“When You Have SMOKE with Anthony Edwards” 😤

“When You Have SMOKE with Anthony Edwards” 😤

Anthony Edwards versus Jason Tatum in my humble opinion this is the next great player rivalry in the NBA that is brewing at the moment why do I say this well while these guys may not be exchanging Jabs at each other through the media their competitive fire in head-to-head matchups is evident on the

Court at age 22 Edwards has ditched the young and upand cominging player narrative and is moved into franchise player Superstar territory and that’s a scary thought for the rest of the league considering that Ant-Man is still a few years away from when most players enter their Prime after two first round

Playoff exits over the last two seasons he’s bolstered Minnesota to a new level and they’ve held the number one seed throughout a majority of the 2023 2024 season with the Wolves likely to finish among the West’s top teams it’s evident that with the way Edwards has elevated

His game he’s not content with being considered next up among the best young players in the league but he wants to prove that his time is now now and to be considered among the best players period and to be considered among the best you have to beat the best enter 25-year-old

Jason Tatum who’s at the Forefront of his Prime in his seventh year in the league the man is already a playoff vet at this point having reached the postseason every year of his career logging 94 starts 52 of them wins 42 of them losses and 35 double doubles in the

Most important games of each year being regularly called the best player on the best team in the league this is the guy Anthony Edwards voluntarily chose to line himself up across from on November 6 2023 and said luckily he caught me up for ISO and

Tried to ISO me and I’m like I play defense I just got five fouls you know what I’m saying so I had to show him that I can play defense with he was talking smack at Jump baller overtime and I told him like coming again this is

The exact moment that a rivalry was born and many folks started to give the Competitive Edge to Ant-Man over JT based on the way he closed the fourth quarter in OT after all according to Edwards Tatum talked trash and didn’t back it up but fast forward to January

10th 2024 and Tatum had a chance to redeem himself and let’s just say their second matchup of the season in Boston was just as good if not better than the first and as far as the Redemption Part went for Tatum well how are Tatum takes his time knocks it down but go ahead

Knock down the big one the Mean Mug and kiss him good night yeah I think this pretty much sums it up but what if we took a step back and evaluated the entirety of their matchups does the broader context of History tell a different story than their two matchups this season after

Watching this video you be the judge of if the Anthony Edwards versus Jason Tatum matchup is the next great player rivalry in the NBA and at this point if it’s fair to say that even Nei one of these guys owns this matchup all right let’s pause for a

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Have made about each other as of late one thing stands out pretty clearly he is one of my favorite guys are watching the league you know how explosive and talented he is and um continues to get better each and every year um and I just like how he competes he competes on both

Ends of the floor you see how tat look on TV t look big on TV muscle is my Flex that’s T I respect yep complimenting game and muscles I’m not sensing any smoke here but hold that thought admitted it’s more and more difficult to find intense player and team rivalries in today’s NBA because based on what we’ve seen in the past from matchups like young Jordan versus bird Jordan versus magic Jordan

Versus the bad boy Pistons okay basically anybody who challenged MJ was going to face that smoke but outside of that there’s Kobe versus LeBron Kobe’s Lakers versus the Celtics LeBron’s Cavs versus the Celtics Cavs Warriors in the finals for four straight years and so many more that you can comment down

Below but the overarching point is that these memorable long sustained rivalries are harder to come by in today’s landscape with players switching teams more often but I’m here to say that if you look close enough you’ll still find him in today’s league and that’s exactly why I made the video on the current

Greatest player rivalry of Luca donic versus Devin Booker which I’ll link below and that’s exactly why I’m making this video on Edwards vers Tatum as well remember the thought said to hold on to earlier yep complimenting game and muscles I’m not sensing any smoke here yeah sure there isn’t any smoke to sense

Based on their statements to the media but don’t let that take away from the fact that these are both A1 competitors okay they can admire each other’s games and even muscles mus muscle is my FX that’s t on but I don’t change the fact that these guys want to dominate against

