INSTANT REACTION: Jayson Tatum puts on a show in Brooklyn with 31 first-half points

INSTANT REACTION: Jayson Tatum puts on a show in Brooklyn with 31 first-half points

ATT to shoot for Tatum matched up with Dennis Smith now Wilson switches out got Duke versus Kansas here deep triple oh yeah and then he casually talks to Russell Wilson you see that cuz I know I was right in front of your face I don’t

Know what he said but it was smooth he said I’m unlimited Jason a feeling like Mr unlimited tonight another throw down out Brooklyn this is a Boston Massacre here at parkley all right 41 points 14 rebounds for Jason Tatum Celtics get the win 118 to 110 what’s up welcome to Celtics

Postgame live Tom Giles Eddie house uh we will have Drew and Scout joining us Chris forsberg later in the show as well but Eddie your thoughts on what we saw from JT tonight and see he’s able to get that Victory well in the first half I thought his his balance his floor game

Was impeccable he was rebounding the basketball he was scoring inside outside getting to the free throw line he was sharing the basketball but um I I think he set the tone in the first half and and that first half pretty much put us over the top I mean I don’t I don’t

Think we played particularly well in the third quarter we turned it over uh six times but we took care of the basketball in the first half JT had a night and they were able to get this win so now you just recalibrate and get ready for

Tomorrow yeah it was a a 15o lead at halftime for the Celtics they led by as many as 23 you saw Brooklyn tighten things up a little bit there in the fourth quarter but again that’s when you know your best player comes through Jason tat and that that’s

When it was really you know him maximizing on the boards as well uh I mean the 14 rebounds I think that was just shy of a season High 41 points that’s the third most he scored this year he was everywhere on the floor yeah he was super efficient the 14 rebounds I

Like I like when he’s engaged you know eight more rebounds that lets me know that he’s really locked into the game but as you looking at these highlights he he did it every way you got on the post he went to the basket he didn’t just settle he took what the defense G

Gave him and then at times he just said hey man I’m better than you I’m feeling it and I’m going go to work and and it it worked out for him tonight I mean that’s pure it it totally I mean you you said before the game too that

You felt like this could be a game where where he goes off you had that feeling in the pregame we were talking about things and sure enough it was I mean it was in the first quarter right away it’s 16 points in that first quarter right

And again it’s all the ways that he’s scoring like he you’ve seen him post you’ve seen him get to the basket you’ve seen him go on his mid-range you seen pull up you see him get out in transition you see him uh yanking threes you see him isoing and then getting to

His spot pump fake going to the mid-range not settling another one right there getting all the way to the basket after catching the post on a mismatch where he could easily just held the ball been a ball stopper but he went quick spun Baseline put the defense in a bad

Situation he was just clicking on all cylinders and Brooklyn uh yeah they 11 games below 500 I get that but you know the Celtics need to win this game without Chris Ops porzingis keep things going going on the road and you kind of wondered who was going to be able to

Pick up the slack there you Al Horford was big Drew holiday uh again but you you kind of needed one of your Superstars to step up in this one and the Celtics obviously were able to get that from Jason Tatum meanwhile Abby is standing by she has Jason Tatum so let’s

Send it back down to the barlay center Jason the Brooklyn Nets would not go away how did you guys close this game out uh just responding to that run I say it all the time NBA players are good they going to make shots um it’s just

Hard job to respond and uh I think we did a good job of that in the end you finished with 41 points but 31 in the first half and 19 minutes what key that for you uh I got some easy ones I got out on transition I got some free throws

I got some kickouts on open threes uh so I was just in a good Rhythm and then in the second half how were you able to impact the win in other ways uh kind of being a decoy sometimes I knew you know I had 31 they were going to guard me

Differently so um you know trying to get assists hockey assists um you know move the ball try to manipulate the defense I’m also supposed to ask you what you said to Russell Wilson after you hit that long three in the third uh I I ain’t say nothing to him I said

