Jayson Tatum went into Game 6 against Philadelphia trying to be too perfect. Game 7 was different. 'He was loose, and he just trusted himself.' JaredWeissNBA shares more from Tatum's record-setting performance:
let them get away with a game they probably should have lost. The Celtics got lucky and he didn’t want them to be in that situation again.“I think going into Game 6, I was too — it sounds crazy — I was like too locked in,” Tatum said. “I was too tight, just too in my own head thinking about what do I need to do? How many points do I gotta score? You know, this is a big moment. And today, I was more myself.”. They spend offseasons watching each other work out with Hanlen.
“Jayson said, ‘Once you get there, I’ll tell you one thing, sh—, else matters,’ ” Hanlen said. “The only thing that Jayson cares about is winning a championship, and I think he knows to do that he had to become a better playmaker, a batter defender and step it in every area.” Sixers coach Doc Rivers said Tatum’s performance was second only to LeBron James’ iconic Game 6 masterpiece in the same building in 2012, the turning point from which James finally broke through from struggling prodigy to champion in the making.said. “Being able to just sit back, eat your popcorn and watch. Sometimes we do get in that mode where we forget that we’re on the court playing with him and you’ve gotta continue to play.
“You’re not defined by scoring in my book, and that’s most important. Don’t let your identity be caught up in what others say about you,” Mazzulla said he told Tatum before Game 7. “Your identity is in who you are as a person and how well you can dominate the game in areas that don’t get all the attention. And I thought I saw that from him tonight, and when you do that, you get moments like that.”“I’ve always been able to score the ball.
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