Jayson Tatum’s had a TOUGH WEEK 😧 Brian Windhorst talks Celtics, Lakers & more 🏀 | Get Up

Jayson Tatum’s had a TOUGH WEEK 😧 Brian Windhorst talks Celtics, Lakers & more 🏀 | Get Up

We had what pretty much all the odds makers including ESP ESPN bat believe was a preview of the NBA finals last night nuggets and Celtics in Boston let me show you first one spectacular play that’s nicolea yic up and Gordon throwing it down look at DeAndre loves it Aaron Gordon just spectacular there

These two heavyweights would trade punches all night long meantime it would all come down to this the nuggets at a two-point League late watch Jason Tatum wide open in the corner for the lead and he can’t get it to go he was just five of 13 from the floor and then on the

Other end here’s the dagger it’s joic with the spin it’s Gordon who throws it down yic had a 30-point triple double and the Nuggets would win it by a score of 115 to 109 so let’s talk about different pieces of this so Jason Tatum is a brilliant player we all understand

That he was held under 15 points for just the third time this season he was one of five shooting in the fourth quarter on the season that’s the number he’s under 30 32% from the field in clutch time that is 27th out of 28 qualified players and it brings up sort

Of a longstanding question about him in the biggest moments and oh we’ve got some hoops ready to go today the wind man is up early with us and it’s been too long since we have said good morning to ch ch a gumuk Chan let me start with

You on that is it reasonable for people to question at this point Jason Tatum and his ability to rise in the biggest moments when when the Celtics need him it is to some degree just because I know a lot of people want him to capitalize on this moment where people feel like he

Should be in the MVP conversation but I want to give a little context to those clutch numbers the Celtics lead the NBA in margin of Victory they win by on average around 12 points per game so In fairness to Jason Tatum he’s just not on the floor because they beat people so

Bad that he doesn’t have to be on the four floor in the fourth quarter but in in the biggest moments this is where all eyes are on him I know you mentioned his field goals he only shot the ball 13 times Jaylen Brown shot the ball 29

Times people kind of want Jason Tatum to be that aggressive best player because they have the best team right now by record in the NBA and so when you go up against the defending champs we’re looking for those moments where you know it can put him over the edge we just

Didn’t get that but in the playoffs we have seen not too long ago him dropped 51 in a game seven that was iconic in a Celtics Jersey so he is capable I think just this year the expectations are there for the taking and it feels like we just haven’t seen those that’s by

Design by them winning but it’s also by the performance late that’s right and there’s also a degree Wendy and we’ve talked about it earlier this week the souths have been so good that we’re just trying to find a killy’s heels right we’re trying to figure out well what is

It that might uh trip them up what what was your big take away from him and them last night well Jason Tatum himself has said that he’s one of the best players if not the best best player in the league he said it to Malik Andrews in an interview

Over all-star weekend and so I admire that and I admire that um I agree he’s got the talent to get there he’s had a tough week greeny real tough week a real tough fourth quarter in Cleveland um you know really sort of weak shot attempt at

The end of the game there he does has as many baskets as turnovers look this was a uh in last night’s game this was a full power highlevel matchup both sides fully healthy you had NCA yic 100% dedicated and engag in this game 30o triple double Jaylen Brown has one of

His best regular season games of his career with over 40 points and over 10 rebounds porzingis is all into it Aaron Gordon is all into it and you see Tatum and he just wasn’t able to deliver not just that shot of course you’re going to look at that shot remember that but the

Whole game he was passive and for for a guy who needs to be the leader and can be the leader of a team that wins the title it’s just a it’s a tough moment there’s a lot of pressure on him and there’s a lot of pressure on his team in

General just how confident do people let me put it this way what is at stake for the Celtics here I want you to hear Charles last night so this is a TNT game last night and this is Charles Barkley and what he thinks the Celtics bar is this

Season if they don’t win a championship this year it would be a total gag job cuz they got everything I mean you give me you got brown and Tatum you got two two of the 10 best players in the league probably he got a great leader in Drew

Holiday pingos is probably the best guy who’s not a number one or two guy on the team in the NBA and then I you can throw Derek white in there too I will be shocked if the Celtics don’t win what do you think of that Chan is it

Is there that level of pressure on the Celtics if they don’t make it to the finals this year will there be that level of questions asked I think so they have to make it to the finals the East they have so much buffer at the top I think the next team

Below them the Bucks are like seven games out of that number one position so they have the smoothest Pathway to make it to the NBA finals I would be remiss to say like I truly believe the nuggets are the best team in basketball we saw

What niika yic is able to do he can kill you from the outside he can kill you from the inside and their Supporting Cast it really feels like they are tailored for joic and they are tailored to repeat as Champions but if the Celtics don’t make it there now you have

Some questions right because you just paid Jaylen Brown you have Jason Tatum up then you also have put these pieces together where one thing I loved last night we saw a little bit of Championship Drew holiday late some tough buckets from three um porzingis has been a great addition so you’ve seen

A team that the Celtics have that has gotten better but we all know in Boston the expectations is to bring a championship it’s just hard because they’re probably going to go up against the Nugget so I feel like they have to make the finals if they don’t win it all

