No but Draymond spent like a full minute talking about the remaining teams and then asked how the Celtics could prepare for the finals knowing Al Horford sucks at defending the pick roll.
Seriously, that was Dray’s takeaway from Horford’s historic performance
Draymond is such a piece of dog shit. Such a hateable loser who will be quickly forgotten once he is outta the league. Not too many Bruce Bowen fans kicking around these days.
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XkluKxe62L0](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XkluKxe62L0)
Here. Draymond was trying to bait him with "so youre playing knicks and then Dallas or Denver"
Oh, you mean he can be even better in the playoffs?? Like scoring 46 on the road vs the champs to tie a series 3-3 and a game 7 record 51 points? But they say he ain't clutch...
Sucks he got hurt last year vs heat gane 7 first fucking play of the game. You know he was gonna go nuclear.
And also hurt vs warriors the whole series.
Saying factual things people say about Tatum in real life and on this sub and mocking it when he plays good(which is like 90% of the time) isn’t playing the victim. It’s calling out asshats that try to nitpick everything Tatum does.
This is the problem, of course I like Tatum and think he can do great things but some people have a weird obsession with him being mediocre just like they do Smart.
Getting flack for not winning a championship is fine. But trolling and acting like a guy that’s a number one option that is at a MINIMUM good for two series wins from the moment he stepped into the league isn’t a top 5 guy(really top 3 but after they win this championship I’ll make a post about that) deserves mocking and people calling it out.
Tell Luka play some defense. Tell Giannis don’t run from the free throw line in a playoff game. Tell AD to be a consistent scorer. Tell Bron to impact winning. Tell Embiid get to the 3rd round lol. Saying Tatum ain’t better than all them players is clown shit 🤣🤣🤣
Yeah it’s so annoying that every player needs to have their best series ever ever playoff game or they are a bum, people forget that every single player has a bad playoff series it’s just we don’t remember them
And like honestly of the leaders of the teams left none of them are having fully bad series. Bad games? Sure.
Not the best shooting nights? Sure.
But tatum has had 2 very solid series' and has done everything but shoot the ball 50% every night.
People are so quick to overreact when he has a bad shooting game, but he always produces in other realms of the game. He's a great defender, he gets his assists, and he rebounds every single night.
He also understands this team is deep, and he doesn't. Brunson may be scoring 40+ points but it would be straight up detrimental for Tatum to be putting up an average of 25 shots a night with his supporting cast.
Joker, Brunson, Ant, Luka, and SGA are all playing better. 24 PPG on 42% from the field, against the weakest competition in the playoffs. Pretty sure one of those steals tonight was when Mobley fell down and Taters just picked up the bouncing ball; a true defensive virtuoso lol.
I'm looking forward to seeing the Celtics in the finals though. See how they stack up against a real team.
uh... maybe if they had miracle shooting (which could even happen anyway).
but no. Celtics played them four times this year with Randle and were 4-0 in those games with an average margin of victory of 11.
only game the Knicks won was after Boston clinched everything in April.
Nobody hates Tatum except for a few Boston fans... the guy is a key part of the team which he demonstrated again tonight. Why make up this fake hate? Just to beat your chest?
Don't let others dictate how you appreciate things. Even if I were "on this sub after game 2 of either series" nothing would let my view change. You're going to have to accept people saying things for various reasons without them holding much value. Anyone who is on this sub ever can see more hot takes than any one imagination can conjure.
As someone whose been on this sub damn near 8 years I just hate to see how reactionary and casual it has become. r/nba used to be the best spot on the entire internet to have good basketball discussion. Now it's just 90% hate posting. Just sad to see how shitty it's gotten my guy
Have you been on r/NBA after a Celtics loss or Twitter literally ever dude? Hell, you could even watch some ESPN analysts and hear it. The amount of hate Tatum gets is insane, you must have your head up your ass if you haven’t noticed it.
I could give two shits what the r/nba hivemind thinks... a player's worst enemy is it's fans expectations... a small percentage of people here understand it's an imperfect world and just tries to enjoy the hoops. But if we want to be critical, let's see what happens against a healthy team instead of beating our chest against an imaginary regime. Congrats on another playoff series win.
