Victory Cigar!!! BOS 143, SA 140 (34-30)

[moonie_mcgee]

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This pic is not as iconic... as his Subway commercial.

Tough to post but lol ya I didn't love it as much either.
Kind of a direct rip off of Wilt Chamberlain's 100

[GreenBloodedC]

What we’ve seen since the all star break is Tatum just has a gear that only 6-7 other players in the league can hit.

Dude is averaging 28/8/5 on a 61% TS in 26 games since the all star break. And it’s not like he’s on some unsustainable burner shooting the ball or anything, his splits are 48/41/88, just slightly above his career numbers.

His upside is scary high. He’s not going to be in his age 25 season until 2023-2024, think about that.

We finally have someone who can go toe to toe with the best players in the league when the playoffs come.

It's a cliche but it's true, you can only go so far as your superstar takes you.

[moonie_mcgee]

Who remembers when Nate Duncan had Jonathan Isaac higher on his board than Tatum?

There were quite a few, that I know of, that had Jonathan Isaac higher on the draft board than Jayson Tatum.

Isaacs is a pretty talented guy though, it’s not like the analysts could’ve predicted his health problems.

Tatum was in all intent a #1 pick.
A #1 pick and another pick to be fair.
Celts finally landed the big one again.
Red must be having a few puffs tonight too.

[FlatearthZorro]

Win of the year, hope the guys can get some rest before the POR game.

Tatum was unbelievable.

[Fierce1]

You can say that about any decent playoff team. The Celtics have show zero ability to play good basketball for even 3 quarters a game for a few games in a row even. I'd like to believe it but the defense has been bad to mediocre the whole season. Maybe they can catch some weird no back to backs lightning in a bottle but I've seen no evidence.

Most decent playoff teams don't have guys like Tatum and Brown.

The problem with the Celts is they are talented but lacking basketball IQ.

Brooklyn has proven that it can win games even if they don't play good defense.

Like I said, Celts can exit in the 1st round or reach the east finals again.

The talent is there.

They just have to lessen the stupid mistakes.

[TheMartian]

Tatum is now the 2nd youngest player to score 60 in a game at 23 yrs, 59 days (if I'm not mistaken) surpassing Michael Jordan at 23 yrs. 62 days.

[Captain_Caveman]

A 38% usage with 0 turnovers in over 40 minutes is impressive in itself. Never mind the 60 and his defense, Scal was in awe in the postgame.

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I'd probably go by Richard or Rick if that were my name.

[grindtime22]

Nasty game from Tatum. The biggest hole in his game has been in the paint. He has always been too soft and timid in the paint for me. The lack of free throw attempts were just a symptom of that. He seems to have figured it out over the past month. He is attacking with an intensity that we haven't seen from him. It's one thing to do it against Karl Anthony Towns (the start of Tatum's aggression). It's completely different against Poeltl. He is under the radar one of the best defenders in the NBA, yet Tatum was still dominant attacking the rim and getting to the line. Amazing. Tatum has been a superstar outside of 15 feet going back to last year. This kind of progress in the paint takes him to another level.

Hat tip to the kamikaze. Back to back fantastic games for Nesmith. His hustle wasn't just entertaining in this game, it was unbelievably impactful for the 2nd straight game. If he starts hitting stand still wide open catch and shoot 3s, he is going to be great for the Celtics. Any kind of movement and he is a sniper. Maybe he should just shuffle back and forth.

Smart was also pretty amazing in the 2nd half. I think that last defensive play was relatively clean as well. I'm not sure they call it in the playoffs.

Nice playoff adjustment to put wings on Poeltl as well. They killed us with pullup mid rangers in the first half. Its usually something you can live with as a defense, but they just weren't going to miss any of them. Moving a switchable wing on to Poeltl took away the comfortable pullups against the drop.

Jaylen was ass, but hit the big one.

Scott Wall, my gawd. That was embarrassing. He did everything he could to kill the momentum over and over.

[Captain_Caveman]

I'm a big Paul Pierce fan, but you can see the trajectory of Jayson Tatum's career.

Only way Tatum doesn't surpass Pierce is if the NBA ceases to exist, for whatever reason.

There's just no stopping the Jayson Tatum train.

Jayson Tatum is on a collision course with greatness.

I VERY much look forward to JT supplanting Paul in the top 3/4 pantheon of Celtic greats.
Let’s talk 5-7 years from now!

Tatum has more natural talent then Pierce, but Pierce had a warriors heart, time will tell if Tatum does as well.

All I know is that they are similar players. Tatum probably a step ahead at the same age. Along with McHale and Bird, we have had four of the forwards with the best footwork all-time.

[Captain_Caveman]

Only 30 players have ever scored 60 in a regular season game. Kemba and Bird have also done it.

In the world where he gets the continuation and hits the FT for 61 points, the number of players at 61+ in a game drops to 22, with no Kemba or Bird. Of the 76 games where someone scored 60+ and the 60 games someone scored 61+, Wilt had 32 and 29 of them, respectively. There have only been 11 games with someone scoring 70+, with 6 of them being Wilt. One of the others was Devin Booker in a loss in Boston a few years ago.

