The Celtics ‘ABSOLUTELY’ need more from Jayson Tatum! – Chiney Ogwumike | NBA Today

The Celtics ‘ABSOLUTELY’ need more from Jayson Tatum! – Chiney Ogwumike | NBA Today

It’s not AO me to like hijack the game and you know try to make it about me and it’s a national TV game uh other guys had it going so you know if I had to be in the corner if I had to you know be a

Facilitator at times uh you know so be it everybody everybody’s allowed to have an off night but Tatum essentially saying there that he’s willing some nights to take the back seat as their best player what what’s that deep breath for you have a problem with that I

You’re the man Jason you’re the man I want you to hijack the game I want you to do that um look at the end of the day he’s a great team guy I think people like playing with him like being his teammate um but in these situations what

What Denver really sent is a message of we can take your guy out you’re you’re the man we’re going to take that guy out and Boston can’t do that with jic so it is a problem when you’re starting to game plan and figure this thing out

Because any any for me and a lot of this is not even like a physical aspect of skills and this and that this is a mental switch that has to be switched on in not just Jason Tatum the whole Boston Celtics team because I feel like they have this this like little brother

Syndrome almost because they’ve been so close anything less is a championship but they get beat down in these big games and I think that just wears mentally on you so they need to reset the mindset more than anything the jumpers okay they weren’t falling we know those will fall but going into the

Playoffs you need to find a way to win when that three not going well they were they were blitzing Jason T not letting him isolate and they basically said we are we it’s not the same thing the Warriors did where they didn’t guard Jaylen brown right they that was drastic

That was drastic and it was over the top and it was like we all could see what they were doing but they essentially said we want Jaylen Brown to shoot more the the the the the Boston Celtics are seven and seven when he shoots more than

20 times a game they’re eight and 10 when he shoots more than 25 times a game so even though he had 40 points that’s what they’re trying to get him to do they’re taking the ball out of Jason Tatum’s hands and making Jaylen Brown shoot he had 40 right but as you said

Jason Tatum is the guy in his Idol Kobe Bryant there are games when you team tried to do that to Kobe too but he just kept shooting but if they’re going to win a championship tonight do they need more from their best player J who is Jason Tatum absolutely they need much

More in those crucial moments and I think you know I had this situation where one of the greats in the WNBA Simone Augustus told me what makes Diana terasi great and she’s the all-time leading scorer in the WNBA is that has that vulnerability to take the tough shots knowing that there might be

Failure on the other side I think when we look at the Boston Celtics they’re all like okay we’re all working together as key pieces but he needs to go out there and those field goals and I would take you know someone like you coach Becky because I know when you coach Asia

In the toughest moments you say I don’t care what happens be aggressive and we’ll live with the consequences I’m not saying Coach Joe Missoula is not saying that but in some regards you would see that especially that confidence in him if he had the whole system behind him in

Those circumstances and I think they fall prey to that more often than not now lastly I’ll say this when it comes to Jason Tatum I think there’s a lot of criticism on him oh his MVP case we all knew was probably going to be a long

Shot based off of the rest of the field and they also have the highest margin of Victory the Celtics so you look at those crunch sign numbers I don’t think that tells you everything plus we’ve seen them show up 51 points in a game seven

To close out a series we just want to see it consistently for them to build a requisite confidence for them to move forward and I think the point being uh no you don’t want to hijack the game like that that’s a very I don’t know kind of even keeled statement in a sense

Because you got to know when to hijack the game and when not to and when your team is in limbo of losing a game that is the time to jump in and hijack the game and that back and forth that they had going on right like that down the

Stretch down the wire like you have to find ways to make an imprint and and here’s the thing you got to live with the consequences being great or being good you got to be good with both but you got to be able to take that shot and take it with confidence every single

Time you let it fly uh another playoff atmosphere for sure as we talk pregame you you got to give the Celtic fans credit you know they uh they always come out strong um you know but you know what we say right they can take that L on the

Way out baby feel like I should have guarded Jo get a little bit a little more um I wish I would have had those opportunities a little bit I could keep them away from the basket and we could have took away some of those layups they

Got but I feel like you know uh we still had every chance to win this game we just came up short so Jaylen Brown he said he wanted a crack against jic but nobody has been able to slow this guy down I mean look at this his second season with 20 30

Point triple doubles only Oscar and Russ have had more years posting those kind of numbers it was a statement win from top to bottom for the defending champs the reigning Finals MVP but Becky what did the Nuggets prove to you last night well they proved they’re still the team

