“Jayson Tatum is a destructive weapon for the Boston” – ESPN impressed by Celtics beat Jazz 123-107

“Jayson Tatum is a destructive weapon for the Boston” – ESPN impressed by Celtics beat Jazz 123-107

And women’s NCAA tournaments back to the Pro game Celtics have won 50 of the 64 games they played this season they’re taking on Utah Jaylen Brown out with an injury but you have Jason Tatum on the break this is one on Three that’s still not a fair fight Tatum with the throw

Down it’s early the Celtics with the lead leading by two Tatum bottoms and he’ll go for 15 in the first quarter how about a 30 a 44 point first quarter for Boston the lead has been narrowed to eight push back to 11 on that three and the SE have a 7257 lead

At the half just a two-point game late third Tatum sper does not get the foul call relax he had 38 at that point early fourth Derek white guy’s a big- Time contributor man he was seven of 11 from three 24 for him the Celtics win by 16

Welcome back in the Celtics post game live a look at the Eastern Conference standings the Celtics head and shoulders up ahead of the Bucks we nine games behind them 10 games ahead of the Cavaliers and 13 games ahead of the New York Knicks and in the NBA the Celtics

Six games ahead of the Thunder and also six games ahead of the Denver Nuggets and seven games ahead of the Timberwood Scout Chris bsur Amina Smith back here with you and it’s clear I got to bring out my binoculars oh wow dang look look you can’t you can’t get yeah but I

Guess it is there’s a there’s a long distance between the Celtics and the rest of the teams in the NBA and the East gal why your eyes look like that I’m saying you’re you’re looking at the people behind us yeah you I’m only looking at Denver are you looking at

Denver that’s the only one that you can be thinking about and I think it’s really important for us to have home court against Denver I don’t think it matters to nicoa yic but what do I tell you guys about beating Denver you got to have you got to beat the non yage

Minutes the rest of those guys may struggle on the road so there’s no way that the Bucks could make up that amount of ground so n games and I don’t know I like maybe Minnesota can make it to the finals but boy I would hope so or even

Oklahoma City I don’t even mind going there but Denver who I have my eye on I think it’ll be really important to have home court advantage against him yeah and like I think we’re going to enter magic number territory here where we’re going to start talking about when the

Souel this lock up won in with with potential for home court and in the finals and it’s weird to be that that’s the focus instead of where they are in the Eastern Conference but that’s just the way it’s going to be over the final half of this or final 17 games of the

Season because they put themselves in such fortuitous position but I’m with scal only time I’m weren’t looking at that I’m worried about potentially muscling that home court away would be Denver because that would be a war of a series yeah six-game lead on the Denver Nuggets but that is a team that

Definitely worries me all right another look at that final score from Utah 123 to 107 coming up we got Celtics post game plus Celtics postgame lock Brown welcome in Celtics postgame plus Chris forsberg Amina Smith here with you the Celtics finish out their five game road trip with the win against the Utah

Jazz 123 to 107 in forsburg we got all the way to Celtics postgame plus and we’re just now talking about Jason Tatum who scored 38 points tonight in this win I mean at this point it’s I wouldn’t say usual but something we’re not really surprised by from Jason Tatum so you

Heard what Joe moua said last night right they they were saying it was a quiet night for Jason Tatum and he goes whoa whoa whoa when Tyre Maxi put up that line you guys said how he devoured us and so uh it we just we certainly take it for granted we certainly fixate

On when it’s the other guys that are coming through and having the bigger nights or the more you know the nights that are different from their normal output and yet this was one of Tatum’s most efficient games on this road trip 13 of 25 um you know the I thought this we

Joke pre game that this may be a night where he would flirt with a triple double wasn’t as active on the Glasser with the assist but took what they gave him a lot of hockey assists in there and most importantly was super aggressive and sort of lit the fuse for a team I’ll

Go back to it I’ll say it a million times during this postgame show his offense early was important because you don’t have Jaylen Brown out there to light the fuse and so so one Jay taking over for the other Jay the last time these two teams met Jason Tatum also had

30 points tonight with 38 points and then 15 points in that first quarter talking about taking over that role that jayen brown typically does for this Celtics team lighting that fuse how different did Jon Tatum look tonight because I felt like he was playing with

A little bit of an edge well look first off let’s give him credit too for being out there right like was on the injury report before that Portland game felt like maybe they were kind of building up here to maybe having a night off but Tatum’s a Hooper he wants be out there

Every single game and on the fifth night of a road trip in Utah where nobody tends to play for whatever reason it just felt like he wanted to be out there he wanted the chance to show that you know maybe work himself through this little slump if you can call it that

It’s a ridiculous to call out a slump when he’s putting up 30 points per game but uh he just needed to see a little bit more efficiency and maybe that’s what helps him turn a little bit of a corner here get back to doing what uh I

Think he was Ring player of the month right in February even on a shorten month maybe get back to a little bit of what we know from Jason tanon because he had it going tonight he was super aggressive bouncing guys out of the club trying to get to the basket more of that

