It’s Basketball Season
The Patriots Blow. Celtics run this town. Get used to it. Media day was today with training camp starting tomorrow. Here are a couple clips and reactions.
Jayson Tatum speaks about getting benched in the Olympics.
Psycho Joe thinking what a lot of us were thinking. Tatum has played the most minutes of basketball than anybody in the world over the past 7 seasons. Dating back to to his Rookie season going to game 7 of the ECF to his first Gold Medal run in Tokyo and all of the play off miles in between including the championship run this year. Tatum has logged 17,561 minutes on just an NBA court. Not counting international play. To put that into perspective, Kareem Abdul Jabbar has the most minutes played with 57,000 minutes over a 20 year career. Tatum has already played 30% of the amount of minutes Kareem played in 7 seasons. In short Tatum is damn close to projecting to playing the most minutes of all time. Not including any Olympics or international tournaments, etc. So, if someone told me Psycho Joe slipped Kerr a threatening message involving some time of shiv in order to cut Tatum’s time on the court down this summer it would not surprise me at all.
Coach Mazzula talking shop with Coach Mayo
Just a couple of Titans right here. My first thought when watching this was just how much of a juxtaposition it is to see a championship winning Celtics coach next to a absolute nobody of a Patriots Head Coach. For 25 years it was Belichick spinning the whistle and spitting knowledge into the latest young kid to hit the sideline of another Boston Sports team. The shadow of six championship behind him. To look at that shot of those two and Joe Mazzula be the one with the ring is just weird.
How do you all feel about Mazzula taking wisdom from Coach Vibes about the importance of relationship building and staff communication. How’d that communication look Thursday vs the Jets?
This post is more of a troll job for Chief Bobby who hates both these guys unconditionally.
Jaylen Brown is now a dolphin
The most impressive thing about Jaylen Brown other than shaving 25 years of age off his face, I have said since is 2nd season in the year he improves in an area of his game every offseason. Not minor improvements either. Drastic improvements. He came into the league as an athlete who couldn’t dribble, couldn’t shoot, no vision, etc. He found his shot early. Mid range and then extended it to the three in future seasons. The whole NBA dogged him last off season for not having a left hand, now he holding up NBA Finals MVP with the left. Every aspect of his game gets better. So, if holding his breath under water for 20 minutes makes him a better free throw shooter who can create for others off the dribble, I’m all for it.
Back to Tatum.
The immediate reaction here is great. Love to see the passion and dedication. Its rainbows and sunshine right now with the ring ceremony around the corner. But, did he just go 3rd person on us? Come on man. You can’t go James Harden 3rd person mode. Psycho Joe and Scuba Steve Jaylen need to snap this dude back to earth a bit. Here’s how I’d like to see that happen. Play inside the arc.
I’ve been calling for Tatum to get his back to the basket and play out of the post for years. All the greats have done it. Jordan, Kobe, KD, Lebron all developed back to the basket post and elbow games. Efficiency with the basketball and getting to his spot should be Tatum’s evolution. Too often he is 35 feet from the hoop with 4 seconds and 5 defenders in front of him. Stop it. He’s bigger and stronger or fast and quicker than anyone that is going to guard him. Consolidate those movements to open up your shooting hand and bury 14 footers all day. He’s such a good passer and the defense keys on him so much they could eat teams up running sets through Tatum in the post. Please, Joe. Adapt your 5 out garbage offensive scheme for this guy. I’m begging you.