Jaylen Brown made a snatch shot with a defender draped all over him.
Six seconds later, Dejounte Murray one-upped him.
Right after Brown drained a pull up jumper from the right elbow to push the Celtics beforehand by way of one with 6.6 seconds left in overtime, Murray answered with the biggest shot of the night at the other end. Out of a timeout, Murray went one-on-one with Jrue Holiday and created simply enough house to get off a jumper from straight away and 21 feet out in advance of the buzzer.
This shot, which marked Murray’s 44th of the night, swished via the internet no matter the fact that Holiday’s left hand used to be touching Murray’s belly as he rose up from the ground, and regardless of the truth that Holiday contested the shot flawlessly with that identical left hand.
Murray’s shot fell via the internet with 0.1 seconds last on the clock to furnish Atlanta with a 123-122 lead. Boston called for a timeout and superior the ball to midcourt, but the possibilities of changing on a lob to the rim with that lots time final used to be nearly zero percent.
Derrick White wound up lobbing the ball in and he truely made a shot from out of bounds. That is technically a turnover, which sealed Atlanta’s fourth straight win.
Key Player
Jayson Tatum logged the trifecta Thursday night by using main the Celtics in all three primary categories.
