t have 1 million subs

Kyle korver : the most underrated shooter in history

The 73 win team that blew a 3-1 lead next

The one time I could be proud of being a Hawks fan

The whole starting 5 was named the NBA "player" of the month. I went to those games, and everyone came to see either Korver or Jeff Teague. But we all knew they weren't a serious team, those all star picks were charity. It was just so weird to see a team with no star to play amazing basketball, with a spurs like ball movement with a new coach, the NBA had to give them credit some way.

I miss Pero Antic / Why have the Hawks been getting more attention when we are having a terrible year than all of our consistent years?

With the amount of work in your videos, you deserve so many more subs! Love ur channel and insta keep up the amazing work

We all knew what was going to happen. That series was pretty dope and close for a sweep, but LeBron is too good.

Who remembers this like it’s yesterday

As a hawks fan, I'll never forget this team and always appreciate what they did

Great vid, but no one thought theyd beat the cavs

my atlanta hawks CHOKED in 2015. those were good times though.

Man I remember this team. Poor playoff showing overall but injuries also ensured the sweep against the Cavs. I remember when people were calling for Delly's head when he caused Korver's ankle injury while hustling for a loose ball. They were definitely a great SEASON team tho. Especially during one month (i think it was January) where they went on a tear and ended up with the ENTIRE starting lineup become player of the month.

Make a video on the Mavs just blowing up their roster after immediately winning a championship and why couldn't they attract free agents/withhold rebuilding for so long

'14 Spurs have Duncan, Parker and Leonard. Also Ginobilli. So, the BIG 3 plus leonard. All stars. and duncan was a elite superstar also.

Dellavadova injured al and Kyle korver in this series don’t forget

Don’t forget about the injuries to Carol Thabo literally getting his leg broken by the police and delivadova hurting korver who still hasnt recovered and Jeff Teague had a hip injury the whole season

Now as of summer 2019, nobody on that hawks team is there anymore. Like if it’s still 2019

They were on that crazy good win streak, and it came out of nowhere

It is E X T R E M E L Y D I F F I C U L T

He said the 80-81 Celtics didn't have a bonafide Superstar. Larry Bird: Hold my beers.

The Tampa Bay Lightning in 2019 won 62 games and got swept out of the NHL Playoffs in the 1st round by Columbus.

As a hawks fan, this hurts my heart. This team was so much fun to watch and they played probably the best team basketball in recent NBA history other than the Spurs. If Delly hadn’t hurt Horford then they might have had a legit shot at beating the Cavs

I like the humor, keep up the good work. One lesson to take away is also that once you're winning, and have talent like this Hawks team did, that's the time to trade for a superstar. So letting Carroll walk away was a good decision, but shud have traded for a Counsins or P. George like player, who was always in the trade rumor, maybe they cud have traded Millsap and Horford, or any package including two of their starters for any of them before they left team. I believe they're next step after this 60 win season was signing bazemore to a big contract, w/c was a bad decision. So yeah, trade for a superstar in the trade rumors once you start winning, that shouldn't hurt.

They lost to the cavs because of delly injuring korver and delly getting horford ejected

I don't see much people talking about how LeBron James sweep a +60w team practically by himself. Another example of how ridiculously great he was and is. So thank you for reminding this to people

The Atlanta Hawks went from best to worst real quick

That 06 Pistons team was so much fun to watch... Miss the NBA in the early 2000's!

They really came out of nowhere, but they choked in the playoffs

I couldn't agree more about the LeBron declining thing

Is anyones else's new year resolution to win a Championship

Damn, RIP Hawks.

1981 Boston Celtics? They had a superstar in Larry Bird, he turned things around during his rookie season.

Remember this '15 hawks squad mainly because this was the year the Dubs broke out, and theyre leading both conferences. Their 1st regular season matchup that year that the hawks won was highly anticipated

jazz 2021?

This is why you are my favorite basketball RU-vidr I have been waiting for someone to do a video on this because I myself am a Hawks fan.

I still love my hawks, even with all of the pain that comes from being a fan 😂.

Been on an NBA binge in bed today and at 9 15 MDJ finally comes with the best NBA content on RU-vid 👍💪

And with Kent bazemore getting traded to Portland NO HAWKS PLAYER from the 2014-15 season are still in the roster

