Its pretty obvious Dennis Schroder is just not anywhere near as good as Jeff Teague in the half court. That has been the Hawks biggest problem. Nobody respects his jump shot so defenders just stick with Dwight in the PnR and sag off Schroder.
Also, they have no secondary play maker with Millsap out, and the wings (Korver, Bazemore, Sefalosha) have been mediocre at best, and much worse than in seasons past. Not much bench help either outside of Hardaway Jr and Muscala, who have both been "just ok".
Lazy people will blame Dwight because he's the easy target, and people don't like him, but he hasn't really been the problem at all. I mean, they obviously miss Horford's passing and shooting, but I think it's been a pretty even trade off in what they've gained in rebounding and paint presence.
This is true. I haven't got to watch much of the Hawks this year, but Dwight seems to be doing pretty well.
However, my problem was this with them this summer - they were already a strong defensive team that had offensive issues, so what do they do? They let Al go and signed Dwight to increase their interior defense and rebounding but lose out on Al's perimeter defense, shooting, and playmaking, which was needed the most with losing Teague. What's funniest is that Horford is now averaging over a block and three assists more than Howard, and he's shooting a blistering 42% from the three!
It seems that they just went purely for the "name" of Howard without even thinking of where they needed actual help. They'd be much better off right now with Horford than Howard.
I must say, though, I'm kind of wishing we got both Howard and Horford right now. That would be a deadly, deadly combination. And Howard is almost exactly what we need right now - a rebounding, post scoring, and rim protecting presence.