{"id":4701,"date":"2024-11-07T06:56:01","date_gmt":"2024-11-07T06:56:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new365.azontree.com\/?p=4701"},"modified":"2024-11-07T06:56:01","modified_gmt":"2024-11-07T06:56:01","slug":"steve-kerr-showers-jayson-tatum-with-compliments-following-celtics-warriors-battle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new365.azontree.com\/?p=4701","title":{"rendered":"Steve Kerr Showers Jayson Tatum with Compliments Following Celtics-Warriors Battle"},"content":{"rendered":"<article id=\"post-1962147\"><!--?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ??--><!--?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ??--><!--?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ??--><\/p>\n<div class=\"article-hero__copy-upper\">\n<div class=\"article-hero__default-inner\">\n<h3 class=\"article-hero__subheading h6\">Kerr&#8217;s defensive gameplan showed his respect for Tatum<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-hero__copy-lower\">\n<div class=\"article-hero__default-inner\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s.yimg.com\/it\/api\/res\/1.2\/xJvG..wvaJYtnUTytbCCZw--~A\/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7aD02MDA7cT04MA--\/https:\/\/media.zenfs.com\/en\/ap.org\/41386c0957c7ef539dad5a55dd2fa650\" alt=\"Golden State Warriors 118 - Boston Celtics 112: Final score, results,  recap, box score, stats\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>BOSTON \u2014 Golden State Warriors head coach Steve Kerr for whatever reason decided to not make Jayson Tatum an integral part of Team USA\u2019s Olympic run this summer.<\/p>\n<p>But Kerr doesn\u2019t need to be convinced about Tatum\u2019s rise into one of the NBA\u2019s elite players.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe played Boston about five years ago. He had 55 points against us,\u201d Kerr said following Golden State\u2019s 118-112 win over the Celtics at TD Garden on Wednesday night. \u201cI don\u2019t need to hear about him taking a step. He\u2019s been a great player for a long time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Kerr was a little bit off \u2014 something Celtics fans surely said when he benched Tatum twice over six games in the Olympics. The game he referenced came in 2021 when Tatum poured in 44 points against the Warriors.<\/p>\n<p>Tatum didn\u2019t have the same type of offensive explosion against the Warriors on Wednesday and he couldn\u2019t carry Boston to a win, but his performance was still at least strong enough to make Kerr contemplate his decision from three months ago.<\/p>\n<p>Tatum poured in a game-high 32 points on 10-of-20 shooting, including hitting 5-of-10 3-pointers. He was essential to Boston\u2019s 41-point third quarter, scoring 17 points in the frame and knocking four treys.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<figure><\/figure>\n<p>Kerr showed his respect for Tatum by the way the Warriors guarded the five-time All-Star. They blitzed Tatum on high pick-and-rolls every chance they got, especially in the first half when the Warriors limited him to just eight points on 2-for-7 shooting.<\/p>\n<p>And that defensive gameplan really was Kerr complimenting the Celtics star and making sure Tatum didn\u2019t single-handedly beat the Warriors.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe can score at all three levels,\u201d Kerr said. \u201cThe idea is don\u2019t give him anything easy. So hopefully you don\u2019t foul him. Hopefully you can meet him before he gets to the rim and you try to take away the three, but he has that step back and he\u2019s so big that he can shoot right over the top of the defense. Like all great players, you just have to stay with it and not get discouraged when he makes a couple.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/article>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Steve Kerr had plenty of praise to throw Jayson Tatum&#8217;s way after the Warriors upended the Celtics on Wednesday night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":4711,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nba"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Steve Kerr Showers Jayson Tatum with Compliments Following Celtics-Warriors Battle - News 365<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/new365.azontree.com\/?p=4701\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Steve Kerr Showers Jayson Tatum with Compliments Following Celtics-Warriors Battle - 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