Friday Rewind: Jayson Tatum Grows Up
Big Mac is excited about the XFL, Tatum reflects on his missed opportunities, Patriots new and notes, plus Botpod just wants some peace.
NBA All-star weekend
Jayson Tatum sits down with JJ Redick
JC Jackson isn’t happy
Belichick’s plan for his coaching staff
HEADLINES with the OBVIOUS ONE
MLB CBA negotiations
Simplest Minds of the Week
PLUS Big Mac seeks peace through poo
SHOW NOTES:
Cold Open
Opening Takes
Rich
Ray
Bill
Show run down
Welcome
White Birch
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NBA All-Star weekend
* Lebron 5 - 0 since the draft
- Steph Curry saved the weekend
- What a disservice to Kobe bryant naming the All star game MVP after him
* Did Tatum get benched? Where was he in the 4th?
- Cancel the dunk contest. Dont bring it back until top guys participate
75 year anniversary team
- KG Still hates Ray Allen
- Weird that Kobe is dead
- Michael Jordan still the biggest draw in the NBA at 50+years old
Not enough talk about Tatum recruiting
Jayson Tatum interview with JJ Redick
- Biggest take away. Self reflective on the 2018 season
“This, especially the beginning of season, has been the toughest up and down, we would go up to games above .500 and go down to games. And I remember my first year we won 18 games in a row, and my second year, we were supposed to have the most talented team, and my third year, I went back to the conference finals. I was spoiled. I thought this was how it was supposed to be every year. And I think a little bit last year, but especially this year, it was kind of the first time I was like, alright, this is the other side of NBA. It was like, you struggling a little bit and trying to figure it out and it’s not always happy days coming into practice. Everybody's on edge a little bit and frustrated.”
On the early success, and wishing he could have handled it differently:
“My first year for sure (I took it for granted). Because, you know, you're a rookie, you don't know any better. I'm on the Celtics and we got Kyrie Irving and (Al Horford) and JB and Marcus Morris and Terry (Rozier), Gordon (Hayward), but he got hurt. I think this is just going to last forever and we're going to win a championship because we have 17. Like, I just I thought that was normal. I thought this was how it was supposed to be. So looking back on it, I didn't, I guess, cherish it as I probably should have. But at the same time, how could I? I didn't know any better.”
And then the bubble year, my third year, when we lost to the Heat, we were winning every game. We lost in overtime in Game 1. We was up 14, I think, in the third quarter, Game 2. We win game three. We gave up a lead in Game 4. In Game 6 we kind of ran out of gas. But like, I think you have to, when you're in those moments, when you when you are that close, you really have to hone in … you got to think like this might be my last chance. And I think, you know, I was 21 at the time, and I remember when we lost, I was pissed because I felt like we could have and should have beat them. The Heat were a really good team, but there was a part of me that was like, I got 15 more years. And it's like, I blinked and it’s year five. And it's like, Ah, this shit goes a little faster than I thought.”
Music to my damn ears Jayson Tatum
Quick break
Patriots and JC Jackson have not spoken
“I guess they feel like they don’t need me," Jackson said in the interview. “I guess I can’t be that important to them. I know I am, but they’re not showing me."
I hate this shit from athletes.
* I have been "down" on JC forever. There is a track record of these underrated guys in New England. Time to cut bait. Franchise and trade best case scenario.
- Whats the plan at CB?
Malcolm butler on the market.
Patriots news and notes
- Joe Judge expected to work with QBs
- Matt Patricia excepted to work with O line
- Bill Belichick expected to be heavily involved in offense.
- Very quiet on the Bill Obrien front
HEADLINES with THE OBVIOUS ONE
(Read in an english accent) The Bruins put a a real duff up on the Avalanche Monday. The final tally was a ching to a quid.
That bloke David Pasternak went bonkers and got trollied on a bottle of goals.. The Avalanche were gastly gobsmaked on their way out of town.
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Bruins played the Kraken Thursday night but Raystrodomus doesnt do hockey
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Raystrodomus says The Nets positively lost the plot vs the Celtics on Thursday. Tatum took a piss on Kyrie Irving and wiped Brooklyn like a bog roll. Long live the Queen. Cheerio chaps.
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Steph Curry dropped 50 pts in the NBA all star game last weekend including 16 3's shattering that record that no one give a shit about.
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The latest quibble in the MLB Negotiations had the two sides graftting a bit, but no one left pied off. Deadline of Feb 28th has been set to crack on the season but blimey, what a cock up this kerfuffle has been been cracking.
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this has been headlines
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with The Obvious One
MLB CBA negotiations
- Two side met for several hours and nothing really happened
- Or nothing reportedly happened?
Feb 28th has been set to have a deal struck. Two sides still very far apart.
Arbitration pool - MLBPA wants: 150 players and $115 million
Owners proposed: 30 players $20 million.
- No movement on luxury tax. Players wont budge on floor/ceiling - for that reason they can fuck off.
* need 4 weeks to be ready for the season opener in March.
- Talks of scheduling 7 inning double header to get 162 in if season starts late.
Afternoon delight
Simplest Minds of the week
Juwan Howard - Thou shall not hit
Frozen dick guy - Finnish cross country skier
"the pain was unbearable" no shit
The race is traditionally 50 kilometers, but was cut down to 20 kilometers due to the elements.