Mailbag: Jaylen Brown throwing shade at Jayson Tatum?, end of game decisions, Payton Pritchard
We open up the mailbag (JohnKaralis.com/mailbag) to answer questions about whether Jaylen Brown throwing shade at Jayson Tatum with recent comments, late-game decision making, defensive strategy, and Payton Pritchard’s postseason awards.
John Karalis of Boston Sports Journal gets into all of that, plus questions about Tatum playing center, missed layups, Mike Gorman, the Elam ending, and a whole lot more.
2:02 Mailbag Introduction
3:04 Jalen Brown’s Comments
4:07 Celtics’ Late-Game Decision-Making
8:41 Drop Coverage vs. Switching Defense
15:25 Payton Pritchard
18:00 Tatum’s at center
24:10 Pistons’ Potential
26:45 Mike Gorman
27:47 Elam Ending Discussion
32:22 Holiday Gifts for Celtics
35:56 Partnership with Tom Westerholm
37:28 Theme Song Creation
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18 Comments
Yea, it’s definitely not shade. Shade is implying someone is wrong and throwing them under the bus. Playing slow or fast is a matter of opinion.
So it’s like preferring strawberry over a chocolate flavor. Saying you like strawberry when you know someone else likes chocolate is not throwing shade at the chocolate lover, it is simply stating your preference which could be very important if everyone else likes chocolate and they were not going to purchase strawberry if you don’t speak up.
These guys are not the type to call someone out like that. They are genuinely good people and I can see them having a conversation privately
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I seriously love your attempts at rapid fire, John.
We should get someone smacking you speaking in Greek whenever you go more than 30 sec on a question like Queta keeping their hands up
Speculating about a player's feelings when they said nothing about the matter is among the most useless forms of sports journalism one can make. Fans will end up just projecting their own feelings and imagine slights when there are none.
i dont think ths is a slight on JT but a slight on not playing with a faster pace in general. i agree with JB that the Cs could play faster especially if it isnt crunch time yet.
Lakers would never report on such a rumor this is nasty work
Man you need to stop with this female energy trying create dissention and trouble on the team for viewership
77-5… Go Celtics ☘️
Simple and better way to stop the foul nonsense: fouled teams get's a choice of free throws or the ball and 14 seconds.
Easier fix is that say the 4th foul in the last 90s is 3 free throws. Something like that.
Cs you’ll need to make that extra pass keep that b-ball moving ,energy level up and keep switching up on defense the drop coverage is not working I don’t like the one on one let’s go Cs keep that ball popping around let the ball do the work and get back that attitude Cs you’ll can do it just play your game 🍀🍀🍀🔥🔥🔥🔥👍🏾
Throwing teammates under the bus can cause trouble
When playing against Steph Curry, you never do drop coverage, but nobody told Ime Udoka that two years ago in the NBA finals.
Tatum’s slow walking it up the court, massive dripping is terrible. Pritchard sets the right pace and Brown knows it.
I personally think the ball moves more with JT than it does jaylen in my opinion
First listen ☘️☘️☘️🎧
Great show as usual John. Celtics in 5 over anybody. But, I’m here to say that, Nikola Jokic is averaging 52/15/8 over the last 2 games. Have a good day.