Jayson Tatum Puns

>Jason Tatum: "In the grand scheme of things, I look back to those years when we were going to the Conference Finals and it makes you really appreciate those moments, because it’s hard, it’s not easy. Early on in my rookie year, I thought it was normal."

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>Jayson Tatum: “It’s tough but we’ve just gotta regroup. Obviously losses, this stretch kind of is tough, losing leads and just not finishing it out in the fourth quarter.”

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JT’s Tweet

>Normalizing uplifting one man without bringing another one down… JB played great it’s alright to leave it at that

Kendricks Tweet

>Jaylen Brown completely took over this game with his first triple double of his career! Played a perfect game while Jayson Tatum went 6/14 from the field. They got the win tho! Carry on…

Unsurprisingly, the Jays both had great games and won by 20. They played off each early on to establish rhythm. They both started hot and hit each other with great passes early.

Jaylen Brown passing dashboard

List of Boston Celtics who have more assists to Tatum than Jaylen Brown:

Marcus Smart - 43

Al Horford - 27

Dennis Schroeder - 21

Robert Williams - 11

Grant Williams - 10

Payton Pritchard - 9

For reference with a fellow play-in level East team, Pascal Siakam has played the same number of games with Fred VanVleet, and has assisted him 26 times. Jaylen Brown is averaging 3 assists to 3.1 turnovers this season.

Source via ESPN

An Eastern Conference exec continued by saying:

> "They've looked like [players that] legitimately don't enjoy each other's success, and it's been like that for years," an Eastern Conference executive said. "The fact it's still rearing its head is not surprising in that regard."

Pretty harsh words from people around the league

EDIT: Fucked up the title, 3pt% not FT% lmao 25% FT% would be nuts

In the 8 games before this he was averaging 31ppg on 49/37/84

Tatum is so consistently inconsistent

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Pretty absurd scoring he has shown with Tatum out the past two seasons, while doing it above league average efficiency.

Vote this man to make his 2nd career All Star Game

16/25 from the floor and 7/13 from 3, great performance from Tatum tonight who seems to be making a big turn lately in his performances

This has been a topic of discussion among me and my colleagues, I personally believe that tatum has the potential to be an mvp caliber player one day given he doesn't get seriously hurt and if he can somehow efficiently make shots.

My friends however think differently, they believe he is a shot chucking, streaky, pseudo superstar who has already peaked as a player and cannot lead his team to wins. I could kinda understand it since tatum probably attempts close to the top in the the league in field goals and is only averaging 41% from the field and 32% from 3.

KD: 31/8/6

Lebron: 32/9/6

Giannis: 31/11/6

Embiid: 31/10/5

Towns: 27/10/5

Harden: 28/9/10

Tatum: 25/8/4

Brown: 27/8/4

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Just the beginning for these two.

12-21 FG 6-11 3P 6-6 FT

He really took over for the Celtics down the stretch scoring 11 straight,unfortunately didn't get a lot of help to close the win.

https://www.espn.com/nba/boxscore/_/gameId/401360397

So one thing I noticed this game is that many times, Tatum will just settle for ISOs, which seems to disrupt the flow of the Celtics offense and leads to wasted possessions. He had a couple of missed ISO shots down the stretch against the Sixers tonight, which proved to be costly. Instead of taking these low percentage and difficult shots, he could instead try to create more for his other teammates. Opposing teams also seem content with Tatum taking these shots as well.

So why does Tatum take so many ISOs?

Tweet: [https://twitter.com/NBAcrazystats/status/1470824889275797515?t=XTQJJwfYI5MEc_z1fhJIiQ&s=19]

1000 missed shots? Alarming. I am bothered in his growth and might be the second coming of Carmelo Anthony. He progresses more and more as a ball hog, and has no reliable system around to force him to pass the ball more.

He chucking inconsistent and bad shots especially in midrange

Links to their respective game-logs for the season are below. Jayson missed 4 games, and Jaylen missed 5 games during this period, their injuries did not overlap.

Jaylen - https://www.basketball-reference.com/players/b/brownja02/gamelog/2022

Jayson - https://www.basketball-reference.com/players/t/tatumja01/gamelog/2022

Note: I made an identical post earlier that I deleted because it said the Celtics had 9 wins and 11 losses, and had to make this new updated post because they, in fact, had 8 wins and 12 losses. My mistake.

Background

A while ago, I came across this tweet by kmedved and it made complete sense to me as a Celtics fan. Since COVID-19, Jayson Tatum's performance has been significantly declining. To my surprise, it has not only declined since he got COVID-19, but continues to decline. I decided to do a small, insignificant case study on his performance using the following statistics:

• DARKO BOX DPM/O-DPM/D-DPM
• RAPTOR War, Offense, Defense
• Regularized Adjusted Deterrence

Hypothesis: Jayson Tatum's performance as an NBA player has declined since he got COVID-19.

Results

Results (if you don't care about methodology and just want to see the graphs)

Study (with methodology) (if you care about methodology)

All 9/9 statistical measures show some sort of decline.

Discussion

There seems to be a steep decline in performance from when he got COVID (on January 9th, 2021) to now in all categories. It is also significant that the decline begins exactly after Tatum got COVID-19 and has continued since then, showing no signs of slowing/stopping.

Typically, DARKO is known to be a pretty stubborn metric so this kind of a decline in performance is striking, to say the least (as was mentioned by the creator kmedved in the tweet).

