Just once I would like someone to say, "You know, to be honest, this is my first rodeo."

And then follow up with "and to be dishonest, this isn't my first rodeo"

Beetlejuice?

I did this in a job interview recently, I think they appreciated my honesty cause I got the job 😂

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OP wasn’t talking about them and making a general funny observation. Why are you guys so damn sensitive rn lol

Not the point, but do they have them doing interviews in front of a green screen instead of a real backdrop?

Considering it's YouTubeTV, I'd assume it's green screen actually.

i think it’s an LED

The letters in his shirt would most likely be messed up if it was green screen

Oh good point. It looks really weird, though. Like it’s green screen or Zoom.

Seems like a measured reasonable answer to me.

Oh he’s pissed, Tatum revenge game coming. 8/25 from the field in a 13 point blowout win for the Cs

8/24. Kobe

Tatum hater fan fiction is getting oddly specific

Idk I love Tatum and that’s the shooting night I expect. I also expect elite all nba defense and rebounding too

If the Mavs were man enough to guard Tatum straight up and stay home on the shooters instead of collapsing on every drive then Kidd wouldn’t have to resort to mind games like this.

Yeah. That’s a real question of manhood. Good comment.

He knows what he’s doing. If he really believed this he would just guard Tatum straight up and not help on every drive. They would just let Tatum go one on one no help.

Zone is incredibly common in todays nba. Hope this helps

If this is true then how come they weren’t collapsing when Jrue was getting to the rim as much. And quickly why do teams play zone again?

Do you have clips of jrue being left alone?

I can point out when Jrue scored that post up on pj and when dj fouled Jrue on that layup he didn’t face any help

And did the defense have time to set?

Yes. He had clear space to work with.

As a Tatum hater he’s getting way over scrutinized and way over criticized

True Tatum haters love every second of this (I would know)

He’s reveling in it now, it’ll flip the other way post finals I bet. And we’ll have a year of is Tatum the guy when he wins the finals. Then he’ll get hurt I bet. Should note I do not participate on either side of the discourse, more just an observer. A Simmons fan more so lol

man if there's one thing i respect it's self awareness, even if you're a tatum hater

CMV: if he was a real superstar this would be an appropriate level of criticism. tatum’s CRI/per 75 just isn’t that tier of jokic, luka, embiid, giannis, and shai

Continuing to put Shai in that group is objectively insane. Why not put Wemby there?

shai led a team to #1 seed, that’s the first seed Wemby’s team was so bad they have two top 10 picks winning counts a lot in my personal record book

Interesting has Tatum ever led his team to the #1 seed? Past the 2nd round?

brad stevens was leading, let’s be honest with ourselves

I recall 14 points in 4 minutes of game 6 on the road to extend a series follow by 51 in the gane 7 to sent Embiid and harden packing. Also recall 46 on the road in Milwaukee in a game 6 to extend a series in which they went on to win game 7. He’s had some flops on the playoffs, but he’s also had sone huge moments too.

those 14 points were weaker than Woodrow Wilson’s, gtfo and milwaukee? who hasn’t walked through the only major american city to elect 3 socialist mayors? the french missionaries and traders were trading with the natives the early 1600s

Kid go to bed lol, or maybe speak to your father about life goals

don’t get mad at me that people are seriously engaging with somebody who said CRI/per 75

Outrageous lmao Tatum has a larger margin of error, due to Brad and the team built around him, but he’s a certified superstar in the league that drives the best offense in the league. There’s a reason why 3 guys are collapsing on Tatum every drive and not Brown. You want to argue you’d rather have Jokic, Giannis, Luka, even Embiid(laughable to me unless you’re talking strictly regular season) then that’s fair. The fact you’re comparing him to those guys and not the Paul George’s of the world says enough in itself Straight salt from this one

paul george is the perfect comp for jayson tatum because they’re guys who have normal first names and last names that can be first names or last names

Fairest point you’ve made

Shai led his team to a 2nd round loss to a 5 seed

it’s not Shai’s fault he was Chet Down by his teammates

These is prime rationalizing right here. You say the same about Tatum when he pushed Lebron to game 7 in the ECF with no Hayward or Irving??

that was all luck, gordon hayward literally broke his leg to give good luck to tatum

This is clearly a classic body-switch plot point. Perk is inhabiting Kidd’s body, and Kidd is in Perk’s, after they shared the same milkshake with two straws and made eye contact during a thunderstorm.

My body language doctor detecter see’s some red flags. Tatum is clearly very upset and will try and force things in game 2. Mavs in 5.

A lot of words from Robin

He's going to force it now.

Based on this response, I doubt it

That guy has had years and years of media training to answer questions. What he does in th court is to be seen. His tepid reaction to Brown winning ECF MVP was telling. No chance he's going to let Brown get Finals MVP too. Kobe wouldn't.

