Perk on the Hawks splitting up Dejounte Murray & Trae Young 🗣️ ‘The duo needs to end!’ | NBA Today

Perk on the Hawks splitting up Dejounte Murray & Trae Young 🗣️ ‘The duo needs to end!’ | NBA Today

The Hawks have been without Trey young for 22 games this season and it’s shown some interesting Trends the Hawks have a winning record in those games and improved on the defensive end with the jonte Murray running the show so my thing about this is perk my question to

You Deonte 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 de Jon Murray experiment I’ll leave it up to you big guy Richard are you actually 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 the 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 de jonte Murray or whether they want to go

With Trey young now if they decide to go with de jonte 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 the 10th in the East and they’re playing slightly better without him in the lineup but some of that could also just be Clarity it 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 bids are I think perk you mentioned those those teams I think you’ll hear a lot more teams out there because no 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 seen a year and a half of of them under Quinn Snyder and he’s had an evaluation period you have to decide is it time to break them 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 Deon Murray plus Trey young equals mediocre they are minus 150 total 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 traded out the door to get to Jon 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 sad B hurt Ana conu is hurt like the Hawks are not whole and that’s another reason by the way I don’t want to hear this Celtics lost last night excused by the 11 game lead and

Their coasting the Hawks have half their team and I watch 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 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 [Applause] [Applause] couldn’t

Ramona Shelburne, Kendrick Perkins and Zach Lowe join Richard Jefferson on NBA Today to discuss whether the Atlanta Hawks should value Dejounte Murray over Trae Young.

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