There have only been 34 games since 1978 where someone scored 60+, and only 20 with someone scoring 61+. In the last 20 years, there have only been 23 and 13, respectively.

There have been two playoff games with a scorer at 60 points or above. Jordan dropping 63 on the 1986 Celts (Bulls were swept), and Elgin Baylor dropping 61 on the 1962 Celts to put the Lakers up 3-2 in a Finals that we eventually won in 7.

[LondonCeltics]

Oh boy I can’t wait to watch the highlights of this one later! I know it came in OT right but I always wondered when we’d see Birds record matched

[1st banana]

Unreal comeback, Tatum is incredible

Paul Pierce never scored 60 points his whole career.

Jayson Tatum is not chasing Paul Pierce, he's chasing the great Larry Bird!

If I’m not mistaken Paul only put up 50 once, against the Cavs I think.

[Bleeding Green]

Only 30 players have ever scored 60 in a regular season game. Kemba and Bird have also done it.

In the world where he gets the continuation and hits the FT for 61 points, the number of players at 61+ in a game drops to 22, with no Kemba or Bird. Of the 76 games where someone scored 60+ and the 60 games someone scored 61+, Wilt had 32 and 29 of them, respectively. There have only been 11 games with someone scoring 70+, with 6 of them being Wilt. One of the others was Devin Booker in a loss in Boston a few years ago.

There have only been 34 games since 1978 where someone scored 60+, and only 20 with someone scoring 61+. In the last 20 years, there have only been 23 and 13, respectively.

There have been two playoff games with a scorer at 60 points or above. Jordan dropping 63 on the 1986 Celts (Bulls were swept), and Elgin Baylor dropping 61 on the 1962 Celts to put the Lakers up 3-2 in a Finals that we eventually won in 7.

Really speaks to how absolutely **** this team is that they need one of the top 34 games of all time to beat a middling Spurs team in OT by a couple points. At home.

[Ill News]

I'm a big Paul Pierce fan, but you can see the trajectory of Jayson Tatum's career.

Only way Tatum doesn't surpass Pierce is if the NBA ceases to exist, for whatever reason.

There's just no stopping the Jayson Tatum train.

Jayson Tatum is on a collision course with greatness.

I VERY much look forward to JT supplanting Paul in the top 3/4 pantheon of Celtic greats.
Let’s talk 5-7 years from now!

Tatum has more natural talent then Pierce, but Pierce had a warriors heart, time will tell if Tatum does as well.

Tatum has already proven a few times that he has a warrior's heart as well. Remember, he almost willed the C's to the finals in 2018, when he led the team in scoring in Game 7 and even posterized LeBron. And he was magnificent all playoffs that year, and he was a rookie.

More recently, there's the Game 7 against the Raptors when he had a huge offensive rebound off two missed Grant FTs, which allowed the C's to seal the game.

And of course, there's his 56-point and 60-point games this year, performances that the struggling team absolutely needed to eke out wins. Tatum's a warrior, there's no doubt about it. Don't let his quiet demeanor fool you.

[Froob]

Fell asleep for the end there, just watching now. Nesmith should be rewarded with more minutes.

Romeo isn’t giving us anything but defense, we outta just okay Nesmith for now. He’s playing with a lot of energy and confidence.

[31to6]

Ah, man... since I'm the only one who will... someone has to talk about how good Marcus was out there. That was peak-TA caliber defense. DeRozan only had two buckets on him in like 20 possessions down the stretch, even though Pop was feeding him as much as we were feeding Tatum. And Demar was struggling harrrrrd on both of those baskets (with questionable calls on both). That was some absolutely next level ****.

100% true.
Also excellent was 6fga and 12 assists.
Good good good!

[31to6]

I think the most exciting thing is that you can imagine Tatum doing that it the playoffs as well.

He and JB definitely have a Bird/McHale scoring duo thing going on this season. Since the rest of our roster blows chunks*, they could keep it going when it counts.

*not you, Rob Williams, Smart, and Nesmith

[radcot]

Don't follow college basketball much so this was the ONLY post I've ever offered an opinion about who the Celtics should draft. Rather proud of it this morning.

by radcot
Sat Jun 17, 2017 1:29 pm
Forum: Boston Celtics
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I defer to the draft experts on the "superiority" of Fultz and Jackson as prospects, but in games I actually watched, Tatum was the most impressive player by far. Would love him on the C's.

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[Hal14]

Biggest halftime comeback in Celtics history!!!

Tatum was amazing. Tying Larry Bird for most points in Celtics history.

Two straight games now that Nesmith has outplayed Fournier and props to Brad for staying with Nesmith.

3 big plays Nesmith made:

-3 from top of the key
-Deflection that got us the ball back
-Put-back

Each of those were huge plays. Love what he's done these last 2 games and hope he keeps it up!