From Jason Tatum and meanwhile Drew holiday with 16 points five rebounds and eight assists really finding his Groove as he goes throughout the season with the Celtics team just where was Drew holiday’s impact felt the most tonight so my mind goes to there were a couple touch passes along the way like Tatum

Found him on the Baseline I think he quick threw it up to Luke cornette he makes all the right plays I love that he had eight assists tonight I mean this is just like quick decision making to get other people easy baskets that quick pass to Luke cuz he’s cutting and

Rewarding him there getting in his own offense at times turning on the Jets oh that was a no look that was pretty so like look there have been nights where you’re blessed with the fact that Derek white can handle the ball that pton prer can come in and create offense that

Jason Tatum and Jaylen Brown take a ton of of turns with the ball as well so a lot of times he’s in that dunker spot but that was quick one up to to Luke that I love Drew holiday just makes the right play and he like it’s so quick how

How quickly he processes the game and I love how much easier he makes it for everybody else on that court with the way he plays and it feels like Drew holiday is heating up at the right time you see that steal that we had there

Just a couple of plays ago just how just crucial is Drew holiday going to be in the playoffs with that Championship DNA that he has and the Celtics team trying to win a title yeah think about it was Gard yic at the end that Denver game

Like you you have the luxury of putting him on a whole bunch of different defensive assignments I think about okay like right now New York is fourth in the Eastern Conference if that ends up being the one4 match up you’re lucky enough to see them in round two you can get

Creative put them on a Julius Randall he’s not going to be afraid of those matchups against size and he’s strong enough to hold up in those situations we know how impactful he can be regardless of the defensive assignment I just like the versatility that he gives you and in the playoffs

When defense is going to matter even that much more he is going to be such a luxury to have out there with him and Derek white running up those stock exchange numbers good luck to everybody I’m excited to see that duo during the playoffs because I feel like they’re

Definitely going to put on a show well speaking of Drew holiday time now for the four tough play great looks at the beginning in Cleveland and then in Denver you would thought being back home in Denver like you would had an quality night that night just took him a little

While to kind of find it but you knew you knew it wasn’t going to persist very long he’s been so good with that shot all season long all last year and so but it is good to see him especially on a night where you don’t have Jaylen Brown

Where you needed another bit of offensive punch that he could step up and give you the sort of scoring that you need in that situation you know we’ve seen instances of it the Miami game I always go back to earlier in the year and he certainly had other big

Nights but uh it’s it’s just refreshing when he knows what to give the game right like most nights he’s just trying to create for others doing his defensive thing but tonight he need to give a little bit more on the scoring end yeah one thing about Derek why always feel

Like the better we pass the ball so I’m not talking one passing shot I’m talking about really moving the ball with aggressive aggressiveness to get to the paint kick extra pass maybe a second Drive I feel like Derek white always shoots the ball well you know some guys

Need to touch the ball multiple times on a possession and when Derek White’s doing that and I feel Al Horford is another guy that’s like that when those two are touching the ball getting giving it up getting it back I feel like their percentage goes up and I I I felt like

There was a a lot of possessions today where Derek white was touching the ball multiple times and usually on that second one he’ let that thing fly and knock it down also three blocks and a steal for Derek white in this game as like about the way you closed that

Quarter and then went on that Big Run second uh I mean that’s the reason why I didn’t know that is cuz I was so caught up in just managing the game and so I thought there was three times where we got leads where uh I wish we could play

That team like five more times because of they have an innate ability to uh dominate the transitions right and so uh three times we had a lead and we came down and either had a transition turnover we took a tough shot or um the offensive rebounding spacing was poor

And they were able to get out and transition and get those easy baskets and when they see a couple go in they they have life and so there was three really important Pockets to the game uh where it got to you know as close as it

Did and so regardless of the score I was focused on like we just got to man we got to win those transitions we got to make sure we get a great shot every time down we got to make sure we get it to five on five and we got to make sure we

Hold them to one and I thought uh the end of the third and that fourth quarter we we dominated the transitions right they they couldn’t get they couldn’t get those I don’t know if we took a poor shot uh in that quarter and um you know that’s the difference between uh winning

And losing against good teams and this team you know the record doesn’t reflect it but they’re talented they’re obviously well coached and they’re just super talented and um uh physical put a ton of pressure on you you know on especially on the offensive end I shot 47% from three you know so

What did you like about the rebounding you mentioned obviously one of the best offensive rebounding teams but you guys kind of won that much yeah I mean I thought everybody did a great job uh that that’s how this team beat you is transition threes transition baskets offensive rebound threes free throws and

Uh really take advantage of your ability to I your inability to have uh you know good possessions and so that when you have empty possessions offensively they put a ton of pressure on you and uh so our guys did a great job uh holding them to one shot which took away those margin

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“Jayson Tatum is a destructive weapon for the Boston” – ESPN impressed by Celtics beat Jazz 123-107