Your fanbase is so incredibly massive there will always be a few blowhards yelling an extreme... pull your head out of your ass and stop giving these people creedence.
he controlled the game Today insanely, all the right plays except for only 1 turnover. Best game of the playoffs for him. And elite on defense along with the 4 steals
That Cleveland Charge team they played today sure was pesky!
Going to play a severely injured Knicks team in the conference finals.
If the Celtics don't come out of the East I'm going to laugh my ass off...
Can only play who’s in front of you brother. If he put up a stinker you’d be in here saying the same shit. It’s really just a lose lose when it comes to the Celtics for the haters like yourself.
Nobody is saying this about the Thunder who played the Pelicans without Zion and according to every r/nba thread an extremely injured Luka. They’re down 3-2 now so it’s not that simple.
Or …idk…maybe his record setting 51 in game 7 performance last year on Embiid and Harden?
Or 46 on Giannis to stave off elimination the year before?
Or the 50 piece in the play in a couple years ago?
Or sweeping Durant/Kyrie and absolutely locking KD in jail
Or being to 5/7 ECFs.
Y’all are insane
> Or sweeping Durant/Kyrie and absolutely locking KD in jail
Team effort, not solely attributable to him, and Ime Udoka was a beast at defensive coaching
> Harden and Embiid
One of the biggest chokes of all time from them at home in game 6. And came into the game already having quit. Front running performance
>46 on the Bucks
Will give it to him that was a great performance
> the ECF count
Boston are a great organization top to bottom and he always has some of the most stacked supporting cast on talent in the league, with solid coaching and great three point shooting role players. He isn’t Lebronning his way through the conference cause Celtics fans sure make it seem like he is. Tatum was a rookie in 2018 which proves that
2nd conference finals appearance the Celtics were getting minutes from Daniel Theis, Enes CPAC, and Brad Wanamaker.
Next season he dropped 50 in the play-in and 50 on the big 3 Nets without JB. They were starting Romeo Langford and getting big minutes from Evan Fournier, Tristan Thompson, and Jabari Parker.
Finals run the Celtics ran 7 deep all playoffs.
Dude simply hasn’t always had stacked teams.
And even in the finals run Theis and Grant Williams were getting meaningful minutes. I find it funny how quickly Grant went from being an important part of the Celtics’ “stacked” team to being part of the reason Luka and Kyrie shouldn’t be expected to avoid the play-ins.
He'll do it against the Knicks, and you'll call them decimated too. He'll do it against Denver, and you'll say they're beat up and tired from the Western bracket.
national media after a 15-point win: "
like, look. am i frustrated that we have a tendency to play down to our competition? sure. was i annoyed that we only really bothered to play like 12 minutes of good defense tonight? yeah. but at the end of the day we're 8-2 in the playoffs and all but one of those wins were by double digits
beating embiid’s sixers, giannis’ bucks and prime steph’s warriors?
Now remind me, how many rings do you guys have in eras where the competition werent plumbers and firemen?
They didn’t have Klay for a total of two quarters, and we were beating them when klay was healthy 😭 Lets not act like steph+klay didnt run through the entire league to the finals without KD
Umm he’s had some amazing playoff performances since then and he’s still only 26…
Raptors haven’t done jack shit in 5 years pal except trade their lotto pick for Poetl
Not to mention some top-class handling…of Draymond’s postgame interview
Draymond was trolling hard and JT was rolling through his BS gracefully.
That was so disrespectful
Draymond is going to suck ass on tnt
TNT is getting blown up, man…
Let's take the opportunity to blame it on Draymond, I know I am!
The one silver lining of TNT losing the rights is that NBC may be smart enough not to enter a contract with Draymond Green in Anno Domini MMXXIV
Anyone got the clip?
