Celtics ‘PREDICTABLE’ & ‘SLOW?!’ + Dejounte Murray SHOWING OFF with Hawks 👀🔥 | NBA Today

Celtics ‘PREDICTABLE’ & ‘SLOW?!’ + Dejounte Murray SHOWING OFF with Hawks 👀🔥 | NBA Today

Unfortunately it wasn’t a McFlurry but we did have a deante flurry in Atlanta last night deante got his shots up early and often 44 points on 4 how many shots shots how many including hitting all five shots in overtime look Murray’s mentality was just to get them up and he

Gave them uh an outstanding effort out there and look where was that in the dunk contest I don’t know where it was in the dunk contest but oh my God Jaylen Brown look you don’t get body out there on the dunk contest but in the fourth quarter dejonte Murray going to work and

Look they have so many Defenders on the Celtics roster that none of them everybody’s going to get that work are all NBA Defenders all NBA Defenders the best team in the league and dejon Murray he sees them and he just goes to work look at this over top of pingis

Offensive rebound out those are those are just dagger threes and look Celtics up by three tie it right there I look I I don’t know what you do if your Celtics you take two straight L’s to Atlanta but look I’m always been a person that says hey these are the

Things that can kind of help get you locked in down the stretch in overtime like we said Deon Murray knocking down shot after shot in the overtime for Atlanta it was just impressive look Boston’s not going to go away they’re going to fight they’re going to grind

Jaylen Brown bucket Celtics up by one now 6 seconds to go in overtime Celtics up by one Drew holiday just not that’s great defense that I stand by the best defense versus the best offense I’m taking the best offense look at this jontay Murray going against Drew holiday we already saw

Derek white get some of those but look at him he out there dancing in Atlanta it was just an impressive impressive night for Deon Murray what he was able to do out on the floor just bucket after Buck we don’t have time to show all 44 shots I mean we don’t have

That but Deonte Murray he had some comments after the game it’s the NBA right that’s the best team in the league we competed you know uh we didn’t used being tired or anything a back toback as an excuse we came out and competed and these are the games I

Wanted be a part of and I still feel like I played awful I don’t want to take them many shots but I know Kobe will be proud of me Boston was a massive favorite on Thursday and they lost again which gives them multiple losses this season as 15-point favorites the only other teams

To do so since 1990 both lost in the first round of the playoffs in that respective season but Joe Missoula he doesn’t seem too concerned how demoralizing is come on man I’m really trying hard here to like you know it’s not demoralizing demoralizing look I’m going to agree

With them demoralizing is a very aggressive word especially if you’re the first place team you’re going to lose a game you’re going to lose a game in overtime but Zach why is it that the Celtics losses feel so loud let’s start with the good news Richard they feel so loud partly because

There’s so few of them and they never wa close games they only win blowouts and so we have very few dramatic Celtics moments to talk about and they’re all this but their crunchtime offense is too slow and too predictable and it’s mediocre League wide and that’s not

Going to be good enough against the best defenses who are going to play you in close games in the playoffs it’s not a crisis it feels like a crisis because the Celtics are the best team we hold them to a high standard and they don’t lose very often but just give the ball

To Jason Tatum and everyone else stands around hasn’t worked well enough last year the year before or this year they need to get more Dynamic why is kristofh porzingis just standing in the corner possession after Possession come up and set a screen run a pick and pop get the

Offense moving Derek white the best screen Setter on the whole team run around to do some stuff this isn’t good enough it’s not a crisis this is the best team in the East it’s all fine in the big picture but there are going to be games that come down to this just

Like these last two Hawks games and the Celtics need to get a little more juice to their late game offense yeah they need a little bit more juice again like you said though they’re blowing out so many teams and when they get to these close games when they lose everyone

Wants to be concerned but big perk how big of a red flag do you think these late game issues are that keep popping up I I wouldn’t say that it’s the moralizing but I will say it’s very disturbing especially at this moment right and I feel like we’re we’re constantly every time the

Celtics play and lose one of these games we are revisiting this conversation because they haven’t corrected the problem Jason Tatum he hasn’t corrected the problem he’s still not showing up when they need him the most in the clutch Time moments and you know this Richard at this point of the Season all

The teams that are in the postseason are in the playin tournament they’re starting to gear up for the postseason meaning that they have NBA Scouts that are in the stands that are watching the Boston Celtics you know why because they need a game plan and right now they look

Vulnerable and that’s a huge that’s a huge part of why I have concern because going into the postseason you want the scotting report to say you know what we’re going to try to do this we’re going to try to do that you don’t want teams especially your opponents in the

Eastern Conference getting any type of confidence and when you look at the people that are walking down the side Sidelines meaning the head coaches that are in the Eastern Conference you have a Tom Tibido who is a great head coach you have a a exposure you have a Nick nurse

You have a Doc Rivers so Joe Missoula I know it may feel like funing games right now but you’re going to have to do your part in these clutch game moments in these times coaching against the other people on the other side of the uh Court who have little injuries like Jason

Tatum have been sitting games here and there they’re just trying to get to the finish line of this regular season because as you keep seeing they have an 11 game lead on the Bucks okay 11 game lead for second place here they they it’s really hard to keep that level of

Performance they’ve had all year long when they would benefit more from making sure their key guys have time get into the playoffs fresh aren’t burning themselves out in the regular season the problem is when you take your foot off the gas even a little bit you get games

