{"id":395884,"date":"2023-02-02T03:20:45","date_gmt":"2023-02-02T08:20:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/ca\/?post_type=news&#038;p=395884"},"modified":"2023-02-03T10:23:22","modified_gmt":"2023-02-03T15:23:22","slug":"backed-by-murrays-21-points-hawks-roll-past-suns","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/backed-by-murrays-21-points-hawks-roll-past-suns\/","title":{"rendered":"Backed by Murray&#8217;s 21 points, Hawks roll past Suns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dejounte Murray scored 21 points, Trae Young added 20 points and 12 assists and Atlanta Hawks beat the Phoenix Suns 132-100 on Wednesday night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-75 p Component-p-0-2-66\">Atlanta&#8217;s star guart Young rose up for a 3-pointer in the second half that left his hands way too hard, hurtling toward the basket before slamming off the backboard and through the hoop.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Flying high over the desert <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/8bxl6UCiEK\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/8bxl6UCiEK<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Atlanta Hawks (@ATLHawks) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ATLHawks\/status\/1621017876881866753?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">February 2, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen you\u2019re getting downhill, moving the ball, sharing the ball, things like that can happen,\u201d Hawks coach Nate McMillan said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI thought tonight we did a good job moving the ball and getting it to the open man.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-75 p Component-p-0-2-66\">The Hawks had lost four of five games coming into the game, but played much better on both ends of the floor.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-75 p Component-p-0-2-66\">\u201cWe wanted to win really bad and knew it had to start on the defensive end,\u201d Murray said. \u201cThe defense took care of the offense.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-75 p Component-p-0-2-66\">The Hawks never trailed, jumping to a 9-4 lead with three 3-pointers. Atlanta never let up, pushing to a 102-67 advantage by the end of the third quarter and leading by 43 points in the fourth.<\/p>\n<p>Mikal Bridges scored 23 points and Deandre Ayton added 20 points and nine rebounds for the Suns.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey were a lot faster then us especially in transition and we just couldn\u2019t make a shot for whatever reason,\u201d Suns coach Monty Williams said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-75 p Component-p-0-2-66\">The Hawks visit Utah Jazz while the Suns travel to Boston on Friday night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dejounte Murray scored 21 points, Trae Young added 20 points and 12 assists and Atlanta Hawks beat the Phoenix Suns 132-100 on Wednesday [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4224,"featured_media":395886,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17176,17258,17005],"news_category":[16706,16715],"gn_keywords":[],"acf":{"announce":"Atlanta had lost four of five games coming into the game","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/395884"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4224"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=395884"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/395884\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/395886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=395884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=395884"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=395884"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=395884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}