Do The Boston Celtics Have Any Weaknesses? + Why Jayson Tatum Isn’t Getting More MVP Buzz

Do The Boston Celtics Have Any Weaknesses? + Why Jayson Tatum Isn’t Getting More MVP Buzz

On today’s show the Boston Celtics are the NBA’s hottest team picking up their eighth straight win in New York against the Knicks at Madison Square Garden does the Celtics team have any weaknesses what is the biggest question for Boston ahead of the NBA postseason and should Jason Tatum be getting more love for

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To your podcasts and on YouTube just search locked on Celtics John the NBA’s best team just keeps on rolling picking up their eighth straight win and continuing their own longest win streak so far this season beating the Knicks at MSG Saturday night you were there in person what’s been what’s been clicking

On this most recent run for Boston um everything uh no so my my big my biggest takeaway after that Knicks game was that they are able to do a lot of different things and they can morph into whatever the game needs and so when the Knicks

Made a run Boston gets the lead to 20 Knicks make a 13-2 run they get it down to 11 and in years past there’s been this feeling of like oh boy here we go in fact famously a couple seasons ago when eeme udoka was in Boston it was a

Collapse in New York that they people forget they started like 500 and were embarrassing themselves and then they went on this huge run it was a collapse in New York that kind of turned things around and here were the Celtics a 20-point lead had gone down to nine and

They just calmly were like oh you know what let’s go to Al Horford in the post let’s just do that now and things turned around and they they built the lead up to 20 the first time around by hitting a bunch of Threes they didn’t hit a single

Three in the fourth quarter and they built it back up to 20 again because they just switched up styles and just kind of rebuilt that lead so it’s that ability to say oh the game needs post-ups we can do post-ups and and most

Of the guys on the team can do it uh oh the the the lead the game needs like three-point shooting all right you know we got some three-point shoots we can generate good shots you want the ball to swing and like Drive kick Swing Swing Swing Corner three sure we could do that

As well Boston be able to play whatever style they need um and they don’t have to change much of their personnel to do it I don’t think it’s a stretch to say the the Celtics are I feel like clearly the team the most versatile team in the

NBA right being able to do it in a variety of ways as you alluded to when you look at this team though as we’re kind of you know Fe end of February is creeping up on us we’re we’re not too far off from the NBA postseason now what’s the biggest question for this

Celtics team as we approach the playoffs this year yeah I guess I guess the question is can they can they keep it up right can they can they keep that mentality um and get through this this regular season they’re 45 and 12 they got a

Seven and a half game lead uh in the East and it’s very likely like they’re gonna they’re G to close this out right they they are they’re like five games better than Minnesota for the the top seat overall in OKC and and so there’s not enough time to to kind of really be

Caught unless they collapse so are they are they going to have the mentality to say okay we we can get through and stay focused this the rest of this regular season and can they carry that into the playoffs or will the pressure get to them I suppose it to me it’s a different

Team I’m not really quite worried about that I can easily say health because Chris THS poring his injury history and he changes so much for this team but everybody’s worried about health so it’s it’s all about a mentality for the Celtics can they stay focused and can they keep that

Mentality uh where needs to be and where Joe moula ha has gotten it and and that I think if they if they can if they can get through the rest of this regular season at the same pace and win 63 64 65 games then that’s that’s going to be a

Very dangerous team in the playoffs now the one the one qu I think one of the questions for me is just you know that the Celtics have a ton of playoff performers guys who have been there have played at the highest of levels in the NBA postseason porzingis hasn’t really

Been there right so that that’s a new that’s going to be a new experience for him right how does he look in the postseason and what is hopefully a deep postseason Run for the Celtics but when you start looking around the association at some of the other legitimate

Contenders this season because you know every year there’s a handful of teams that have legitimate you know a right to feel like they have a chance to to walk away as the NBA uh Champions which team do you think presents the biggest challenge to this Celtics team either just from a schematic standpoint

Matchups whatever yeah you know a lot of these teams I look at them and they look I I I hate to say it like this because it comes off as you know a little bit flip but Boston has all the matchups they you look up and down the the the roster and

