Jayson Tatum's Role Amid NBA Legends and Game Strategy
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00:00There's no one on this planet that's putting Jason Tatum near the spectrum of LeBron James
00:09or Kevin Durant.
00:10There's just not.
00:12I wouldn't argue that.
00:13I wouldn't argue.
00:14Right.
00:15So I think what's happening is that because he just won an NBA finals because he's on
00:18the best team and because he's behind two guys that are better than him individually,
00:26this is reality.
00:27Jason, you're not better than the guys we have, you sit down and enjoy the show.
00:35Go get all these players are interchangeable.
00:39When LeBron's the point guard, you don't need Derek Wright on the floor because Jason Tatum
00:43can defend his position.
00:45OK, you can put Jason Tatum on the court with LeBron and KD because all three of those guys
00:51are interchangeable.
00:53So you don't need to play Derek Wright instead of Jason Tatum.
00:57I have a question.
00:58Well, I'm telling you, Steve Kerr is up to something.
01:00Well, let me ask you a question.
01:01What if what if it's like late in the game and Jason Tatum hasn't played and and you're
01:08Steve Kerr and you're saying, well, what am I going to do?
01:10Get him up.
01:11And like I've been sitting on the bench for like the last hour and a half.
01:14He's not warm.
01:15He's not loose.
01:16Well, I'm going to risk putting him out there and possibly getting him hurt.
01:20I mean, I'm just asking, can I can I just ask this question?
01:23Do you think that between now and let's presume for a moment that the U.S. men's basketball
01:28team is going to easily win the gold medal, right?
01:29They're going to they're going to win this.
01:31Right.
01:32Well, I don't know.
01:33They play South Sudan on Wednesday.
01:34I don't know.
01:35They talk.
01:36They talk.
01:37Let me ask you this.
01:38Do you think between now and the time the USA basketball team is done, presuming again
01:41that they're going to win gold, you think Jason Tatum is not going to play at all?
01:44Do you think he's going to make zero contribution?
01:47I think Jason Tatum is going to play 20 minutes on Wednesday.
01:50If you tell me that against Serbia, the team that you actually need to put your focus into,
01:57I can't get into the game.
01:58I'm going to have a problem with that.
02:01Now, if you want to play me 20 minutes against a South Sudan who we we better be by 60.
02:08I can't I can't.
02:09Why can't you just why can't you get him his run?
02:11So so so.
02:12So now we all have to walk on eggshells about Jason Tatum.
02:14No, you got to walk.
02:15Ain't nobody walking on eggshells.
02:16Winning gold is not the most important thing.
02:18It's about getting Jason Tatum playing time.
02:20Ain't nobody care about Jason Tatum.
02:21You go.
02:22Nobody care about that.
02:23Bro, if the team's so good, how can you sit there and say, oh, we got to worry about Jason
02:29Tatum in case you're going to win regardless.
02:33So right.
02:34So who cares?