what happened with jayson tatum is what he did to kevin durant in the first round he got punk andrew wiggins took snatched his soul in this series and you know what it's part of the reason on why you should be careful who you trained with in the off season listen both of those guys went through the same trainer at one period of time andrew wiggins was training with the same guy that trains jason tatum at this moment so guess what happens he knows his tendencies he's able to sit on his moves he's able to block
his shots he's able to defend him well this is what happens when you become so friendly that you want to work out with people in the offseason but i will say this the celtics took for granted a golden opportunity last night and now they kept saying oh this is a learning experience well i was on a young oklahoma city thunder team well we thought that it was a learning experience and guess what only one of those guys and kevin durant made it back to the finals with the exception of me but i didn't play a
role see jason tatum last in this series he had the opportunity to be a kevin durant at the age of 23 when he averaged 30 on 55 percent shooting oh he had the opportunity to be who he was at james harden when he got to the finals with the oklahoma city thunder a guy that completely vanished and completely failed inside the way from the moment have you ever have you ever pressed an app on your iphone and you wait for you like come on man i pressed the app like four minutes ago and then all
of a sudden after you press it like four minutes later it goes dude it goes everywhere like well that i almost feel like that's the way jason tatum was processing things last night like he would turn face and the move would be there for him to go but yet he would wait and then jab step it was like he was overthinking things now look i i firmly believe that jason tatum will be better for this overall but what i've seen from what i've saw from the boston celtics last two games was just it was a
major major disappointment because they they were processing everything everything the beauty of a morning like this is that we can go wherever we choose this isn't where we plan to be but it's a perfectly good place to be monica let's go there okay how about tatum who had a nightmare of a series okay so i just want to offer up this one statistic jay and not that it's an excuse cause at this point everybody is tired everybody's a little bit banged up but going into game six he and jaylen brown had played approximately 200 more
minutes than any golden state warriors player so i think fatigue was real in terms of listen in terms of depth that you can trust i do think fatigue was real now for jason to be someone who is so vocal about kobe bryant being his idol the mama mentality is no excuses it is not those last two games are not the first time we saw the celtics sort of settle for bad shots and the ball tends to stick and it doesn't move anymore it's something that they kind of dealt with throughout the entire series the last
two games it was just glaring they were able to skirt it a little bit obviously game one was terrific they dealt with it the entire season of windy let me get everybody in here wendy this is a team that was 29th out of 30 teams in the league in clutch situations which are defined as a game that is within five points in the final five minutes this was nothing new their struggles late in games but for tatum in particular this is one he's gonna have to wear he's got a long wonderful career ahead of him
and plenty of opportunity to rewrite the story but i think that windy it's gonna be a long summer he was tired he was tired i know that that's if you're not allowed to say that you were tired he was just completely gassed they played back-to-back seven-game series leading into this um you know he i think i saw something that he had run ten more miles in the postseason than steph curry had they were relying on him to do so much and he just ran out of gas you could see it at the end of game
five when he just he was shooting air balls and you could see it last night he didn't have the energy to to overcome what was in front of him and that's you know you can you can say it's some sort of flaw but it's just reality and wiggins got stronger he's one of the players that got stronger game four in this series steph curry he this this celtics team was so resilient one of the more resilient teams i've ever covered as i watched them go through this process but steph broke them uh with that game
four performance i didn't think this was a team that could break but he broke them and the warriors got stronger and the celtics got weaker and tatum was a personification of that jaywell final thoughts and say wendy as an athlete i live by this mantra no damn excuses and here's what i will say about jason tatum being tired same with jaylen brown you know in the first multiple possessions of the game guess where the celtics had a major advantage they took all those little dudes with that small lineup and they put them on the block
i wish the celtics had a maestro and that's what marcus smart should have been that says let's continue to play to our strengths instead of playing inside right focusing on inside and then making shots later instead of playing outside in like they tried to mirror golden state you're going to lose when you try to outscore going safe from the perimeter you're going to lose every time i don't want to hear anything about being tired you know why because even when they won the eastern conference finals we heard jaylen brown and jason tatum saying oh they
said we couldn't do it together well the mission wasn't complete and by the way i remember what a 35 or 36 year old lebron james and year was 17 leading the team all the way to a championship so listen i don't want to hear about being tired use this about who i have to let j will go back to kjm radio on espn radio thank you as always my man i don't know i like this conversation right here it's well done thank you for watching espn on youtube for live streaming sports and premium content subscribe
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