Jayson Tatum IS BACK In His Bag!!!
Jayson Tatum IS BACK In His Bag according to the Gil’s Arena Crew as Rashad McCants, Skip Bayless & Swaggy P react to Jayson Tatum being named Eastern Conference Player of the Week just 11 games into his return from a torn achilles and discuss how the return of the superstar raises the ceiling for the Boston Celtics. They also highlight Jaylen Brown’s performance this season without his running mate and debate if he deserves more love for NBA MVP after carrying the Celtics to this point.
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This is some dumb shyte! Tatum is and has always been the better player. FWYH!
Skip needs to be on the show more and be able to talk more !!!!
Nick has been on fire the last couple of episodes.
Thing is with Tatum coming back, his return has taken over the media. i'm a JB guy, but JT is the media's (and corporate commercial's) darling. JB was on a roll till the hoped for OKC matchup with Shae till the secondary ref ejected him, and being JB, tweeted about it. Yet he's also willing to sacrifice to get rings. JT back to taking too much time working for his shot so 5 man rhythm off a bit. Need to keep DWhite and Pritch more involved. Last bit, they can be the greatest DUO, and with Queta now leaps and bounds where he was, could be the next Big 3.
Skip must have been talking to Pags, or very possibly he's just full of shit, because Wyc wouldn't say anything that stupid. He's been Brown's biggest supporter.
Tatum is the face of the NBA and he is proving it with his return 😤💚
Nick finished me here 13:30😅😅😅
Dang, where is Brandon Jennings at?
I like this line up. Add Paul Pierce and this is great twice a week. Gil, Kenyon, BJ and Norris Cole would be amazing the other days. Good basketball talk all week long.
Oh. Skip stopped the drip.😎
Jaylen is averaging 28 with Tatum back
Jaylen brown the mvp in my eyes
"acclimented"
Where's Brandon Jennings? Jennings always calling Tatumn " soft" . Jennings calling anyone " soft" is cringe
Yoo get the 🦆🦆🦆🦆🦆 off the show he just saying a whole lot of nothing Nick was making a point
Yea this is fn stupid and a dumb ass argument
Skip's point is that he's showing everyone how the media votes. How they see the game.
The only thing stopping JB from winning MVP is his efficiency, not JT returning. He shoots 47/34/79 this season, if he was as efficient as SGA then he'd be averaging like 32 and be ahead of SGA as the favorite.
Swaggy We see your Media skill gettin better my brutha! 🙏🏿
lol how much did brown have last night again 40
Skip ain’t lying about JB
Really SKIP going do this the SHOT disparity is because one is already created a zone the other is working himself back into his JUST STOP BSing to break them up!
Heck yeah JT! Let's go!
Just start every season by admitting “no matter what Jayson or Jaylen do they can’t win MVP”
Tatum isn’t in his bag. 😂😂Need a Finals MVP.
Tatum was the 2nd best player in the NBA before the Achilles injury
Creeping up on jokic for the #1 spot
Now
By the time Tatum is holding up thd finals mvp trophy in june
He will be the second best player in the NBA again
Except this time Tatum will be 2nd behind Wembanyama instead of Jokic
Tatum just impacts winning on a GENERATIONAL level
Tatum has both the highest regular and post season winning percentage EVER
Tatum is no fkin joke
Tatum is right back to being the second best player in the NBA lol
Except this time instead of jokic its wembanyama in front of him
Tatum jusg wins ALL THE TIME
I thjnk the Celtics are like 7-1 in his 8 games lol
Its crazy
The timberwolves were the number 1 seed in 2003-2004 stop listening to Rashad
Why does everyone forget when Jaylen brown got hurt and Tatum held it down by his self
Rashad you’re wrong. Timberwolves were 1st in the standings when Garnett won MVP
Tatum is GENERATIONAL in these areas
1. Versatility
Tatum can play 1-5 on BOTH sides of the ball
He can rim protect or hound the ball handler as the point of attack defender
Tatum can be BOTH the ball handler AND the rim roller in the half court
Tatum can BOTH navigate picks as a ball handler AND set licks FOR the ball handler AT AN ELITE LEVEL
Tatum can defend anthony edwards or he can defend nikola jokic
And it makescalmost no difference he defends literally every player in the NBA EFFORTLESSLY
Cool statistic
In the 2024-2025 season
Tatum was only PURPOSELY ISOd AGAINST
And this sounds ridiculous but you can check the numbers…
4 TIMES😂😂😂😂
Less than once every 20 games😂😂😂
Thats how much respect Tatum gets FROM ACTUAL NBA PLAYERS WHO KNOW KNOW THE ACTUAL BEST DEFENSIVE PLAYERS ARE😂😂
2. Shooting for 6'9
Im trying to think of another player thats 6'9 besides Bird, Stojokavic and PG13 that were 6'9 or taller
And can shoot like Tatum and i cant think of any
Bird played in the 80s
Stojacavic played in the 90s/sarly 2000s
And PG13 got drafted in like 2008 or some shit
A Basketball generation is 10 years
And tatum was drsfted in 2018
GENERATIONAL
3. Defense
Versatility is the most valuable asset a player can have on defense and tatum is the KING of Versatility
His ability to defend literally ANYBODY IN THR NBA LOL
At a high level is UNHEARD OF
And thought NOT POSSIBLE before tatum came along and actually SHUT DOWN GUYS LIKE JA MORANT IN ONE GAME
GIANNIS IN ANOTHER
AND JOKER IN THE NEXT
And as a CELTICS fan youre so used to at this point u dont even appreciate the absolute insanity of it all
3. Basketball iQ
Joker has the highest offensive iQ
Draymond has the highest defensive iQ
But if you took the average of both offensive and defensive iQ combined
I GUARANTEE YOU Tatum would be #1
Skip you are a clown
30:54 actually a good take
Sga Wemb n Brown anything else is favoritism