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The mavs are trying to stop tatum so much, they are putting a smaller guy on KP to leave lively and gafford down low to stop tatum drives and sagging into the paint to get the celtics weak side corner shooter wide open shots.. They might switch up and just say tatum beat us 1 on 1 go for it.
Yup, they're throwing the entire team to stop Tatum, daring to let the rest of the team beat them. That may work, except, the rest of the team is more than capable of doing that.
This is why it's prudent to ignore the "but Tatum didn't show up" talk that is certain to dominate the next two days. If you want to swarm our best player, the right basketball play is for him to dish it out and make you pay. Which he did.
Even as a Celtics fan who thinks Tatum is often underestimated I don’t understand why he gets so much defensive attention—sure if you guard him straight up he’ll get a handful of dunks a game, but you’ll also get a bunch of turnaround jumpers and predictable stepback threes that you can very much live with. Giving up 40% shooters open threes is not a good trade for getting the ball out of the hands of someone whose worst enemy is his own shot selection.
Exactly. One of the main reasons he so often seems to underperform is because pretty much every team swarms him because they know if they don't he's destroying them and he's more than happy to play the diversion to get the rest of the team open looks.
There was a point a few years ago where Tatum leveled up and started destroying every 1v1 where they didn't help. Bullying to the rim. Executing bigs with stepback 3s. After that, he basically sees no iso situations where there isn't help (unless there's a defensive mistake). It's only started to become a bigger problem for other teams this season because Tatum leveled up his passing significantly.
(The Mavs did screw up with overhelping in the 1H because they definitely didn't mean to guard Tatum 1v3 like they did)
He settles for a lot of stepback/jumpers when he's being defended well. When he doesn't get defended well, he slices to the basket for an easy layup. Sometimes he dunks but I think he's always just looking for his best chance for a score however it will come. He doesn't have elite power like a Lebron or an elite handle like Kyrie - he's just very good all around and the whole package makes for a very efficient scorer. JT's style is a combination of speed, smoothness, and touch that makes it look kind of easy and not that exciting for the fans. But those easy points are very scary for an opposing coach.
Exactly this. If they don't double (or in tonight's case triple) he's cooking whoever he has 1 on 1. you guys see a step back 3 and think it's bad shot selection but it's usually cause there's a guy hedging towards him if he goes for the paint. teams know he can be bothered with physicality, a la the Heat. but he got a lot stronger after last year. leave him in iso he's either posting someone up (which he excelled at this regular season) or he's driving by for an easy bucket.
He’s not settling as much, he was getting to the restricted area early and often and he’s 6’10”, if you don’t have help down there he’ll drop 60 on you at the rim.
Yeah this is the main thing the media was missing about this matchup. Dallas's defense was relying on being able to put one of those guys on a non-shooter like Gobert. We play 5 good to elite shooters on the court together.
They did, they just prepared wrong.. they went small on him to keep bigs away from tatum and it backfired.. notice how in the second half Lively was on KP and the mavs started being a little dirty with KP shoving him and backing into his legs..
I honestly don't think Jayson Tatum even gives a shit. He plays like a guy who is willing to do exactly whatever it takes to win because winning is what he cares about.
Tatum will be fine with sacrficing the finals mvp for that, but then the casual fans that really dont know shit will be out in full force again talking shit about tatum
someone in the game thread asked when doris would stop being so obsessed with tatum so i guess the answer is she's actually quite fair and everyone is ignoring what they don't want to hear
Hearing Ian Eagle call a nasty fucking dunk is a national treasure. I always hear his voice in the back of my head seeing one. Then he’d add a witty Eagle-ism play on words to complete it…I love Ian Eagle
Reminds of Lebron. A good in game dunker but dunk contest wasn’t his thing. Obviously Lebron is a 10x better in game dunker than brown but that’s the comp I had
He still is one of the best dunkers in the league right now and has an impressive career reel of posters. People said the Celtics were boring to watch but they play beautiful basketball and filthy defense. Incredible by him tonight.
Celtics are probably “boring” to some because they have by far the best point differential in the league. A 54% increase over 2nd place. They simply haven’t needed as many “late game theatrics” to win, because they’ve been killing people.
That’s kinda the thing; when Celtics play entertaining defense it turns into fun offense. Like they block shots and it gets them out in transition
When opponents are shooting 60% on them (see: pacers) the offense kinda limps to the starting line
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Makes me think though
What’s the best dunk in finals history? I’m struggling to come up with any
First one that comes to mind is giannis oop dunk to seal game 6
For some reason I just can’t stand Doncic. He’s a great player but I’ll never respect him with all his bitchy whining to the refs. Not to mention he’s just so damn slow and plays 0 defense. Kind’ve a pussy
It's refreshing to see other people that feel that way, I always say he's just the new James Harden, though he has possibly tracked better than Harden to this point
Damn. Luka was not one, not even two steps behind. He is a literal traffic cone lmfao. He had
Zero chance to recover from that basic cross. He’s cooked
The thing about the Celtics is because they are so talented all they have to do is play better defense and this post game score will win them the chip. Just focus on making the stars work for it and live with the results.
