Jayson Tatum with another DNP vs Serbia

[KG Leonard]

Cry harder? USA won barely against France. France level is very bad compared to Serbia, they should have been beaten by 20 points. It is like a bully with Lebron size celebrating they crushed a 7 year old....
Serbia showed they were too flawed of a team with this many great players which is underwhelming

[Sweet Serenity]

They actually hit a jumpshot in the tournament. Like at least one. Tatum was so checked out that he resembled Wayoff P in his purest form.
If he had played more his reputation would habe suffered even more. Kerr actually protected him. Tatum can recharge his mind and be back to being a top15 player in the nba next season. That might still be enough to win another chip.

Ants never seen a shot he doesn’t like and was actively killing the flow of the offence for stretches throughout the tournament.

Being a top 15 player isn’t insult like you’re trying to make it out to be. Especially when you’ve accomplished more and won more than players in the top 5.

I'd say his team accomplished more. He had the benefit of one of the best run organisations, and well built teams through out his career. All the players who don't find success, many of them could only dream of having the help that Tatum has had through out his career. Put Tatum as the sole star having to carry, that team would most likely be lottery bound, or at best make the play in.

Well that’s quite the uneducated presumption isn’t it considering the Celtics are 21-20 without him & he leads the league in plus/minus since he entering back in 2017.

[Mephariel]

Cry harder? USA won barely against France. France level is very bad compared to Serbia, they should have been beaten by 20 points. It is like a bully with Lebron size celebrating they crushed a 7 year old....
Serbia showed they were too flawed of a team with this many great players which is underwhelming

It is a gold medal game. France isn't just going to lay down and died. Not every game will be decided by more than 20 points. Again, saying they barely won against France means nothing in a single game elimination tournament.

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[NoStatsGuy]

Team USA lineup is tricky with 2 bigs and surround them with 3 combo guards in the lineup.

Understand Celtics pride gettin dented with these DNP-CD. You could have given some Booker or ANT minutes to Tatum but silly to replace Bron with Tatum at PF esp wen the team needs more play makers and distributors and Bron is the MVP.

Nobody is crazy enough to say replace Lebron he is the playmaker SF that is by far the MVP of this team at this Olympics.

Problem Kerr has bought the media hype of Ant who is the sloppy master of turnovers and not getting benched. Booker sure has taken well to a roleplayer role but since when is he, Ant and KD untouchable?
There is no logical basketball reasons for not playing Tatum with Lebron, Embiid frontcourt. KD is lightyears away from the 2021 level.

the KD disrespect is so wild. i know people hate him for joining the warriors. but that guy is the best scorer the game has ever seen. And no, im not talking about who scored the most points or who has the highest ppg stats. KD has every move in his bag, he is long, has an insane shooting touch, doesnt need the ball to be effective and noone ever really scored this much on that efficiency and consistency. his frame and arms and everyhting, hes literally unguardable.

i dont blame kerr for trusting the guy he knows will get him buckets. he might not be what he was in 2021. but implying that tatum is even near KDs level, when it comes to scoring (which is the role he would need to fill) is wiiiild

[sjballer03]

Cry harder? USA won barely against France. France level is very bad compared to Serbia, they should have been beaten by 20 points. It is like a bully with Lebron size celebrating they crushed a 7 year old....
Serbia showed they were too flawed of a team with this many great players which is underwhelming

Based on your posts in this thread, sounds like you're the one crying.

[KG Leonard]

Cry harder? USA won barely against France. France level is very bad compared to Serbia, they should have been beaten by 20 points. It is like a bully with Lebron size celebrating they crushed a 7 year old....
Serbia showed they were too flawed of a team with this many great players which is underwhelming

It is a gold medal game. France isn't just going to lay down and died. Not every game will be decided by more than 20 points. Again, saying they barely won against France means nothing in a single game elimination tournament.

I didn't say French would lay down, go out gently but whatever they do shouldn't matter with the starting 5 with a top 2 player ever, top 15 level players all-time like Curry, KD and all the greats on the bench.
Curry was crazy late but it was expected win but not impressive team play Vs a team their best player being 20 year old rookie. Serbia was the impressive "final win".

[ITYSL]

Tatum had a bad Olympics, I don't know how you could argue otherwise. Would he have done better if he played more regular minutes? I don't know. Maybe. I thought the DNPs were dumb, but there were plenty of players who played irregular minutes who did better with the minutes they played.

Tatum's shooting was off in the Finals and that continued into the Olympics. It doesn't mean he's not a great player all of the sudden. He's just in a slump. Hopefully he gets out of it for the season.

[celtxman]

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It's Tatum hate here, pure and simple. Of all of the gaudy stats you posted the most ignored is that 2nd Gold Medal in Tokyo. He was the 2nd leading scorer next to Durant and had 15ppg on 49% and 45% on three. It isn't a question of could he do it. He DID it. Oh by the way the coach was Popovich .

[Mephariel]

Cry harder? USA won barely against France. France level is very bad compared to Serbia, they should have been beaten by 20 points. It is like a bully with Lebron size celebrating they crushed a 7 year old....
Serbia showed they were too flawed of a team with this many great players which is underwhelming

It is a gold medal game. France isn't just going to lay down and died. Not every game will be decided by more than 20 points. Again, saying they barely won against France means nothing in a single game elimination tournament.

