The Celtics 'ABSOLUTELY' need more from Jayson Tatum! - Chiney Ogwumike

not upon me to like hijack the game and you know try to make it about me and it's a national tb game other guys had it going so if i had to be in the corner if i had to you know be a facilitator at times uh you know so be it everybody everybody's allowed to have an off night but tatum essentially saying there that he's willing some nights to take the back seat as their best player what's that deep breath for you have a problem with that i you're the man jason you're the man i want you to hijack the game i want you to do that um look at the end of the day he's a great team guy i think people like playing with him like being his teammate um but in these situations what what denver really sent is a message of we can take your guy out you're you're the man we're going to take that guy out and boston can't do that with so it is a problem when you're starting to game plan and figure this thing out because any any for me and a lot of this is not even like a physical aspect of skills and this and that this is a mental switch that has to be switched on in the not just jason tatum the whole boston celtics team because i feel like they have this this like little brother syndrome almost because they've been so close anything less is a championship but they get beat down in these big games and i think that just wears mentally on you so they need to reset the mindset more than anything the jumpers okay they weren't falling we know those will fall but going into the playoffs you need to find a way to win when that three ball's not going well they were they were blitzing jason tatum not letting him isolate and they basically said we are we it's not the same thing the warriors did where they didn't guard jalen brown right they that was drastic that was drastic and it was over the top and it was like we all could see what they were doing but they essentially said we want jalen brown to shoot more the the the the boston celtics are seven and seven when he shoots more than 20 times a game they're eight and ten when he shoots more than 25 times a game so even though he had 40 points that's what they're trying to get him to do they're taking the ball out of jason tatum's hands and making jalen brown shoot he had 40 right but as you said jason tatum is the guy in his idol kobe bryant there are games when you're team trying to do that to kobe too but he just kept shooting but if they're going to win a championship today do they need more from their best player who is jason tatum absolutely they need much more in those crucial moments and i think you know i have this situation where one of the greats in the wmba simone augustus told me what makes diana torasi great and she's the all-time leading scorer in the wba is that she has that vulnerability to take the tough shots knowing that there might be failure on the other side i think when we look at the boston celtics they're all like okay we're all working together as key pieces but he needs to go out there and those field goals and i would take you know someone like you coach becky because i know when you coach asia in the toughest moments you say i don't care what happens be aggressive and we'll live with the consequences i'm not saying coach joe mizula is not saying that but in some regards you would see that especially that confidence in him if he had the whole system behind him in those circumstances and i think they fall prey to that more often than not now lastly i'll say this when it comes to jason tatum i think there's a lot of criticism on him oh his mvp case we all knew was probably going to be a long shot based off of the rest of the field and they also have the highest margin of victory the celtics so you look at those crunch time numbers i don't think that tells you everything plus we've seen them show up 51 points in a game seven to close out a series yep we just want to see it consistently for them to build the requisite confidence for them to move forward and i think the point being uh no you don't want to hijack the game like that that's a very i don't know kind of even keeled statement in a sense because you got to know when to hijack the game and when not to and when your team is in limbo of losing a game that is the time to jump in and hijack the game and that back and forth that they had going on right like that down the stretch down the wire like you have to find ways to make an imprint and and here's the thing you got to live with the consequences being great or being good you got to be good with both but you got to be able to take that shot and take it with confidence every single time you let it fly say uh another playoff atmosphere for sure as we talk pre-game then you gotta give the Celtic fans credit you know they uh they always come out strong um you know but you know what we say right they can take that l on the way out baby i feel like i should have guarded joe's just a little bit a little more um i wish i would have had those opportunities a little bit i could keep them away from the basket and we could have took away some of those layups they got but i feel like you know we still had every chance to win this game we just came up short so jalen brown he said he wanted a crack against yokich but nobody has been able to slow this guy down i mean look at this his second season with 20 