00:00tonight coming up when it comes to jason tatum because it was my lead yesterday i said that
00:04after their terrible and wiggy you weren't here yesterday so their terrible performance on
00:08wednesday night they looked atrocious uncharacteristic uh but it seems like jason
00:12tatum will be making his return it will be returned to zero tonight against the mavericks
00:16cooper flag made his return to the lineup for the mavericks yesterday against the magic he had 18
00:21points uh so he looked healthy ready to go but it should be interesting tonight to see how this
00:25plays out i hope that it actually happens that it's not all this hoopla for nothing but sources
00:30are coming out of the woodwork talking to espn talking to sham sharania saying that tonight's
00:35going to be the night i don't think you could have a comp for this that is as fascinating in
00:40terms of
00:40how the egos are going to play how the team's going to play most importantly how tatum's going to feel
00:45and how he's going to play this is uncharted water like this is a place that no athlete has ever
00:51gone
00:51when he's been on top of it the whole year and it is unbelievable if he's somewhat healthy uh-huh
00:57you should go to the nba finals in a year that we all thought when that what was it game
01:02five of the
01:02knicks when uh tatum heard his yes to be back here with 20 games left yeah and you may have
01:09tatum
01:10playing on a team that goes on a deep uh playoff run possibly a championship in a year we thought
01:15was
01:16yeah and it will be very very interesting i mean to see how like they incorporate jason into it you
01:25know jb is the guy he's kind of put he's put this team on his back the offense runs through
01:31him
01:31and it'll be interesting to see what how they incorporate jason back into that or into that mix
01:39of where the chemistry is where the dynamic goes how they want to play it you know courtney you said
01:44does he come back and is he on a minutes restriction or is he i don't think he's coming
01:49off the bench i think he's starting so even if he is on a minute minutes restriction what does that
01:54look like 22 23 minutes uh uh to kind of knock some of the rust off a little bit to
02:01ramp him up to
02:02be ready to go come playoff time greg said yesterday on air uh that he had heard a rumor that
02:08it was
02:08going to be a bit of or the last episode of the documentary on youtube for tatum that they're
02:14going to play it before the game and it's going to fade to black and then it's going to be
02:17him on the
02:17court uh same thing you know jumbotron all of that so i don't think he's coming off the bench if
02:22it's
02:22going to be you know this big intro well courtney so uh obviously jason tatum back tonight historic
02:28um i give credit to wiggy for the top three seed in the east and the conventional wisdom would be
02:35that this season helped jaylen brown the most that people didn't know if he could be the guy
02:42whatever he is not the one that gets helped the most it is joe mazula like what joe mazula did
02:50up until this point for the first 60 games is staggering it's everybody thought jaylen brown
02:57was either a good or a great player nobody thought joe mazula was a great head coach in the nba
03:03people thought he might be he won a championship but a lot of people like myself said it was emay
03:07who built the foundation mazula came in and cashed the prize but as you sit here tonight the page of
03:12the celtics over under this year was 53 and a half wins they're already at 60 with 20 games left
03:18and if this team is a this is going to be the toughest task of the year for mazula which
03:23is
03:23figuring out the minutes of jason tatum keeping him fresh while they're at 41 41 wins right now
03:30oh that's right that would be a lot of wins they'd be yeah so 41 so they 12 more wins
03:34they'll get the
03:35over under math is not my strong suit i was gonna say that i think it's this seat courtney
03:40i know it's hard they're ready to break golden state's record right well we go to 80 and two
03:45either way the the i what missoula is uh has in front of him is the the reintegrating of jason
03:53tatum
03:55harnessing what uh brown has done and making sure that continues and i don't know if we're doing
04:00it they said you guys see the carmelo anthony carmelo anthony i was just gonna say we will
04:03listen to him and his sage advice for one jason tatum as he makes his return they said it to
04:08hear
04:08that because i think it was an interesting point he made all right great love it uh good morning
04:12all right good morning so i'm gonna stay on the jason tatum celtics train and my excitement is
04:18gonna be obviously to see jason back but i want to really see what joe to kind of piggyback off
04:24of
04:24curtis a little bit how joe missoula incorporates jason tatum into this team that is played spectacularly
04:32um and kind of what his role is because if you could kind of incorporate him into a role of
04:39where
04:40you know i think he's gonna go back to being the two you know in the sense of like where
04:44he might
04:45have to step back a little bit and say all right jaylen you do your thing and i'll kind of
04:49work off
04:49of you and it'll be very interesting if he could do that you're talking about a team who's get uh
04:55getting
04:55a first first team all nba player back and the noise that they can make especially with the way jaylen
05:02brown has been playing will really really take this team you know i don't know if they'll win a
05:07championship because still there's some teams in the western conference that are really talented
05:12and it's just going to take jason tatum time to kind of like get back to the form of what
05:17we've seen
05:17but i will be interested on just to see how joe missoula incorporates him into this team as they
05:25move closer to the postseason i love it and i hope that tonight you see jaylen and jason hugging
05:32dapping each other up like i i want to see a a goalie hug like give me it's not like
05:38i want these
05:39two to come across like they are the best of friends like shut everybody up and take care of
05:44of the actual game don't worry about all the headlines surrounding the jays trying to pin you
05:48up against each other
05:49you
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