Dejounte Murray hits consecutive game-winners for Atlanta Hawks

Dejounte Murray hits consecutive game-winners for Atlanta Hawks

Hey DJ I know that you know the pomp in circumstance of being the guy that closes out the game or or sinks the gamewinner isn’t something that you know you hold dear but just what does it say about the team’s trust in you that you

Can be that guy that can finish out the game I mean I mean for me I trust everybody uh on my team not everybody in the world but on my team but you know I see I see I see guys work every single day I see them take

Care of their body be true professionals from the guys that’s not playing to the guys that’s playing uh and then you know myself after that uh I’m in there you know I’m working take care of my body uh and then it’s a confidence thing you know for me I never lack confidence you

Know a day in my life so you know it’s great to have a bunch of guys that believe in me but you know they know that I believe in him first and then when you see uh I think it was hero switched on to Jaylen and then I think

It was Jimmy that switched on to you and Jaylen you know made the stop you were there to get the rebound what did you see on that play to take it out and transition and then pull up for the three I mean I believe in him he believe

In me uh you know we we we built a great relationship uh because just it’s it’s natural uh just being great dudes and you know uh working and playing the game the right way but you like I said most important I believe in him I believe him

On anybody uh besides me and then you know like I said just a confidence thing you know I want to go home I want to go win it and you know I just feel like I’m built for those moments you know in a humble way uh but like I said I believe

In my teammates if it was somebody else taking a shot deante first of all congrats of the for that game winner H you come here to Miami you are looking in for a playing spot and you know it’s going to be a party the arena is going to be loud and

You come through in the last quarter and get a huge win for your team what is the mentality of this team I mean first of all uh congratulations that has them uh you know he’s a a real vet real professional you know I call him a OG

You know I just want to put that out there but we want the spoil with that night tonight uh we wanted to get the win tonight you know that was that was the talk for us like you know we got to sit long at halftime whatever so let’s

Go get the win uh you know so our mentality was win no matter what uh you know like I said I believe in everybody you know we all believe in each other and then we got Quin Snider as a coach he you know he’s a he’s a monster he’s

Passionate a great man uh and you know like I said we’re going to fight we fight and we got a great win deante you hadn’t made a gamewinner since Wednesday I think um you talked about the you mentioned confidence several times but when you’re coming off

I mean you know some guys don’t get one of these a season you get two in a week what where is the confidence level right now and how much was Wednesday kind of flashing back in your mind if at all for that last shot tonight I mean I wasn’t

Worried about you know Wednesday at all you know if I’m being honest with you you know I’m an honest person uh you know when that happened it happened and it was excit you know it was exciting uh just to have your teammates you know show that love that

Real and genuine love they have for you you know like I said I’ll do the same if it was one of them uh but I moved on right after that day uh right after that shot you know because I understand this league is brutal and you know each and

Every night it’s a monster uh no matter who you’re playing it could be a team that’s the number one seed to a team that’s the last seed you know you got to fight and fight fight it’s the NBA so you know like I said for me I moved on

It’s a confidence thing and I didn’t know it was going to be that situation tonight uh I feel like if we made a couple of our good looks we win the game uh you know not even without a game shot so a game winning shot so you know at

The end of day it’s a confidence thing and I’m just glad you know that I was able to come through for my teammates and overall like you hit again you hit that big three but you guys I scoring from three you guys hit 15 they hit 12 and how about the confidence

Overall from three-point L as a team Quin Snider is our coach he’s our coach you know he he loves that three ball uh he he’s pushing it in practice the right way though you know not trying to force dudes he’s just a a coach that you know he he believes in

His guys and he he’s a a coach that builds confidence in his guys if he see you like that no matter who you are uh so he said if you open take a 100 of them in a row if you’re wide open he and when you have a coach believe in you

Know everybody like that but he also see the work every single day so you know at the end of the day you going to make shots you’re going to miss shots you know it went our way tonight and we got a great win versus a great team did J

First of all coach was just here saying that you guys were not trying to spoil any party so I’m glad that you were trying to spoil the party cuz like that competitive spirit in the NBA we need that let me tell you something the coaches got their locker room we got our

Locker room there you go but H’s OG that being said um of course you’ve been talking about confidence and it’s been a common theme right now but a lot of players around the league have recently been talking about where they get their clutch from and it’s very interesting to

See where that comes from because everybody has it from a different route where does the clutch come from you in your life and your career as a player I mean I I’ve always been a leader I never followed nobody followed no Trends a day

In my life since I was a kid my whole family you know the whole state of Washington where I’m from Seattle they all tell you you know I always was somebody that was confident uh a leader and uh you know I believed in myself no matter what you know when I was poor

Homeless uh to where I’m at now uh successful man you know uh it’s nothing changed I’m just growing and maturing and trying to be as great as I can you know off the floor and on the floor last one Hey DJ um this was just one of your guys’ strongest defensive outings

Tonight just what would you say worked for you guys to kind of try and slow them down as much as you can say it again this was one of the strongest defensive nights you guys have had just what was working for you guys was it the communication was it just the

Connectivity what would you say worked well for you guys on the defensive end I mean you said it the communication uh like I said we believe in each other you know uh around that locker room and I think communication is the main key uh you know no matter what from off the

Floor to under the floor it will it will translate uh and we were talking and I think the biggest part of it though tonight you know when they made tough shots we didn’t hang our head uh even when we were down nine several different times uh in crucial moments we never

Hung our head or we never gave up uh we said let’s win the game we’re going to win the game and we won the game together yeah

“I just feel like I’m built for these moments.”

Dejounte Murray hit game-winners against the Orlando Magic and Miami Heat in back-to-back games.

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