30 point triple doubles only oscar and russ have had more years posting those kind of numbers it was a statement win from top to bottom for the defending champs the reigning finals mvp but becky what did the nuggets prove to you last night well they proved they're still the team to be at the end of the day i think the championship runs through denver and yokich just proved he's unguardable and the reason why he's unguardable is because you do this he does that you do that he does this he is constantly just making the right play and what i really love about him is there's zero hesitation about making the right play he doesn't care if it's an assist a hockey assist he is making the right read every time he touches the ball and he just puts your defense in huge dilemmas so becky are you saying it's a little bit of this and a little bit of that just a little bit of this and a little bit of that look he put on a master class of being able to be dominant and versatile in different ways when he was on the block he finished off the block and then when he was on the block he passed off the block the denver nuggets to me you said it best the title runs through denver maybe not literally because boston celtics i think they have like a five or six game edge overall so if these two meet in the nba finals it will go through boston game one but still it seems to me that nicola yokich is the best player on the floor and i know we argue about these supporting cast because that has been their big improvement boston it feels like yokich is his supporting cast is tailored perfectly for him right he's got perimeter shooting you've got um you know porter jr knocking down shots kcp you've got jamal murray who knows how to bob and dance and weave they do a beautiful tango and most importantly you know there'll be some games where maybe some people would say okay aaron gordon shoot the ball doesn't matter he's cutting he's moving and it feels like he has you know that that's so raven i don't have to look at you we can just throw it behind my head and throw it to you okay i'm glad you guys i got it not to mention it's a future that he can see exactly we had all these questions about who was going to replace bruce brown and peyton watson is so seamlessly stepped up into that sort of sixth man type of position particularly defensively ramona well i thought i thought watson was big in that game that is the big question with denver and their bench because they let a lot of those guys go they didn't pay them they elevated the young guys but to me like when you watch that game this felt like a final showdown it felt like if jason tatum was going to make a case to be the mvp over yokich this was the night that was the shot we just showed it he didn't hit it but when i the denver nuggets you cannot double yokich because they have all shooters and they have the best lob threat in all of basketball and aaron gordon i mean yes that was an incredible pass i cannot watch that play i know enough i know like i just want to see it over and over and over but aaron gordon with the follows aaron gordon is always there and every team needs one of those like when you when you talk to teams around the league like what player do you need on your team well we need someone like aaron gordon with the olympic team what do you guys need we need someone like aaron gordon who can guard on the perimeter one to five and be a lob threat to where you cannot double yokich because of how dominant aaron gordon i do wonder he made the first he misses the second the pacers getting out in transition here a chance to tie the game instead of the overtime and says no anthony edwards elevates hits his head on the rim as he goes for the game-stealing block you know he grew up playing football right that is a it doesn't matter what sport it is the middle that is a 47 inch vertical right there in a decade let's take a listen to mr edwards after that incredible block i hit my head i think on the rim it's hurting real bad and i landed on my wrist but i mean you know i saw him with the lane i knew he was going for the for the layup and i was just like man i'm finna go get this i ain't never jumped that high in my life actually has jumped that high this season that's that's what he does it over and over again anthony edwards his game-saving block it got our producers thinking about where it ranks on the all-time list of most wild blocks in nba history so we start with lafonso ellis oh my god it was the snatch it was the disrespect where he just held on on snatch you get to stand and pray a little bit after that and then we got shack this is on rex chapman and 96 made the cameras in the forum go out breaking cameras breaking glass he used to break rims back and forth and then becky you remember this one ben wallace in 2000 pins it and then snatches it these are disgusting these blocks are i'm sitting over here with stink face because these are incredible they need a warning before you watch this brawn on tiago splitter in 2013 this was the final it's okay to shoulder like that and of course we need to take one more look at ant-man last night i just there are no words no there are pogo stick trampoline by the way did your heart skip a beat when he's landing there like absolutely his arm was against the backboard like his head would have went higher than the rim correct they've not been there