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Speaker 1: We are continuing our player rankings today with number seven

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Speaker 1: Jason Tatum. You guys know the Joe before we get started.

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Speaker 1: Hoops tonight, all right, let's talk some basketball. So I

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Speaker 1: was torn between three guys for this spot, Anthony Davis,

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Speaker 1: these guys are very very different players, and they all

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Speaker 1: have cases to be over each other for one reason

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Speaker 1: best offensive player in that group in terms of actual

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Speaker 1: best defensive player in that group by a massive chasm.

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Speaker 1: And Jason Tatum is the most dependably reliable and productive

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Speaker 1: player of those three guys by far right, And so

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Speaker 1: each of them kind of has a unique case. Anthony

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Speaker 1: Davis had this kind of like revolutionary playoff run where

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Speaker 1: a very precarious situation in the standings and an injured

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Speaker 1: the Western Conference finals. Joel Embiid literally is the reigning

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Speaker 1: league MVP. And then again, Jason Tatum another season where

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Speaker 1: he plays seventy plus games, averages a shit ton of

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Speaker 1: So it was a tough call for me, but I

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Speaker 1: for me personally, I'm always going to value a player

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Speaker 1: because I think that that translates better to playoff success

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Speaker 1: in the long run, and the important context here surrounding

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Speaker 1: everything we discussed with Jason Tatum today because he does

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Speaker 1: technically have more playoff success than both Anthony Davis and

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Speaker 1: Joel Embiid in recent seasons, although Anthony Davis is a

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Speaker 1: NBA champion from the bubble, which was an incredible stretch

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Speaker 1: of ad basketball. But the simple fact is is that,

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Speaker 1: Boston Celtics have had easily the most talented roster in

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Speaker 1: when it comes to evaluating the playoff success, a lot

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Speaker 1: The Celtics scored thirty six points on thirty Tatum passes

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Speaker 1: But he was twenty eight point six percent on pull

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Speaker 1: and you've got a really good short, short to mid

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Speaker 1: So those are the things that I'd like to see

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Speaker 1: So just kind of in summary, I dropped Tatum below

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Speaker 1: these were all very small gaps, I think that Embiid

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Speaker 1: and Anthony Davis's top end in the situations when they

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Speaker 1: are healthy at the right time of year, actually gives

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Speaker 1: them a much better chance to lead a team to

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Speaker 1: a championship than Jason Tatum does at this point. But

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Speaker 1: for the record, he is twenty five years old and

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Speaker 1: he is improving. He just had one of his very

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Speaker 1: best offensive half court creation postseasons in his career. Even

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Speaker 1: with all the issues that the Celtics had, it was

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Speaker 1: a better one relative to Tatum's past. I thought he

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Speaker 1: showed a lot of growth in the second half of

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Speaker 1: that Heat series, started to kind of demonstrate some of

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Speaker 1: that surgical offensive approach there in games five and six,

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Speaker 1: and it was kind of a bummer because he got

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Speaker 1: hurt in Game seven and that prevented him from having

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Speaker 1: an opportunity to close the deal Missoula give him some

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Speaker 1: better spacing. In general, I thought he showed some growth,

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Speaker 1: but he's got a ways to go, and I still

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Speaker 1: continue to maintain that for the Celtics, their best pathway

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Speaker 1: forward is just betting on Tatum and Brown improving as

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Speaker 1: the years go by. Again, when Tatum is twenty eight,

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Speaker 1: if he adds the efficiency and the on ball stuff

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Speaker 1: to go with everything that he does as a guy,

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Speaker 1: that can extend advantages and finish plays when other guys

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Speaker 1: get him situations where he has an advantage, and if

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Speaker 1: he regains his defensive identity that he had from the

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Speaker 1: twenty twenty two postseason, that's where he comes a candidate

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Speaker 1: to be potentially the best player in the world. And

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Speaker 1: I do think that that's on the table for Tatum

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Speaker 1: in the future, but right now, at age twenty five,

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Speaker 1: which is still impressive, I have him as the seventh

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Speaker 1: best player in the world. All right, guys, that's all

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Speaker 1: I have for today. I'll see you guys tomorrow for

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Speaker 1: number six and we'll head it into the weekend. We'll

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Speaker 1: go through five through one tomorrow. The volume