Jayson Tatum STUNS Boston Celtics Fans With STRONG Comeback Performance in BLOWOUT Win

0:00Now in the locked on Celtics podcast Jason Tatum came back he looked and then he looked great And oh, yeah, they want a basketball game Back to the locked on Celtics podcast right here on the locked on podcast network It's your team every day your team's the boss and Celtics and I talk about a money through Friday Plus bonus podcast like this one here from TD Garden. I'm up in the rafters Just a little different background for you, but I'm here. I'm at TD Garden after the boss of Celtics 100 win over the Dallas Mavericks the game was secondary. Oh, yeah Cooper flag was here Like that was maybe the third or fourth biggest storyline in this game So I'll be talking about all of that stuff So thank you for subscribing the shows on YouTube shows everywhere I'm John Corales I've been covering this team for about 20 years doing it right now for sports illustrated Celtics on SI And I've been covering I've been doing this podcast for 10 years So, you know been around the team for a while today show is brought to you

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2:07But just the game. I'm gonna do two segments here because there's I'm right. I don't want to breaking down this game too much because the really the only thing to break down here is Jason Tatum's return 15.12 rebound seven assists misses first few shots. We missed four in a row five in a row six in a row What let's let's rewind it though. Let's rewind The atmosphere here was kind of Crazy this was I had multiple people telling you this felt like What almost almost a version of the game an NBA finals game It wasn't it was more than a playoff atmosphere was it was something bigger or something yeah Obviously you had a bunch of different elements here. You had Cooper flag coming back. I saw a lot of Cooper flag jerseys around Um, and when they introduced him there was a big pop obviously his local kid People came down to see him. There are a lot of people from Maine here Celtics fans wearing Mavericks Cooper flag jerseys

3:10So we had that dynamic obviously Tatum was coming back seven o'clock start No mp seats to start The garden is good. This is not like it's Miami where seven o'clock start the lower bulls not gonna fill up till seven 45 There's the crowd is usually here, but Seven o'clock Friday night people might still be getting their checks over across at the harper whatever and to to be here and In your seat right at the beginning There there might be some late stragglers when we were standing up for the national anthem. I looked around I always like to look around at the crowd and I don't think there was a single at the seat So there was anticipation Jason came out for warrups and it was You know the the DJ they played like an entrance music Everybody gathered around he came out to this big crowd and applause and it just it was obviously a very different kind of thing

4:18You could tell that he was a little anxious. He said he was a little anxious a little nervous But you know at that point A lot of the things that we expected kind of happened he was Uh a little off the shot was a little off Uh, he passed a lot he you know, he looked like a guy that was working himself back in But at the same time a lot of things happened that I didn't expect number one. He played 27 minutes And I didn't expect that at all. I was expecting obviously I I've been on the podcast saying Bring him in off the bench Give him you know seven eight minutes since that's 15 16 17 minutes and be done with it So he comes any plays he starts Which totally fine because he started and played 27 minutes and Right away that tells me that He has been he has he's been doing a lot more work behind the scenes than we really understood the the the whole

5:26We took the Scrimmage with main I think to to to be like well, this is his first scrimmage and I don't think it was now I think that he has been doing a lot more work with the team. I think whatever they let on There was much more behind the scenes He Clearly was gassed at points the the the dunk attempt where he kind of he got blocked by the rim That I think was a result of some heavy legs. It was I think towards the end of a stint and he Thought he had more and he wouldn't have tried the dunk If he didn't think he had the explosion. I think on his way up he might have been like uh-oh And he still tried the dunk and it you know Whatever that happens like that's the I do not care about that play at all Heavy legs Whether it's you know a little bit of fatigue from his first game in

6:29300 days practically being out for 10 months None of the missed shots or any of that stuff mattered me at all But the 27 minutes the starting and playing six-minute stints So you had like six 12 18 24 and then a little three-minute stint at the end of the second quarter That I just believe that he's The progress that he had made was much more significant heading in to this game There's a reason why I and others were saying 15 to 20 minutes tops It because we didn't realize the extent of what he had been Where he had gotten to right? I thought he was here and he ended up being here He still needs to get up here and you know if you're not watching You know, I just made a little thing with my hands about like lower higher higher than that thing I think you could judge that from the tone of my voice But I didn't expect him to be as far up as he was

7:32So great. That's great. This is all great. I would rather a million times out of a million Be wrong in this manner where I underestimated something and be wrong because it's much better Like even in the Mishkaida stuff for example I'll I'd do that all over again, you know, I'd rather undersell something and have it be a much Like a pleasant surprise Then to be I hear being like he's gonna play 30 minutes of score 30 points and then he plays 25 minutes and scores 15 you're like well, it wasn't as good as you were saying I would I would much rather Go low and exceed that expectation. So Tatum exceeded the expectation as far as Minutes the I thought right away, you know, he had a nice alley up to Namiushkaida Early on for his first basically the first touch of the game Moved the ball well. I think he was seeing the floor well The chemistry was there is a meal little off, but still there

