Jayson Tatum is making a living in the clutch
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He’s been doing it all season. Big shots down the stretch. Huge defensive plays. The baseline dunk against Brooklyn. The James Harden block. The late-game, lead-expanding three in Detroit. He is a forward, a Celtic and a rookie. He can hoop but understandsJayson Tatum is making a living in the clutch
He’s been doing it all season. Big shots down the stretch. Huge defensive plays. The baseline dunk against Brooklyn. The James Harden block. The late-game, lead-expanding three in Detroit. He is a forward, a Celtic and a rookie. He can hoop but understands the limitations of his role. He is soft-spoken but will yell obscenities at you after big plays late in the game. He is everything Boston wanted him to be and more. He is Jayson Tatum.The TD Garden isn’t seeing anything they haven’t seen before. The city has been blessed with a laundry list of franchise-altering talents to show that the luck of the Irish has as much to do with preparation as it does with circumstance. “Some people have it and some people don’t,” said Kyrie Irving after Tatum’s performance in Detroit. Irving, who knows a thing or two about closing out games, recognized what he has in Tatum early in the season, and the two are tied for the best clutch scoring duo in the NBA (149 points, tied with Butler/Wiggins; Lillard/McCollum as of Jan. 10 Read more