Jones & Keefe: Tim Welsh explains why the Celtics are behind 0-2

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00:00Hey, what's the biggest factor in why the Celtics are down two games to zero?

00:04Well, I just think there's a myriad of factors,

00:06but the biggest thing is that Tatum hasn't played like an all-star.

00:09I mean, you can't step up and play in the second round of the NBA playoffs

00:13and do what he's done the last two games,

00:16especially the other night, the second game, too.

00:19I mean, just a total no-show.

00:20I mean, we've seen it before with him.

00:23You wonder why it happens.

00:25I don't know if there's a reason.

00:26I think he's just too aloof at times.

00:28He's not locked in enough.

00:30He's not gritty enough.

00:31The people that I know around that know him kind of say the same thing,

00:36that at times he just kind of floats out there.

00:38And he saw it the other night.

00:39He was floating right down to the last play of the game.

00:42You know, he couldn't even get a shot off coming down to the floor.

00:45So he's got to play better.

00:48And I think he will.

00:49Usually he does when his back's against the wall,

00:52but we'll see if it's too late.

00:54I mean, you saw him in the Orlando series.

00:56You know, the stuff that he's hurt, I don't buy that.

00:58I mean, at the end of the Orlando series,

01:00he was just the best player in the playoffs the last three or four games

01:04in that series.

01:05So having said that, he's just got to lock in.

01:08I mean, I don't know what the problem is,

01:11if it's, you know, the matchups, whatever.

01:14It doesn't matter.

01:15You can't say I'm one of the best players in the world

01:17and go out and play like that in the playoffs.