Trae Young's unrelenting confidence is among the many traits that make him one of the league's most promising young playmakers. Considering the competitive nature of Saturday's game against the Phoenix Suns, though, the Atlanta Hawks rookie might want to think twice before taking a page out of Stephen Curry's All-Star playbook.

Yikes.

Young, of course, was channeling the epic bounce-pass lob Stephen Curry threw to Giannis Antetokounmpo in Sunday's All-Star game.

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A couple problems, though: his alley-oop didn't make it over the top of Tyler Johnson, and even if it had, Dewayne Dedmon probably isn't the Hawks big man most likely to complete such an ambitious stroke of passing in the middle of a regular season game. Dedmon is a good leaper, but he's hardly as high a flier as fellow frontcourt starter John Collins.

Maybe Young and Collins can try out a version of the same play at next year's dunk contest?

Atlanta, by the way, isn't the cellar-dweller of similarly overlooked teams toward the bottom of the Eastern Conference. Lloyd Pierce's team is a respectable 13-17 in the last 30 games, vaulting well ahead of the New York Knicks, Cleveland Cavaliers and Chicago Bulls in the standings.

The league-worst Suns, though, lead the Hawks in the fourth quarter.