Jones & Keefe: Is Jayson Tatum taking another leap?

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00:00There's been a lot of discussion about him working on his shot in the in the offseason

00:04And I know it was a short offseason he plays all the way till June

00:07Then he's on the Olympic team whether he plays or doesn't it's not the point. He's over there and yet he

00:13You know was working on a shot and one game in it looks like it was working whatever he was doing was working

00:18He's not gonna make eight threes every game

00:20He's not gonna go 14 of 18 from the field every game

00:22But if you take what he did the last couple years where again he was first team all NBA and you give him a better

00:28Three-point percentage and better just field goal percentage, then yeah, it's it's it's scary for the rest of the league

00:34It is so you can jump in six one seven seven seven nine seven ninety three seven. I just I

00:41Feel like the Tatum thing. I feel like the the people last year

00:46Ignoring how broken Tatum shot was in the postseason

00:48Yeah exposed themselves a little bit last night because all you saw on social media another three look at his shot

00:55F you tour underway

00:57that's all you saw and

01:00Last year a lot of what we heard in the playoffs was well, it's not all about scoring

01:04It's not all about shooting the basketball. It's about his floor game. Does he rebound? Does he distribute?

01:09Does he play defense and Tatum did all those things last night, right Tatum had ten assists

01:13He led the team. He didn't really rebound last night, but he really have to there weren't a lot of rebound

01:16I was gonna say there's a lot of made shots on both sides the Knicks shot 55%

01:20Yeah, it's out shot the Celtics from the floor last night

01:22So there weren't a lot of rebounds to grab that doesn't bother me their defense wasn't great last night Tatum is a good defensive player

01:28So I agree his floor games important. It's not singularly about the scoring but

01:33People were ignoring how off Tatum shot was last night. Was that a mental thing? Was it a physical thing?

01:38Does he have that sorted out?

01:40Scoring is important for him. Obviously. Yeah, duh and shooting well is important for him, obviously

01:46So I want that I want Tatum doing what he did last night. I hope this is the Jason Tatum

01:52We get all year and I don't mean eight threes every night and I don't mean what did he finish with 37 35 37?

01:57I don't need 37 points every night. No, that's not I'm saying he came out and he hit the first shot last night

02:03He came out and he hit more threes early last night. He was hunting his shot early

02:06He was getting his and I want the aggressive Jason Tatum because I do think that opens other things up and they can win both

02:14Ways they won in spite of Tatum's broken shot last year. That's how talented they are. That's how deep they are