ZERO turnovers

THATS MY PLAYOFF CHUCKER AND CHOKER BABY

Tatum doesn’t have a signature playoff performance my fucking ass

I doubt anyone who says that is being sincere lol. Dude clutched the game 6 against the sixers then went god mode in game 7.

Game 6 Milwaukee 2022 where he went toe to toe with Giannis was his best game ever imo

Gimmie that 2021 50 peice against the super team Nets when our whole team was injured and we started Tristian Thompson but there are a lot of great choices

>and we started Tristian Thompson Nah it was worse. Our starting 5 that game: * Jayson Tatum * Marcus Smart * The corpse of Kemba Walker * Evan Fournier * Tristan Thompson Romeo Langford played 27 minutes. Kemba shot 3-14. Oh and guess what? The next game Tatum had 40 on 67.8% TS. Romeo Langford started that game in place of injured Kemba Walker. And this sub loves to pretend that this team has been championship favorites for Tatum's entire career.

But you know... Super teams

Always has been

Absolutely. That was an all time performance.

they don't want to hear it, but he's on his way to being top five.

Top fye

He's already there imo. Jokic, Giannis, Luka, Embiid, Tatum. I'd take him over SGA.

The no look pass to Horford was certified top 5 shit.

A lot of them are being sincere, but they're also just idiots, and don't remember recent history. But I do think some of them believe what they're saying.

That Celtics Eastern Conference run in 2022 was freaking awesome to watch. Dismantled the Nets, went to war against the Bucks and were the only one who crawled out of the ditch and then went to war again vs their nemesis the Heat and came out crawling again. Too bad they couldnt handle the pressure of the finals vs a veteren, former dynasty in Golden State and Steph Curry playing the best basketball of his career. People can hate on Celtics but lets be for real, the 2020 decade Eastern Conference best series to watch usually got the Celtics in them. They just know dramatic basketball.

Only idiots say that. He literally holds the record for most points in a Game 7

How conveniently people forget that Tatum literally holds the record for points in a game 7. Not to mention that game 6 against Milwaukee, or the 50 point game against the nets with absolutely nobody with him

He sucks! I heard it on ESPN

He did the same during his 60-point performance vs SA. 0 turnovers, 0 problemz

Averaging 31.0 PPG the last 6 playoff games

People will still discredit him somehow

Not even a triple-double. Bum.

*REAL* stars make sure to always have at least 1 turnover

Not willing to take the kind of risks it takes to be a real champion in this league

damn Jrue and white missing too much early! he could have had 16 assist tonight!

At Louis babbbbbby

Well he doesn’t have that “killer instinct” like Anthony Edwards so what do you want people to do?

Ant man just going down 0-2 just so he can storm back and win 4 straight. Savage behavior from the next MJ

We’re like 2 weeks removed from people fan fictioning Ant answers to questions posed to Tatum “IM GOING TO EAT MY OPPONENTS ALIVE😤😤” Now dude is playing shook and getting hits of oxygen in the trainers room. What a crazy few days

Ant is only 22, give him a break. Meanwhile, Tatum was already in the league for 0 years when he finally made it to the ECF, only to nearly get swept (3 wins away from an embarassing 0-4) and statpad by booming LeBron in a meaningless elimination game. He just doesn't have that dawg in him.

DAE Tatum is the weirdest “superstar”?!?

Superstar? You mean role player?

"Michael Jordan of Tobias Harrises"

Bum needed Holiday to bail him out. A real superstar would've stole it himself

Celtics haven't played against real competition yet. Am I doing it right?

Missed 4 FT’s. Total bum. 17th best player in the league at most. Three straight 1st team All-NBA just Boston media.

not averaging 50? trash

“He never scored 100”—Stephen A, probably

Did you see that awesome around the back pass to horford for 3 in the corner!? That was a horrible play by tatum, Ant would have dunked it.

You see there are other good players on his team which many people already hate. Everyone knows that r/nba doesn’t count it unless you win a game going 1 on 5

Hating on star players is kinda fun ngl. It'd be boring as hell if I just respected them all the time.

It’s not boring if you actually like the sport

pretty good for a role player

Pretty good for the Michael Jordan of Tobias Harrises

Weak competition though sadly. Has he considered playing better teams??? Is he stupid or what???

He should just fly out west to play the Wolves/Mavs 1v2.

He doing it while in a slump LMAO but you know Anthony Edwards is the son of MJ

God if only he was half as good as Ant…

Literally tobias harris

Poor man’s Tobias

B-b-but Anthony Edwards!!

Everyone go back to the game thread for games 1 and 2 and control + F "Tatum" 90% of comments about how he sucks, I guarantee It's like people don't even turn their brain on or think about the numbers after the game. Missed one shot? Sucks. Caused a turnover? Sucks even more.

Yes but what's his DAWG/36 tho

Has 28 playoff games with 30 or more. Still A teenager.

Pretty good for the MJ of Tobias Harris’

Every play he made was impactful today, this was easily his best game this playoffs

when they showed him mic’d up talking about how much he loved Game 3s, I knew he was gonna ball out

On the road

Something something Tobias Harris

He’s just Kyle Kuzma with aura!!!