8:36He and Jalen are figuring things out. There was one play Jalen. I popped onto Jalen's twitch scream Just to see and like see what he had been saying And you know he's talking about adjusting his game a little bit To be a little bit more of a catch and shoot guy now that Jason is back Jalen doesn't have to be as much on ball Which is great. This is all great stuff and just like Jason won't have to be on ball as much He can be a catch and shoot guy sometimes too because Jalen has gotten so good on the ball so There's a adjustment period for for both of these guys Which I think ultimately will be a very good thing the adjusting in that way is Much better than adjusting in uh, you know a different way which Side note They lost Nikola Vutrovich Uh a fracture in his right ring finger So he's gonna have surgery on that and miss up to a month. It seems like according to shamsharania That surgery is gonna be done this weekend

9:38So there's adjustments that are gonna have to be done now on both sides and you know that that kind of sucks um That that's gonna hurt Their chances I think um Just from Jason You know this was the opportunity for Jason to get the opportunities with Vutrovich to get some some reps with Vutrovich and I thought that was a pairing that was gonna Work together now. We'll never see whether Vutrovich is gonna start or not start or anything like that This is just gonna be Namiish Kato starting and that might have been how it go how it went anyway But anyway, that's a side note Jason after like that last stretch in the second quarter that that kind of settled him down He got up for that back dunk and They immediately came down So he gets the put back dunk they go down score Derek White does a great job of getting the ball in bounds right away running down the floor Chasing gets open in the left corner and hits that corner three point a little side step corner three

10:42And this place was as loud as I've heard this like it has never been louder than this It was NBA finals loud. It was Peyton Pritchard hitting that buzzer beater loud. That's how crazy it was in here. So he So those two shots the crowd was just itching right he had that that missed dunk and the crowd And he missed it and saw deflating They were they wanted so badly to cheer for him and you know the intro was great all of every all a serum everything was great And finally he breaks through gets that gets that put back dunk gets the three pointer and now he hits Four or five shots in a row and it settles into a very nice night for him You know if you just take his second half

11:43But overall It was a nice a nice night right 15 points 12 rebounds Six of 16 shooting and three of eight from three is is is good Seven assists a couple of turnovers at a steal not bad I would have been happy with his second half which was Let's see the second half numbers for Jason Tatum were 13 minutes four of eight shooting two of four from three 10.7 rebounds to assist and a plus 15 if you've just given us that that 13 minutes would have been perfect But the game the game that he gave us was for First game back after 10 months coming off of the Achilles Couldn't ask for anything more it was Equal parts, you know rusty But playing through it getting past it You are pushing his lung capacity which you wanted him to be tired you wanted him to be breathing hard

12:46That's gonna increase the lung capacity jomasula set it after the game. You can't simulate a lot of this stuff Can't simulate this cardio that he's getting in the game. So This is all great stuff everything forget the scoring forget anything just him going out there and playing as much As he did is great I'll save it for the next podcast Um, but I'll just say this if this is the starting point for Tatum I feel really good about what he's gonna bring to this team It was always a question mark here about What's Tatum gonna be for the Celtics? What's he how good is he gonna be what percentage of Tatum? Are they gonna get is gonna be 75 is gonna be 80 is gonna be 90 I feel good that Tatum is gonna be a a Reasonable version of himself will he get to be a hundred percent of himself by some point in the playoffs

13:48I'm not gonna say no because I'm not gonna. I'm just not gonna say no to anything with this team anymore I can't I can't say something is not gonna happen because they always prove you wrong It's unlikely to happen but Whatever version of Tatum you get whatever percentage this is the starting point this version of Jason Tatum Would help the Celtics in the playoffs this version tonight the first game back this version helps the boss in Celtics now give him six weeks of Games 18 19 more games whatever it is I don't know what his the plan is for Sunday I wouldn't expect him to play but maybe he will I don't know I think he's gonna miss some games here and there. I don't think he's gonna play back to backs So he will miss more time moving forward, but whatever amount of games it's gonna be

14:50Each game you he's gonna build on it Maybe the game will look as good as the last one. Maybe it'll look better. Maybe they'll look worse But each game is an opportunity to build on that recovery build on that rehab so super super encouraging Return for Jason Tatum. I cannot I can't find like I Want to be fair. I want to be reasonable. I want to look at all the all of the the potential angles here I can't see a negative and there's not he looked Good he this was this was as encouraging Um as you can expect I can't say enough about what Tatum was in this game It was a game by the way It's like the result of the game was secondary the Celtics won And other guys played great in this game. Let's just quickly do that when I come back

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20:02With live game chats Celtics and NBA chats. So check that out lock down Celtics. That's supercast.com So there was a game the Celtics won it by 20 They were the shooting was awful in the first quarter both teams were in 20% range for a long time The Celtics recovered after a while We'll say the recovery after the Hornets loss they got in there They were rebounding better. They grabbed a ton of offensive rebounds. They did a good job with that So they stuck with it And we're able to kind of the the shooting recovered and they Figured it out and part of that is because all of the big name guys that had big-time games, right? Jalen Brown Had a 24.7 rebounds and a seven assist game two steals plus 20 he was

