Trae Young and Dejounte Murray combined to score 57 points in the Atlanta Hawks’ Game 3 victory over the Boston Celtics.
Young and Murray in their first season together. Murray compared his partnership with Young to what he witnessed of Jason Tatum and Jaylen Brown.
“I don’t want to talk about Boston a lot, but I look up to Jason and Jaylen a lot,” Murray said. “Two guys who’ve been through it a lot, but they haven’t trained. And just to get to where they’re at, the level they’re at — obviously last year they went to the finals and this year they were top east — great things don’t happen overnight.
Great things take time, me and [Young] They both want to learn the game and work on the game at the same time.”
“Firstly, [it was] “Kind of knowing what they were thinking together playing each other,” Snyder said. At one point, I was like, I have to calm down. Usually when that happens, as a coach, if you feel like that and respect these guys and they communicate that way and if they’re on the same page, they’ll play with them. This is what happened to us.
“This is when we are going to play our best basketball.”
Young thought it was a step in the right direction with Murray.
“You don’t want to live in the moment too much. I mean, we won a game in qualifying, it’s a big game,” Young said. “But we’ve had some really good matches together. I don’t consider this our best match together. It’s definitely one of them, but it came at the right time and we needed it.”