He has regressed massively on defence. Like, an unreasonable amount.
I'd comfortably say he's our worst defender now. It used to be arguable between he and Kyrie, but Kyrie has improved whereas Jayson has continually become worse
I remember many of us here bashed on Kyrie last year when he got traded over because of his poor defense.
I feel Tatum has regressed this season. Could it be his Kobe workouts? Or what is it.
I think the onus has to be on Tatum. He worked out for what, 2-3 days with Kobe? I don't think that those workouts mysteriously brainwashed him. I think he got very ahead of himself. And in all fairness to Kobe, despite being overrated on defence, he still made a dozen All-Defence teams.
I believe that the post-season and off-season really got into JT's head, and he started to buy his own hype. Maybe he started to believe he was the next Melo / PP (both of whom were approximately 20PPG guys by their sophomore season), and who both arguably played better defence than Tatum (arguable for Melo at least, PP there's no argument).
However, both of those guys made massive jumps in production from their 2nd to 3rd season. Melo went from 21/6/2.5 to 27/5/3, and PP went from 19.5/5.5/3 to 25/6.5/3. Maybe Tatum does similarly and jumps to a 20PPG guy next season, for us or for New Orleans, but at the moment we'd be lucky if he turned into Danny Granger