To beat at the end of the day I think the championship runs through Denver and yok just proved he’s unguardable and the reason why he’s unguardable is because you do this he does that you do that he does this he is constantly just making the right play and what I really love

About him is there’s zero hesitation about making the right play he doesn’t care if it’s an assist a hockey assist he is making the right read every time he touches the ball and he just puts your defense in huge dilemas so Becky are you saying it’s a little bit of this

And a little bit of that just a little bit of this and a little bit of that look he put on a master class of being able to be dominant versatile in different ways when he was on the Block he finished off the block and then when

He was on the Block he passed off the block the Denver Nuggets to me you said it best the title runs through de Denver maybe not literally because Boston Celtics I think they have like a five or six game Edge overall so if these two meet in the NBA Finals it will go

Through Boston game one but still it seems to me that niika yokichi is the best player on the floor and I know we argue about these Supporting Cast because that has been their big Improvement Boston it feels like yic is his Supporting Cast is tailored perfectly for him he’s got

Perimeter shooting you’ve got um you know Porter Jr knocking down shots kcp you’ve got Jamal Murray who knows how to Bob and dance and weave they do a beautiful Tango and most importantly you know there’ be some games where maybe some people would say Okay Aaron Gordon shoot the ball doesn’t matter he’s

Cutting he’s moving and it feels like he has you know that That’s So Raven I don’t have to look at you we can just throw it behind my head and throw it to you you know that’s okay I’m glad you guys got not to mention I me we had that

He can see exactly we had all these questions about who was going to replace Bruce Brown and pton Watson is so seamlessly stepped up into that sort of Sixth Man type of position particularly defensively Ramona well I thought I thought Watson was big in that game that

Is the big question with Denver and their bench because they let a lot of those guys go they didn’t pay them they elevated the young guys but to me like when you watch that game this felt like a final showdown it felt like if Jason

Tatum was going to make a case to be the MVP over joic this was the night that was the shot we just showed it he didn’t hit it but when I the the Denver Nuggets you cannot double joic because they have all Shooters and they have the best lob

Threat in all of basketball and Aaron Gordon I mean yes that was an incredible pass I cannot watch that play enough like I just want to see it over and over and over but Aaron Gordon with the follows Aaron Gordon is always there and every team needs one of those like when

You when you talk to teams around the league like who what player do you need on your team we need someone like Aaron Gordon we the Olympic team what do you guys need we need someone like Aaron Gordon who can guard on the perimeter

One to five and be a lob threat to where you cannot double yage because of how dominant Aaron Gordon I do wonder he made the first he misses the second the Pacers getting out in transition here a chance to tie the game and head it to overtime and says

No Anthony Edwards elevates hits his head on the rim as he goes for the game ceiling block you know he grew up playing football right that is a saf across the middle that is a 47 seen in a decade let’s take a listen to Mr Edwards after that incredible

Block I hit my head I think on the rim it’s hurting real bad and I landed on my wrist but I mean you know I saw him with the lane I knew he was going for the for the layup and I was just like man I’m

Going to go get this I ain’t never jumped that high in my life he actually has jumped that high this season that’s that’s just so Inc he does it over and over again Anthony Edwards his game saving block it got our producers thinking about where ranks on

The alltime list of most wild blocks in NBA history so we start with lonso Ellis oh my God and it was not the block it was the snatch it was the disrespect where he just held on on snatch you get to stand and praying a little bit after that and then we got

Shaq this is on Rex Chapman in 96 made the cameras in the Forum go out breaking cameras breaking glass he used to break rims back fors and then Becky you remember this one Ben Wallace in 2000 pins it and then snatches it what the these are disgusting these blocks are

I’m sitting over here with stank face cuz these are incredible they need a warning before you watch it LeBron on Diego splitter in 2013 this was the final dissipate a shoulder like that and of course we need to take one more look at Ant-Man last night I just

There are no weren’t no there there are pogo stick Trampoline by the way did your hearts give a beat when he’s Landing there like absolutely his arm was against the backboard like his head would have went higher than the rim correct had the rib not been There

The NBA Today panel of Malika Andrews, Becky Hammon, Chiney Ogwumike and Ramona Shelburne discuss…
0:00 What do the Celtics need from Tatum?
3:59 What did the Nuggets prove vs. Boston?
7:33 Reaction to Anthony Edwards’ block

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