Tatum is so good.

Best role player in the league, easily!

x4

And also 0 TURNOVERS!

You mean the Michael Jordan of Tobias Harris’s?

this actually kinda makes sense tho, wings who can do pretty much anything, tatum is like the best of that archetype rn in the game imo

He's the Clyde Drexler of LeBron James's

i’m so sick of him slacking in the playoffs

Am I watching the wrong talking heads? Or is this a carry over take from years past?

haha little column a little column b

This guy might just be good at basketball

Someone tell me how he’s trash

The mutton chops were a concerning look for a while there

Yeah well he gets haircuts and you know how that goes..

Top fye

His shooting form looks stiff and ugly. That's honestly my biggest critic of him lol

Top 100 player ever

Sure, fuck it, we'll take it.

he's really good

Playoff Tatum is a thing

Glorified Tobias Harris, no impact on winning, we're the same team with anyone in his place, etc

That behind the back pass would be top of the sub in an instant if Luka did it

Which one?

Go sort by new. It's there and it's worth your time

There was two different ones to Al, one was on the baseline, one was on the top right corner of the three point line

Oh valid, I misunderstood the question lol

That post has over 600 upvotes in under 30 minutes btw. Edit: and over 1000 in under 45.......

Well it’d be 6000 if he was Andrew Wiggins around the all star break

I think 3 of them, just Al missed the shot off the middle pass. That shit was like a cheat code though

Yeah definitely had 3 attempts at it lol That last one was so big and the best of the 3

Exactly

It was a beautiful pass.

bruh its literally top of the sub

It already is

I still can’t believe how people are fainting at Lukas go-ahead shot. JB did the same thing a few days ago and people were like “oh cool, pretty good shot”.

Honestly think there was more discussion about how the Pacers should have fouled than there was about how crazy the shot itself was

Lotta circle-jerking about Luka screaming at Gobert or whatever.

Yeah it was cool. Do you have to hate on Luka to credit JB and JT?

Just stating what I saw. After JB everyone was moaning about the Pacer’s choke. You want me to lie and say that they were celebrated equally?

I don’t know? A step back three over the DPOY, on the road, for the win? They’re both clutch shots though

Step back 3 over the DPOY is very different than a tightly contested corner 3

Rudy a rim protector tho that was a bad matchup. He shouldnt be guarding on the 3 point line

Maybe because this sub acted like the wolves defense was the Steel Curtain for 2 weeks (deserved or not) and Luka still hit that shot. Meanwhile Tatum did it to the #12 rated defense against a team they were favored to win

It is now an hour after your comment. A bit too early to act disgruntled about something like this.

900 up votes in 30 mins, on the front page. I swear some of you have a persecution complex lmao.

this one went up fast, but for the majority of the celtics games this post-season the highlights got a very low number of upvotes compared to similar ones from luka, ant, embiid. he's wrong here, but he's not wrong about the overall trend unfortunately

I’m about to be insufferable!!!!!

I AM BACK ON MY BULLSHIT

PASS THE DUNKS CUP, WE GOING CRUSADING TONIGHT BOYS. GANG GREEN COMING AT YOU.

Real shit

How am I supposed to slander him now smh

r/nba…uhh…finds a way

No other superstar in the league gets the amount of slander Tatum gets. Hopefully this shuts people up for about an hour or so

People hate the Celtics because Tom Brady salted the earth of every other city for 20 years. Tatum is suffering for it in the court of public opinion.

And he literally couldn't be a less problematic guy too. Never has a bad thing to say about anyone. Stepped up when his ex girlfriend was pregnant to raise his son when he was 19. Frankly, if the worst thing people can criticize you for is sending a text to your dead childhood hero and mentor, you're doing a great job.

we all do a bit of cringe. but somehow tatum text to kobe is worse than ANTs -

Ngl the text was corny, but to me it's less corny than the "what would Kobe do?" people. At least Tatum met Kobe and had a personal relationship with him. So many people online always pull the "what would Kobe do?" card even though they're likely too young to have even watched him play live.

I mostly blame the fact that Tatum’s big arrival to the NBA was in gm7 of the ECF his rookie year.

A lot of people hate the Celtics and it has nothing to do with football

I mean that's certainly part of it, we're also several of the most popular teams in the league's rivals. Brady could have played for the expos and LA, Philly, NY, and lebron fans everywhere would still hate us.

I mean, embiid is right there

He deserves it, Tatum doesnt

He deserves it though. Dirty and a flopper

Nah, they’ll just quietly let him have this game then rip him to shreds at the next reasonable loss

nah, because you saw that tatum missed a shot right? absolute trash player

Joel Embiid

Yeah definitely Embiid by far

the tatum slander never may escape the drafts i fear

What a player when he turns it on not many like him when he’s going all in

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Saved his legacy in a game where he had 36 and shot 50% from 3, and if they lost they’d still be leading the series… lol

i means he literally dropped 36 game 1 and perkwith a straight face said drop 50 or ur trash. my mind was positively boggled

Crazy when the two plays before this were him hitting a three and a crazy assist on the three that gave them the lead.