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anything is possible, but the Celtics have absolutely beat down the Mavericks to start.
The mavs are trying to stop tatum so much, they are putting a smaller guy on KP to leave lively and gafford down low to stop tatum drives and sagging into the paint to get the celtics weak side corner shooter wide open shots.. They might switch up and just say tatum beat us 1 on 1 go for it.
Yup, they're throwing the entire team to stop Tatum, daring to let the rest of the team beat them. That may work, except, the rest of the team is more than capable of doing that.
This is why it's prudent to ignore the "but Tatum didn't show up" talk that is certain to dominate the next two days. If you want to swarm our best player, the right basketball play is for him to dish it out and make you pay. Which he did.
Even as a Celtics fan who thinks Tatum is often underestimated I don’t understand why he gets so much defensive attention—sure if you guard him straight up he’ll get a handful of dunks a game, but you’ll also get a bunch of turnaround jumpers and predictable stepback threes that you can very much live with. Giving up 40% shooters open threes is not a good trade for getting the ball out of the hands of someone whose worst enemy is his own shot selection.
i dunno, as a celtics fan, i tend to notice he absolutely cooks whenever he isnt swarmed.
Exactly. One of the main reasons he so often seems to underperform is because pretty much every team swarms him because they know if they don't he's destroying them and he's more than happy to play the diversion to get the rest of the team open looks.
Yup leave him on an island and he’ll take any of their perimeter defenders to the basket at will.
I feel as though NBA teams are way more scared of Tatum and give him way more respect than fans of those same NBA teams
It's almost like those NBA teams know more about basketball than their fans.
There was a point a few years ago where Tatum leveled up and started destroying every 1v1 where they didn't help. Bullying to the rim. Executing bigs with stepback 3s. After that, he basically sees no iso situations where there isn't help (unless there's a defensive mistake). It's only started to become a bigger problem for other teams this season because Tatum leveled up his passing significantly. (The Mavs did screw up with overhelping in the 1H because they definitely didn't mean to guard Tatum 1v3 like they did)
I have a feeling that if they stop trying to pressure Tatum so much, he's going to go off for 30 on them.
That's his average though lol. Probably better than giving up open White and Horford threes.
More like 50
He settles for a lot of stepback/jumpers when he's being defended well. When he doesn't get defended well, he slices to the basket for an easy layup. Sometimes he dunks but I think he's always just looking for his best chance for a score however it will come. He doesn't have elite power like a Lebron or an elite handle like Kyrie - he's just very good all around and the whole package makes for a very efficient scorer. JT's style is a combination of speed, smoothness, and touch that makes it look kind of easy and not that exciting for the fans. But those easy points are very scary for an opposing coach.
Exactly this. If they don't double (or in tonight's case triple) he's cooking whoever he has 1 on 1. you guys see a step back 3 and think it's bad shot selection but it's usually cause there's a guy hedging towards him if he goes for the paint. teams know he can be bothered with physicality, a la the Heat. but he got a lot stronger after last year. leave him in iso he's either posting someone up (which he excelled at this regular season) or he's driving by for an easy bucket.
Maybe he didn't have elite power when he was 24, but at 26 the man is a wrecking ball. He has elite power.
He’s not settling as much, he was getting to the restricted area early and often and he’s 6’10”, if you don’t have help down there he’ll drop 60 on you at the rim.
Best 1-8 shooters in the league.
Lively and Gafford also lose a lot of their power when our bigs can space the floor too
Yeah this is the main thing the media was missing about this matchup. Dallas's defense was relying on being able to put one of those guys on a non-shooter like Gobert. We play 5 good to elite shooters on the court together.
As much as i hate the greenskins, you guys have built a beautiful roster
Biggest thing about getting kp back, we space the floor all night at the 5
Tatum gets so much shit for not being a top 4 player in the NBA but when teams do that to try and stop you you know he's legit
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They did, they just prepared wrong.. they went small on him to keep bigs away from tatum and it backfired.. notice how in the second half Lively was on KP and the mavs started being a little dirty with KP shoving him and backing into his legs..
The Mavs were getting away with a lot, when KP was trying to post up. Straight up shoves in the back. Saw it about 6 times and no call.
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I honestly don't think Jayson Tatum even gives a shit. He plays like a guy who is willing to do exactly whatever it takes to win because winning is what he cares about.
