ESPN reacts to Boston Celtics DESTROY Memphis Grizzlies 131-91; Jayson Tatum 34 Pts
About to say it was really good defense I know it’s like I don’t know if you can play better defense and that was all nylon welcome in Celtics postgame live Scout Chris forsberg Amina Smith here with you the Celtics dominate the Memphis Grizzlies 131 to 91 and guys it
Looked a little shaky in the first half the Grizzlies they were within two but then this Celtics teene they took off late in that second quarter Scout what was your biggest takeaway after this win Tatum was a bad man yeah he is I mean he
Was out there it seemed like I I could go five more levels up and I’m still dominating with a almost 30o triple double so yeah he was he was tough today it was just like he realized at one point Midway through that first half okay I’m just going to dominate for the
Next you know few minutes put this game away he was great got porzingis involved with the passing I love the play making that’s what Jason Tatum can do 34 points for Jason Tatum also eight rebounds and seven assists he’s with Abby chin after this win go Jason 40o win against the Memphis
Grizzlies and Jason T bought up a great point right there Scout that he said regardless of who was on the other end we joked about it in the pregame show because the Memphis Grizzlies they had 12 players on the injury report he said we had to go out there and play our
Brand of basketball how did Jason Tatum show that tonight today we just gave him the ball more like I I felt like there was a moment in the Laker game where we could have done the same thing in the second quarter and that ball didn’t find
Him but at least today we did that we found him and that’s how it’s got to be like that’s Jason T I know a guy that knows him I sent him an Instagram post about Kobe Bryant about him going off on his teammates in the locker room because it’s true like your stars
Get you through those tough nights when your when your bench don’t have it they’re built differently stars are different their bodies are different they go to different levels and I just felt like today was like we all recognize look him give the ball to this guy he can do whatever he wants out
There and it helps when the three-point shot is falling six to 12 when that that when that goes it just feels like he’s easily getting over 30 points and just makes it so much easier on himself but I go back to it I love the playmaking it
Was clear that early on they wanted to get porzingis going and there were multiple times where tayum was driving found a uh either cutting porzingis or just threw a nice pass to get him a to get him a three-point look and like when you get that kind of two-man game going
Good luck to any opponent even if it was the Underman Grizzlies yeah the Celtics they also went on a 24 to6 run to end that second quarter I talked about it looking a little bit shaky in that second quarter as well because the Grizzlies they were closing in on the
Celtics team and I could only just think about that game on Thursday with the Lakers and no LeBron and no ad I got a little I’m not going to lie I’m not going to lie SC I got a little bit nervous cuz sometime this Celtics team
You just never know what you’re going to get but what allowed them to blow the doors open off of this game so that that group when TM came back in the game they just it was closed I think there was a timeout by Joe and then it was over from
There our B I don’t know I wish are you going to talk to no you got to be on the show I I wish someone asked Joe what did the bench do the last two days because I didn’t think they were good they were good at the end I didn’t think they were
Good at the start of that game I didn’t think they have the same pop you think they ran he ran them like or like ranom but maybe they hooped for like an hour maybe they wore out I have no idea like in practice you talking about the day before
Maybe he was like listen you starters take some time off cu the PCH guys come here we’re going to work right they just didn’t have the pop but as soon as Tatum went back in the game the thing was over like he he made that like this game was
Over I mean they were so good I I I want to ask you do you think when Tatum watches that video from Marcus Smart like does that resonate with a superstar I don’t know everyone’s different I don’t I mean he hasn’t been here he wasn’t here for like I’m trying to think
Not for like Garnett’s comeback or anything like that but when you see someone like that celebrated does that resonate when when when guys would come back and they would play the videos for you everybody’s different man you know like I’m personally not like that I like
The like uh I like the plays that one guy makes so that that stuff is like I remember all that stuff it’s the memories it’s like it’s stalgic but I ain’t going to shed a tear I’m sorry sc’s too tough he’s too tough to shed a
Tear okay I’m not sheding no tear Bo this man this is like the first no wait this is the first time I’ve never her scal bootar in here and I don’t think this ever happened I’m just being honest like you guys are you guys are mad at me for
Being honest like that doesn’t but if Marcus Smart Dives on the floor like I could cry in the middle of that so it’s different for me like when you guys like I get all emotional about that like Nostalgia it’s like yeah all right yay I
Got you I got it i’ms no anything like that not for me for me it’s about like you goton SK no no no no I’m not goodness no no no like it plays it’s Play It’s moment did you have a favorite Mar smart play I mean I liked all the
Diving on the floor and stuff like that I liked uh when when he saved the ball yeah we were going to lose that yes and he totally turned to momentum so it has to be like that I get I just goosebumped right there but I ain’t
Going to but the the the whole thing it’s like I compartmentalized okay okay I’m not trying to make this a session I want to it sound like a therapy session to me but I mean you heard what Jason Tatum had to say in the interview with Abby y’all cry when we win the
Championship this year there now that that I would pay to see cigars confetti and duckboats baby that’s all you get from me oh my goodness cigars confetti and duckboats you you I’ll be ah you’ll be you’ll be crying for that how would you describe the environment inside of TD Garden when
They did give the tribute to people hung up just to scream about market tonight so like look it it was cool I think especially just getting to see that again it’s been a while since we’ve had someone come back that was part of like building this thing out and certainly
When you guys all celebrated every member of that 2008 Squad I I love it there was great energy in there for Marcus to get both the video tribute and the hero Among Us celebrating everything he did here on the court off the court it was cool like I mean like they added
Something to a game that otherwise would just be like kind of going through the say I’m not going to lie cuz it was kind of quiet a little bit in that first half there were like LS where you could literally hear the squeaks on the cord and that’s not typical inside of TD
Garden at all it felt like a celebration until we got through those videos then you got through the hero among us then Jason Tatum came back in the game and then he was like all right enough he was like we love you Marcus but win this game all right scal who’s
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ESPN reacts to Boston Celtics DESTROY Memphis Grizzlies 131-91; Jayson Tatum 34 Pts
