NBA Today | Nobody fears Boston! – Perk berates Jayson Tatum after Celtics lose again to the Hawks

NBA Today | Nobody fears Boston! – Perk berates Jayson Tatum after Celtics lose again to the Hawks

Welcome to NBA Today presented by Levis there is no way that the Celtics could drop two games to Atlanta in a week right what if I told you what if I told you welcome to NBA Today presented by Levis what’s up everybody I’m Richard Jefferson in from Malica Andrews ramota

Shelburn is here to help me hold it down in the studio we have our senior writer uh Zack low is also with us and despite countless texts and calls to our producer Kendrick Perkins is also going to be with us for the next hour and perk unfortunately it wasn’t a McFlurry but

We did have a dejon flurry in Atlanta last night deante got his shots up early and often 44 points on 4 how many shots shots how many including hitting all five shots in overtime look Murray’s mentality was just to get them up and he gave them uh an outstanding effort out

There and look where was that the dunk con I don’t know where it was in the dunk contest but oh my God Jaylen Brown look you don’t get a body out there on the dunk contest but in the fourth quarter dejonte Murray going to work and

Look they have so many Defenders on the Celtics roster that none of them everybody’s going to get that work these are all NBA Defenders all NBA Defenders the best team in the league and Deonte Murray he sees them and he just goes to work look at this over top of porzingis

Offensive rebound out those are those are just dagger threes and look Celtics up by three tie it right there I look I I don’t know what you do up to Celtics you take two straight L’s to Atlanta but look I’m always been a person that says hey these are the

Things that can kind of help get you locked in down the stretch in overtime like we said dejonte Murray knocking down shot after shot in the overtime for Atlanta it was just impressive look Boston’s not going to go away they’re going to fight they’re going to grind Jaylen Brown

Bucket Celtics up by one now 6 seconds to go in overtime Celtics up by one Drew holiday I me it’s PR good defense that’s great defense that I stand by the best defense versus the best offense I’m taking the best offense look at this jonte Murray going

Against Drew holay we already saw Derek white gets some of those but look at him he out there dancing in Atlanta it was just an impressive impressive night for Deonte Murray what he was able to do out on the floor just bucket after Buck we don’t have time to show all 40

Four shots I mean we don’t have that but dejonte Murray he had some comments after the game it’s the NBA right that’s the best team in the league we competed you know uh we didn’t use being tired or [Applause] it feels so loud partly because there’s

So few of them and they never win close games they only win blowouts and so we have very few dramatic Celtics moments to talk about and they’re all this but their crunchtime offense is too slow and too predictable and it’s mediocre League wide and that’s not going to be good

Enough against the best defenses who are going to play you in close games in the playoffs it’s not a crisis it feels like a crisis because the Celtics are the best team we hold them to a high standard and they don’t lose very often but just give the ball to Jason Tatum

And everyone else stands around hasn’t worked well enough last year the year before or this year they need to get more Dynamic why is kristofh porzingis just standing in the corner possession after Possession come up and set a screen run a pick and pop get the offense moving Derek white the best

Screen Setter on the whole team run around to do some stuff this isn’t good enough it’s not a crisis this is the best team in the east it’s all fine in the big picture but there are going to be games that come down to this just

Like these last two Hawks games and the Celtics need to get a little more juice to their late game offense yeah they need a little bit more juice again like you said though they’re blowing out so many teams and when they get to these close games when they lose everyone

Wants to be concerned but big perk how big of a red flag do you think these late game issues are that keep popping up I I wouldn’t say that it’s demoralizing but I will say say is very disturbing especially at this moment right and I feel like we’re we’re

Constantly every time the Celtics play and lose one of these games we are revisiting this conversation because they haven’t corrected the problem Jason Tatum he hasn’t corrected the problem he’s still not showing up when they need him the most in the clutch Time moments and you noce Richard at this point of

The Season all the teams that are in the postseason or in the playin tournament they’re starting to gear up for the postseason meaning they have NBA Scouts that are in the stands that are watching the Boston Celtics you know why because they need a game plan and right now they

Look vulnerable and that’s a huge that’s a huge part of why I have concern because going into the postseason you want the Scot report to say you know what we’re going to try to do this we’re going to try to do that you don’t want teams especially your opponents in the

Eastern Conference getting any type of confidence and when you look at the people that are walking down the sidelines meaning the head coaches that are in the Eastern Conference you have a Tom Tibido who is a great head coach you have a Eric pooser you have a Nick nurse

You have a Doc Rivers so Joe Missoula I know it may feel like fun in games right now but you’re going to have to do your part in these clutch game moments in these times coaching against the other people on the other side of the uh C I

Mean I think the Celtics have just been coasting this last part of the Season trying they’re resting guys people who have little injuries like Jason Tatum have been sitting games here and there they’re just trying to get to the finish line of this regular season because as

You keep seeing they have an 11 game lead on the Bucks okay 11 game lead for second place here they they it’s really hard to keep that level of performance they’ve had all year long when they would benefit more from making sure their key guys have time get into the

