I dug into some stats, and here’s what I found:
[In four seasons since his NBA debut Jayson Tatum was 14-for-27 (51.9 FG%; 3-11 on threes) when taking a shot to tie or take lead in the last minute of 4th quarter or overtime. He’s now 10-for-37 (27.0 FG%; 2-9 on threes) in three seasons since, including 2-for-11 this year.](https://twitter.com/Timi_093/status/1773672119370403842)
[Tatum’s FG% on these (24-64; 37.5%) still ranks 11th all-time amongst 94 players with at least 64 such shots. It’s better than… 12. Dame, 13. DeRozan, 19. Curry, 28. LBJ, 32. Sam Cassell, 34. Kawhi, 35. Kobe, 38. Melo, 43. KD, 45. Butler, 74. Pierce, 86. Kemba or 94. George.](https://twitter.com/Timi_093/status/1773682097032442019)
What are your thoughts on this, guys?
by Timi093
19 Comments
and it feels like he’s 0/100 …
Hard to blame him when his coach can’t draw shit on the board. The one time Mazzulla did draw something Tatum made it count proof https://youtu.be/w4fEUChx4KU?si=YQ7H6bpAY1F3dvLJ against the Cavs. And buzzer beater against Philly https://youtu.be/fK3OQoBYNcc?si=Gtq3jZEg4jtara-k
Put the ball in DWhite’s hands and let him cook. I’ve seen enough of the Jays hero ball bs
I thought these meaningless games would be used to try something different, then JT iso bad shot end of game plays.
I want to believe that he might bounce back. He aint idiot. The more close loses will happen, the more he will think about it, and try to improve.
2/11 but seems like 0/25 tbh
The coach was also different
Love Tatum, but it’s getting to a point where I wanna turn the game off when we have the last possession. It’s always some off balance jumper that looks like he didn’t even wanna shoot it. He needs to realize that there are passes he can make in these situations too.
I just don’t understand why we always go with a no play and just give it to Tatum and let him do something in the clutch when it’s statistically a horrible decision. Instead of drawing up an efficient play for KP or Tatum himself it’s almost always the same braindead late time decisions.
It’s not about fg%. It’s about playing good basketball. The Celtics generate great looks all game long by sharing the ball and then inexplicably stop doing this at the end of games.
Being scared….or Tatum being a diva are the only plausible explanations.
Why change an effective offense that works for 47 minutes of the game and go with this stagnant crap that is ineffective with the game on the line?
it’s not Tatum and the pips out there, it is a group of all stars that can all shoot.
Find the open man!
What I truly don’t understand is this:
1) We have a stacked roster the envy of the league
2) Our alpha player struggles to consistently beat his man & routinely settles for fadeaway low % 3s
Given 1 and 2, why don’t we create ANY SORT of ATO action to find favorable matchups or exploit existing ones?
i think they will figure it out.. you need experiences like this to identify the problems and pursue solutions…. coach has said he’s experimenting with things a bit, so i can buy that.
i also feel like joe is playing chess and fans are playing checkers. he’s got a bit of belichick mindset i think. he could be saving playoff type plays for the playoffs to avoid scouting figuring the team out for all i know. close games are close games and no team wins them every time. you learn more from these losses than victories and all that, the players admit they made mistakes and tell the media they need to go back and watch film and make corrections and some fans still have pitchforks and want a body to burn 😂. it’s a bit manic no?
i have not lost faith that this team can contend for a title.
It’s a lot of difficult shots. It seems a lot of coaches just let their star hold until the last second and shoot it if it’s tied. Which is fine in most cases.
Tatum is great, but what he doesn’t really have is a go-to pull-up mid range shot. That’s usually the go-to shot for a lot of special scorers in these cases.
I’d like to see more penetration if the ball is in his hands. The defense is tighter, so it definitely is harder getting to the rim. But maybe using a screen and getting downhill and just making a play would be good. Whether he gets to the rim and can score or he draws help and can kick out to someone with the advantage he created. Again, half court last play defenses are tighter, but I would like to see more of that if the ball is in Tatum’s hands.
Finding a Porzingis mismatch is good too, even Derrick White can make some plays.
First seasons he had Brad drawing plays.
Now it’s just take the ball and figure it out
I wouldn’t care if he was 0-37 if the shots came from good offense, we can get any defense off balance at will and we don’t in the most crucial times. I’m not worried about “clutch time” in general, I’m worried about THIS specific tendency to rely on terrible iso ball in literal game deciding moments
He’s just too predictable
Something the doomers and pumpers can agree on. The late game execution WILL cost this team a title if there is no change in the playoffs. You didn’t build this entire roster just to hope Tatum will turn into MJ on every final possession.
They ran a different play at the end of OT that resulted in a JB bucket from KP. Everyone seems to just be ignoring that.