“It’s not about anything Jayson is doing or not doing. It’s just about combinations and the way that group has played together, the way Kevin has filled in since he came back from his injury. It’s just a math problem more than anything.”
by Fit-Structure-9395
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Translation: Tatum can’t shoot. Stop asking me to force him minutes
“It was a calculated decision, but boy I’m bad at math”
– Steve Kerr, probably
Bro doing that Steiner math
This team is so talented, someone was going to get shorted minutes. The USA isn’t so much better than the competition that they can treat the Olympics like an exhibition tournament anymore and run 12 man rotations.
I know it’s a carry-over meme from Warriors fans complaining about Kerr’s rotations last year but if it wasn’t Tatum it would be someone else. This feels like complaining for the sake of complaining.
This team can blow out France and win it all and the individual fandoms who can’t get their head out of their regular season ass are still gonna bitch and complain.
Two words: it’s just a math problem
Team USA minus Jayson Tatum equals gold medal
The narrative is weak, should he get minutes sure, has Tatum been playing well regardless, up for kerr to decide, he needs to realize the opportunity cost of not playing him and playing others, and so far in the olympics Tatum has not played well if we are being honest.
its math, there are 3 celtics in the team he can only play 2 each game. check suns and lakers players.
Script says he’s coming in vs France and sealing the game. What a story
Tatum is so much better than Ant on both sides of the ball. Not sure why Kerr doesn’t see this.
People somehow forcing this into a debate have, instead, a meth problem
who. cares.
This whole ordeal is being way overblown. Jesus.
lol that may be, but given that he give white, holiday, edwards, embiid (apart from semi second half) plenty of play time, im pretty sure some of those time can fit tatum in.
“Its just a math problem. I solved it…Bron and KD are better”
When you have KD, you give the ball to KD.
End of the story.
Well, it’s certainly true that there is not an infinite well of minutes.
Tatum plays a redundant role that other people around him are better at
Every decision made resulted in a win. It’s a good decision. Shit happens.
This is just what happens when you have the best players in the world on one team. Tatum is a great player, but his greatness is due to him being very good at all aspects of basketball, but not incredible at any of them.
At his position, he’s got two of the best players of all time in LeBron and KD ahead of him. He could also slot in for Book or Ant, but they’ve outplayed him in these Olympics so it makes sense that he’s the odd man out. Who cares, we’re winning.
Fans are use to only seeing their selected athlete carry their respective team. IE: Tatum=Celtics. Put all these badass elite players into a pool. You should be able to weed out the ones that dont fit. Kerr has a job to do and he’s doing it. 5-0 with a gold medal chance. Yea, sometimes you miss the little things but in the end, the USA players all have one thing in mind, to win. If jaytay had an issue with it he would have salt on his wounds that Jayb won the NBA finals MVP! But he shut that down. He just wanted to win. Let the players talk and not draw our own narratives.
Who’s upset about this other than Tatum’s mom?
When in doubt, just remember what he named his son.
We are so spoiled. About to win gold but the only issue some care about is certain players getting minutes. Not about winning games or the team, it’s about certain players getting minutes. 🤦♂️
A 12-man rotation in a fiba game is insane. People will have to sit.
“It’s a math problem, and god knows I suck at math”
Tatum and the Celtics suck. There that’s what r/nba wants to hear and the only thing they’ll respond positively to.
King of yapping.
Gonna need Scott Steiner to explain this to me.
Jayson Tatum failed calculus in high school confirmed?
ESPN: “Jayson Tatum can’t do math”
Tatum has the yips right now and this team can’t lose one game it’s not that deep
Yeah, with a remainder OF FIFTY
SUCK IT
🙅🏻
Celtics fans: Petition to increase game time to 48 minutes (full time). 12 minutes per quarter.
Pacers fans when USA wins and Hali doesn’t play: 😎
Celtics fans when Tatum doesn’t play and USA wins:😢😡🤬🤯🤥🤢🤡
lol sure
this might be my favorite quote from a coach since “play random”
the 12th best guy isn’t getting minutes? who cares.
Slow news day hun
He’s not a good enough role player.
And that’s what we need.
Everything he does well we can get from someone else with an additional skill that’s needed.
I’m speaking strictly about team usa
The math says, “Tatum sux”