Lo and behold, our star is out of rhythm
Kind of happens when you freeze him out and stop going to him after a masterful first half. Another coaching failure that he can't even recognize. Already getting coached circles around.
Ya I'm sorry can we not do this? Tatum just dropped 51 points like 4 days ago, now we have to pretend he's so mentally weak that him not getting the for a couple minutes caused hium to turn it over 3 times in like 60 seconds?
Nope. He made some mistakes. His fault, not the coaches.
Who is calling him mentally weak? This is EVERY player. You can't just go from consistently getting the ball in the first half and getting in a rhythm, to barely getting any action and then expect to pick up right where you left off.
This has nothign to do with Tatum as a player. Every player is going to be like that, because it's about rhythm. That's on the coach to recognize this and make the appropriate adjustments, which of course does not happen with our kindergarten level coach.
I'm sorry, but no. I disagree with this entire sentiment. It was literally like a week ago where he missed almost literally every shot he took for 44 minutes then hit 4 threes to win game 6. He didn't need some great "rythm" then. he made plays. tonight was the opposite, great for 44 then nothing down the stretch. It happens.
A player sucking is on the player. Mazzula didn't force Tatum to throw the ball to Buitler, jump without a plan, or drag his pivot foot.
First off, your argument isn't valid and doesn't follow from the premises. Shooting and missing is NOT the same thing as not shooting at all. The old basketball adage is that "shooters shoot" and they'll eventually shoot themselves back into a rhythm. You simply can't do that if you're not getting the shots in teh first place, as it takes away your entire rhythm. And this is not even considering that we've seen all year long that everything runs through Tatum and we go as he goes. Icing him for most of the second half is absolutely a major mental mistake by both the team but especially the coach who is supposed to recognize that and adjust accordingly.
Mazzula has his problems but this is one Mazzula tried to fix by calling a timeout and getting Tatum involved and first thing Tatum does is throw the ball to Butler.
Honestly i don't even think how much Tatum was involved was even a problem. The C's got great looks preceding the Tatum turnover stretch. Wide open three from brown. Wide open three from Horford. Didn't knock either down. Sometimes you run good offense and just don't hit shots.
You want to criticize Mazzula ask why the hell he's playing Payton Pritchard in the ECF.
Topic: Heat (0-0) at Celtics (0-0) ECF Game #1 5/17/23 (Read 62546 times)