PRESS CONFERENCE: Jayson Tatum says Celtics “played to our strengths” in dominant win over Clippers

PRESS CONFERENCE: Jayson Tatum says Celtics “played to our strengths” in dominant win over Clippers

Last couple days with with the ankle and it seemed like you had definitely had some pep in your step early you it seemed like you were just a little bit more Juiced why was that uh I mean ankle was swollen over the last couple days but you know a lot

Of ice a lot of treatment swelling went down uh started feeling a lot better not quite as good as the right one but um felt well enough to go out there and play and uh you know I’ve been off with 3 days so uh you know I I don’t like

Missing games so I was excited to uh get back out there with the team and play today Joe has mentioned coule us recently your open mind and this is the word he uses to understand that every night is going to be different now um maybe they don’t need you to score as

Much as other things how do you like as the games unfolding kind of take that in and and decide what the game needs from you um I just got to you know do a good job of reading the game as it goes um you know seeing different coverages on

Different nights uh you know and a lot of times you know if I’m the ball handler and they’re blitzing or or doubling or trapping the ball screen you know maybe that night I just need to continue um bringing the ball up so you know when they double I throw it over

The top and keep creating advantages and you know sometimes that might not always end up in me scoring 30 but that’s going to give us the best chance to win that night and uh you know got to be willing to accept that you know that’s what you

Have to do that night still pretty early um what has impressed you most about playing alongside Drew and how much does having him on the roster just change things for you guys heading forward to your ultimate goal yeah uh he just gives us another weapon he’s just so Dynamic

Uh you know it’s another guy out there that can you know dribble shoot and pass the ball right and um create for himself and teammates he can shoot the ball um and on defense right he’s one of the best defenders in the league and he has

Has been for a long time um you know can guard the best player can guard the biggest player uh can guard the worst player and roam around and you know help everybody else out um so you know he just does it all he also an example of success looks different every

Night that it doesn’t always have to be about him yeah um another guy that right you know he average 20 points a game you know last year when he was in Milwaukee he was uh you know second scoring option and now um you know I’m don’t know

Exactly but I’m sure scoring is down and uh another guy that’s just sacrificing there to be on a really good team and uh try to accomplish something special usually in the first quarter you’re hitting the bench and jaylen’s running the second initially but that switch tonight and then you kind of started

Going off offensively you had like that big layup re hanging in the air had the big dunk on Ty what did you want to do in that moment to get yourself going establish force in the game yeah I think it was just because JB got those quick

Two fouls um so Joe kind of switched up in that moment uh you know I just found some opportunities to be aggressive and and got some plays that uh kind of just got me going offensively you’re playing on a bad ankle you keep getting fouled on the landing what were you thinking

When you went down this is some uh but you know it was taped up well and it was just a small tweak so uh you I was able to keep playing and you know uh felt fine after that discuss number on pointers incredible like what’s what’s the sort of General

Philosophy on the team and your philosophy no matter what the outside noise is yeah I think we just played our strengths uh you know nine times out of 10 everybody on the floor can space the floor and shoot and um you know no matter if we’re shooting 50% or

20% uh we always want to create the advantage and find the open man um and I think that’s what makes us so Dynamic that everybody can space the floor so it’s hard to guard us oneon-one and you know if you help we always got Shooters around and um it’s all about taking the

Right shots play 82 games you know some nights we’re going to be very hot some nights you just miss shots um but you know if you taking the right shots we we always live with it last question read theame I feel like when you’re young you always get told like

Players try to get out of that corner and you really good at playing in the corner and you know having patience and then making reads out of there because you know a lot of times a lot of players when when they’re young they want to get

The ball out of the corner you know you make reads to get to the drop too as well so y just talking about that yeah yeah I mean just basically the corner um I just wanted to make a quick decisive move knowing that they was probably going to send somebody over to come

Double uh you know I drove Baseline he jumped early and I you know just took a spin move and seen my old teammate Tyson the rest was history presented by your New England Ford dealers built for America built Ford proud

Listen to what Jayson Tatum had to say following the Celtics big team win against the L.A. Clippers.

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