LeBron James, JJ Redick Praise Jayson Tatum for Growth in Key Area

Jayson Tatum's evolution has helped lead the Celtics to an NBA-leading 54-14 record.

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00:00 I made this comment the other day about Tatum. It feels like with him the reads are quicker

00:07 Making the right play it's just quicker. There's no he doesn't fight the game as much I

00:14 Did the details thing for ESPN?

00:17 During that finals and I did I did clay was the first episode stuff was second episode Tatum was the third

00:23 And so I had all these Tatum clips. I got to go through and break down

00:27 I don't ever watch the episode they you know, it's behind a paywall

00:31 But you know what I saw was on

00:36 The isolations on the on the wing so a lot of times would be in the slot. Yep the high quad, right and

00:44 They've given him space

00:47 They would bring that low man over early. Sometimes it was Draymond. Yeah, but not always sometimes it was clay. Yeah and

00:56 Very rarely

00:58 Did he end up getting the Golden State Warriors into rotation? Yeah

01:02 Now it feels like he's just making the play off the ball now

01:07 It did happen a couple times in that finals. Yeah, but it wasn't as quick and it was rare

01:12 Yeah, and obviously with their personnel like it's it's different now with Porzingis

01:16 But I think that's that's part of like the growth

01:19 so that's part of going back to like the question about can you teach basketball IQ in some ways it's

01:26 It's an eight?