00:00uh jalen brown did a podcast what's it called shine i believe it is called state of the game
00:05great state of the game and we heard a little bit earlier of interest he was asked basically
00:15whether he can accept the role that the front office and the coach have in mind for him and
00:22here is his answer for me i looked at it as like you know i'm gonna accept the role
00:29that they are offering me while knowing the role that i have for myself right and i'm gonna do your
00:37role to perfection but i'm gonna sneak my little one two in there you know every every chance i get
00:46all right how do you feel about that so i'm going to disrupt the offense whenever i feel like i
00:55ought
00:55to disrupt the offense and i would just love to know what they viewed his role to be you know
01:03so when you start to look at it because i think in his mind just hearing him talk he feels
01:09like his
01:10role is to be the and i hate using the word alpha because it's like you know you could use
01:16the one
01:17you could you could use the facilitator he looks at his role to be the best player on the team
01:24all right and what is their role how do they view his role if he looks at him like all
01:32right i'm the
01:32best player on the team i can rebound i could score i could do all these things what are they
01:37saying are
01:37they saying like you're a good offensive player but you're not the best player on the team
01:43so my thing is for everybody that follows the celtics and has been around them whenever i would
01:51discuss the friction between those two based on common sense i was told the media is creating a fake
02:00or false narrative it has never been more apparent that as always we undersell instead of oversell
02:10whenever you find out like when it was bill and tom it was many fans saying you're making yeah i
02:17remember greg famously you said it was fake take laird when tom brady put his house on the market yeah
02:22you said you people always act like there's a big issue here and they hated each other like poison
02:28in this case i'm not saying they hate each other but jaylen is jaylen is consumed with how he is
02:36perceived and there is no way as i said at the end of the season that they're gonna walk this
02:42back
02:42with tatum is the one jaylen back where he was the toothpaste is out of the tube and curtis game
02:48dog
02:48says that it sounds like more of the friction is directed toward the coach the coaching staff in the
02:54front office and not not adjacent to each game dog do you think jaylen brown sits back and says why
03:01don't they do this to tatum yeah he probably does that but i think that's that's the friction right
03:06but i think game dog is right because i'll always say like ah there's got to be friction there's there
03:11might not be friction between them two then why do you not tell him until 40 minutes before the game
03:16that he was missing the biggest game of the year who uh tatum no no i see i think the
03:21friction
03:21was created and answer that question because maybe tatum thought he was playing until jaylen
03:28didn't have his phone right well you can still miss a text from no no no no but but when
03:34did they
03:34when did jason tatum and the organization say you are not playing how long was that before the game
03:44i have no idea jaylen brown is a couple a couple hours because that's when it started you started
03:49seeing the report change but can you explain to me why he's so pissed off about that jaylen yeah
03:54i can what why it's simple because i'm supposed i'm supposed to be his favorite season when jason
04:01tatum wasn't playing no no no so why does he care whether jason tatum is playing or not and when
04:05he's
04:05told about it because he feels like just from listening to him some of the things that he he feels
04:12like i'm the guy along with jason so information like this should be told to me because of who i
04:22am
04:22and what i mean to this organization hey just a heads up i think what he's saying is hey just
04:27a
04:27heads up jaylen hmm jason might not play just want to let you know he's gonna try or we're gonna
04:35see
04:35what we can do but you know there's a good chance he might not play and whether that's a day
04:39before the
04:40game three hours before the day before the game shamsharanya was on espn saying he's gonna play
04:46right but like this really blindsided people day of right and i feel like jaylen brown is like a lot
04:53of superstar athletes that are at that level that they want to know what's going on with the organization
04:58and they want to know what is a guy playing is a guy not playing are we interested in trading
05:03for
05:04this guy like we do that all the time whether it's a guy like lebron a guy like steph curry
05:08a guy like kevin durant you know yannis whatever and i jaylen feels like he's at that level hey jaylen
05:15here's who we're thinking about bringing in as coaches yeah from my perspective i think that the
05:20celtics organization has has tried really really hard to hold up jaylen as a leader and be really
05:29respectful with both these players and i think the natural if you believe that there's friction it comes
05:35from them playing the same position being essentially the same age being drafted around
05:38the same time and that's what it's always going to come down to because they're not on vacation
05:44well the friction can they coexist this season yes yes i really do think so i know i know that
05:50curtis disagrees with me and i think that that's why the conversation is interesting but yeah i really
05:56do think that they can coexist i think what jaylen what i hear that he's telling you there
06:02is i i am sometimes asked to play second fiddle but look at me i also got eastern conference finals
06:08mvp and finals mvp i've also gotten a super match i've also stepped up when he's out i don't think
06:14that can last how long can that last it's been 10 years they've been together well i'd say it's been
06:1910 years they've made it that long and they've made two finals and six eastern conference finals
06:23so when people constantly act like this is such a pressure point for the team yes the last couple
06:30seasons the the playoffs have had disappointing early exits but you can't look at it as a whole
06:35and say they haven't been one of the more successful teams in the league i'm not i'm not saying they
06:40haven't but i think they haven't been able to take advantage of these two and i think a lot of
06:46this stuff
06:47comes from the front office because of you heard jaylen himself saying this is the role it would be it
06:54would be different wiggy just to jump in if these early exits hadn't come when one of them were gone
07:00the last time that they didn't that they didn't make it out past the first round was when jaylen
07:04brown had the hand injury before they even went into the playoffs so yeah i look at it and i
07:09say they
07:09need both of them together and they have shown that they can coexist but the knicks lost last year
07:14they were together i mean they were losing that series i agree but the fact of the matter is they
07:19didn't have jason tatum for those next games all right and i'm aware that some believe like mike
07:24in florida believes the media is driving this whole thing i mean i jaylen brown is on every other
07:29podcast so i don't know i how is it our fault
07:32you
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