The Atlanta Hawks got here into Monday’s sport towards the New Orleans Pelicans on a three-game win streak. They’re heading to Milwaukee for a Wednesday assembly with the Bucks on a four-game win streak after defeating New Orleans 124-112.
Murray took the final shot of the primary half and it was an airball and left the court docket to boos.
Former Hawks guard and fan favourite Dejounte Murray was within the beginning lineup for the Pelicans. Making his return to State Farm Enviornment after getting traded to New Orleans, Murray obtained the “Thank You” video montage remedy halfway via the primary quarter. There have been smatterings of boos and cheers through the one-minute spotlight movie that featured Murray hitting a few game-winning pictures for the Hawks throughout his season-and-a-half in Atlanta. Murray didn’t waste his solely sport of the season in Atlanta, scoring 5 factors, grabbing 4 rebounds, and shelling out 4 assists through the first quarter to assist lead New Orleans to a 28-26 benefit.
Pelicans guard CJ McCollum scored six straight factors to present his group a 42-35 lead at 7:17 mark of the second quarter. Hawks rookie Zaccharie Risacher stored Atlanta within the sport with a number of dunks and a reverse layup. Risacher, the primary total decide within the draft, got here into the sport averaging 11.6 factors and simply over three rebounds per sport.
The sport was additionally a homecoming of types for Pelicans ahead Brandon Boston, Jr., who performed a part of his highschool basketball profession at Norcross Excessive College. Boston and McCollum led all Pelicans scorers with 14 factors at halftime.
The third quarter started with the groups buying and selling leads and the Hawks down by two factors, 71-69, on the 6:19 mark. Atlanta’s main scorer, Trae Younger, had solely scored 4 factors at that time of the sport. A floater within the lane and a three-pointer from Younger prolonged the Atlanta result in 80-73 late within the quarter. The seven-point lead was the Hawks’ largest of the sport to that time.
De’Andre Hunter, the most well liked Hawks scorer through the three-game win streak, discovered his mark late within the third quarter as effectively, connecting on consecutive three-point makes an attempt to present Atlanta its first double-digit lead of the sport. The lead can be seven factors on the finish of the quarter due to a drive and rating from second-year guard Kobe Bufkin. Hunter scored a team-high 22 factors through the sport, his common through the win streak.
Behind the stats: Trae Younger solely scored 12 factors through the sport, however completed with 15 assists and eight rebounds. “I can impression the sport in a number of methods,” Younger stated after the sport.
What’s Subsequent: The Hawks will host the Los Angeles Lakers on Friday, Dec. 6 and the Denver Nuggets on Sunday, Dec. 8.