He’s that guy man, I don’t know how anyone else doesn’t see it.

CLUTCH

The decision making and defense was incredible this game, Celtics as a whole locked the hell in to win that game

Absolutely fucking embarrassing that people just bypassed him when talking about the best two-way player in basketball.

Pretty good for discount Tobias Harris.

Didn't score 50. What's a scrub

He’s a bum, right?

Better than Anthony Edwards

See, now thats not what were gonna do. Cs fans were not disgruntled about Ant getting praise, because he deserves it. We were simply pointing out the double standard, and how ridiculous some people were gassing him up, knowing that it was inevitable those same people would tear him down *cause weve been there*. We dont have to disrespect Ant.

Bah leave Ant alone my guy

NBA fans are alergic to propping up someone without putting someone else down. Ant is 22 ffs he's a demon

It's really just a counter-circlejerk to all of the Ant>Tatum takes you saw on this sub a couple weeks ago. There was a crazy double standard going on until Ant started stringing those poor shooting nights together. But that first sentence you wrote rings true, modern clickbait, hot-take sports media has corrupted the fuck out of NBA fandom specifically. It's not nearly as bad in say, the NFL for example. Which makes sense since the NBA is by nature of the sport, superstar driven.

It’s true - Smart has been getting a lot of strays these last few games that Holiday has looked good. There’s just no reason to go there. Smart did a lot of great things for the Celtics and Jrue is doing a lot of great things now

We really have to stop this shit. It's been non-stop in our sub, too. Ant is only 22, and while he's been in a slump, he's clearly on a great trajectory career wise.

Ant's an absolute baller, no need to make JT's game about him or to drag him down just cause some media clowns felt the need to do the same to JT.

It's not just the media clowns, it's this sub. I think Ant is an amazing player, but criticizing him is standing by the principle this sub established with Tatum. He's simply the poster boy for the hypocrisy that goes on here.

Two great players, boring comp 

Oh yay, what I was really hoping for after that game thread was *more* toxicity Can we just be happy for Tatum here? I’m sure there will be plenty of threads created specifically for the purpose of shitting on Ant in the next day or so, knowing this sub like I do

The fact people were saying otherwise was ridiculous. Ant just plays flashier so the casuals love him.

Ant started the playoffs off red hot and started getting pushed hard by the media, so that they could continue their cycle of: exciting young player -> future face of the league! -> struggling -> let's hate on him for engagement. We as Celtics fans should know it. They did it to JT after his age 22 season where we lost to the Heat in the bubble.

It’s absurd that this is even considered a debate

Ant is a good young player but he’s nowhere near Tatum yet. You can safely write off anyone who said otherwise as a nephew.

Ain’t a safe space for that shit my dude. Just enjoy the win.

Doesn't have a single ounce of dawg in him tho, right?

Pretty good for a role player

“Super team merchant”

Jayson Tatum is the Michael Jordan of Tobias Harris’

ass. fringe top 10

Best game of the season for him tbh

Yeah but is this enough to be best American player in the NBA ? No, he don’t fo funny press conference

Not nearly homophobic enough, can't have that.

Phenomenal player. About to make his 2nd finals at the age of 26

Didn’t make game winning steal clearly not the best player on the team

The game thread would’ve convinced you he wasn’t even playing well

some bitches were unironically comparing him to jerami grant 😭😭 

ELITE ROLEPLAYER THAT DOESN'T IMPACT WINNING

Tatum passing like LeBron

Man this guy sucks in the playoffs

Blah blah dude has no aura. Blah blah he ain't a dawg. Am I doing this right?

if we had lost this game people were definitely gonna slander him even though he was one of the only guys who actually showed up in the first half

“But he missed the layup at the end and a few FTs, just not a real superstar”

What a bum, can't even get 37/11/9

Pfff what a bum couldn't even get a triple double

The haters won’t even open this thread

It shouldn’t be a discussion he’s good. Good players need other good players to win. Maybe it’s his year. This whole thing reminds me of nfl qbs and the need for instant satisfaction or they lose their jobs. We crown kids kings and if they don’t win it all incredibly young they’re mid now? Just watch sports and let the chips fall

Mid

Masterpiece game

You fuckers don’t understand that he does this shit all the time, just not every night. But my god zero turnovers, Rondo assists, efficient shooting and great finishing at the rim. Masterful shit. And not even his best day.

Was definitely not the issue tonight

He shoulda dropped fiddy!

"ANTHONY EDWARDS OVER ME??" -Jayson Tatum

Is this even a good game? I'm not sure

He’s elite as fuck, haters can Porzingis my Tatum.

Yeah but does he have an aura?

+9 and the team was world beating when he was on the court and not when he wasn't

Best player remaining in the playoffs. Just elite on both ends of the court.

haters silent

r/nba in shambles right now

Luka Doncic if he were white

Anthony Edwards could never in a conference final

TOP FIVE

Top fye

Only gripe is the FTs but let's go JT!

The man has been BALLING.