I am a die hard hawks fan who went to the home season opener that year, and I will tell you some things you missed and important points that affected the Hawks tremendously in the playoffs and ultimately them being swept by the Cavs. First, Thabo Sefoloshas leg was broken by the New York City Police and was out for the season after a game against Brooklyn in an incident at a night club in February or March and that was a huge blow to the team as Demarre Carrols main reserve and second rotation guy and arguably our second or 3rd best defender who would guard the other teams best player every night when Carrol sat. Then Paul Millsap got injured and missed 10 or 15 games during the last stretch of the season (the Hawks were on pace to win 67 games before this happened and I think we split the games he was absent), Al Horford dislocated his finger affecting his shot in the Wizards series, and then lets not forget what happened during the Cavs series when Matthew Dellvavedova rolled onto Kyle Korvers ankles, taking him out for the rest of the series in Game 1 or 2. All of that made the end of this season sting hard for Hawks fans, and the last games of the Hawks Cavs series hard to watch. Especially so since the Cavs got stomped by the Warriors and they themselves hobbled into the Finals and had no chance, By all intents and purposes Hawks vs Warriors in the Finals would have been much more entertaining (had at least Korver not gone down) but there is also the argument that if Kyrie hadnt gone down too. The Hawks 19 game win streak happened in January, you could argue we peaked too early, and as you said there was no dignified super star on the 2014-2015 Hawks so when you take all the stuff I mentioned into consideration, the team was ultimately very fragile and lose a couple pieces and rotation guys (yep Sefolosha was a huge blow) much less losing starters to injury, its not hard to see why they got swept in the Eastern Conference Finals. Still though, that season was a hell of a ride and an excellent time in Atlanta. The Hawks made plenty of mistakes in the following seasons trading or not matching contracts to keep all our starters and core intact and signing Dwight Howard the season after that I have plenty of knowledge and opinion on, but thats whole other topic. Some other fun facts of that season, head Coach Mike Budenholzer was named Coach of the Year, and all 5 hawks starters were named player of the month for the Eastern Conference in January when we went 17-0, and no team had ever had a perfect January OR had all 5 starters be co-player of the month either. I wont get into all the franchise records that were broken that year but there were quite a few of those too!

I'm shooked

I remember this team. They were really fun to watch. I really thought they would take it all the way

The bulls ended up being a bigger challenge for the cavs that year. They had a good chance.

Running up a bunch of regular-season wins doesn't mean anything. Never has and never will.

Carrol was their leading scorer and went into the series against the Cavs injured. He averaged 4 points in the Cavs series. Avg 20 in the season. Kyle was injured. Horford got suspended a game too. Gg Thabo was hurt too. Smh

Those were the days.. great video

Difference with that hawks and 2014 spurs Spurs have a defender for LeBron..kawhi

Umm wow, why are all of your videos so high quality...thanks for being one of the best nba youtubers

Reminds me of the raptors this season Excellent regular season And a LeBron choke in the playoffs

I'm a HUGE Hawks fan so thanks for the vid

It was a fluke

Nice stuff. You are legit the best youtuber who talks about nba.

As a Hawks fan .... It's rough

MDJ This team was foolish for dismantling this team.They should have been like the Spurs, acquiring high ceiling picks at the bottom of the draft that they could develop while acquiring assets that they could flip into packages for all-star talents. This team easily had a 3-4 year window of being an elite Eastern Conference team.

Great video! I have nothing intelligent to add to begin a conversation based on what you said. You kinda covered everything. So.... Great Video! And Happy new year!

Love this. Channel is very underrated. They r always interetsing

Sad to be a Atlanta fan

Just watched about 10 of your videos, so much detail and research, earned a sub

How to get a million subs 1.) Make an exaggeration claim (ex. Player X will break the NBA!) 2.) Back up those claims with bullshit back stories 3.) PROFIT!!!!!!!!!!!

I think we can say this at the moment playoff started in 2004 and 2014. chauncey billups and kawhai leonard became top 10 player in the league. And thanks to their improvement, they win the champion.

Finally someone actually acknowledges the fact that the hawks exist 😂 I’m actually not very surprised that no one really cares about us, because we’re probably one of the worst teams in the league

I miss this team 😭

Holy shit, Korver looks taller than Millsap and Horford.

That piece of advice was spot on 😂😂😂 but a legit video bro. Keep it up 👍🏾

120/0 like/dislike ratio??? Damn

yo bro i never comment on vids but ur content is the best outta all the nba ball pages

They traded Korver for a coke damn shame

I remember this year very well, and I feel like there were a few things you forgot to mention. First off, the Hawks were looking like they were on the decline for the ladder half of the season. Of course they went on that 19 game winning streak, breaking the team record for consecutive wins, and basically they didn't lose for the entire month of January. But sometime after the all-star break, their play seemed to decrease significantly. They started losing a lot more often and it seemed like they might even lose the #1 seed to the Cavs despite the fact that they'd gained a huge lead from their impressive performance earlier in the season. By the time the playoffs came around, pretty much anyone who wasn't a Hawks fan would tell you that they wouldn't make it past the Cavs.

Wow the warriors could have played the hawks that's crazy

That Hawks team had the right idea and mindset at that time but they were a real undersize team

2018 Celtics = 2015 Hawks

Your video is great and very underrated. Keep it up

Lol the hawks and the nets in the playoffs

You have to cover the 2012-2013 choke squad that was the Memphis Grizzlies. 56-26, top defensive team in the NBA, well rounded offense, and choked four games in the conference finals.

It's like the Beatles breaking up

First video I've ever seen of yours, great stuff!

Yet they lost to the Cavs who only had LeBron to take them to the finals his first year back

Crazy I was legit thinking about this team the other day... great vid!

Spurs last year 61 wins got swept. I know they didn’t have kawhi but just sayin

Just found your channel and you make really good vids, I️ subbed and can’t wait for more

So why couldn’t Cleveland sweep the GS Warriors? Atlanta had the same amount of all-stars

Dude, great video as always. Keep it up man

Damn I'm actually early

This was a great video. Good job

The Celtics are making a BIG TRADE with the Pelicans... check recent 😱

Spurs last year were a 60 win team that also got swept

Great video, keep up the great work!