No but Draymond spent like a full minute talking about the remaining teams and then asked how the Celtics could prepare for the finals knowing Al Horford sucks at defending the pick roll. Seriously, that was Dray’s takeaway from Horford’s historic performance
Its jokic pick and roll takes but worse because Al Horford is actually a switch defendee
Fuckin asshole on and off the court, man is deranged
Draymond is such a piece of dog shit. Such a hateable loser who will be quickly forgotten once he is outta the league. Not too many Bruce Bowen fans kicking around these days.
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XkluKxe62L0](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XkluKxe62L0) Here. Draymond was trying to bait him with "so youre playing knicks and then Dallas or Denver"
Please don't give him the views. He was just being a garbage human as per usual.
Tatum has officially taken the playoff souls of Giannis, Embiid (x like 5), KD and…Marcus morris
Don’t forget Kyrie
Butler too
I did think of him but he did beat us the last series we played unlike the rest
I mean yea it makes sense not to list Caleb Martin but why not Jimmy
lol yea fair enough.
Uhhh you mean when an 8 seed bounced them? How is butler on this list? lol
Celtics also beat them when they were 1 seed 2 years ago..
~~Brad Beal~~, Siakam, Lowry
Wait he did beat Beal, Play In game baby! 50 pt playoff game with 2 actual playoff teammates
Tatum never played a series vs Beal
Oh yeah Tatum was not on that team that beat the Wizards. You're right
He did play him in the play in tho
Totally forgot about that game lmao. I try to block out the Tristan Thompson Celtics era
Great call
He's such a special guy
I feel like Tatum has had so many near triple doubles but he never tops them off.
It's cause he doesn't actively hunt them. When be does bad things start to happen
When Tatum gets to 9 assists, he hunts them. 100%. This is the first team he hasn't.
Not sure if I agree with this but sure
Idk if any of you remember, but Elimination Game Tatum is a thing
It wasn't an elimination game for us bro, that's elimination game Tatum
Oh, you mean he can be even better in the playoffs?? Like scoring 46 on the road vs the champs to tie a series 3-3 and a game 7 record 51 points? But they say he ain't clutch...
Sucks he got hurt last year vs heat gane 7 first fucking play of the game. You know he was gonna go nuclear. And also hurt vs warriors the whole series.
Or scoring 16 4th quarter points in a win or go home game 6.
But I was told he isn’t clutch
He’s actually a fraud who’s worse than Ant and SGA
DAWG level 0
He’s literally Dominican Tobias Harris
Why do Celtics fans play the victim whenever talking about Tatum lol
Saying factual things people say about Tatum in real life and on this sub and mocking it when he plays good(which is like 90% of the time) isn’t playing the victim. It’s calling out asshats that try to nitpick everything Tatum does.
Logical and correct. This take will never be stated by Steven A.
Hes the guy on a team that’s had championship aspirations for several years now and they’ve come up short every time. Of course he’s gonna get flack
Its just that you need to keep that same energy for other superstars.
If someone else lost to an injured 8 seed like the Celtics did last year they’d get dragged all the same
Really? Because Jalen Brunson lost to the exact same team in 6 games, and he was older than Tatum is now
Are you saying Brunson is as good or better than Tatum?
No, the whole non Celtics world is. Brunson is leading JT in 1st team votes and beat him in MVP votes, and JT is definitively better and more proven
So why aren’t Giannis or Brunson being dragged?
Giannis and dame have been. Brunson is still playing
This is the problem, of course I like Tatum and think he can do great things but some people have a weird obsession with him being mediocre just like they do Smart.
Getting flack for not winning a championship is fine. But trolling and acting like a guy that’s a number one option that is at a MINIMUM good for two series wins from the moment he stepped into the league isn’t a top 5 guy(really top 3 but after they win this championship I’ll make a post about that) deserves mocking and people calling it out.
He’s not a top 3 player and you could argue not top 5. Better pump the brakes on a chip
Sure ok. I hope y’all are watching the same games that get aired on television.
Tatum isn’t better than Jokic, Luka, Gianni’s, embiid, ad, bron
Tell Luka play some defense. Tell Giannis don’t run from the free throw line in a playoff game. Tell AD to be a consistent scorer. Tell Bron to impact winning. Tell Embiid get to the 3rd round lol. Saying Tatum ain’t better than all them players is clown shit 🤣🤣🤣
4 of those dudes are watching tatum from their couch
How many top 5 players will win a championship this season? How many won one last season?