They’ll be even bigger questions looming for the future based on the duo moving forward I want to get this a few Chen can you just put into words what Anthony Edwards did on this final play last night again is he going to go up and get

That block again his team is up by two there’s one second left in the game so this literally wins the game Chan how do you describe it pogo sticks trampoline out of his mind this is a statement this is a future face of the NBA he is

Showing you how bad he wants it afterward you can see the energy his teammates have this is a team that really bounced back off after some tough news from cat my gosh respect to that young man that’s the play of the NBA year right I mean it it it it is the

Play of the NBA season and it it might be the best defensive play I’ve ever seen if it’s not it’s definitely in the conversation meanwhile that starts the windy watch and and Chan took us right there Wendy the news on cat obviously enormously important for a Minnesota

Team having a great season what is the story yeah so he’s going to have surgery on a Tor meniscus in his left knee early next week the good news is is that this looks like a procedure that he’s going to be able to come back from in the

Short time frame which means his season is not over now the the wolves have the advantage that that the playoffs don’t start until late April this year he’s going to be reevaluated in a month I think he’s got a good chance if there’s no setbacks to come back in the playoffs

Now we had a huge thing happen in the NBA over the last few days but you probably haven’t heard about it Luca donic has four consecutive games of 35 points in a triple double that’s never happened before in history and the reason you haven’t heard about it is

That the Mavericks have been awful they’ve been the worst defensive team in the league since the All-Star break until last night when they overcame a fivepoint or a 15-point deficit against the Heat they lost six games in a row but Lua has been absolutely RedHot trying to keep this Mavericks team out

Of the play and and right now it hasn’t been going that great uh also we’ve got LeBron James uh dealing with that ankle injury that he was uh left the game early with a couple of nights ago he is on the injury report as questionable for tonight’s game against the bucks greeny

He has been on the injury report as questionable with the left ankle tendonitis for weeks now and probably will be for the rest of the season this is a management injury he will continue to get treatment I do not expect him to miss time especially not in back-to-back

Situations and the Lakers only have two more of those rest of the season and they can’t afford to have him out anyway and I don’t think he’ll see him this time if he doesn’t have a setback it’s an ESPN game tonight it should be LeBron against Yannis and we hope that we see

That but our buddy Kendrick Perkins has this to say about LeBron’s health and the Lakers in general the reality is is that the Lakers are done and I’m very very concerned about LeBron James when it comes to his health this man is 39 years old right and we talk about I’m talking

About concern for his physical health and his mental health and at this point bottom line is the Lakers are done that does not sit well with Damen Woody by the way who is the lead Laker fan on the get upset but let me start Chan is

That right I mean is perk right are the Lakers done respectfully to my big bro here on NBA today the Lakers are you know not done it’s hard to ever bet against LeBron James and by design of the NBA right now we’ve seen teams go from the playin Miami Heat Miami Heat to

The NBA finals we’ve seen teams Los Angeles Lakers go from the playin to the Western Conference Finals now you are putting a lot of workload on that man right there year 21 age 39 that is true but one thing that I noticed was in this battle for LA and perk was right there

With me watching in this battle we watched all these heroics from LeBron James ever since that moment it seems like the Lakers have found their shot they’re shooting around what about 53% from the field and 42% from three ever since that huge moment which includes not too long after LeBron touching

40,000 they’re playing inspired basketball now the loss of the Kings doesn’t help you but they have been decent in the last 11 games and now you have a team that feels like okay they’re playing more confidently so I will not say it’s over I think the championship expectations are much harder in a

Stacked West but you never bet against LeBron James knowing what we saw last year yeah Wendy we we are living in a world where right now if the season ended today LeBron would be in the playin Steph would be in the playin Luca donic would be in the play in can the

Lakers resurrect themselves in the way that CH just pointed out they did a year ago they are playing better basketball but the difference between last year and this year is that last year they were walking around with a record that had them in ninth place but they weren’t a

Ninth Place team because they had made those trades at midseason they were actually better than that this year this is who they are and you know they’ve Anthony Davis has been healthy just about for the whole season even though LeBron has missed a few games dealing

With his ankle he’s been there most of the season and they’re still a 10th Place team and frankly the West is a lot harder I would never rule them out with LeBron he’s one of the great Underdog players in series in his in his career he’s one of the great single game

Elimination players in his career and they’re looking at having to win two playin games and they were three and one this season against the Thunder who could very well be the one seed they might play in the first round so I wouldn’t rule them out but they’re in

10th place for a reason it doesn’t come with the nasck they’re there because that’s what they’ve earned and they’re going to have to deal with that as they try have an uphill battle coming In

Jayson Tatum’s had a TOUGH WEEK 😧 Brian Windhorst talks Celtics, Lakers & more 🏀 | Get Up

Brian Windhorst and Chiney Ogwumike join Get Up to discuss Jayson Tatum’s impact on the Boston Celtics, along with the Los Angeles Lakers’ title chances.

0:00 Nuggets-Celtics highlights
1:19 Can Jayson Tatum be trusted?
6:05 Anthony Edwards’ block
6:54 Windy Watch
9:10 Are the Lakers done?

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