00:00I commend him for how open he's been about what he's gone through and what he's feeling sort of emotionally.
00:06I think he'll be good.
00:08I'll just say this now, though.
00:10Like, I'll put my Felger hat on.
00:12You know, if he goes out and doesn't play well, like, this can't be Game 7, 2023 Eastern Conference Finals,
00:19where it's like he just gets a pass.
00:21It's like, oh, well, you know, he had the ankle injury, so it doesn't matter.
00:24It can't be that way.
00:26And to me, when I look at last night, there's part of me that looks at it and thinks,
00:31okay, you know, that game was out of reach, and they wanted to be cautious,
00:35and he didn't really have much going on in the third quarter.
00:39The team didn't really have much going on in the third quarter,
00:41but they were, like, only down 15 when he came out in the third,
00:44and he never came back into the game.
00:47If he had it going and his shots were falling, would he have been out of the game?
00:51I'm not so sure that would have been the case.
00:53Who would it remind you of, Chris?
00:56Kevin Durant.
00:57I thought it was Kevin Durant-esque.
00:59I thought it was a Kevin Durant-esque tap-out, to be honest with you.
01:04And that concerns me.
01:05And the reason I raised Durant here, and this goes back to the whole Jason and Jalen dynamic
01:09and why I feel like they need each other.
01:12Tatum is obviously the better player, the more skilled player.
01:15But if you go back to game five in the fourth quarter when Tatum wasn't getting the foul calls he
01:20wanted
01:21and literally spent, like, one offensive possession and another defensive possession barking at the official
01:27and getting upset, and you look at some of this stuff.
01:31Again, you know, last night, Jason needs some of the toughness and the edge
01:36and the mental toughness that Jalen Brown brings.
01:41You know, they really sort of need each other.
01:43Because when I look at, has Kevin Durant ever been the emotional leader,
01:49mental toughness leader on a championship team?
01:51I mean, he's won championships, but was he ever that on those teams that he won a championship on?
01:56Of course not.
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