Each other every time they face off and if trash talking and elevating your level of play after it isn’t a sign of some competitive smoke then I don’t know what is people and their matchups with each other got off to a roaring start from the very jump It’s April 9th 2021

Normally that’s during the last week of the NBA season but not this year due to a push back start in December 2020 so you know what that means meaningful regular season basketball in mid April especially for a Celtics team that was fing for a playoff spot at the time okay

Couple things about this game Tatum received a tech for bounce in the ball too high after a foul call and go figure Ant-Man and JT’s first match up against each other was an overtime game I guess some things just don’t change man well I guess D’Angelo Russell banking in a

Three to go to OT isn’t something you see that often but still you know what was unchanged was the fact that Ant-Man and JT bowled out against each other a rookie Edwards dropped 245 and five and Tatum posted a career high at the time 53 points on

64% from the field with 6 threes Boston W 145 136 Tatum 1 and0 in the season series they’d face off again just about a month later on May 15th 2021 for the first time in Minnesota and don’t quote me here but I believe that this was their first and will be their only

Matchup played with an actual car on display in the arena what anyway this one didn’t mean anything to the playoff standings for Boston but Tatum still put in that work jop 26 points and 11 rebounds while Edwards responded with 23 points and four assists while this Minnesota team was let’s just say not

Good this season Boston was short-handed on this night so there was a chance for the Wolves I mean just look at the names on Boston’s active roster in this one still Tatum’s 26 was good enough to lead all scores and help Boston easily secure

Their Road win 124 to 128 JT up 20 in the series you know something else you could easily secure with just a few clicks or taps notifications for each future upload of mine along with updates I post via community polls and YouTube shorts so seriously if you enjoy this

Content you want to see more like it you know what to do leave a like on this video Hit subscribe thank you so much for tuning in the two would face each other only once in the 2021 2022 season on March 27th 2022 and once again Jason

Tatum went off 34 minutes of 34 points on over 57% from the field to go along with 53s this High sweeping between the legs step back four-point play against d’ Angelo Russell being one of them yes Anthony Edwards LED Minnesota in scoring with 24 points on over 56% from the

Field but it was all Celtics on this night as they won big 134 to 112 3 nothing Tatum Edwards wouldn’t get another shot at Tatum until two days before Christmas in 2022 and this time he turned in his best performance yet 30 points six rebounds and four assists on

52 2% shooting with no Carl Anthony towns in the lineup Edwards was on an absolute heater in the third quarter putting the spin cycle on Derek white to the floater then he hit Tatum with the between the legs step back to the three in his eye mismatch with Al Horford up

Top don’t disrespect him like that to the rim with a punch and I’ll just let you listen to this one quick shot and rattle home another three and a quick timeout and he’s taken by the Celtics yep that was directed straight toward the Boston bench an would keep it going in the third

Offensively and defensively blocking Tatum on a drive to the basket but once again JT was right there to match his performance and then some he also turned in a 30-point night and added eight rebounds and five assists Jaylen Brown was on a heater in this one as well

Dropping 36 and when the Jays both score over 30 they are tough to beat and Boston went on to win 121 to 109 Tatum 4-0 against Edwards all time they’d meet again on March 15th 2023 and this one would go down to the wire in their closest match up against each other to

This point Tatum struggled for the first time in this match up posting just 22 points on four of 16 from the field that’s only 25% shooting he did haul in 12 boards though so if recording a double double means you’re struggling then that’s a sign of a professional in

My book despite no Carl towns again Ant-Man played great 28 points 10 rebounds and seven assists he shot 50% from the field and drained 5 threes this was his best chance to defeat Tatum for the first time and he had a shot to take the lead with about 33 seconds remaining

But it fell off Boston walked out of their 104 102 Victors pushing tatums Mark to 5-0 against Edwards all time and that brings us back to November 6th 2023 Boston came into this one unbeaten at 5-0 in Minnesota was looking to defeat another finals favorite after taking

Down Denver just two games prior numbers aside for a moment just watching the intensity Anthony Edwards played with in this one we could all tell that this game meant a lot to him and the way he performed was both key to the outcome of this game and could be seen as a PSA

