00:00Just look at the last three games that he's played against Oklahoma City, Atlanta, and Charlotte.
00:04He was awesome in all three of those games.
00:06Had his first 30-point game against Charlotte.
00:09And to be honest, I never really attributed much of the struggles to the Achilles, right?
00:14It was more so getting used to playing NBA basketball again because we've talked about it.
00:18The playmaking was there from the start.
00:20The rebounding was there from the start.
00:22All the defense was there.
00:23Of course, he doesn't necessarily have the same burst that he had before, but that's part of it to be
00:28expected.
00:28Maybe that's the one area circle and be like, okay, it's not Jason Tatum yet because he doesn't have that
00:33burst yet.
00:34And that's going to come with time, obviously.
00:36But for the most part, it was just the shooting.
00:38And I don't think that necessarily was attributed to the Achilles.
00:41It was more so not playing NBA basketball for 10 months.
00:44And now that he's getting kind of used to that, we can start to drop that a little bit where
00:48he looks like he's back.
00:49And he worked so tirelessly behind the scenes, as we've seen through the documentary and whatever else it is,
00:56that he worked through all this and had so much ramp-up time.
00:59So, yeah, I think we could kind of take that off the table.
01:02And I think the shooting, again, wasn't really correlated because he's had bad shooting stretches in the past.
01:07And that was before the injury.
01:09And I also don't think that the shooting necessarily means he's not playing well.
01:13And I think the most glaring example of that is the NBA finals.
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