Inside the NBA | Tatum deserves to be in MVP race – Shaq reacts to Celtics blow out Clippers 145-108

Inside the NBA | Tatum deserves to be in MVP race – Shaq reacts to Celtics blow out Clippers 145-108

Stole the show the way I can do just a good a job some night no we don’t want you out this yeah right he was an offici I know Trel I can tell you that hey stay here with us man come on don’t do that don’t do that let’s check in with Tatum

After the game Jason there were some moments in that game was vintage battle between you and Paul George what does it mean coming in here getting a win against a team with that much star power including Daniel TI who’s been playing that well I mean this is a really really talented

Team right they got four future Hall of Famers even though kaai was out theight uh and I think the last two years we lost here so it was good to come back here and get a win um and I was just happy to come back out here and be able

To play today I know it killed you missing that last game and then in the first half you get you tweak that ankle again how did it feel coming in how are you feeling now uh I mean I felt well enough to play you know not as quite as

Well as my right ankle but uh you know it it definitely healed up a lot over the last couple days and uh I just wanted to come out here and play play offensively you guys put up 144 points on Wednesday 145 today what’s gone to another level uh I mean we’ve been

Playing the right way and you know we just been shooting the ball really well and I think we continue to create advantages and everybody on the court can shoot um it’s hard to help against us and it’s hard to go guard guys oneon-one so uh you know we just create

A lot of problems next up is a matchup on Christmas Day against LeBron James and the Lakers how much do you cherish I mean you never missed a Christmas day in the NBA how much you cherish those moments I’m looking forward to it right playing against LeBron playing against

The Lakers on Christmas Day prom time uh you know that’s what it’s all about so it going to be a lot of fun well there were quarters where the Clippers actually got more shot attempts with the Celtics caught fire they shot really well from the field knocking down

Three-pointers in their wins and losses there’s a huge difference with their three-point shooting they’re shooting 40% as a team from three in the wins and 29.5% in losses they shot 47% tonight from three by the way speaking of 47 47 is the number of made three-pointers in

The last two games it’s a franchise record over the course of two games you know what I don’t like about that Brendan by what is that they’re good enough to where they shouldn’t rely on just three-point shooting and win games because that’s going to come a stretch

Come to playoff time we see it every year that’s right every year come playoff T Miami teams that rely on a three-point shot they have a three or four game series where they can’t throw it in Ocean from the three-point line this Celtics team is good enough to wear

If they have a stretch like that they can still win because they’re so talented from top to bottom don’t just relow your three-point shooting you can get to the free throw line you can get out in transition you got guys that can not only shoot the three but can play

From the mid-range can post up use all the talent available to you because at some point you’re going to have a series where a team is going to lock you down from the three-point line or you’re just not going to be shooting the well you

Know how the NBA is and and when you have that moment the great teams which they have a chance to be a great team they can still win think back to like what was it like maybe like five six years ago now to that Houston Rockets

Team that James Harden was on when they played Golden State I think what they missed like they missed like 27 a row 27 straight three so to your point you have to diversify your portfolio you have to be able to be like yeah we can shoot the

Three but on nights when that three isn’t falling we can get in the lane we can shoot our mid-range shots we can post up you got to have a fast ball and a curveball that’s would have come down and a change up that bet them the other

Night on TNT in Golden State when they went to overtime they were settling for jumpers maybe they were good shots of course some of them were open as well but they weren’t falling there was 12 consecutive shots missed between the two teams in overtime and they ended up

Losing the game why do you do that when you have three guys that can get to the paint Drew holiday Tatum and brown on any team and Drew and Drew can post up small had five fouls too so go to state with no rim protector zero so again

That’s something that Joe Missoula has got to stay on this team cuz Brena a lot of teams in the league when they’re shooting it well from the three-point line can win that’s just about every team in this league but the teams that separate themselves the great teams the