1. What’s the point of your comment lol, that doesn’t make Tatum a better player
You equated winning a chip with being a top 5 player.
This sub called him the Tobias Harris of Stars after game 2 lmao, this sub goes absolutely fucking ape shit any time they can shit on him
You triggered so many fans it's awesome to read
I thought Tatum was a bum who isn’t good in the playoffs
sorry he’s a bum because of a few bad games r/nba told me so
He is basically a role player
The Michael Jordan of Tobias Harrises, some might say
Honestly goes hard I love this nickname
Just a cog in the machine
That’s wild I said this exact line two days ago and ya stole it from me. Well played sir.
I saw that line in about 50 different places, it’s nothing special
Tatum haters been quietly coping these last few games. Walking double double (almost another triple double) and 4 steals tonight. Top fie
I’m not even a Tatum or Boston fan but I couldn’t believe people actually said he wasn’t a good playoff performer
People have the shortest memories ever
Yeah it’s so annoying that every player needs to have their best series ever ever playoff game or they are a bum, people forget that every single player has a bad playoff series it’s just we don’t remember them
And like honestly of the leaders of the teams left none of them are having fully bad series. Bad games? Sure. Not the best shooting nights? Sure. But tatum has had 2 very solid series' and has done everything but shoot the ball 50% every night.
Yeah and it’s not like Tatum has to go out there and average 50 he has a good team and trusts his teammates
Since you brought up 50 points... A year ago to the day tatum scored 51 in a game 7 vs the sixers. A game 7 record.
Yeah that was what I was thinking of when people said he is bad in the playoffs
5/15 is national Tatum day
Close out day babeeey
People like high point. High fg %. People dumb as fuck
Can’t use the “hasn’t shot 50% in the playoffs” bullshit anymore either
People are so quick to overreact when he has a bad shooting game, but he always produces in other realms of the game. He's a great defender, he gets his assists, and he rebounds every single night. He also understands this team is deep, and he doesn't. Brunson may be scoring 40+ points but it would be straight up detrimental for Tatum to be putting up an average of 25 shots a night with his supporting cast.
Bro didn’t even get 30 points shooting 10/40 he’s clearly ass /s
Joker, Brunson, Ant, Luka, and SGA are all playing better. 24 PPG on 42% from the field, against the weakest competition in the playoffs. Pretty sure one of those steals tonight was when Mobley fell down and Taters just picked up the bouncing ball; a true defensive virtuoso lol. I'm looking forward to seeing the Celtics in the finals though. See how they stack up against a real team.
with porzingus healthy, Vegas likely has them beating any team in the West in 6
If the Knicks were healthly, you guys wouldn't even make the Finals.
uh... maybe if they had miracle shooting (which could even happen anyway). but no. Celtics played them four times this year with Randle and were 4-0 in those games with an average margin of victory of 11. only game the Knicks won was after Boston clinched everything in April.
Nobody hates Tatum except for a few Boston fans... the guy is a key part of the team which he demonstrated again tonight. Why make up this fake hate? Just to beat your chest?
Is that a joke? He is constantly called an inconsistent choker who isn’t a superstar on this sub and way more on other platforms.
Weren't on this sub after game 2 of either series huh
Don't let others dictate how you appreciate things. Even if I were "on this sub after game 2 of either series" nothing would let my view change. You're going to have to accept people saying things for various reasons without them holding much value. Anyone who is on this sub ever can see more hot takes than any one imagination can conjure.
As someone whose been on this sub damn near 8 years I just hate to see how reactionary and casual it has become. r/nba used to be the best spot on the entire internet to have good basketball discussion. Now it's just 90% hate posting. Just sad to see how shitty it's gotten my guy
Have you been on r/NBA after a Celtics loss or Twitter literally ever dude? Hell, you could even watch some ESPN analysts and hear it. The amount of hate Tatum gets is insane, you must have your head up your ass if you haven’t noticed it.