Like up and down the opponents and yeah like OKC their speed gives them some problems and maybe the Clippers if they got to the finals against the Clippers they they’ve got size and length at the wings that can bother Jaylen Brown and Jason Tatum that that would be a matchup

I think issue um in the East honestly New York with their if they’re fully healthy with anobi uh they they have Personnel to kind of defend the Celtics they have a toughness to them that you know the Celtics seem to you know enjoy that a little bit more this year than

They have in the past but it’s not exactly a Hallmark of the Celtics getting in there and like fighting and you know beating the hell out of an opponent which the Knicks very happy to do so think the Knicks with their their toughness they’ll they’ll they’ll really

Test Boston that that might be their biggest competition in the East right now with the the asterisk of like can the Bucks figure themselves out um if the Bucks can then obviously that that changes things and can Joel embiid come back fully healthy then that changes things but if anobi and Randall are

Healthy that full fully realized Knicks team with some shooting there that could be a real tough matchup for the Celtics but honestly I think Boston has clear advantages over every team in the NBA right now a lot of question marks from a lot of those teams up and down the

Eastern Conference with all the different health issues that they’ve got going on last thing that I’ve got here for you John we we look at the Celtics team and on the latest MVP ladder has Jason Tatum fifth behind Nika yic Shay gildas Alexander Yannis tmpa and Luka

Donic I look I know that the MVP is largely a narrative based reward all this every year we get into these MVP debates and discussions but what more could Tatum be doing to sway voters in his regard because it to me it feels a little weird that the best player on the

Best team isn’t even top four on on the MVP ladder yeah I but I I think he’s taken a little bit of a step back like he’s he’s not going for it you know he’s not going for the MVP he’s doing what the team needs him to do which is be a

Little bit more of a facilitator needs they need him to be a little bit more of a decoy sometimes they need him to have I he does have a high usage rate but like you you have obviously Jaylen brown but porzingis needs touches Dereck white needs touches Drew holiday needs touches

Al Horford not as many but he’ll still need a touch here or there uh everybody needs the sacrifice on this team um or else it’s not going to work and Tatum could go and try to score 32 a night and I don’t think people would blame him so much but you start to

Run the risk of Jaylen Brown going like hey well wait a second if you’re going for yours then I’m gonna go for mine and if jaylen’s going for his now you got two guys going for theirs and the rest of those guys are starting to like just

Kind of be standing there and be glorified role players which is not the strength of this team and porzingis said this after the Knicks game because Jason is sacrificing a little bit and no he’s still putting up really good numbers but because he’s not just going for the MVP Jaylen doesn’t have to

Feel the pressure of like trying to match him and everyone else kind of feels like all right if those two guys are giving in a little bit we can all give in a little bit and that’s what makes this work and that’s why it’s cool if porzingis has a 30-point night one

Night and a 12-point night the next that’s that’s where the Celtics are at there best so Tatum like yeah he could be pushing more for MVP he’s not going to get it because he’s he’s not putting up the big dominant like signature type of games that yanis and joic and Luca on

A team that’s you know not nearly as good as the Celtics but Luca’s got the big numbers you know so so he’s going to get a little bit more attention for that Tatum’s not going for it how deep of a postseason run are we looking at for this Celtics team is this

Their year to finally walk away with the title in the Jason Tatum era is does the Celtics team have any weaknesses or they just the clear-cut best team in the NBA you’re going to have to cover for all that and so much more over it locked on Celtics John thanks for stopping by

Locked on NBA with me always a pleasure my friend

Do The Boston Celtics Have Any Weaknesses? + Why Jayson Tatum Isn’t Getting More MVP Buzz

Jackson Gatlin (@LockedOnRockets) is joined by John Karalis (@LockedOnCeltics) to discuss the Boston Celtics win streak reaching 8 straight games after beating the New York Knicks at MSG, what’s been working so well for the Celtics, the biggest question facing Boston ahead of the playoffs, which other contenders pose the biggest threat, and why Jayson Tatum isn’t getting much MVP love.

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