Not necessarily. Hawkins' main objective was capturing Law. He didn't care about his crewmates. If he sees he has a 50/50 odd against Law if they actually fought and sees another outcome which leads to a 100percent odd in capturing Law if he traded his crewmates, obviously he'd choose the second outcome. At the end of the day, Law's crewmates were worthless in Hawkins' eyes
As for the current situation, it's messed up. One spoiler says Law took advantage of a situation, other one says it's Hawkins' plan and Hawkins only has one life now, so much more nerfed than Law. I think we'd need to actually read the official chapter to be sure