I didn't say French would lay down, go out gently but whatever they do shouldn't matter with the starting 5 with a top 2 player ever, top 15 level players all-time like Curry, KD and all the greats on the bench.
Curry was crazy late but it was expected win but not impressive team play Vs a team their best player being 20 year old rookie. Serbia was the impressive "final win".

If you play enough games, there will be a game that is "not impressive." Again, it means nothing. Even the Redeem Team had games where you could argued they should have won by 20 points more. If you play enough games, there will always be games that are tight for one reason or another.

[celtxman]

Tatum had a bad Olympics, I don't know how you could argue otherwise. Would he have done better if he played more regular minutes? I don't know. Maybe. I thought the DNPs were dumb, but there were plenty of players who played irregular minutes who did better with the minutes they played.

Tatum's shooting was off in the Finals and that continued into the Olympics. It doesn't mean he's not a great player all of the sudden. He's just in a slump. Hopefully he gets out of it for the season.

His shooting was definitely off going back to the playoffs. But a DNP in Game 1 in a big win? Curry was 1/9 and looked like he was 50 years old on defense. There was no chance that Curry wasn't getting more opportunities. Kerr set the tone in Game 1 with Tatum. There has to be something said about a three time first team All NBA player, an NBA Champion and an already successful USA Olympian, not even playing. He earned it like Curry got another chance after being atrocious.

[LaLover11]

If you replace Tatum with old PG do they still win the championship vs the Mavs

[mpoo_sin]

Tatum had a bad Olympics, I don't know how you could argue otherwise. Would he have done better if he played more regular minutes? I don't know. Maybe. I thought the DNPs were dumb, but there were plenty of players who played irregular minutes who did better with the minutes they played.

Tatum's shooting was off in the Finals and that continued into the Olympics. It doesn't mean he's not a great player all of the sudden. He's just in a slump. Hopefully he gets out of it for the season.

His shooting was definitely off going back to the playoffs. But a DNP in Game 1 in a big win? Curry was 1/9 and looked like he was 50 years old on defense. There was no chance that Curry wasn't getting more opportunities. Kerr set the tone in Game 1 with Tatum. There has to be something said about a three time first team All NBA player, an NBA Champion and an already successful USA Olympian, not even playing. He earned it like Curry got another chance after being atrocious.

He was 0/16 on jumpshots. He played HORRIBLE when they gave him playing time in the preparation games. He continued to play absolutely disastrous in the minutes he got during the Olympics. And you try to make it about some kind of anti Celtics agenda.

He is a good player for a great organisation that plays in the sorry ass eastern conference. The Celtics contineously feast against the trash teams of the east and usually have a walk in the park in the Playoffs until at least the conference finals. And yet u try to use total numbers to show his greatness.
When the opponent is great it usually are other players that perform for the Celtics while Tatum shrinks in those moments.
This year was the last chance for this core before they would have blown up the Tatum/Brown paring. Their success came just in time.

[celtxman]

Tatum had a bad Olympics, I don't know how you could argue otherwise. Would he have done better if he played more regular minutes? I don't know. Maybe. I thought the DNPs were dumb, but there were plenty of players who played irregular minutes who did better with the minutes they played.

Tatum's shooting was off in the Finals and that continued into the Olympics. It doesn't mean he's not a great player all of the sudden. He's just in a slump. Hopefully he gets out of it for the season.

His shooting was definitely off going back to the playoffs. But a DNP in Game 1 in a big win? Curry was 1/9 and looked like he was 50 years old on defense. There was no chance that Curry wasn't getting more opportunities. Kerr set the tone in Game 1 with Tatum. There has to be something said about a three time first team All NBA player, an NBA Champion and an already successful USA Olympian, not even playing. He earned it like Curry got another chance after being atrocious.

He was 0/16 on jumpshots. He played HORRIBLE when they gave him playing time in the preparation games. He continued to play absolutely disastrous in the minutes he got during the Olympics. And you try to make it about some kind of anti Celtics agenda.

He is a good player for a great organisation that plays in the sorry ass eastern conference. The Celtics contineously feast against the trash teams of the east and usually have a walk in the park in the Playoffs until at least the conference finals. And yet u try to use total numbers to show his greatness.
When the opponent is great it usually are other players that perform for the Celtics while Tatum shrinks in those moments.
This year was the last chance for this core before they would have blown up the Tatum/Brown paring. Their success came just in time.

thanks for your views

[Hatrick Ewing]

Is Tatuym the 4th best player on the Celtics?

Can you hoop? Clown.

Personal attacks are not allowed. Debate the post as strongly as you'd like but don't insult the poster. -b

Yes actually. Averaged 23 PPG on a high end D2 team as a matter of fact. Dunked over a few NBA players.

[Meeksology]

If you enjoyed this, you should head over to the Celtics board and ready their Olympics thread. It's filled with stuff like this and it's fantastic. It's not just the delusion, it's how aligned they all are in their delusion.

A raps fan talking about delusion is absolutely astounding.

Tf did I do to you?