Jamal Murray has made Celtics salted by an impudent gunning for 50

Celtics-Nuggets was very, very fun. Kyrie Irving cooked. Jamal Murray cooked. Nobody else really got it and the game became an opportunity to meet two sublime shooters. Murray had the upper hand on the game, recording 48 points, a career-high, including 19 in the fourth quarter, which will take the Nuggets to a ninth win in ten games.

With Murray, we've always seen the case of a goalkeeper resembling Kyrie / Steph, able to burn the house with brave trios and use the threat of his rider to pull himself out of the game, which already made it very spicy. The entire repertoire was presented from the mark of nine minutes of the fourth quarter tonight, and the Celtics were simply powerless to slow it down. Boston was getting closer to a point on a difficult Kyrie turn, but Murray did the same and imposed an even tougher turnaround over Jayson Tatum to bring the score to three. A few minutes later, after the Celtics scored two points off, Murray threw a trey on Marcus Morris to push Denver by two possessions. Less than a minute later, the Celtics mutilated their cover of a pick-and-roll, protecting themselves too aggressively, especially against the corral Murray. Murray then added three more opponents to bring the score to eight. When the Celtics started changing jobs, Murray lost Al Horford on a wild pied-à-terre for another intermediate ranger. After the Celtics made a more concerted effort after that to prevent the imbalance with Horford, Murray expelled Marcus Smart with a crossover and fell into an incredibly sporty layup on Jaylen Brown.

And he did not finish! An aggressive use of a high screen forced Horford to come back, so Murray withdrew the ball and attacked Horford one-on-one for another ball into the bucket. In the next possession, while Smart fought hard to deny the ball deep, Murray tried a difficult grip, then led the middle to perform an acrobatic reversal by contact. The Celtics threw the kitchen sink on Murray, sometimes swiveling and reversing the course from one possession to the other. All Murray did was shoot 8 times out of 12 during this period to push Denver out of reach of the exasperated Celtics. Brad Stevens, looking stunned, said after the game that the Celtics "tried a lot of different things," but that Murray "cooked us pretty much all night".

But that was not all the praise of the Celtics. Murray had a crazy little summit at the last minute and ended up pissing off several Celtics players along the way. The Celtics lost eight points and less than 30 seconds on the clock, Paul Millsap managed a defensive rebound on Terry Rozier, desperate, and passed to Murray in the backyard. The Celtics have tracked the ball, and for a moment there watched as if they were trying to make a mistake, but Murray escaped in mid-field. Sensing his luck at a 50-point match, Murray ran down the track and pitched a wild, needless and unfortunate reverse overlay. Then, in the final seconds, Murray threw the three desperate, still shooting at 50. Neither attempt had the slightest impact on the outcome of the match, which certainly explains the tries. were considered unsportsmanlike by, among othersKyrie Irving, who took the ball and threw it angrily into the stands.

Murray is a painful winner, but he is also a formidable young player, capable of transcendent offensive explosions, and as long as he wins his victories at the expense of the Lakers and Celtics, the honest people of the world will be fine with her.