00:00what he said on the pivot about wondering how he's gonna
00:05fit in and wonder essentially like wondering if they actually
00:10want me back or not I'm paraphrasing but to go from
00:15what you thought was going to happen with Jason Tatum to now perhaps
00:20he doesn't play this entire season is I it is that
00:25somebody telling him he's not coming back he's not rushing back is that Jason
00:30Tatum feeling like he's gonna disrupt the chemistry that
00:35exists now like what is that's out of nowhere I think it's more on him
00:40I don't think anybody's telling him he can't come back if he's healthy
00:43enough I think that they would
00:45allow him I think that it's it's a mental part of him wondering if he could you
00:49know
00:50screw up chemistry or whatever it sucks because he plays last night they win
00:53that game but do you think it's
00:55part of you know the chemistry thing could be one area but do you think it's
00:59part
01:00like I'm not where I need to be physically
01:05and coming back I'm not going to be able to be who I know I could be
01:10physically and verse versus where if I just wait till next season
01:14you
01:15I'll be much better you know I you know I mean Wednesday night after after
01:20after he did the pivot he told Ramona Shelburne from ESPN
01:25that he wants to get it right the first time so it's a lot
01:30to think about when I when it comes to returning from the injury
01:35what Curtis you guys are just so easily duped like
01:40he was never rushing back Wick was in here and he's kind of an important guy
01:45around the team and he I got zero feel that he was coming back
01:50this year there's so much to lose what are you going to gain I knew those comments on that
01:55podcast which whatever it was called or about you know he's sitting back now
02:00thinking about the final 30 40 games this season and wondering
02:05if he's ready to go for a sprint because if you come back you don't want to take him back for
02:08like five minutes a night you want
02:10Jason Tatum right and he's doubting that he could do that right now not that
02:15he can't do it again but this was what I thought was the likeliest thing of the whole time
02:20the reason they post those video they post the video about like it was relatively selfish the night before
02:25the season you're doing dunks so that everybody's talking about you when the other guys are
02:30starting the season like the posts on social media were just to feed the monster it wasn't a real
02:35basketball game he's just dribbling and doing layups uh text from maine this is a
02:40trade deadline decoy message from Jason Tatum
02:45is what is what is what is what they're suggesting what like they trade into for them
02:50trading him i'm throwing it out there deadline time and i have i don't
02:55because i wonder if he feels like like you know part of it is like what curtis is saying like physically
03:00as i'm starting to do more like pick up the intensity
03:05i'm not where i thought i was gonna be and that could be like oh
03:10let me reevaluate if i can actually even come back this year
03:15don't you think something happened between the pivot and him saying
03:20you know i'm ready to come back and i'm trying to figure out how i fit into this whole thing and
03:25to suddenly wait a minute i i may not be back the entire season something
03:30happened there uh whether it's reflection on his part or somebody talking to him
03:35or or physically he's just like as he starts to intensify his
03:40training that happened between tuesday and this morning like i i he's been dunking he's
03:45yeah but like curtis said he can't stop posting videos of himself dunking yeah he's six nine he should be able to
03:50dunk you could be dunk on one leg but i i maybe the part of it is that the the
03:55the mental part of it like you know now i'm gonna come back and you know maybe i'm only gonna be a 10
04:00minute a night type of player and i'm gonna have to be more of a a spot-up shooter
04:05because i didn't think i'd be where i was physically i or and and you know we
04:10say this all the time i mean i want him at 75 or 80 that's what i was just gonna
04:15say i just think that it's interesting because i'd take 10 minutes of tatum rather than no minutes of tatum
04:20like you know what i mean even if it's less but even if it screws up the chemistry
04:23i just don't think that it could
04:25screw up the chemistry i don't i don't how's it gonna screw up the chemistry like i oh greg if
04:30if tatum's there for 10 minutes he goes in for eight 10 minutes and dominates and then they lose by
04:35three points because he already used his 10 minutes like that is a huge pain in the ass for that team
04:39right
04:40how are you gonna allocate those 10 minutes where you're gonna play them who's gonna play with them
04:43right like that's a lot
04:45and when he's on the floor how are we gonna use him what are we gonna do and curtis is right
04:50so there's so many factors and we've had this discussion before excuse me
04:55whether it was bringing players in man it was more so probably bringing players in
05:00during trade deadlines and going all right how does this guy affect the chemistry of the team
05:05where people are like i don't want that i don't want to mess the chemistry up and it's similar you know
05:09granted he's
