Atlanta Hawks: Top 20 plays of the 2018-19 NBA season

10. John Collins leaps over random Cavs player for a put-back jam

The Cleveland Cavaliers have spent the majority of the season mirroring the basketball equivalent of raw sewage, but aside from their early season coaching tumult, their ineptitude has mostly flown under the radar, mainly thanks to the other putrid teams that occupy the bottom of the Eastern Conference.

Perhaps things will improve if they use their lottery pick on either Zion Williamson or R.J. Barrett, but for now, this team exists to serve as a doormat for the abundance of teams better than them, including the Hawks.

Take this highlight, which ends with budding star John Collins propelling himself over unsuspecting Cavs player *checks Basketball Reference* Jalen Jones for a put-back dunk.

The Hawks spent this late first quarter possession using their trademark ball movement to contort the Cavs’ 30th-ranked defense and despite Justin Anderson’s miss, no Cleveland player accounts for Collins on the block. (Coincidently, the Cavs rank a ho-hum 18th in defensive rebounding rate.) So the big man makes them pay for their transgression:

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