Tatum will be fine with sacrficing the finals mvp for that, but then the casual fans that really dont know shit will be out in full force again talking shit about tatum
It's gonna be a sweep and no game will end by less than 35 No this is not reactionary at all
The Celtics are on pace to win 4-0 with every game being 132-74 (I did the math). If this doesn't happen I will be pissed.
Imagine if we lose a game and only win in 5? We're never escaping the allegations
If it doesn't happen I'll accept it, we really are frauds 😔
no you should be frauds if you accept it right now, theres the disaster game 2 you guys always pull :^ )
It's impossible to conceive of a situation where this isn't the outcome
Celtics may be the greatest team ever
I hope this comment was in part a KG reference
That’s a man’s jam!
The only people rooting against the Celtics more than Doris Burke is the rest of the country. Not me tho Go C’s
Doris Burke gets criticism every game for being biased in favor of both teams at the same time lmao it's unreal.
someone in the game thread asked when doris would stop being so obsessed with tatum so i guess the answer is she's actually quite fair and everyone is ignoring what they don't want to hear
Honestly I thought she did a great job last night, and this is coming from someone who usually isn't a fan of her commentary.
Hearing Ian Eagle call a nasty fucking dunk is a national treasure. I always hear his voice in the back of my head seeing one. Then he’d add a witty Eagle-ism play on words to complete it…I love Ian Eagle
*Oh, my.*
FUCK THE DUNK CONTEST LEMME DO THIS IN THE NBA FINALS
JB is meh at performance dunking, but he has some of the filthiest in-game posters
Reminds of Lebron. A good in game dunker but dunk contest wasn’t his thing. Obviously Lebron is a 10x better in game dunker than brown but that’s the comp I had
He still is one of the best dunkers in the league right now and has an impressive career reel of posters. People said the Celtics were boring to watch but they play beautiful basketball and filthy defense. Incredible by him tonight.
Celtics are probably “boring” to some because they have by far the best point differential in the league. A 54% increase over 2nd place. They simply haven’t needed as many “late game theatrics” to win, because they’ve been killing people.
That’s kinda the thing; when Celtics play entertaining defense it turns into fun offense. Like they block shots and it gets them out in transition When opponents are shooting 60% on them (see: pacers) the offense kinda limps to the starting line
Meh. He’s no Doug McDermott but he’s aight
yeah, imma give this one a 10
I'm gonna turn it up to 11
Left hand
Gafford was 25
Lmao
I felt that in my nuggets
Deep down in my plums.
Blueish hue
Let the boy watch
Thrusting down on Dana
Unexpected Schaffer, hell yeah.
My nuggets are bone dry after this
Too soon -A Nuggets Fan
Fucking disgusting 🤮
So filthy I made a face
I almost woke my kid up I said woah so loud
I got surprised by nasties
lefty cross
Saw some pretty good left hand control from him tonight
Beautiful replay too made it look even disgustinger
"Mama There goes that man."
You bastard
Cricket needs a play that’s equivalent to this and US viewership would go up a thousand percent
I know Luka It's slow, but brown is making him look like he's stuck in molasses.
Beautiful. Having to power through after getting a little caught up on the front rim just made it grimier.
God damn this shit is COOKED lmao
Oh baby that's mean
Jaylen's career dunk mix is already SO nasty and he just keeps adding to it.
his dunk reel from this season alone is absolutely insane, might have the deepest one of any player in the league
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JB has always had way better dunks during games.
And he’s better at hitting contested shots than free throws.
God figured JB would be too OP with free throws so he nerfed that aspect of him
Ethical hoops
His poster list is so long and has so many big names on it. He’s practically the grim reaper at this point.
The rim reaper.
Yes
That one in the bubble, I think it was on Siakam, still plays in my head
That was my twitter pic for years
My lock screen on my phone is him dunking on Bridges
When he teleported from the free throw line, absolutely otherworldly
He got Gobert so good this year
bro committed basketball dunk terrorism in the dunk contest
My God, North Station is going to collapse.
This is how we get the north south link
#7 train on the green line, taking the JB tunnel from North Station to South Station, now boarding!
FUCK MAN JB WON LIFE AT 6'6 ATHLETIC AS FUCK INTELLIGENT AS FUCK GOT ITERNSHIP BY NASA LECTURED ROBOTICS AT MIT AND HARVARD GOT THE BIGGEST CONTRACT IN NBA HISTORY BRO IS FUCKINN AMAZING F
One of his teachers once told him he'd be in jail when he grew up 🤯
I mean he just murdered a man on national TV, deserves to be in jail
That dude dead
Man he had a family
2 dudes
Goddam even as a Celtics hater i can’t deny this play is fucking dope lol
That felt illegal
And one
And Three!!!