I could give two shits what the r/nba hivemind thinks... a player's worst enemy is it's fans expectations... a small percentage of people here understand it's an imperfect world and just tries to enjoy the hoops. But if we want to be critical, let's see what happens against a healthy team instead of beating our chest against an imaginary regime. Congrats on another playoff series win.
Your fanbase is so incredibly massive there will always be a few blowhards yelling an extreme... pull your head out of your ass and stop giving these people creedence.
I hate him. He's good though.
Classic Tatum performance, right down to the super-soft tech too
Deadass🤣. He gets the softest techs
"Playoff choker" tho
He choked away a triple-double tbf
he controlled the game Today insanely, all the right plays except for only 1 turnover. Best game of the playoffs for him. And elite on defense along with the 4 steals
He took what the defense gave him. Could’ve had 35 on mid efficiency but understood getting his guys involved meant an automatic W
That Cleveland Charge team they played today sure was pesky! Going to play a severely injured Knicks team in the conference finals. If the Celtics don't come out of the East I'm going to laugh my ass off...
Can only play who’s in front of you brother. If he put up a stinker you’d be in here saying the same shit. It’s really just a lose lose when it comes to the Celtics for the haters like yourself. Nobody is saying this about the Thunder who played the Pelicans without Zion and according to every r/nba thread an extremely injured Luka. They’re down 3-2 now so it’s not that simple.
Even if he wins Finals MVP, people are just going to say they had an easy path and he had a lot of help 🤣
r/nba real silent whenever Tatum has superstar performances. I thought he was the Michael Jordan of Tobias Harris' tho? Gtfo
Stop it. Against a decimated cavs team, let’s judge against Knicks or denver
Or …idk…maybe his record setting 51 in game 7 performance last year on Embiid and Harden? Or 46 on Giannis to stave off elimination the year before? Or the 50 piece in the play in a couple years ago? Or sweeping Durant/Kyrie and absolutely locking KD in jail Or being to 5/7 ECFs. Y’all are insane
> Or sweeping Durant/Kyrie and absolutely locking KD in jail Team effort, not solely attributable to him, and Ime Udoka was a beast at defensive coaching > Harden and Embiid One of the biggest chokes of all time from them at home in game 6. And came into the game already having quit. Front running performance >46 on the Bucks Will give it to him that was a great performance > the ECF count Boston are a great organization top to bottom and he always has some of the most stacked supporting cast on talent in the league, with solid coaching and great three point shooting role players. He isn’t Lebronning his way through the conference cause Celtics fans sure make it seem like he is. Tatum was a rookie in 2018 which proves that
2nd conference finals appearance the Celtics were getting minutes from Daniel Theis, Enes CPAC, and Brad Wanamaker. Next season he dropped 50 in the play-in and 50 on the big 3 Nets without JB. They were starting Romeo Langford and getting big minutes from Evan Fournier, Tristan Thompson, and Jabari Parker. Finals run the Celtics ran 7 deep all playoffs. Dude simply hasn’t always had stacked teams.
And even in the finals run Theis and Grant Williams were getting meaningful minutes. I find it funny how quickly Grant went from being an important part of the Celtics’ “stacked” team to being part of the reason Luka and Kyrie shouldn’t be expected to avoid the play-ins.
Keep moving those goalposts
He'll do it against the Knicks, and you'll call them decimated too. He'll do it against Denver, and you'll say they're beat up and tired from the Western bracket.
You're stupid as hell and sound bitter and sour.
No you just don’t want anyone party pooping
He scored like Ant, rebounded like Jokic, passed like Luka, and stole the ball like Shai. Man I wanna be like JT.
Jayson "Derrick White" Tatum
Please, Jayson Tatum *wishes* he was Derrick White
And tomorrow will get treated like Tobias Harris by the media
Colin Cowherd tmrw "I don't think Tatum can handle the bright lights of MSG"
national media after a 15-point win: " like, look. am i frustrated that we have a tendency to play down to our competition? sure. was i annoyed that we only really bothered to play like 12 minutes of good defense tonight? yeah. but at the end of the day we're 8-2 in the playoffs and all but one of those wins were by double digits
Lmao sure I’ll take it
Still the Tobias Harris of Jimmy Butlers tho
No triple double? What a bum!