Good teams can win when that three balls that b and I think too coach Missoula has emphasized the attention to detail defensively playing Inside Out basketball they talk about the new Celtics way are you feeling the effects of his touch on this team would not going to see it into the

Playoffs we really won’t because they’re so talented they’re going to win that sh regular season game they either going to have the best record or the second best record we’re not going to see the coaching and what this team is all about until we get to playoff time that’s when

It’s going to matter because that’s when it’s going to change on a night toight basis with that Talent they’re going to win games because they’re more talented than other people but where we’re going to see it is come playoff time and that’s when the chess match start with

All these coaches and we saw Eric fosa last year take a team that we thought had no chance of winning and just steamroll their way all the way to the NBA final so again if you don’t diversify like Brendan said you can put yourself in position because history

Will will repeat itself if you let it well you hear the right quotes right it’s a long season there’s a lot of ups and downs we have to keep getting better each day but are you actually doing it and not just getting better better individually but are you learning from

Your mistakes are you learning from those close overtime losses and I did like the way they bounced back after the Golden State game on this really long stretch over the holidays on a West Coast Swing against Sacramento and then again tonight they showed some resiliency all right a lot more games to

Get what do you like about the way that Joel embiid has embraced the challenge of being an MVP and and knowing that everybody’s going to bring their best against you and really embracing that this season so far I think for me Brendon the first thing is that his shot

Selection right he’s not living at the three-point line he’s realized that from 15 ft in there’s no one can guard him yeah occasionally he’ll step out there and take a three but he’s doing all his work 15 ft in he’s dominating second defensively he is shutting down the lane

He’s blocking shots and then when he play against the big boys that night when they played Minnesota persono that’s the game that was must CV and that’s what you want when your team your best players playing against another team star player and those two teams Collide you want to see

Who’s the best and Joel embid to me he rises to occasion the better the competition the better he play he took it to Minnesota and right now think about this he’s playing on a level that we haven’t seen since will chamain 35 will chamin people think about that 35

12 and six that’s what I’m looking at leading the NBA scoring top tier rebound as well but then he’s getting six dims he’s getting as many assists as some as your favorite point guards so Steph Curry is only add Aver four and a half

Talk to him and so when you got the big fell and he’s dominated I’m with you I like the fact that he’s spending a little bit more more time 15 ft on there yeah you can take some of those faded ways but he’s taking easier fade ways

They’re faded ways with one foot in the paint easier shots I love the fact that Nick nurse sometimes coming out of timeouts they’re running weak side duckin plays where big fell has to just duck in get big score or get fail why do why did that like go away from the NBA

People were acting like the ducking when I played even when you played was one of the easiest ways for an elite post player to establish Swing Swing quick duck in SW Swing Swing and the big ducks in big in the lane two feet in the lane

And you would get guys like they were all out on the three-point line exactly guys like Yao Ming Shaq all these guys would take advantage of those opportunities and now we’re starting to see Joel embiid use some of those moves as well Joker already does that and now

Embiid is doing that that’s why he’s taking his score to the next level he’s looking like he might be a MVP back let tell what he doing he looking like he got that MVP trophy from last year and he ain’t going to let it go he’s going

To keep that thing cuz so much as we’ve seen his depends on the health too and I think some of those fade way threes settling for threes it was from being tired it was from being hurt all those factor into settling for jumpers and and getting out of your comfort zone and the

More of those you missed the more it affects your confidence good sign last night he goes down he rolls his ankle yeah any other year Jordan be would not have come back in that game and probably missed missed the next game he got up he came back played and played unbelievable

Basketball going forward throughout the game that tells me that these guys understand that 65 game threshold means a lot because if you don’t play 65 ain’t no MVP ain’t no first second or third all NBA and that’s important and now what you’re seeing these guys are strapping it up playing every night the

Most important too is he’s staying healthy he’s embracing the challenge of coming back from a minor ing injury like you just said he is scoring more points than he is playing minutes so he’s getting it done efficiently say that louder for the people in the back say