Allowed me to reintroduce myself to the world that Minnesota was ready to be taken seriously as a contender in the west Edwards posted 38 points on 60% from the field to go along with nine rebounds and seven assists but it was his late game her that stood out most

And the Wolves needed them because Jason Tatum well he was balling once again for Boston he had 32 points on 54 and a half% shooting five rebounds and five steals 12 of JT’s points came in the fourth and this helped push the game to OT and that’s when this happened luckily

He caught me up for ISO and tried to ISO me and I’m like I play defense I just got five FS you know what I’m saying so I had to show him that I can play defense but he was talking smack at Jump baller overtime and and I told him like

Coming again that’s right with five fouls Edwards accepted the defensive challenge of guarding Tatum and forced him into a jump ball situation ant would win that jump ball and then proceeded to find Mike connley for the go- aad three not only did Edwards lock in defensively

In OT he went on an absolute heater plain and simple he had eight points in the extra period the dude was feeling it so much so that he ignored a wideopen Kyle Anderson spun through a double team and knocked down the midi bro all five guys could have been guarding this man

On this possession and this man was still going to shoot the rock ain’t nothing was going to stop him he was going to shoot it Minnesota prevails 114 to 109 to give Edwards his first career win against Tatum and a signature win at that all right so this was the backdrop

To their most recent matchup on January 10th 2024 in Boston you want to tell me that the OT loss in November wasn’t providing some extra motivation for Tatum heading into this one go ahead but I beg to differ although it was Tatum in the Celtics who were expected to bounce

Back it was Edwards in Minnesota who get this were without Mike connley and Rudy goar and on the second night of a backtack the team got into Boston at 1:00 a.m. in the morning of the game day for crying out loud they were the ones

Who held a 106 to 97 lead with 335 remaining in the fourth but JT would not be denied he posted 14 points in the fourth quarter compared to ant-man’s five and barely missed the fadea away midi to win the game so another overtime would ensue and in this OT period it

Would be Edwards who got locked up Tatum and brown did a great job of Defending Atman as he went 0 for three with no points and tonight was just a night where we know we playing against a young superstar in Anthony Edwards where you know he’s going to be aggressive he’s

Young he seeks matchups like this you know he wants to play against big names and big teams cuz it’s an opportunity for him to to Showcase his greatness and you know my whole thing was not tonight can’t let him you know do do what he’s been doing to everybody else to us

Especially after the first match up I think he got the best of us in that first match up and tonight you know we wasn’t having it so any chances that you know we could get a guy to turn him over take Eli shots he made some tough ones

Still um but I thought we did a good job on him as a team but you know I definitely took the was the stink on the head on that at the end of the day it was too much JT the man had 12 points in

The OT alone that upped his total to 26 points in the fourth quarter and overtime of this one combined all adding up to his grand total of 45 points on 50% shooting with 6 threes Boston prevailed 127 to 120 to start the season 18-0 at home their best home start in

Franchise history and a bounceback performance like this leads to tweets like this albeit from a Celtics focused account but still when Anthony Edwards outplayed Jason Tatum in the Celtics in an OT win it vaulted him into the MVP combo me he was the new future of the league and Tatum’s window was closed

What does it mean now that Tatum outplayed Edwards in an OT win does it work the other way now Tatum is 6- one in his career against Ant-Man and I know Boston has been far better than Minnesota over the years so if head-to-head record doesn’t carry much

Weight to you let’s look at the head-to-head numbers against each other Edwards has averaged 28 points on nearly 52% from the floor to go along with 6.4 rebounds and 5.4 assists per game while Tatum has posted averages of 34.6 points on 49% from the floor to go along with

7.9 rebounds and 3.3 assists per game in their matchups I’m going to leave it up to y’all okay with everything presented in this video would you say that the Anthony Edwards versus Jason tatm matchup is the next great player rivalry in the NBA and at this point is it fair

To say that either one of these guys owns this matchup sound off in the comments with your take and I’ll be reading and replying to y’all’s responses and I’ll be back with another episode of topic tackle coming soon as always stay solid People

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