THE HERD | Ric Bucher: “Loss to Nuggets crushed Jayson Tatum’s MVP candidacy” – Colin REACTION

THE HERD | Ric Bucher: “Loss to Nuggets crushed Jayson Tatum’s MVP candidacy” – Colin REACTION

You’re coaching and who is the guy that you that everything uh is based on and I is that Jason Tatum if it’s Jason Tatum then I still have my concerns because there’s times where he’s great there’s times where he delivers in the clutch but I can’t necessarily count on it and again it

Comes down to if you watch the Denver Nuggets play you know who’s going to have the ball at crunch time and you know what they’re going to try to do even Jamal and and and uh and yic while they share the duties they’re able to seamlessly read who should be going to

Get it I don’t get any of that seamless reading between Jason Tatum and any of the other parts it’s sort of the Celtics look at it is is does J Jason have it going is he is this his night oh it’s not okay so who do we go to next you

Can’t have that uncertainty in playoff games at crunch time that is the Difference Maker as much as as Talent or anything else and it’s the one thing that I have not consistently seen from the Boston sub all right I’m not going to bring up Tatum’s uh postseason heroics against

The Sixers and the Bucks the last couple years but I dig well if you did then you’d have to bring you’d have to bring up the let Downs too I mean they’re yeah no nobody’s perfect be perfect in the postseason no no no no I expect him to

Be perfect but I always expect him to be aggressive I always expect him to go and try to make it happen and all too many times he starts out badly and he’s looking for somebody else to get it done that’s the one you whatever you want to

Say about Kobe or or you can say it about joic now you can say it about Jamal Murray like they’re going to go try to get it done and everybody on their team knows this guy is going to go try to get it done so whether he makes

It or misses I know that he’s taking the shot or I know that he’s making the play Jason you just don’t always get that feeling there’s just times where it feels as if he he doesn’t have it going he loses his confidence and he becomes passive and I simply can’t have that

From my primary player uh let’s get to the Warriors last night Curry goes down in the final moments ankle injury what do you hearing do you think they shut him down for a week can they afford to do that the Jazz aren’t breathing down their neck however you know having to go

On the road to crypto in that play in 910 with the season on the line Anthony Davis has kind of dominated the Warriors this is not great for for the chef no it’s not and they they don’t they don’t have too many choices I was

At the game and was uh around the locker room afterward and was hearing that it wasn’t that bad uh however bad you might have thought it was is he going to miss time yes he’s going to miss time the difficulty is as you pointed out where

They are in the standings and how much they depend on him and probably third how much Steph relies on his agility and speed and just being able to run around in order to be Steph Stephen Curry and so that’s the issue I would not be surprised if they do whatever is

Necessary to just get him right and conceding that they are going to be in the playin the you know the tough thing is is if you’re in the playin You’ got to win at least one on on a given night and possibly two uh probably two for

Where they’re going to be very likely might have to do it on the road the positive is like I could see a lot of upsets in these in these playoffs because we’ve got some very young teams up top unproven playoff teams and we got got some old guards in the Lakers and

The warriors uh in the playin that ultimately could get matched up in the first round against some of those young teams and I’m not counting those those older teams out at this point uh against the competition I don’t know that we’re going to get both of them right but I

Would expect that one of them is going to be in the postseason all right so Timberwolves lose Carl Anthony towns they’re making it sound like he could come back for the playoffs like give me a break um let’s just say done for the season they’re not getting this feels

Like Memphis last year in the first round right losing to the Lakers whoever gets out of the play in is probably taking down uh Minnesota assuming they hold on to two if they fall to three that six seed is super coveted I know Anthony Edwards is awesome and and

They’ve got some good good players but they’re they’re not winning a first round Series without cat I wouldn’t put it that way I I’m I actually I feel as if they might be better without cat and that’s not uh that’s not throwing shade at him or how

He’s played he’s he’s been better this year outside of that Charlotte travesty where he decided I’m gonna try to go to 60 and try to get a a personal career best and they ended up losing the game and he got called out for it for the

Most part he’s done a nice job of trying to blend in what he wants to do with Anthony Edwards and everybody else but the reality is Anthony Edwards and Carl Anthony towns sort of play the same rule role uh they’re at their best when they’re the primary scorer and you’re

Looking to set them up and get them the ball now it streamlines everything Anthony Edwards is that guy and they’re going to go to him a lot more than they even have to this point and I believe that it it uh clear clarifies what everybody’s role is see it as a

Motivator this is a Minnesota team that they’re not the youngest team in the league they’re not as young as Oklahoma City but they play young a lot and I could see where not having towns is actually a motivating factor for everybody to dial in and focus a little

Bit more and play their best on a more consistent basis and that’s and that’s Anthony Edwards too I heard an interesting thing from uh from a scout the other day that was saying that that Edwards is so talented that he tries things out during the course of a game

Like let me see if I can Bank this three literally is just toying with I wonder if I could I wonder if I can do this that’s all well and good you’re not winning championships if you arguably your best player is experimenting with kind of trick shots Stephen Curry holds

That for the warm-ups yes he doesn’t do that in the games it sounds like Anthony Edwards still has a little bit of the playful kid in him yeah and if the Minnesota Timberwolves really want to play for a championship they’re going to have to Exile all right I say my hottest

Take for last will be quick on this one hypothetical Sixers fall to the playin they’re teetering six7 right now they lose in the playin season over no Joel embiid Joel embiid looks at the Sixers and says I go down and this team falls out of the play and and doesn’t make the

Playoffs what am I doing here and Joel embiid asks out this summer Rick what say you I’m I’m not buying it I’m not buying it I think the injury gives them an out and uh it’s interesting it’s intriguing and maybe there’s a part of me that hopes that that doesn’t happen

Because come on Jo Joelle the Sixers have become your team Tyrese Maxi has evolved uh Daryl Mory has shown that he is not shy about continuing to reshuffle his deck and ultimately where’s he going to go like take a page out of the Damen Lillard book Damien Lillard was the guy

In Portland had a brand had an identity and whatever Portland was going to be it wasn’t G to fall on his shoulders and he was going to be looked at as as the hero I get the sense that Damen is kind of still looking for his identity in Milwaukee but it’s certainly

Not at the same level that it was and I would say the same would happen if Joel embiid went someplace else presumably if he’s going to someplace where he has a better chance of winning a championship he’s going someplace where there’s already already an established star and

That means that he’s now battling for top billing he already has that in Philadelphia Jaylen Brunson sorry all right Rick buer good stuff Fox Sports Rick have a great weekend man talk to you soon

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