Why Jayson Tatum Wishes Boston Would’ve Won on the Road

Why Jayson Tatum Wishes Boston Would’ve Won on the Road

but Jason you’re fresh off a championship so can you just tell us what the last month has been like for you uh nothing short of amazing um winning the championship however I thought that moment um would be like it’s been a 100 times better um you know you guys know it getting there or falling short um and you know getting over that hump um it was well worth it and you know still doesn’t seem real at times um but you know I still don’t like Cloud n of uh being a champion I was going to ask there’s and this at me aside there’s seven championships there’s seven Olympic gold medals there’s 24 All-Star appearances in this quartet right now decided Tommy’s just somewhere I’m somewhere in the corner superimposed in there’s a lot of winning that is happening in this Trio at what point you’ve won a lot but this is your first championship at what point are you processing this in real time and just being like this feels different than the gold than any of the other you know you know dozens and dozens of awards that you’ve gotten over the years uh and and I mean it has like accomplished a lot but winning a championship it did feel like a breath of fresh air like the weight of expectations were lifted um and you’ve accomplished something that only a few people have in history and it’s like you can be in the room with Champions and like they know what that moment is like they know what the high that you’re on is like they know what it took to get to that moment is like so um being in a space in that room with you know people that you looked up to and and and want it to be like and now you can say like um I want a championship like they did yeah something similar between you two is getting to the finals not having success right and then ultimately getting back and winning so Asia like what those in between years granted for you it was just one but that in between season right I guess two years those two years yeah talk about like what it felt like because actually if you could both of you Define greatness even right like do you have to win a title to be great let’s start with that actually how do you feel about that um yes I think you do whoa I think she I don’t know with some exception with some exceptions a lot great players that didn’t win that’s very true to be in the rare air how about that yes for sure puts you in rare yes okay so knowing that you had success early back to those two years before you went a ring like what were those two years like those in between years man uh I mean we got Sweat by y’all I mean I wasn’t going to bring it up you know she brought storm in the bubble um but it like I don’t know it was just like a different feel because we were already we weren’t supposed to make it that far anyways so making it there was kind of like a okay like we could do this like this is doable but then getting swept it kind of broke me cuz I was like whoa like we couldn’t get one game like dang like one game uh and that’s when it broke me really really down it’s crazy I was actually like crying my eyes out leaving the bubble I was happy to leave but I was like very upset at the fact that’s like you’re so close and like you’re just right there but you just couldn’t get it done and I felt like those next years coming back into the swing of things I was like I never want to feel that way again like what do I have to do to not feel that way because I was so used and I said it I was so used to the confetti falling on me and I could celebrate and it was this big moment but when that confetti falls on you and it’s not for you it’s like it stings I’m like oh my God this is awful like I want to rip it up um but I think every athlete needs to go through that I feel like everyone has to go through that in order to be great to have those lows to where you’re like I don’t like this feeling and so I used those years to really like fuel me to be like I never want I don’t care if we lose in the Sim I’m I cannot get there and do that again so like that’s when it kind of just fueled me in a way that I’m like hey I don’t want me I don’t want to feel it I don’t want my teammates to feel it so how do we get over that hump and then you just work your ass off I mean but if you if you think about it excuse me since it took two years 2021 you guys lost correct me if I’m wrong like a little bit of a heartbreaker against Phoenix so it’s not like you know that motivation just kicks in so is there something that happened for your team in those two years for you I hear what you’re saying you’re like motivate motivate motivate what about like collectively losing in the finals losing the next year in the semis and then ultimately yeah I think that was losing in the semis was one where we were just like oh no that that one was supposed to be ours like you just felt like it the script was scripting it was there we were supposed to be the ones hoisting that Trophy and I just remember CU that was the year Candace one and I was like dang that maybe the script was for her cuz she went home and she wins it but like I think as a itive like us as the aces we were just like no that was supposed to be us like that is our year and as a whole we all came back to the gym and then obviously we get Becky and then it shifts culture and everything but I think as a whole going into the locker room we were like no we got to make some changes like we if we want our culture to be winning if we want to stand on something we as a whole one through 12 have to say this is what we’re going to buy into yeah I was going to ask your perception after the first one and the parallels to your situation now where it’s like you now you’ve now you’ve now done it and so how do you how do you continue the chip how do you keep the edge after you’ve already done the thing that you’ve worked your whole life to do I mean everyone I don’t think people like us so I think that was our chip was like okay another reason for people to hate us more like let’s just keep doing it let’s make them continue to hate us uh but let’s also be let’s do right by it like let’s give the game back because the game pays you back in a lot of different ways so you want that Karma to be good karma so we just continue to be us and just stick to the system but you’re like you got to when yours at home I went when in my moan son that’s tough like nothing like we were there we were there for for the in brookin last year even that celebrating on their practice like oh I would have preferred the win on the road honestly really just cuz I know what it felt like for somebody to win a championship on my home court okay I wanted to that get back like I wanted to win in Dallas cuz I know I seen a warrior celebrate on our home court and that [ __ ] was devastating yeah no feel that

In this clip, Jayson Tatum talks about wishing he, Jaylen Brown and The Boston Celtics had won the championship in the 2024 NBA Finals at the home of Luka Doncic, Kyrie Irving and the Dallas Mavericks.

Subscribe to The Old Man and The Three podcast YouTube channel today for more NBA analysis, player interviews and highlights.