Tatum & Brown evolved their games to win a championship and silence the critics | No Cap Room

Yahoo Sports senior NBA reporter Jake Fischer and Senior NBA writer Dan Devine discuss what the Boston Celtics winning their 18th title does for Jayson Tatum and Jaylen Brown’s reputations. Hear the full conversation on “No Cap Room” – part of the “Ball Don’t Lie” podcast – and subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or wherever you listen.

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Yeah, after that first quarter run or Tatum had one really hard drive and one he’s, you know, flexing and pounding his chest, a lot of emotion out of him, which doesn’t usually play with.

He’s kind of a pretty stoic reserved guy.

I think part of it is for all the external noise and the pressure that gets put on you when, you know, I was really struck by how many people around this organization around the building tonight.

We’re kind of repeating the same theme of like, it’s been so long, but like, it’s been a long time coming.

Like, that’s what happens when you make the conference finals when these two guys were a rookie and a sophomore in Tatum’s very first year and it’s really not like so early when you think about it.

Like Steph’s first title came if I’m doing mental math off the top of my head.

He was drafted in 09, like 67 years after that, lebron like Jordan, like this isn’t, it kind of feels like it happened when it was meant to happen and, but like, you could feel all of the noise and all of the naysayers and the doubt kind of, I mean, especially, I mean, at, at the half, all of all of tatum, 16 points except for the one step back, three at the end of the second quarter, all of them came at the rim which is like, felt kind of exercising demons.

Like to me, it felt kind of similar to lebron Miami hitting those pull ups in Boris Diaz’s face because that’s been the knock on Tatum, right?

That he either can’t get there and when he does, he can’t finish and I don’t know what the numbers will finish out because he missed a couple layups down the stretch in the fourth when the game was well in doubt.

But I, I mean, it, to me that was what I was feeling and observing as we saw him pounding his chest and hanging on the rim and really kind of kind of…

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Publish date : 2024-06-18 08:28:34

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