00:00And Gaspar, let me ask you right out of the gate.
00:02What was your biggest takeaway from that game last night?
00:05Yeah, I'm going to say my biggest takeaway would be they're still trying to find a way
00:08to get the best out of Tatum and Brown in the same game.
00:12And you saw Jalen Brown sort of exhorting on Jason Tatum after the scoreless first
00:18happened.
00:19He was great in the third quarter.
00:20But then in the fourth quarter, you have, you know, let's say two of the 10 best players
00:24in the league.
00:25And offensively, you're shooting 19%.
00:27Those guys are one for seven from the field combined.
00:30It still is a work in progress to figure out how to maximize each of these guys.
00:36And I'll tell you, I know there's all these numbers floating out there.
00:39And we see them on NBC Sports Boston.
00:41They do a great job on the Celtics broadcast about when Tatum and Brown are on the court
00:44together.
00:45But overall, since Tatum's come back, the team's offensive rating, points per 100 possessions,
00:51it's 17th in the NBA at 115.1.
00:54So while it's great when they're on the court together, the overall flow offensively since
00:58Tatum came back, not unexpectedly, because we anticipated this, trying to work him back
01:03in, but it's not as good.
01:05In fact, if you go back to, and I love to go back all the time, Maz and Murray, to
01:09this
01:09jazz game that you and I both hated, where they were 11-51 for all the threes they shot.
01:14From that point, November the 4th, until Tatum came back, they had the best offensive rating
01:20in the NBA, over 120 per 100 possessions.
01:23Now, 17th since he came back.
01:25And that's not all him, but that's a fact.
01:27And Chris, if you would ask this question, let's just say a week ago, before the last
01:31couple of games, because they didn't play well in Memphis over the weekend.
01:33No, they definitely did not.
01:34That game was not good either.
01:36So this is now two bad ones in a row.
01:38And I understand it's a small sample.
01:41But is it getting better or is it getting worse?
01:44I think it's getting worse, which again, I'm not surprised about because in the beginning,
01:51Tatum was so deferential and that's a credit to him.
01:55However, I think the realization not only from Tatum, but the organization is that if they
02:01are going to go where they want to go, he can't be that deferential.
02:05They have to get him back to the Jason Tatum we're all familiar with.
02:08And that's sort of where the rubber meets the road and it becomes challenging.
02:12I'll tell you this, the Memphis game, I wouldn't have put him back in.
02:15I think if his name's not Jason Tatum on that night, he was two of 12 at that point.
02:19I wouldn't put him back in in the fourth quarter.
02:21Now this game, it would have been nice to put him back in earlier, but that's not Missoula's
02:25fault.
02:26He had played 27 minutes through three quarters.
02:28He's on the minutes restriction.
02:29He brought him back when he could bring him back.
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