Atlanta Hawks’ Dejounte Murray After Win Over Magic
Hey DJ when you know you guys are in that situation it’s tied up 104 and and coach is trying to signal for a timeout but non-com where does your mind go to try and get the play going and and get back I mean he didn’t signal for a
Timeout once Paulo hit the three that’s why JJ well I think I took it out one of us took I can’t remember took it out he call the timeout uh I think JJ was trying to get the ball a Trey obviously U and trade was denied so you know I got
The ball and it was going win the game can you just talk us through just your right right when you saw the shot go in what was just the initial feeling uh I mean it’s a make a Miss Lead you going to make a Miss shots but you know
With me I always feel like I’m going to make the next shot if I miss a shot so uh you know it just come from just working hard and just being you know extremely confident in myself uh even my team my teammate took the shot I believe
It’s going in uh so you know I didn’t shoot it with the intentions of I’m going miss this shot you know was like let’s go home you know made the shot Jon you were coming up the court did you have any move in mind were you
Trying to get all the way to the rim did you know you’re were going to pull up can you kind of take us through as soon as you got the ball in bounds kind of what your plan was well I mean I’m a a react type of guy so trying to really
Take what the defense gives me obviously trying to get all the way knowing we’re in the bonus but you know knowing that the mid-range is my sweet spot so uh you know I took the shot rose up over made a great shot what do moments like that do
Not only for your confidence but this team’s confidence when those games are so close L on I mean at the end of the day I feel like you want um you know great basketball games you know uh you know competing at a high level from I feel like a fan standpoint and obviously
Players you don’t want to be in games where it’s just blowouts uh you know we’re here in NBA to compete you know at the highest level which is this is the highest level so U you know at the end of the day U you know hopefully it just
Brings confidence but we still want to win games better than that uh you don’t want to take games to the last second shot uh we got a lot of things we got to work on uh which one is taking care of the ball and myself starting with myself
Uh UND down and you know like I said at the end of the day uh we want to be in better games than that coach talked about how unselfish uh you all were you all shot over 50% from the field and you were just talking about overcoming turnovers and
Everything like that especially in a close game how important is that unselfishness I mean that’s what builds great teams uh when you believe in a guy next to you you know uh and you most importantly you want the guy to succeed next to you you know I feel like those are
Just great habits to build uh when you’re trying to build something build a culture or just build you know winning habits uh you know so that’s just the most important and me as individual that’s just something I love to do you know if my teammate’s open I want to get
You the ball and if I don’t get you the ball you can hold me accountable and I tell all of them guys you can get on me you know you got that green light to you know tell me that you was open and next time get you the ball that’s
Simple there was a play with a couple minutes left where you had two of I think six rebounds six offensive rebounds that you got uh what’s sort of the emotional swing there when you just keep pounding the offensive glass and eventually it breaks through uh I think it’s important you know
Usually we on the other end of that where other teams is you know getting a lot of offensive rebounds and uh you know it just shows that we wanted the ball you know Wesley Matthews our vet you know he said something uh that looked like a bunch of guys that wanted
The ball wanted to win the game so you know I think it’s just important you know just to compete you know both ends on the floor