That again AL say that again he’s averaging more points than minutes per game to I’ve never heard in the history of the NBA a guy a more points than that’s efficiency and that’s that’s your body to make it all the way to postseason to normally the form is the

More minutes I get the more points I can score Jo and beid right now is saying no you don’t have to do that and I like like you said the efficiency shooting 54% from the field look at early in Joel’s career he would have those years where he’d be scoring but he’d be

Shooting below 50% now he’s he’s getting that field goal percentage up to where it should be up to where the elite bigs when Elite bigs are in their Prime they’re shooting 55 50 6 57% and they’re still getting their 28 to 30 he’s announced he’s in that category when

We’re talking about the Elijah ones the David Robinson in the Sha well he’s that for this era and he has announced that with what he’s done the last couple of Seasons so total points over total minutes it’s only been done once before over the course of a whole season it was

1961 welt Chamberlin still what do we keep who do we keep comparing them to will chamelin all right so how about Tyrese Maxi he’s a huge part of the success that that they’re having and he will be if they want to make a postseason run his maturity his decision

Making have you liked what you’ve seen so far yeah I like what tyres Max has been doing and it’s because when James Harden left I wasn’t sure if young F was really willing not willing but ready to take over her team and there’s a lot on

His shoulders and it’s not like this was a guy that played point guard in college he played a lot of combo he didn’t have to when he was at Kentucky he wasn’t like hey I’m just the the lead guard and everybody plays off me he was just kind

Of that scoring guy so sometimes when guys get more opportunities when their scores they don’t really understand how to manage their scoring and playmaking and giving it up getting it back and things of that nature but he’s doing great he’s getting downhill he’s efficient he’s averaging 26 points per

Game and more importantly he’s got that bounce and that energy it’s like he he raises the tide when he walk when you talk to the coaching staff that was previously there the coaching staff that’s there now and even the coaching staff at Kentucky they talk about just

The energy that he brings not on the court but off the Court he he lights up a room and you know how that is when it’s a long season you got that guy that’s one of your top tier guys but he lifts everybody up that means something

Man I think you got to give Doc Rivers and James Harden some credit for Tyrese Maxi playing the way he’s playing I remember last year before training camp me and the bill went down and saw that training camper interview Maxi and all he talked about was James how James was

Teaching him and and making him understand when you’re pushing the rock what to look for in certain situations and then Doc Rivers how Doc Rivers had been on him about taking more of a lead and stuff and so now when you look at Maxi under Nick nurse it has all come

Together and you know we kind of laugh when we call him Tyrese Maxi cuz he’s getting ready to get maxed out he is going to make first second or third Team all NBA the way he’s playing right now he deserves it he’s the only other the young guys that was eligible for an

Extension that didn’t get heals for all other reasons not had nothing to do with his play but this summer he’s going to get taken care of and I’m telling you man Philadelphia right now now who’s going to want to play them from the second round end because you got to deal

With those two guys we saw a two-head monster like Jamal Murray and the Joker running that high screening Road was unguardable those two guys because Joel and B can do the same thing the Joker can do he can do it with a little bit more athleticism he’s not a greater

Passer but he can pop and shoot the three yes he can roll to the mid post and score he can roll all the way to the basket and Tyrese Maxi can come off that screen and shoot or get down here it’s going to be tough to play those two guys

When they get you in that high screen road because they’re lethal he’s averaging 26 points a game and seven assists and he is fearless and to your point about the uplift and energy he brings doc riverse told us a season ago he said I yell at him and he just looks

To being and smiles he I never know if he’s upset or taking me seriously because he smiles at everything and he said he gets it from his grandma and that’s who he is and it’s been good for this team so far crumble I’m going to attack you have defeated an enemy double

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Inside the NBA | Tatum deserves to be in MVP race – Shaq reacts to Celtics blow out Clippers 145-108