Trae Young is now Making Winning Plays on Defense

Hawks head coach Quin Snyder has heaped praise on Young for his defense this season and has talked about the narrative surrounding the Young and his defense: 

The topic came up after the Hawks's loss to the Pacers earlier this year and  Snyder was quick to praise Young for his effort on that end:

"I am glad you asked me that, I have been saying it all year and its whatever... there is a narrative that develops about someone. He has been good off the ball, he has been good on the ball, he has competed, I can show you a long edit of the times that he has picked up full court and someone should talk about it. It's not... when you talk about Trae tonight, you will talk about what a great offensive game that he had and he did but it is one of the things that I have told him, even early in the year when his shots were not going in, he did not stop defending and that is good to see, from all of our guys. That is the mentality that we have to have and there are some things tonight that obviously defensively that we can do better and we played against a really good offensive team."

Young will not be an elite NBA defender, but he is making winning plays this season on that end of the floor and it deserves to be recognized. 

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