Jayson Tatum's Role Amid NBA Legends and Game Strategy

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00:00There's no one on this planet that's putting Jason Tatum near the spectrum of LeBron James

00:09or Kevin Durant.

00:10There's just not.

00:12I wouldn't argue that.

00:13I wouldn't argue.

00:14Right.

00:15So I think what's happening is that because he just won an NBA finals because he's on

00:18the best team and because he's behind two guys that are better than him individually,

00:26this is reality.

00:27Jason, you're not better than the guys we have, you sit down and enjoy the show.

00:35Go get all these players are interchangeable.

00:39When LeBron's the point guard, you don't need Derek Wright on the floor because Jason Tatum

00:43can defend his position.

00:45OK, you can put Jason Tatum on the court with LeBron and KD because all three of those guys

00:51are interchangeable.

00:53So you don't need to play Derek Wright instead of Jason Tatum.

00:57I have a question.

00:58Well, I'm telling you, Steve Kerr is up to something.

01:00Well, let me ask you a question.

01:01What if what if it's like late in the game and Jason Tatum hasn't played and and you're

01:08Steve Kerr and you're saying, well, what am I going to do?

01:10Get him up.

01:11And like I've been sitting on the bench for like the last hour and a half.

01:14He's not warm.

01:15He's not loose.

01:16Well, I'm going to risk putting him out there and possibly getting him hurt.

01:20I mean, I'm just asking, can I can I just ask this question?

01:23Do you think that between now and let's presume for a moment that the U.S. men's basketball

01:28team is going to easily win the gold medal, right?

01:29They're going to they're going to win this.

01:31Right.

01:32Well, I don't know.

01:33They play South Sudan on Wednesday.

01:34I don't know.

01:35They talk.

01:36They talk.

01:37Let me ask you this.

01:38Do you think between now and the time the USA basketball team is done, presuming again

01:41that they're going to win gold, you think Jason Tatum is not going to play at all?

01:44Do you think he's going to make zero contribution?

01:47I think Jason Tatum is going to play 20 minutes on Wednesday.

01:50If you tell me that against Serbia, the team that you actually need to put your focus into,

01:57I can't get into the game.

01:58I'm going to have a problem with that.

02:01Now, if you want to play me 20 minutes against a South Sudan who we we better be by 60.

02:08I can't I can't.

02:09Why can't you just why can't you get him his run?

02:11So so so.

02:12So now we all have to walk on eggshells about Jason Tatum.

02:14No, you got to walk.

02:15Ain't nobody walking on eggshells.

02:16Winning gold is not the most important thing.

02:18It's about getting Jason Tatum playing time.

02:20Ain't nobody care about Jason Tatum.

02:21You go.

02:22Nobody care about that.

02:23Bro, if the team's so good, how can you sit there and say, oh, we got to worry about Jason

02:29Tatum in case you're going to win regardless.

02:33So right.

02:34So who cares?

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