Something to my my other friend over there Mr Morgan uh so you know that’s a good friend of mine so I was just talking to him that who who’ your jersey end up with so I gave my jersey to Russell Wilson and then Sierra’s son uh

He said he was a big fan so I gave it to him that sounds fair finally you guys have won sixth straight on the road what do you like best about the way you’re playing um you know just that we take it one game at a time right we we approach

Every day as we’re trying to get better regardless of who’s out who we’re playing um you know 2:00 game 7:30 game um you know we try to approach each game the same way Jason thank you congrats thank you all right so there’s the 41 points

We got Drew and scal joining us now and uh gentlemen I guess at what point did you know it was going to be one of those nights from Jason Tatum well G scal just had his shirt off and he put it back really quickly before you guys came to

Us man nobody needed to see you to Mexico yet would be like uh yeah and um I I just got it going really early hold it in hold it in said it really straight up by the way I I would give my jersey to Sierra as well that’s

Who he was giving the Jersey to not uh no the kid he didn’t listen the kid no I listen Okay uh Mr unlimited by the way yeah what is that no Mr unlimited no who is that you’ve never seen that video of Russell Wilson no he’s like I need a new

Nickname how about Mr Unlimited unlimited unlimited youve never seen that no I didn’t see that I need to watch more commercials you want to tell me about the game I just us or are they going to ask us questions I think I don’t know I think it’s us Gil sort of

Asked us a question so how about what you when did you know that this was going to be one of these good night I told anytime tum gets easy baskets he’s going to go off it’s simple he gets wideopen layups he gets uh you turn it

Over and Tatum gets a you know like a dunk in the open court or even that that post up where he shoulder turn dunk you’re in for a long night that’s just the way it goes so Celtics should do whatever they can and Tatum maybe even

Try to leak out a few times if he has to did have 14 rebounds tonight but if Tatum gets easy baskets who knows he can explode one time I said he’s going to go off he had 17 in the quarter this this time when he got those easy baskets 16

In a quarter I thought his balanced though Scout I thought the way that that he scored it was so balanced it was sometimes post mid-range and he get all the way to the basket going quick on the post taking his time on the post knocking down open shots when he had it

Or open three if he had it pump faked that one three in the corner took one dribble pulled up and then he at the top of the key three where he was able to manipulate that pick and roll create space I thought his balance and him

Reading the game tonight was one of his best nights that I’ve seen where it was a he really showed that three-level score that he is and it was it like you said it was easy baskets it was easy because he was able to take his time he

Manipulated the the matchup that he got he got the matchup that he wanted and he took advantage I felt like he was never sped up not one time T night everything even though he had a couple of them bad shots the one that hit the other side of

The backboard and he shot that air ball but besides those shots that just missed like that I thought he was in total control of this game and and I thought this was one of his best uh balanced attacks on the offensive end that I’ve seen in a

While yeah I think the story of this game is the Celtics post-ups the Celtics going to the paint the Celtics exploiting matchups and they clearly made an emphasis to do that today and it didn’t matter if it was just Tatum they had the same thing with brown early on

Uh Derek white you had Drew holiday you have Horford everybody was doing work on the post so very very balanced game today and you all you hear from if if anybody’s going to criticize the Celtics they usually say shoot too many threes not enough offensive balance and today I

I think they showed it and by the way usually their biggest mismatch is christops porzingis he’s usually the guy who scores their most postup points and he wasn’t out there tonight and they still dominate in the paint 20 of their first 23 points tonight Giles in the paint clearly they were attacking yeah

Uh quite effective quite efficient as far as that goes scall enjoy uh come back he already out of here he he was out of here at half time already see him getting tan first thing smoking any bursting smoking I know you own it I know you own it

Eddie House, Scal, Drew Carter and Tom Giles break down the Celtics’ 118-110 win over the Brooklyn Nets. Plus, Abby Chin goes 1-on-1 with Jayson Tatum after the game.

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