Jayson Tatum's press conference after game 1 loss vs the Miami Heat

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I think in the third quarter, we gave up too many points.
Sometimes we didn't get back, had some turnovers, spacing,
defensive coverages that we kind of got mixed up on
that we went over today and shoot around.
So a lot of things that we can control to be better at.
And he's talked a lot about you guys adjusting on the fly,
you guys being open to adjustments,
especially against this team that's switching it up so much.
How much did you guys out there feel the need
to adjust to some of the things they were doing?
And do you think you did so effectively?
Yeah, I think, I mean, we just gave up 46 points in the third.
So that's defense and transition and offensive rebounds
and not closing out the shooters.
So there's some things that we really got to focus on
and go over tomorrow in practice.
Jason, you guys have had a kind of history
of, Joe talked about letting go of the rope
in the third quarter.
Why is it that that's something that
has continued to happen throughout the course
of the season and in the playoffs?
I don't know why, but I just know today.
Like I said, we gave up some transition baskets.
They got in the rhythm.
They were comfortable.
We didn't close out the shooters.
We gave up some offensive rebounds.
So in recent games, I'd have to go back and watch them.
But tonight, that's kind of what happened.
And this year, you can go back to last year,
home court advantage hasn't been much of an advantage.
You guys have about a 500 record at home in the playoffs.
Why is that not helping having home court advantage?
I don't know.
Shit, I don't know.
I don't know why.
You still got to play the game.
You still got to make plays, regardless
of you're at home on the way.
The court is the same.
It's one ball, three reps, two baskets.
So I don't have an exact answer why we 500 at home.
We just got to be better.
Jason, you guys struggled a bit offensively
down the stretch, execution-wise.
What were they doing to kind of take you guys out of the rhythm
there, do you feel like?
And you personally, you weren't able to take a shot
in the fourth quarter.
Were they doing anything special to you
there to kind of deny you?
We got to play with more pace.
I think in the third quarter, we kind of played too slow,
mainly because we weren't getting stops.
In the fourth quarter, we made a couple of runs,
got to push the ball.
Those go hand-in-hand with getting stops and getting
out in transition.
So it starts on the defensive end,
just play with some more pace, play a little bit faster.
Last question, Jerry.
Jason, Joe called that time out with 3 and 1
minutes left in the game.
Said he wanted to figure out your guys' spacing.
Then you come out, and you threw the ball away,
and Jimmy turned it over, or Jimmy stole it.
Then you had a couple up-and-down travels.
What was Miami able to do to get in the way of your guys'
spacing?
And why do you think you had those travels?
Yeah, I turned the ball over, threw it to Jimmy.
That was on me.
And I don't shot fake.
I just got sped up a little bit.
So I just got to slow down a little bit.
In those moments.
Philly, they also were able to kind of make
you guys uncomfortable with their speed in game one.
Miami kind of did the same thing tonight.
So how were you guys able to adjust to find
your pace against Philly?
And how do you think you can do that against Miami?
You know, we're going to have practice tomorrow, watch film.
We're going to talk about it, discuss the things
that we did well, the things that we can do better,
and come out and execute better on Friday.