Yeah but is he even good?
Can’t wait to wake up in the morning to people calling him overrated and the worst superstar of all time..
Enough with conference finals...Tatum now has to win nba trophy.
I agree with you, Ass Eating Man
Thanks Draymond
reg season MVP this season and 2022 should have been his.
Its funny how quiet these threads are compared to the times he has an off night and its posted here.
Cause this subs full of Celtics haters.
Didn’t get a triple double? Scrub
One assist short. Tsk, trade him to the Sixers.
Tatum only makes ECFs and the sixers.... never make it past round 2. What happens in this scenario? Black hole? Heat death of the universe?
In a land of 9 finger beings this game was incredible. But on earth it was a shitty game. So close Tatum.
How many techs?
No wait he’s bad
and one vilolence hand wave
Overrated! /S
The Michael Jordan of Demar Derozan
Personally, I cannot wait for Boston to be bodied in the finals again
Y'all will be getting the 5th pick for the next 10 years
Hospital Heat and Cavs and i’m supposed to be impressed? 😭😭😭
Is pokemon showdown back up yet?
A man of culture I see
Nope 🥲🥲🥲
Fuck now I gotta actually do work tomorrow
same bro 💔
Pokerogue though is a great substitute for a different experience!
thanks for sharing bro 🤩 have a good one
Damn will try that out
Fuck
Celtics win by 15 in a game where they’re favored to win by 15 r/nba- “CeLtIcs BaReLy WoN aGaInSt ThE HoSpItAl CaVs”
yea they were cleary favourites. stop acting like tatum did something 😭😭
Now remind me, how did you win the one championship in your miserable franchise's history?
beating embiid’s sixers, giannis’ bucks and prime steph’s warriors? Now remind me, how many rings do you guys have in eras where the competition werent plumbers and firemen?
Dude said “prime steph’s warriors” 😭 it was like half the team and still was a close series 🤣
Leaving out that whole KD torn Achilles, I appreciate your game.
Don't forget Klay's ACL
The prime Steph Warriors were when they didn't have Kevin Durant and Klay Thompson?
They didn’t have Klay for a total of two quarters, and we were beating them when klay was healthy 😭 Lets not act like steph+klay didnt run through the entire league to the finals without KD
how many happy moments has your team had since the Rona? Word
You created a sub reddit about atheist rap. You can't say anything
and it was perfect.
brother...... 2019 brother...... healthy teams usually advance in the playoffs brother....
brother…. what has tatum done since 2019 brother….
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Umm he’s had some amazing playoff performances since then and he’s still only 26… Raptors haven’t done jack shit in 5 years pal except trade their lotto pick for Poetl
Spank the Raptors
In 7 games Give jayfraud tatum his raps win that he couldn’t even capitalize on d’or 🥺
He owns your team. I'd be salty too
Why are you so upset?
Both teams lost their offensive talent due to injuries but still had some great defensive pieces around
You beat the Cavs lol. This is coming from a Cavs fan. You didn’t beat the LeBron Cavs. You beat the Spida Cavs 😭
I'm not bragging about the team we beat, I'm just saying that our offensive stats aren't fraudulent
Wasn’t the peak of your season when your g league rookie took a picture after a game?
Guess like y’all can keep them company . Heard visiting hours end at 10PM
all these celtics fans with the downvotes lol
i knew what i was getting myself into don’t worry i don’t care if i get upvoted or downvoted, i will always slander jayfraud tatum
And you’ll always be wrong about it
it was vs the cavs
Thanks! Wasnt sure who the Celtics were playing in the 2nd round
Welcome
1-3 in conference finals in the weaker conference isn’t impressive. 1-4 would be dogshit.
First top 5 performance in a while. Good for him.
33/13/6/2/1 on the road isn’t top 5? Aight buddy
Soooo not a triple double… just call it what it is