05:10he's played with the team before but that was that's when he was healthy and the team looked different when you're getting
05:15a guy back what is his role and when that guy that you're getting back is your best
05:20player maybe his role is he is the best player on your basket
05:25basketball team and however he is going to fit in you fit him in because
05:30you have a chance again you didn't think you were gonna have a chance you got a chance to win the whole thing so
05:35you bring him back and fit him in however he wants to fit in but that does everybody else and every
05:40everybody else gets in line and says yeah but that affects the chemistry
05:45because now the guy who's been playing all year and who's been doing well you're talking about jalen brown no no no like whether
05:50i'm talking more like an anthony simons or you know please come on or people
05:55just say you're talking about jalen brown and that's okay jalen brown's role is not going to change
06:00well but people are saying that it could could it affect him because he's been the guy and then
06:05if jason tatum is 100 healthy 100 yes right but i don't mike rabel said
06:10nobody's 100 they're not talking about anthony simons when they're talking about can jason tatum no i'm
06:15talking about the the chemistry like jalen brown's role is not going to change it's
06:20all the other guys after jalen brown's roles who are going to change with tatum
06:25like you're not getting jason tatum at a hundred percent that's why it shouldn't
06:30matter how much like if you're not then okay you're not getting the jason tatum
06:35that we saw before the answer sound like dr chow like i don't know how you know what you're getting
06:39from him
06:40well i mean that's just the way it's going to take a bit for him to get back i agree with you i just i
06:44would
06:45i would rather him come back take a bit where he's at right now 10 minutes i don't care i don't
06:49think it's
06:50gonna affect the chemistry i think if anything it just helps the team isn't it human like emotion that
06:55jason tatum on some level on some level is surprised at how well they've done
07:00this year yes of course i mean there's a text that says i don't think he wants to come back
07:05as the second option second fiddle i mean that could be true yeah
07:10but he would be because it it's just you're happy
07:15he had a major injury so you're coming back and he talked about
07:20they have already played 50 60 games so that means you'll be coming back to play
07:2532 to 22 games nailed it you're
07:30not gonna be the same player that you were before that so it's gonna take you time
07:35to knock the rest off and then those 30 to 22 you know those those games that you're going to be
07:40playing are going to be leading into the postseason right and if he doesn't play well
07:45or if he's god forbid at his minutes limit and he's on the bench in tatum and uh brown is double team
08:05you
07:50and they lose the game at the buzzer we're all talking about why couldn't tatum sack up get on the floor
07:55and win the game he only played 10 minutes like it is a massive massive storyline
08:00that will be what overshadows every game he comes back or the other thing would be
08:04what
08:05why
08:05why
08:05why
08:06why
08:06why
08:06why did we rush tatum back
08:08why did we rush tatum back and now in a playoff game
08:10why did we rush tatum back and now in a playoff game
08:10where you knew like okay he's really not there he looks real rusty but because he's jason tay
08:15at him we rushed them back and you screwed up the chemistry of a team that you potentially had
08:20playing well and everybody's roles changed you know i don't think jaylen brown's will change but
08:24everybody
08:25everybody else's roles change because you have to insert tatum why did we do that and
08:30azula is going to have to answer those questions and that could be another major
08:35um monkey wrench into the chemistry that potentially you're talking about
08:40because it's not like he's coming back at the beginning of the season where he could play 40 50
08:45games you're talking about maybe 20 games and then right into the postseason yeah i mean i
08:50just i based on the player himself and what he's been posting and what he's
08:55been saying up until this point it was that he couldn't wait to get back he was
09:00you know uh they they got him he's he's on the bench saying i'm
09:05ready so i i mean i'm ready i mean that's him saying it and like curtis says okay and curtis
09:10says you tell me all the time it's not up to the owner it's not up to the coach it's up to jason
09:15tatum and that's jason tatum saying i'm ready but it curtis is right to this point like that's him
09:20saying those things and him dunking but like let's see they probably see what he looks
09:25real intensity workouts where he might be like they might be like yo jay
09:30you're not really ready yet you know yeah you might do a spin move and dunk against nobody
09:35but when we start ratcheting up these workouts and we're telling you to push the pace we're telling you to do
09:40this like you could see that you're still you know some time out and i think
09:45it's more that all right well interesting report from chris haynes and
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