Playoffs fresh aren’t burning themselves out in the regular season the problem is when you take your foot off the gas even a little bit you get games like this you build the big lead you think you can just hold it then you get a team like

The Hawks who by the way they’re in 10th right now I’m I’m not saying we we look we don’t look at the bottom of the Eastern Conference play in tournament as much as we do the west but the Hawks are in 10th that could be a potential first

Round series again I know that they’ve had that but you don’t want to give a team like that confidence especially if it’s a team you might see in the first round well and the Hawks are fighting for something that’s I think the thing that people greatly underestimate the

Boston Celtics come to town you’re going to have more fans there it’s going to be more energy you’re fighting for something I get it but to stay on the hawk the Celtics they might struggle late in games but the jeante Murray does KN Murray has three buzzer beaters so

Far this season the first of which came on January 17th with the gamewinner over Marquel FS to knock over the magic that was a big big shot and then two nights later Murray had the heat absolutely sick with this pullup three to win the game and it might have also been on

Udonis Haslam’s Jersey retirement night so that makes it a little bit worse and then here on Thursday night the McFlurry continues with a huge bucket to sink the Celtics in overtime those are the game when you get to beat the Celtics you remember those for the rest of your life

And look the Hawks have been without Trey young for 22 games this season and it’s shown some interesting Trends the Hawks have a win record in those games and improved on the defensive end with de jonte Murray running the show so my thing about this is perk my question to

You Deonte clearly plays better when he’s the Run running the show so do you think it’s time to kind of end this Trey young dejonte Murray experiment I’ll leave it up to you big guy Richard are you asking me to get uncomfortable that’s what you’re asking me right now to have a uncomfortable

Conversation because you can hear the whispers and and in all fairness to Trey young he have to expect that this conversation was going to come about because when you get injured and your team start to play better without you and the guy is leading your team that play your position this conversation

Needs to be had and I think that the Atlanta Hawks is going to have to make a decision this upcoming off season whether they want to continue with the Jon Murray or whether they want to go with Trey young now if they decide to go with the jontay Murray and he is quin

Snider guy there’s still some interesting teams out there for Trey young like the San Antonio Spurs or maybe like the Los Angeles Lakers but do I think this this Duo right now has ran his course and it’s has come to an end I absolutely do I mean look they’re 10th

In the East that they’re 10th in the East and they’re playing a slightly better without him in the lineup but some of that could also just be Clarity could be schedule could be injuries that they’ve gotten guys back from even though Trey young is out and I do think

Both of them will hear their name in trade talks and the biggest difference is quite frankly Trey young makes a lot more money so it’s harder to make a trade for Trey young young than it is for dejonte and I and I think it’s when

We get to the season we’ll see who the biders are I think perk you mentioned those those teams I think you’ll hear a lot more teams out there because nobody outside of Philadelphia or Orlando really has cap space this summer um and the only way to get a star player is to

Trade for one and there’s a lot of teams that be interested in the services of these two guys so I I expect both of them to hear their names it’s a function though of who wants them and what are they willing to give up because we’ve

Now seen a year and a half of of them under Quinn Snyder and he’s had an evaluation period you have to decide is it time to break them up but at what cost what are you getting back in return I’m not uncomfortable perk I know about you my chair is comfortable my

Blazer’s comfortable this is a very comfortable conversation because we’ve got two years of evidence now that deante Murray plus Trey young equals mediocre they are minus 150 total points for the season with those two guys on the floor they just don’t add up to more than the sum of their parts they’re

Mediocre with Trey and deante they’re okay probably mediocre with just deante if there’s no change in the quality of your team you should absolutely trade one of them for as many draft picks and future assets as you can get just to stock the cupboard again with all the

Stuff you traded out the door to get to Jon Murray and put this team together look it’s not a surprise really that they haven’t taken a step back because there wasn’t that big of a step back to even take it’s not a surprise that their defense is better without Trey young and

By the way Jaylen Johnson’s hurt sad B’s hurt Ana conu is hurt like the Hawks are not whole and that’s another reason by the way I don’t want to hear this Celtics lost last last night excused by the 11 game lead and their coasting the Hawks have half their team and I watched

That game start to finish the Celtics the Celtics played hard and they wanted to win that game they were not coasting in that game they were fired up they were playing hard against a team that had half its roster basically and they still lost the Celtics are F in the big

Picture of their crunch time offense is just okay it’s not a disaster it needs to be better but I just don’t want these Atlanta losses wiped away as oh they mean nothing it’s just the team that was coasting that team wasn’t coasting last night they wanted to win and they

Couldn’t yes that was the key and especially coming off a loss so you have an opportunity for a get back and the team is short-handed and you still get the L to me that is the issue that is when you start to worry about not worry about the Celtics because I think

They’re going to be fine they’re my pick to go to the finals but you start to worry about hey are we really as locked in as we’re supposed to be are we as locked in as perk is supposed to be but this is ESPN’s next Wednesday double header Jason Tatum and the Celtics

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NBA Today | Nobody fears Boston! – Perk berates Jayson Tatum after Celtics lose again to the Hawks