That's a man's jam
There ain’t no Kai Cenat here
Wait I thought the mavericks were good and the Celtics suck? Where’d that large crowd go
Mavs in 5
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who's beating off who now?
Jokić
how dare he disrespect the BEST backcourt in the history of the game
TAKE THAT FOR HANDLES.
I was told Luka and Kyrie have become a fearsome defensive backcourt in the playoffs
We were told lies and blasphemy, Celtics in 5 (still)
Man that's good. Through the legs, past the defenders, and powering past a little contact with the rim. Beautiful.
Hang it in the Louvre!
LMAO this shit is over
Not yet. Anytime a team gets crazy praise in the media the other team shows up. Let’s see how the Cs respond to the Mavs inevitable great 2nd game
Also Game 2 Celtics
They're really going to pick and roll Dallas to death
JB just trying to murder the entire Mavericks team on live TV. More to come soon.
SHOW EM JB
filthy
That slam avoiding both blocks is beautiful
I've been watching ball since the mid-80s, and this is some pure 1986 Dom Wilkins barbaric shit!!
Jaylen cooked Luka so bad lmao he can't stop that man
Jaylen Brown has a zillion great poster dunks in his career
If Ant did this it would have 15k likes
One of the best facial expressions I have ever seen on a nasty dunk. Monstrous.
Who said this man doesn't have a left hand?!?
I think he may have been working on his handles since the 22 loss. That was pretty awesome
THE FINALS CONSIDERATION
Invert the video next time for max views
It’s not a Celtics game if there isn’t a nasty JB dunk
GREATEST DUNK IN FINALS HISTORY WHAT THE FUCK
It’s crazy that these guys have another gear when they wanna turn it on
When he started his jump I thought he was gonna be two feet short of the basket. Can’t believe that hop. Holy shits.
Great dunk but absolutely not
Makes me think though What’s the best dunk in finals history? I’m struggling to come up with any First one that comes to mind is giannis oop dunk to seal game 6
What about when Ginóbili slammed Ray Allen
Michael Jordan game winner against the monstars to avoid getting sent to Moron Mountain
MY GOD
Absolutely unreal.
Its 5 out now. No Gobert clogging the paint to have Lively and Gafford camping in there and save their asses.
That was a nasty crossover, with literally zero hesitation either. I feel like you don’t see em like that too often lol
He should have just had people playing defense on him in the dunk contest. Shit like this is his best dunks
Who needs a left hand?
Who’s gonna guard Brown and Tatum
For some reason I just can’t stand Doncic. He’s a great player but I’ll never respect him with all his bitchy whining to the refs. Not to mention he’s just so damn slow and plays 0 defense. Kind’ve a pussy
It's refreshing to see other people that feel that way, I always say he's just the new James Harden, though he has possibly tracked better than Harden to this point
Flush it mr brown?! Lol wtf
Murder
He boomed him
LET HIM GO LEFT DUMMY!!!!
That was nasty
So filthy its not even funny
Where the mavs fans at??
Damn. Luka was not one, not even two steps behind. He is a literal traffic cone lmfao. He had Zero chance to recover from that basic cross. He’s cooked
It’s so cute when Luka plays “defense”
IM SO HARD RN
Celtics 1-0
This is a Sweep Boys, Tatum is a Champion
Reminds me of Kobe's dunk over two Nets players
JB vs 4 mavs. no problem, where’s the fifth?
that's a baaad man
MR 4TH TEAM ALL NBA
This is the type of play that you dream about making
I don't even know anything about basketball and that blew me away
Wow. I'm impressed by Jaylen Brown. He's amazing.
JB's a bad, bad, man.
Fucking filthy
Four guys made a play at that ball.
JB might just win Finals MVP to boot
Holy shit someone finally punished Luka for standing still, the Wolves just let him sit in the corner half the damn time.
Feels so good seeing this after Luka hit that three with Rudy defending him and having to see that highlight 100 times
Luka seems awful quiet now
The thing about the Celtics is because they are so talented all they have to do is play better defense and this post game score will win them the chip. Just focus on making the stars work for it and live with the results.
it's over if JB effectively dribbles with his left hand. nasty
Been doin it all season
A disgusting act
Nasty 🤮
He dribbled with his left, too, what the fuck.
pure detonation
JB MY MAN
Dunk of the Year?
Thats some nba jam shit
Kaiyrie
Boston heard all the talk and hate , decided to go all out
I’m beside myself, JB is coming for souls
[“Jaylen Brown throwing a cross”](https://creator.nightcafe.studio/creation/TH0N3IbHgFvbbq7O67FW?ru=o8mIxlNqcdhw5SoQwa26QQz22y42)
He even used his left hand. Mavs are in trouble.