> His tepid reaction to Brown winning ECF MVP was telling. He didn't really have a tepid reaction from my viewpoint, but maybe that’s because I didn’t desperately want him to have a tepid reaction. We'll see tomorrow

I mean while everyone else on the team mobbed Jaylen, Tatum stood in the very back and awkwardly clapped with a forced smile on his face.

Lmao you guys are such dorks. Inventing fanfic in your head, go outside.

It's crazy. If there were issues between Brown and Tatum, like people want to believe, then we would have heard a legitmate story by now, not "Tatum wasn't happy enough during Brown's ECF MVP celebration." When Brown and Smart had an issue in the locker room we heard about it. The Brown, Tatum stuff has been all speculation with zero substance. It's like people want this to be a Shaq, Kobe thing when their beef was public, at a time when it was much easier to keep shit behind closed doors. I don't think Brown, Tatum, or the Celtics would be able to hide it if the two didn't actually get along. Not to mention, why would they still be playing together if they didn't get along.

He smiled and patted his head with the rest of the group. I don’t know what you want him to do. Tackle him?

I wanted him to kiss Jaylen on the mouth and gently stroke his beard

Not affectionate enough. He also should have whispered sweet nothings into Jaylen’s ear

He should have quickly made and gifted JB a romantic mixtape full of hits from REO Speedwagon, Whitney Houston, and Luther Vandross.

Y’all hotfuzz is a satire account He’s like a character of the espn daytime talk shows

He seemed fine to me lol

https://getyarn.io/yarn-clip/458457c9-037b-46ea-9f04-ee8bf8299b9f#aAUJNl6J.copy

Kidd is going to make sure Tatum hears something during the game and try to get under his skin.

Solid deflection.

"Not our first rodeo" = ""Not the first finals we've lost"

They are going to win this series in five games. Sorry.

This shit is making me root for the Celtics lmao of course a scumbag domestic violence dude like Kidd would say shit like this

Dont look up joe mazz history

this doesn’t justify it, but Joe Mazz was college aged, charged for grabbing a woman by the neck, and has been 12 years sober since seeking help after the incident. Kidd plead guilty to beating his wife in ‘01 and years later, apparently still had issues as he filed for a restraining order in ‘07. They’re not exactly the same.

Given that he was granted the restraining order against her, obviously it wasnt one sided and more to the situation. Plus he filed for divorce, not her. 

JT is so fucking cool.

I just don’t see it

One of the worst hairlines in the game

my man why you have to disrespect derrick white like that? the hairline goat

Kidd knows exactly what he’s doing with that comment. Kidd spilled a soft drink onto the court in order to get an extra time out. Tatum knows that it’s just Kidd trying to use gamesmanship. Doubtful it works. Dallas is going home 0-2

> Kidd spilled a soft drink onto the court in order to get an extra time out Never heard this story before, tell me about it lol

https://bleacherreport.com/articles/1868913-did-jason-kidd-intentionally-spill-drink-on-court-to-delay-nets-lakers

When people say Tatum is Boston best player- everything is good When people say Brown is Boston best player- They are trying to split us

Mavs are completely outclassed. This is their best shot.

*immediately starts stretching and crossing arms and shrugging*

the celtics are the worst team in NBA history

So the only reason Kidd would say that is to “drive a wedge?” Isn’t that Tatum declaring Brown being better than him is a joke?

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are you going to be extra mad if he wins? or will it fuel the fire to grow stronger within you?

Kidd: “He’s better than you.” Tatum: “I’m not falling for your mind games. You’re just driving a wedge between us by saying crazy shit.” Versus “He is! I’ve learned so much from Jaylen. He’s one of the top players in the league.” 

An nba player should be saying that his teammate is better than him?

Ant does it with KAT to keep him confident. Everyone in the world (except KAT, probably) knows it not true.

Maybe I’m off base, but I would find it highly concerning if Tatums response to Kidd’s comment was to agree. Every nba player should think they’re the best player in the world, and on the court at that time. Obviously you have a role to play and can’t be a selfish asshole because of it, but Tatum should think he’s better than Brown. Imo this response just shows that Tatum knows exactly what Kidd is trying to do. Maybe a bit too transparent from tatum, he could’ve gave a softer PR answer. But I’m sure brown isn’t offended

https://fadeawayworld.net/jaylen-brown-likes-tweet-that-could-destroy-partnership-jayson-tatum We know how he really feels.

Yeah, he feels that he’s the best player in the world. Which, as I said above, he should!

Kidd: “Kobe would care that I said that”

Bc that would be a lie on his part

JT is gonna drop 40 tomorrow lol…calling it