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Dejounte Murray takes many subliminal shots at Trae Young & Hawks
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But just, it's something for me, like, when I know I'm playing defense, but also, you got a group of guys playing defense. It's just, it's just something you can't teach. In the feeling of that, just knowing that we're competing on who's guarding the best guy, or you knowing that, you know, you got your teammates back, that's important. So, you know, I love defense, you know, but it's it's a team thing. You can have one guy playing defense or two, and the rest, nothing happens. So, you know, I'm excited to come. Like I said, this group all competes. Everybody wants to defend. Everybody wants to share the ball. You know, I pay attention every day. First, I was going to say he's not taking any digs, but then the last part of it. Absolutely was. Perhaps he was. He was using some verbal judo. Yeah, you know, the beginning, I was like, all right. And then the ending was not subtle. I mean, nothing was subtle, but he said anything he said all day. He went on, he said other stuff as well about how he's just a player. He's not trying to be a GM. He doesn't care about front office, lead it to the front office. I mean, there was jab after jab. And I'm sorry. But if you don't, if you're too obtuse to understand who he's talking about, then, you know, your head's buried up somewhere. And maybe it's a certain player's case, because bum bum bum, because he took shot after shot at Trey Young. There's no other way to look at it. When you say playing defense is something you can't teach. What does that mean to you? That means that tells me that it's an effort thing and you've got to want to do everything. And you can't teach it somewhat. But positioning whatever. But if you're athletic enough to create your own shot, you're athletic enough to move and play defense. But you can't teach someone effort that you have to have want to. You can't, you can't take someone who doesn't want to work and say, Oh, you've got to work and make them that does. That's not how it works. It just that's just not it. That doesn't work. And it's not working here in our defense. He, you know, he, he also talked about sharing the ball. I mean, what was that about? Do you think that was? I mean, I think that's the problem for me is I think Trey Young's one of the three best pastors in the game of basketball. I agreed. But sharing the ball means more than just dishing it. It means not having to have it in your hands at every point, um, bringing it down the court when, when the ball, when the ball, the ball doesn't go through you offensively. And some people know, I think that's what, you know, Trey Young's is the point guard. The ball should go through him. However, when you bring a guy in that you won't like De Jante Murray, where you sign off on, where you have to go meet with before the move is agreed upon. And then you don't share the ball. I don't know how else to take those comments other than De Jante Murray wasn't happy. I also read in what I think was Adrian Warginowski's article on ESPN that Rich Paul, who is De Jante Murray's agent, tried to get the pelicans to trade for De Jante Murray before last season. Yeah. Which tells me De Jante Murray wanted out after one season in this organization. Well, I guess to his credit, he wasn't complaining while he was still here, not openly, not openly, because he's not a GM. As he said, he goes, I play basketball. I leave the front office stuff to the front office people. You listening LeBron, do you like a player leaving and then deciding to maybe peel back the curtain or say what his truth is? Well, yeah, there's nothing wrong. It's probably in the way you do it. If you really sound completely bitter, maybe mute that a little bit, but no, it was perfectly appropriate. And it gives us something juicy to talk about too. So I'm I'm all for it. Yeah. Bring on the chaos. I think John John Collins last year did a but yeah, he did. But Tiffany, he didn't do it as well as this. Yeah. He he did it in his opening press conference and seemed extremely bitter. Which I don't blame him. Yes. Yeah. I don't either. If I'd have been trade bait for three years and they're walking on eggshells, if I'm going to walk in today and find out I've been traded. And how many times did it come out when his in the last three years of his tenure here that him and trading get along? And it was an open now. So I don't block DJ did it is classy. And as as well as you could do it, you know, like, I I've always just liked him. I think there's a maturity about him. There's a wisdom and he's a leader too. Trying to figure out what to eat for dinner yet again with nor sides and bullion as you're not so secret ingredient, you can skip the drive through and do dinner at home. 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