The Atlanta Hawks are the hottest team in the league with 10 straight wins.
Per Cleaning The Glass, Over the last 2 weeks (6 games), the Hawks are 6th in offensive rating (122.5), 3rd in defensive rating (108.2), and 1st in net rating (+14.3). And they're doing it at the 2nd-fastest pace in the league (102.82 for the season)
That pace makes sense. The Hawks start three combo guards - Dyson Daniels, CJ McCollum, and Nickeil Alexander-Walker - alongside Jalen Johnson (a combo forward who handles the ball frequently) and Onyeka Okongwu, a center but really more of a stretch 4.
Here's the twist: Okongwu, the "big," shoots 38.2% from three. Daniels, the point guard, shoots a mere 12.9%.
Coach Quin Snyder is turning this odd lineup into a team that plays true positionless basketball. Not as a buzzword. For real.
Play no. 1: Stack/Spain P&R with flipped roles
Snyder runs a stack/Spain pick-and-roll against the Orlando Magic. Conventional action, unconventional personnel.
The ball-handler? Johnson - the 4. The screeners? Guards Daniels and Alexander-Walker. In the corners: Kuminga (forward) and Okongwu (center).
Daniels first sets a Ram screen on Alexander-Walker's man (Jevon Carter), freeing NAW to set a ball screen for Johnson. Then Daniels comes back and sets a back screen for Alexander-Walker - forcing a switch. Da Siliva takes NAW, Carter stays on Daniels.
Now, with the Magic's Banchero and Carter both facing Johnson and Carter's back turned to Daniels, Johnson hits Daniels, who attacks the rim. Da Silva rotates and helps on the drive. Instead of staying in the paint, Alexander-Walker pops to the corner.
Daniels sparys it to Kuminga, who swings it to Alexander-Walker. The 38.6% three-point shooter swishes it.

Drag Screen with roles reversed
Watch who's setting the screen here.
Johnson brings it up, with Alexander-Walker running alongside him, signaling Kuminga and Daniels to space the floor.
NAW sets Johnson a drag screen. The action a center normally sets for a guard - here it's a guard setting it for a forward.
Bane, who's guarding NAW, gets trapped in an ineffective hedge on Johnson. Alexander-Walker slips the screen and finishes the layup (the Magic’s Jalen Suggs with the goaltend).

Daniels, the point Guard/ center
Daniels brings it up the sideline. Okongwu sets an away screen for Johnson, then sets him a ball screen. Carter and Wendell Carter Jr. switch and stop the action. Johnson returns the ball to Daniels.
Daniels again functions more like a center than a point guard. He hands off to Alexander-Walker on the empty side. When Suggs (originally guarding Daniels) moves to double NAW, Daniels slips free for a layup.

Zone offense, positionless principles
Positionless basketball works against zone, too.
Daniels initiates the offense by attacking the gap at the heart of the defense and kicks out to Okongwu, who swings it to Gabe Vincent in the corner. Johnson flashes to the spot Daniels vacated - the high gap. Vincent finds him.
Meanwhile, Daniels has relocated to the back of the defense, settling into the dunker spot - again, a position typically reserved for a non-shooting big. Johnson feeds him there, and Atlanta's point guard finishes.

Daniels in Jokic’s shoes

In this possession - this time against the Dallas Mavericks - the Hawks run a play called the Elbow Split or Elbow Flare. The Denver Nuggets run this action with Nikola Jokić, their center, as the elbow receiver. Here again, the Hawks flip the script. Daniels catches the ball at the elbow from Johnson, who is once again the ball-handler. Gabe Vincent, another player listed as a point guard, sets a flare screen for Johnson, then receives the ball from Daniels in a handoff. Once again, Daniels rolls to the paint and finishes - as if he were a natural forward/center.