Tatum’s off-season development

[libermaniac]

In my opinion, if Tatum can work on two areas this off-season, taking a page out of two superstars’ books, he will be virtually unstoppable.

1) Continue to build strength. Ala Giannis, he needs to be able to finish through contact

2) Develop the KD floating pull-up shot from 15 feet when he gets past his first defender. Hopefully I’m describing the shot right, but KD’s shot when he gets past one defender, and shoots a floating pull-up, is basically un-guardable. If Tatum can develop a similar shot it would give him an option instead of continuing to drive into the teeth of the defense for a turnover.

Thoughts?

[hodgy03038]

Learn to pass to your own players.

[slamtheking]

learn how to control your dribble on a drive with one or more defenders swiping at the ball

[Csfan1984]

Rest and recharge

[libermaniac]

learn how to control your dribble on a drive with one or more defenders swiping at the ball

The KD shot would enable him to avoid dribbling through multiple defenders.

[libermaniac]

Learn to pass to your own players.

I personally think he made HUGE strides this past season with his passing/creation for others. Two years ago he couldn’t pass out of a double team to save himself.

[slamtheking]

learn how to control your dribble on a drive with one or more defenders swiping at the ball

The KD shot would enable him to avoid dribbling through multiple defenders.

that's the move I was calling for all during the playoffs for both Tatum and Brown.  opposing defenses are all keyed to stop their drives to the basket -- they wouldn't be able to handle a quick pull-up from 12-15 feet.

[libermaniac]

learn how to control your dribble on a drive with one or more defenders swiping at the ball

The KD shot would enable him to avoid dribbling through multiple defenders.

that's the move I was calling for all during the playoffs for both Tatum and Brown.  opposing defenses are all keyed to stop their drives to the basket -- they wouldn't be able to handle a quick pull-up from 12-15 feet.

I probably got the idea from you. 😂 TP

[nebist]

He mentioned it late in the finals, but he didn’t have the habit built to make the change. If I were Drew Hanlen, the number one thing I’d be working on this summer is finishing moves off two feet in the paint. Right now, I would estimate Tatum jumps off 1 foot on 95% of his paint shots. He only comes to a power, 2 foot jump stop once in a blue moon. If he dragged that number significantly closer to 50% in terms of finishing off 1 and 2 feet on dribble penetration, I basically think it would be the last step to unlocking his potential as the best player in the NBA. He already has the size and he has added the strength. He’s just not using his strengths. Increasing his 2 foot finishes would help in the following ways:
1. Increase his FG% in the restricted area.
2. Draw more fouls and FTA.
3. Decrease TOs as he could jump stop, pivot, and find open perimeter players rather than making difficult off-balance or jump passes.

[tenn_smoothie]

He mentioned it late in the finals, but he didn’t have the habit built to make the change. If I were Drew Hanlen, the number one thing I’d be working on this summer is finishing moves off two feet in the paint. Right now, I would estimate Tatum jumps off 1 foot on 95% of his paint shots. He only comes to a power, 2 foot jump stop once in a blue moon. If he dragged that number significantly closer to 50% in terms of finishing off 1 and 2 feet on dribble penetration, I basically think it would be the last step to unlocking his potential as the best player in the NBA. He already has the size and he has added the strength. He’s just not using his strengths. Increasing his 2 foot finishes would help in the following ways:
1. Increase his FG% in the restricted area.
2. Draw more fouls and FTA.
3. Decrease TOs as he could jump stop, pivot, and find open perimeter players rather than making difficult off-balance or jump passes.

Wow Nebist, you must know something about basketball to bring this up about Tatum's game.

Imagine Tatum driving into the lane area and instead of flying in, off balance, and having to twist in some contorted layup over his defender plus help, he instead jump stopped and went straight up from 6-8'. Now, he is at the height of his jump instead of leaning in and losing that advantage. He avoids all those missed layups that result in him falling out of bounds and then complaining to the refs with his arms waving over his head while his teammates face the opponent in transition and short-handed. He avoids charging fouls more often. He would kill it in that area shooting a very high percentage going straight up with his shot and the soft touch that he has. He would avoid some of the turnovers he continues to commit because he takes the ball too deep into too many defenders. He can still take it all the way to the basket when he has a clear opening, but have this much cleaner option to use otherwise. Jaylen Brown could stand to implement this into his offense as well.

[tenn_smoothie]

learn how to control your dribble on a drive with one or more defenders swiping at the ball

His dribbling ability is plenty adequate. Curly Neal couldn't dribble through the heavy defensive traffic
that Tatum (and Brown) attempt to do on a regular basis. No one could.

What Tatum and Brown and Smart need is a much better half-court offense to operate in. They need more off-ball movement and screening to get teammates open. They need much more variety to choose from other than waving for someone to set a ball-screen to start the offense 30' from the basket with the shot clock winding down. They need more inside-out passing to get the ball moving and forcing the defense to work harder to stop us. Our half-court sets became too stagnant in the finals and at times, Tatum had nowhere else to go but to try to penetrate on his own with everyone else standing and watching because the offense had so little player movement to help open up the court. The blame for this major part of our offensive problems falls on the coaching staff.

[slamtheking]

learn how to control your dribble on a drive with one or more defenders swiping at the ball

His dribbling ability is plenty adequate. Curly Neal couldn't dribble through the heavy defensive traffic
that Tatum (and Brown) attempt to do on a regular basis. No one could.

What Tatum and Brown and Smart need is a much better half-court offense to operate in. They need more off-ball movement and screening to get teammates open. They need much more variety to choose from other than waving for someone to set a ball-screen to start the offense 30' from the basket with the shot clock winding down. They need more inside-out passing to get the ball moving and forcing the defense to work harder to stop us. Our half-court sets became too stagnant in the finals and at times, Tatum had nowhere else to go but to try to penetrate on his own with everyone else standing and watching because the offense had so little player movement to help open up the court. The blame for this major part of our offensive problems falls on the coaching staff.

that's why what you've mentioned belongs in a thread called "Ime's off-season development".  totally agree on those points but that's much more to do with Ime's offensive philosophy than Tatum

[Celtics4ever]

Get some mental toughness.    Take a martial art.  Work on your dribbling.   Learn to embrace contact and do not whine.  He needs to learn to take out his anger on the other team by scoring not whining at the refs.