00:00um the celtics pistons was that game that i was telling everybody that was at 12 on the on the
00:04west coast three on the east coast um paul george set a celtics debut record with 38 points and
00:12boston still blew a 22 point lead in the first game of the season let me i want to try
00:19to i
00:19want to try to be as professional about this as i possibly can okay steroid p will always look good
00:27if you give him months off and then throw him in a game paul george can do what you saw
00:32tonight
00:33once a week once a week paul george can do that call me after game 30 and see if he
00:42does that
00:42this is why if if i'm this if i'm the celtics and i watched jalen brown play tonight and i
00:48watched his
00:49performance paul george gave us and we still lost that goes to show you that there's an ingredient
00:54and what jalen brown does that is missing from what paul george does paul george was phenomenal
01:01tonight yeah came down to it none of it mattered none of it where was it in the end he
01:08was cooking
01:09he got you to the he got you to the fourth quarter but this is the time when now jason
01:14tatum is supposed
01:15to take over but you know what used to happen in the fourth quarter for the celtics jalen brown would
01:20take over now they're not doing it no more now they got to refit now they got to reroute the
01:25course
01:26and figure out how this goes and that's why i'm telling people this season is a absolute indictment
01:32on jake on jason tatum's career if jason tatum is that guy we're about to find out and he was
01:39great
01:39tonight he was great you say jason tatum was great today i'm sorry jason tatum was great he had damn
01:45they had a triple double no no no jason tatum was six of 23 from the field he was awful
01:51look at the
01:52rebounds look at the assist okay i understand that but they okay he had 11 assists well this is okay
01:58there's a tweet going viral on social media they completely agree with anytime you see somebody say
02:02that jason tatum had a great playmaking night or a great assist night you know he had a stinker from
02:07the field you know he was awful from the field but this is this is his new role the 25
02:14to 30 shots
02:1625 to 30 shots a game is what he has to do now it's not a debate he's got to
02:22shoot when you remove
02:24jaylen brown from the game or from the team from the organization because he wants to podcast if your
02:29feelings got hurt because of that and now you are relying on paul george have you seen the rest of
02:35their roster it's awful it is awful so jason tatum has to shoot 25 to 30 times a night some
02:43of them
02:44will go in some of them won't but those assists will have or they have to be there because of
02:49the
02:49command that he now pulls to him because jaylen brown is gone so those assists are going to have
02:55to be there if the celtics are going to be successful and again jaylen brown was able to take
02:59him further far jaylen brown was able to get him in the playoffs jaylen brown was able to have them
03:04finish high in the eastern conference jason tatum is on you now right and it wasn't a great first
03:09showing was it paul george outplayed him in every facet of the game defensively i didn't i didn't
03:15have a problem with jason tatum's game tonight i did i know what i know what i'm expecting from
03:20jason tatum and tonight's going to be one of those games where he's going to have a lot of those
03:24this
03:25year sorry he just did 13 points on six of 23 is the number one option like come on man
03:30you know i
03:31understand the assist like he's a better playmaker than a lot of people give him credit for i absolutely
03:35understand that but they don't they like you just said it this is his team you're supposed to be the
03:41the one a guy now there's no question about it paul george even came in in his press conference when
03:46he
03:46first got to the celtics in his press conference he said hey tatum's the guy i'm just playing off him
03:51i'm gonna try to do what i can to help him and now it like opening night first game it
03:57was reversed
03:57like pg pg get him the ball man he's cooking see the game does not only revolve around points
04:05this is when we are going to get into an argument where you you love road players and i think
04:10points
04:10oftentimes i agree guys the true value of a player sure if he doesn't get those 11 assists they get
04:17blown out by 30 and by the way the pistons can't score if he puts up 22 points they don't
04:24lose
04:26that's fair that's fair that's fair i can't argue that but the 22 points have to have the 11 assists
04:33have to still be there with the 22 points he's going to shoot better he is going to i have
04:38no
04:39doubt about that i have no doubt about that i'm just saying like not a great first showing if you're
04:45going to be okay this is my team now like oh my god like we're going to go they were
04:49beating detroit
04:50by 22 in the third quarter and they lost because everyone disappeared but also when you live and die by
04:58the three as as much life as it can give you it can suck the life right out of you
05:04man and that's
05:05and and that at the end of the day is my biggest question about the celtics if the threes don't
05:11go
05:11in what are they if you get a 20 point lead in the nba and you don't have another gear
05:18or whether you
05:19don't start going middies and post game or you start running actual sets to get real shots out of
05:25your offense that are not threes you're always going to have teams come back on you the game is
05:31never over in your favor and the game's never over against you because the three ball is the equalizer
05:37i i thought that game was disgusting me personally i didn't like the game at all i thought it was
05:44too
05:44many threes shot in that game the fact that duncan i think was it duncan robertson or herter you know
05:49it was duncan robertson he had 21 points five of nine for three in the fourth quarter yeah