21:02Team from the field two of five from three fours from one just an overall three offensive rebounds Overall just really good. It's gonna be an underrated game. He won't gonna talk about Jalen's game in this one Probably very much because of all the other stuff that was happening, but Jalen had a really good game And kind of carried the scoring for a little bit each one of these guys had a moment right that they came Carried the scoring even Jason carried it for a little bit. Derek White had a great game 20 points on eight of 16 shooting Was a little bit cold from three, but two of two from the line. He had four assists. He had four rebounds two steals two blocks The best defensive guard in the league. I don't care who used who you name Derek White is better and he had stretches there. We just Quick hands, you know getting steals just he's just So smooth. You I don't know. I'm gonna stop because It just becomes gushing at this point, but Derek Derek was great. Peyton was good off the off the bench

22:0419.8 of 17 shooting, but also seven rebounds Six assist he got two blocks so those blocks tend to be when a guy is dribbling and he gathers and july as he's bringing the ball up You swipe down at it That because it's the gather and you're going up that counts as the beginning of a shot Those become blocks. I think they should be steals. I think a block shot should be at the top of the the shot But whatever this this is the uh what the The rules are and so Peyton gets a couple of blocks good for him Namiya Shkaida was was great 15 points. I'm sorry 16 points 15 rebounds A block a steal Running the pick and roll to get that early lob with With Jason. It's just a great overall game for for nimi. Look the Celtics

23:07Played you know, they were they were kind of cold. They made their run at the end of the The second quarter they made a run at the end of the third quarter Closing out quarter strong is a big big focus for Joe Mozilla and they did that at the end of the second end of the third And then they put the game away at the beginning of the fourth at one point. It was See it was a 14 to five run to end the third quarter and then I saw 20 to seven to start the The the fourth so what's that 34 12 is the run that put this game away Uh That's how you're supposed to do it your end quarter as well you start the next quarter well and you build up a a big lead In the maps are just aren't just aren't good enough. This is this what they want. This is the result that they want in Dallas It's great Cooper flag was you know fine in this game did not shoot particularly well Uh, where was he seven of 23 that does That that counts as not shooting particularly well

24:09Uh, 16 points a rebound six assists Uh, he had a few turnovers So you know, an okay night back home in his home crowd in front of his home crowd Uh, hometown crowd, I suppose I should say not the home because his home crowd is Dallas these Dallas Maverick for now Anyway, uh, so that's it. Not much to say about the game the the the story of this is more about Tatum Who I just am impressed Impressed by him and pressed by uh, where he is And incredibly encouraged just incredibly encouraged for What he's going to be moving forward. I just think he looks good. He kind of looks like himself and as he Gets that wind back and gets his legs back and and figures some things out he will just slowly work his way back into the mix I don't know what this team ceiling is But I can't put a limitation on it if this is the Jason Tatum like I said before if this is the starting point for Jason Tatum

25:14What's the ending point this season? Um, I'm There's there's no other than He his shot was a little bit off a lot of bit off at the beginning of this and he looked tired Other than that I thought he looked good like there was a couple of times where you know Cooper went up with uh, you know for a shot and in Jason kind of like What's really missing from Jason is the quick the quick burst right that that quick jump the second jump That stuff isn't there yet. He even said after the game. I got a long way to go which is true. Well he he's I thought to put a number on it. I'd say he's probably 70% of what it's 75% of what he's going to be so That's further along than I thought So we'll see about Sunday. It's a Sunday afternoon game I don't know I don't listen. I'm not a doctor. So I'm just guessing I'm guessing based on my own experience from

26:14Playing and you know being around the basketball for you know as as long as I've been around I would think that that's going to be a game that they will avoid an afternoon game plus the The time change spring ahead It's going to be it's too close. It's not a back-to-back, but it's very close and I just don't know if he's going to be fully recovered I don't think you want to push it too much too fast So you've got to let him fully recover which means he'll probably be back for the San Antonio game And then we'll see moving forward It's an every other day kind of cadence and will he be ready for every other day at that point maybe maybe not Maybe maybe the San Antonio game will be a bigger minutes thing and then okay, so you'll be a shorter minutes thing You know, it's like the concept behind a recovery run you run you do a big long run One day and then the next day you do like a little short two three miles just

27:16So your legs keep moving so that could be a part of the plan too, right? So you don't want the atrophy you don't you don't want the the lactic acid to build up You don't want atrophy wasn't the right word But you don't want the um You don't want it to stiffen up you want the next day like tomorrow Jason will do some light stuff just to keep the muscles moving so you kind of combat the soreness um Sunday he might just go through a little workout If he doesn't play just to kind of keep things up but Just expect him to miss a couple of games here or there But I'll just end it by repeating myself I'm super encouraged Great to great everything positive everything positive from this game. Everything came up millhouse in this game Thanks for listening here. Thanks for watching some bonus podcasts I'll do these bonus podcasts when they play on the weekends. So make sure you're subscribed Uh bonus podcast during the week This point I'm doing I'm not doing five podcasts a week. I'm probably doing closer to

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