On the continuum of revenge games, where the low end is “no revenge was exacted” and the high end is “the dude just dropped sixty points of pure spite on his former team”, Mike Scott’s nineteen points against the Hawks is a little bit below the midpoint. He probably should have scored more points than he did, and I can guarantee you that he WANTED to score more points, but his thirteen points in the second quarter to bury the Hawks was pretty brutal regardless.
Scott would have plenty of reasons to want to destroy his former team, considering they tried to destroy his career and almost succeeded at it. In his last season in Atlanta, he only appeared in eighteen games before he got traded to the Suns, who waived him because they thought he was useless. To be fair, the Hawks probably don’t want somebody as good as Scott on the team because he might accidentally win them games, but that doesn’t mean that Scott will take it easy on them. He dominated their heinies with jumpshooting off the bench, and then after the game he grabbed a fistful of his ball funk and rubbed it in the face of his former coach Mike Budenholzer.
As the kids say these days, “savage”.