The Celtics PRIDE co-hosts meet the 2-5 Celtics face to face in this podcast, with their reaction to the Celtics' 7th game of the season - a backbreaking, 18-point-3rd-quarter-lead-gifting, come-from-behind loss to the Chicago Bulls.  And they all agree it’s worth the first 30 minutes of this podcast to go “in” on Jayson Tatum and dissect what’s really going wrong with this team and its best player.  Mike Minkoff @mikeminkoffnba thinks Jayson Tatum is playing with a losers’ mindset.  Adam Motenko is sick of Tatum’s complaining to the refs and not running back on defense.  Yet Josh Motenko @coachmotenko pulls out the dictionary.  

“Jayson Tatum is pusillanimous (pyoo-suh-lan-uh-muhs):  lacking courage or resolution; cowardly; faint-hearted; timid.”

Yet Coach Josh is not all the way sure the team needs to have its best player be its best leader.  He also points out that there are some systemic issues with how we got here.  Firstly being that the Celtics don’t have one truly great passer on the team, and he gives stats to show how the solid ones they do have are not playing up to par.

Somehow the pod circles back around to Jayson Tatum with the question, “How long do we wait for Tatum to figure it out?”  Mikoff wonders if he will ever reach the next level, while Coach Josh posits that there are two types of superstars - those who were built great, and those who had to learn to be great.  Would you compare Tatum to Giannis, Pierce, Dirk or Durant in this way?

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Hosts: Adam Motenko, Josh Motenko @coachmotenko and Mike Minkoff, @mikeminkoffnba 
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