POSTGAME PRESS CONFERENCE: Jayson Tatum talks through ejection vs. Rockets

POSTGAME PRESS CONFERENCE: Jayson Tatum talks through ejection vs. Rockets

Jason another ejection there for you at the end what what happened that caused you to get those those two technical fouls uh you know didn’t appreciate or like the uh you know the no call on those last two drives uh I mean I’m very self-aware person understand the time and score

Game was you know we game was pretty much over uh and you know just had to stand up for myself uh sa my pece got ejected and you know that was it I know we talk about the shooting a bunch you’ve said you obviously you didn’t forget how to

Shoot right but to get onto this kind of hot streak the way you’re you’re you’re getting into like is there something that you’re feeling like coming into the game like you just know when the first one Falls that the rest are just going to pile up um you just you know you’re

Just in the Rhythm right you know that um you’ve been playing well lately and shooting the ball really well lately um as an individual and you know we have as a group uh so you know you just want to stay in that that zone for as long as

You can and after you left the locker room seemed like you were like maybe looking for eay did you have a conversation with eay what were the emotions coming into this um going through the game beating them all of that stuff when I left the lock room it

Seemed it seemed like you were like kind of like going down towards the the Rockets side of it where did you go and talk to emay did you have a conversation with him I mean you know the family room down there well I was I mean if if if

The answer is no then you can just say was I looking for him or you asking where where was I going no I didn’t ask you where you were going I said it seemed like you were like looking for emay I was I was just going down in the

Family room see my son okay did you have a conversation with eay at any point like before the game yeah I got a chance to see him um got a chance to talk to him uh haven’t seen him since maybe I was at smart sweating so uh you know I

Was just good to see him again and see all the other guys on the staff Ben Mike and Garrett and those guys and was there any extra kind of like juice for you like some kind of like competitive thing like you know throughout the course of this game was there anything extra at

All for you in this game um I mean from the standpoint of like we got our ass kicked the other night so wanted to bounce back from that um you know I do I want to win tonight yeah I want to win every game we play so it wasn’t

Like oh we playing you know eema and those guys I really want to win um it was more like I want to bounce back from last game uh and you know I was looking forward to seeing him and Garrett and Mike Moser and uh and Ben um so you know

It’s been a while since I seen those guys Jason did you click eay kind of said you you you he’s had conversation with all you guys about the specifics of what happened here did you have you cleared the air and everything is cool obviously everything’s cool but have you

Gotten the stuff the reasoning and the things you’ve needed from kind of to help you understand more what happened here uh I mean just to be honest like you know some of those private conversations I would kind of want to just keep private uh but you know seems

Like you know we’ve all kind of moved on from that uh you know kind of like let that leave that in the past and you pointed official CJ what you pointed to him like that’s not like you to point right at a guy what like what was going

Through your mind when you did that were you what message were you trying to get across was it did you feel like he was was it personal and was he holding something personal against you or did you feel like he just wasn’t doing what you wanted him to do in terms of the

Calls I mean I was I was frustrated I got fouled on the the the drive before that um I got the rebound put up got hit and then you know clearly smacked my whole arm on that dunk uh and you know at some point you know throughout the

Course of a night uh you know you got to stand up for yourself and uh you know this is not every game thing or every night but uh you know I’m not perfect I’m going to get texts throughout every season um you you know I just tonight

Just kind of had to let him know how I felt um and you know that was I don’t hold no grudge or anything after the game I didn’t I wasn’t kicking over in the locker room um I was cool I’m I’m not holding no grudge um

You know what happened we move on and you know get ready for the next one last two questions Taylor Abby Jason the team has talked recently about playing better in third quarters and you guys had 43 points tonight just what was the the mindset coming out to

Halftime how were you able to blow the game open yeah just uh stay locked in uh you know sometimes we have a tendency to maybe relax cuz you know often times we got the league going in halftime um but tonight we did a great job of um taking

It to another gear U and extending the lead and playing the right way Jason you said you felt like you’re in a Zone what got you in that zone and or is it just kind of January Jason that’s a thing that’s the thing you like go to another level in January typically oh

Uh I just try to get better throughout you know from month to month each season and hopefully play my best basketball going into the playoffs um I don’t know it’s just you know we play so many games there’s going to be stretches where you don’t shoot the ball as well then

There’s going to be stretches where you know you uh you know you shoot really well and uh you know just hope I have more of those stretches than the other ones presented by your New England Ford d ERS built for America built Ford proud

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