Like this you build the big lead you think you can just hold it then you get a team like the Hawks who by the way they’re in 10th right now I’m I’m not saying we we look we don’t look at the bottom of the Eastern Conference play in

Tournament as much as we do the west but the Hawks are in 10th that could be a potential first round series again I know that they’ve had that but you don’t want to give a team like that confidence especially if it’s a team you might see

In the first round well and the Hawks are fighting for something that’s I think the thing that people greatly underestimate the Boston Celtics come to town you’re G to have more fans there it’s going to be more energy you’re fighting for something I get it but to

Stay on the Hawks the Celtics they might struggle late in games but de jante Murray does KN Murray has three buzzer beaters so far this season the first of which came on January 17th with the gamewinner over Marquel Foltz to knock over the magic that was a big big shot

And then two nights later Murray had the heat absolutely sick with this pullup three to win the game and it might have also been on Udonis Haslam’s Jersey retirement night so that makes it a little bit worse and then here on THS night the McFlurry continues with a huge

Bucket to sink the Celtics in overtime those are the games when you get to beat the Celtics you remember those for the rest of your life and look the Hawks have been without Trey young for 22 games this season and it shown some interesting Trends the Hawks have a

Winning record in those games and improved on the defensive end with de jonte Murray running the show so my thing about this is perk my question to you do jante clearly plays better when he’s the one running the show so do you think it’s time to kind of end this Trey

Young dejon Murray experiment I’ll leave it up to you big guy Richard are you asking me to get uncomfortable that’s what you’re asking me right now to have a uncomfortable conversation because you can hear The Whispers And and in all fairness to Trey young he have to expect that this

Conversation was going to come about because when you get injured and your team start to play better without you and guy is leading your team that play your position this conversation needs to be had and I think that the Atlanta Hawks is going to have to make a decision this upcoming off season

Whether they want to continue with the Jon Murray or whether they want to go with Trey young now if they decide to go with de Jon Murray and he is quin Snider guy there’s still some interesting teams out there for Trey young like the San Antonio Spurs or maybe like the Los

Angeles Lakers but do I think this this Duo right now has ran his course and it’s has come to an end I absolutely do I mean look they’re 10th in the East they’re 10th in the East and they’re playing slightly better without him in the lineup but some of that could also

Just be Clarity could be schedule could be injuries that they’ve gotten guys back from even though Trey young is out and I do think both of them will hear their name in trade talks and the biggest difference is quite frankly Trey young makes a lot more money so it’s

Harder to make a trade for Trey young than it is for dejonte and I and I think it’s when we get to the season we’ll see who the biders are I think perk you mentioned those those teams I think you’ll hear a lot more teams out there because nobody outside of Philadelphia

Or Orlando really has cap space this summer um and the only way to get a star player is probably to trade for one and there’s a lot of teams that be interested in the services of these two guys so I I expect both of them to hear

Their names it’s a function though of who wants them and what are they willing to give up because we’ve now now seen a year and a half of the of them under Quinn Snyder and he’s had an evaluation period you have to decide is it time to

Break him up but at what cost what are you getting back in return I’m not uncomfortable perk I don’t know about you my chair is comfortable my Blazer’s comfortable this is a very comfortable conversation because we’ve got two years of evidence now that deante Murray plus Trey young

Equals mediocre they areus 150 to points for the season with those two guys on the floor they just don’t add up to more than the sum of their parts they’re mediocre with Trey and deante they’re okay probably mediocre with just deante if there’s no change in the quality of

Your team you should absolutely trade one of them for as many draft picks and future assets as you can get just to stock the cupboard again with all the stuff you trade it out the door to get to jonay Murray and put this team together look it’s not a surprise really

That they haven’t taken a step back because there wasn’t that big of a step back to even take it’s not a surprise that their defense is better without Trey young and by the way Jaylen Johnson’s hurt Sadi Ba’s hurt Ana kongu is hurt like the Hawks are not whole and

That’s another reason by the way I don’t want to hear this Celtics loss last night excused by the 11 game lead and their coasting the Hawks have half their team and I watched that game start to finish the Celtics the Celtics played hard and they wanted to win that game

They were not coasting in that game they were fired up they were playing hard against a team that had half its roster basically and they still lost the Celtics are fine in the big picture of their crunch time offense is just okay it’s not a disaster it needs to be

Better but I just don’t want these Atlanta losses wiped away as oh they mean nothing it’s just the team that was coasting that team wasn’t coasting last night they wanted to win and they couldn’t [Applause] [Applause] bra

Ramona Shelburne, Kendrick Perkins and Zach Lowe join Richard Jefferson on NBA Today to react to the Atlanta Hawks’ 123-122 win over the Boston Celtics. Then, the panel debate if the Hawks should split up Dejounte Murray & Trae Young.

0:00 Celtics vs. Hawks reaction
3:30 Why do Celtics losses feel so loud?
6:30 Can the Celtics make it to the finish line?
7:30 Dejounte Murray bringing the heat
8:45 Time to end Murray/Young experiment?

#espn #nba #nbatoday

✔️Subscribe to ESPN+ http://espnplus.com/youtube
✔️ Get the ESPN App: http://www.espn.com/espn/apps/espn
✔️Subscribe to ESPN on YouTube: http://es.pn/SUBSCRIBEtoYOUTUBE
✔️ Subscribe to NBA on ESPN on YouTube: http://bit.ly/SUBSCRIBEtoNBAonESPN
✔️ Watch ESPN on YouTube TV: http://es.pn/YouTubeTV