Stats for this season

How would you rank them?

http://www.pbpstats.com/possession-finder/nba?TeamId=1610612738&Season=2021-22&SeasonType=Regular%2BSeason&OffDef=Offense&StartType=All&FromMargin=-9&ToMargin=9&Period=4_OT

These numbers certainly didn't get better today either

His tunnel vision has proven to be a huge problem in crunch time so far this season, as he's also had a comically low 15 assists on 396 possessions

> Jayson Tatum shot 2-16 tonight.

>He is 8th in the league in made shots despite being 1st in attempts.

>Tatum is shooting 39.5% on 21.8 attempts per game — only 5 players have shot below 40% on 20+ attempts per game in a whole season since the shot clock era (1954).

https://twitter.com/statmuse/status/1465131185168781313?s=21

Damn, he’s playing like shit.

https://twitter.com/shamscharania/status/1475491694585995271?s=21

The Celtics are now 6-0 all-time when Jayson Tatum and Jaylen Brown each score 30+ points, per the NBC Sports Boston broadcast.

Tonight:

Brown: 34 points on 11-of-19 FG (7-of-11 3PT)

Tatum: 33 points on 11-of-19 FG (4-of-9 3PT)

https://twitter.com/chrisgrenham/status/1481450048860954630?t=1sb0JE5GOxrJOcqkQSGkBQ&s=19

https://www.nba.com/game/bos-vs-cle-0022100190/box-score#box-score

https://www.basketball-reference.com/players/t/tatumja01.html

Although he did hit one big shot at the end, once again a pretty bad game all around from Tatum

He's a good scorer but it seems highly questionable that he should have the highest FGA in the league

And as for his playmaking the less said the better

> Leading scorers in the clutch:

> Joel Embiid - 66

> Jayson Tatum - 57

> D’Angelo Russell - 51

> Zach LaVine - 50

> Anthony Davis - 47

> Kevin Durant - 44

> DeMar DeRozan - 41

> Chris Paul - 40

> Miles Bridges - 40

> Reggie Jackson - 40

> Russell Westbrook - 40

Total minutes played for each of these players:

embiid - 558 minutes

tatum - 979 minutes

d'lo - 721 minutes

lavine - 948 minutes

AD - 896 minutes

durant - 912 minutes

derozan - 846 minutes

CP3 - 808 minutes

bridges - 1036 minutes

reggie jackson - 902 minutes

westbrook - 1007 minutes

source: https://twitter.com/TheNBACentral/status/1470441663478878214?t=kpcSwDU2U3fFvJHLR1xqDQ&s=09

edit: by popular demand, I'm adding clutch minutes played several clutch stats

embiid: 54 minutes, 64 points, 4 assists, 5 turnovers, 63.3% ts

tatum: 74 minutes, 57 points, 4 assists, 7 turnovers, 55.6% ts

d'lo: 53 minutes, 51 points, 6 assists, 2 turnovers, 62.1% ts

lavine: 44 minutes, 50 points, 1 assist, 0 turnovers, 69.1% ts

AD: 72 minutes, 47 points, 8 assists, 1 turnover, 65.8% ts

durant: 43 minutes, 44 points, 7 assists, 2 turnovers, 55.4% ts

derozan: 42 minutes, 41 points, 7 assists, 1 turnover, 77.2% ts

CP3: 34 minutes, 40 points, 13 assists, 3 turnovers, 77.5% ts

miles bridges: 69 minutes, 40 points, 4 assists, 3 turnovers, 53.3% ts

reggie jackson: 42 minutes, 40 points, 6 assists, 3 turnovers, 67.0% ts

westbrook: 76 minutes, 40 points, 15 assists, 12 turnovers, 54.5% ts

Clutch minutes are defined in this case by "LAST 5 MIN | +/- 5 PTS" (nba.com's formatting). Clutch stats can be found on an nba.com's player's stats page, clicking "profile" and changing it to "splits", clicking "general splits" and changing it to "clutch splits", and clicking "per game" and changing it to "totals".

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> Full Brad Stevens on > @Toucherandrich > on anonymous quote that Jayson Tatum doesn’t care about winning: > > "If you can't put your name on it, don't say it. There is no way that > assistant coach would put his name on that quote because, first of all, > he has never been around Jayson. And, secondly, Jayson would kill him > every time he played him for the rest of his career. That's the way > those guys in this league are wired..." > > > "I take it with such a grain of salt. To me that line was a joke because > I'm around him every day. You look at him, he plays, he's available, he > compete, he's got a lot on his plate. He's done a lot more in his first > five years in the league than most of the league, right? Totally totally > wrong in that guy's assessment." > > > "I thought that quote was absolutely ridiculous, to be honest. I don't > ever react to that stuff and I actually sent a note to one of the people > work with like, 'This is idiotic: Just be around this guy every day. That > guy loves to win. He's sitting there with his feet in the ice bucket after > every game that we lose and he looks despondent. This guy's > competitive. I know that for a fact. I'm glad he's on our team."

Anonymous Western Conference GM, Anonymous Scout and Eastern Conference Assistant Coach doing work this season lol

He has 201 FGA. Next closest in Anthony Davis with 181.

He only has 75 FGM, tied for 11th in the league

He has got to figure it out

https://www.basketball-reference.com/leagues/NBA_2022_leaders.html

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Kendrick Perkins: >Jaylen Brown completely took over this game with his first triple double of his career! Played a perfect game while Jayson Tatum went 6/14 from the field. They got the win tho! Carry on…

Jayson Tatum:

>Normalizing uplifting one man without bringing another one down… JB played great it’s alright to leave it at that

>[Smith] Jaylen Brown on the talk that he and Jayson Tatum should be split up: "I disagree. I think we can play together. We have played together well for the majority of our careers. The last year or so hasn't gone as expected, but the adversity will help us grow and get better."