Joe Mazulla and KP talked about how Tatum is underrated in the league after his monster 43/16/10 night against the Bulls.

Mazzulla:

“Because he’s been doing great things for such a long time, I still think his greatness gets taken for granted… because he’s done it for a long time, and because it comes relatively easy for him, and we’re in Boston, so that’s the expectation."

“He’s really coachable, and he wants to play the right way and he wants to do the right thing, and he’s constantly fighting that balance of wanting to do what we ask of him. But sometimes, you have to tell him to be himself, and he does a really good job of balancing that.”

Source: https://twitter.com/NoaDalzell/status/1870682304101994894

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  6. I hope he is heavily featured again in the marketing for the upcoming sequal to How To Train Your Dragon. His old commercials for How To Train Your Dragon really helped his aura.

  7. Who’s taking him for granted? Wtf is with that entire team and they’re contrived “us against the world” crap? They should text their grievances to Kobe.

  8. A lot of Celtics fans in this thread mad about their guy having no aura

    Top 5 player, cringe af though

    Edit: dudes in my comments are big mad

    Edit 2: also a lot of dudes in my comments thinking I’m super srs

  12. Fact is the media simply chooses to portray the wrong side of Tatum

    Man’s a killer on court. Top fye. Beats the ass of everyone at his age. Best two way player on the planet, plays 1-5 both sides of the ball

    Shai & Embiid haven’t done enough on their resumes to even lick his toe. Luka and Jokic are traffic cones on defence and need their teams to carry them

    His only issue is that the media is mainly LeBron and Curry stans who see their players now having the impact of a fart in the playoffs and have no choice but to suck it up and enjoy it

  13. Tatum had 11 40 point games in 22-23 alone, and he’s has had 4 total since the Celtics added Porzingis and Holiday.

    That alone shows you that he’s playing within the offense and not chasing numbers for attention.

  15. Bucks fans in this thread telling me Jayson Tatum is cringe oml you literally support Giannis

  16. You know i also discount JT a lot.

    Feel like he never really delivers or looks impressive when i watch him play.

    But then i watched him more recently and he has really impressed me.

    I think i just compared him too much to Giannis and Jokic before, but now i compare him to more average superstars and he honestly delivers.

    Shoots high volume 3s on decent efficiency, can finish and is a dam solid ball handler that can playmake.

    Imo JT is one of those guys that would be looked at far better as the number 2 to an all time number 1 option. Not because JT cant be a number 1, but because he gets compared to the best ever and he seems to fall short, but in realitu the dude is just insanely good.

    At thia point i am sold on the idea that JT is a better player than Shai.

  17. Tatum is fantastic , he was the championship last year and still remains unappreciated or undervalued. Hope things change this season

  22. “Aura” is the dweebiest shit ever. Sounds like some anime shit and people over the age of 14 unironically care about it. Pretty ridiculous. Way more “cringe” than anything Tatum does.

  23. people in here talking about Tatum texting Kobe reminds me of republicans talking about Obamas tan suits

  25. He’s unfortunately just boring and corny. I don’t know if he got too PR trained in his life, and it made him a robot. Because the guy is without question, an amazingly well-rounded player that does a little of everything. There is also the factor the way the Celtics are designed is as a team first, so nobody stands out as a superstar.

  27. His (and the team’s) unselfishness is really what makes this team tick. There’s so much talent, yes, but without that mentality it could’ve easily imploded. Credit to the team’s culture.

  30. What they mean is Tatum doesn’t have one skill that completely breaks the game hence boring.

    What his teammates and coaches say is that he can do everything, literally everything, at a super high level and he actually does them in games. No job is too small for him and that kind of superstar is an extreme rarity.

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