A lot of haters are eager to trash Jayson Tatum for not being as good as people expected this year and for getting ruined by Kobe Bryant. First off, it’s not his fault that a bunch of Celtic homers way overrated him after a few great playoff performances and a boom on LeBron James. Second off, it’s not like he’s even doing that badly. 17 points per game on a team with more firepower than last year is just fine, even if his (unsustainable) three-point shooting from last season has dipped a bit. Third off, the conspiracy theories that Kobe (a Laker) deliberately screwed with Tatum’s (a Celtic) development by telling him to take nothing but turnaround midrange jumpers is funny, but obviously wrong. Kobe was just trying to help a player in the only way he knows how.
All that said, Tatum is trashy poop garbage who sucks and so do the Celtics and I hate them all. Every time he shoots a turnaround, or any other garbage shot befitting a garbage player like him, against the Bucks, I clasp my hands in prayer and thank the little baby Jesus (happy birthday!) for making Tatum suck and be horrible. So there.