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[FakeNews]

Bob Cousy Harshly Criticizes Team USA Coach Steve Kerr for Olympic Usage of Jayson Tatum

Team USA staged a thrilling comeback on Thursday to beat Serbia in the semifinals of the men's basketball tournament. This came after the team went undefeated i

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Not to be outdone, The Boston Globe reached out to Bob Cousey. The 96-year-old Boston Celtics Hall of Famer doesn't understand what Kerr is thinking.

“Tatum is on the cover of Sports Illustrated this month. Any experts that I’ve read lately have chosen him in the top five, and sometimes No. 1 in the [expletive] world. Now Kerr is telling the world that he doesn’t agree. In a 40-minute game, if you can’t find five minutes to play somebody on the team without hurting yourself …

“When Kerr did it last week, he was in no danger of losing the game, but in this case they got down by 17 points and he’s got to worry about losing the game. And then to not let Tatum get off the bench — to me, there’s got to be some kind of bias that he’s got against the Celtics. He’s not alone there."

The main problem with Cousey's argument here is that Kerr is actually starting one of the Celtics in Jrue Holiday and he has another coming off the bench in Derrick White. If Steve Kerr had a bias against the Celtics—the team he and Stephen Curry beat in the 2022 NBA Finals—he probably wouldn't have three of them on the team.

Cousey is also worried about what this will do to Tatum, calling Kerr's decisions more than "just a snub," an "embarrassment for that poor kid all over the [expletive] world," and that "everyone's going to think that there's something wrong with this kid." In Cousey's own words, "Somebody from Boston should stand up for this kid."

 

[Numpsay]

Yall giving melo too much credit. You can clearly see lebron directing everything to get kd the ball

I swear you Bron stans are weird asf. Nowhere in my post did I say they ran the play Melo called. Only that is what he was yelling from the sidelines. And after KD got the ball he still had to waive Bron to the corner so he can cook. So I guess Bron didn't take his own direction.

 

[GreatestLaker]

I don't know if you were in a coma but Embiid miss half the season. He was not even factor for All-NBA teams

Tatum had comparable numbers to LeBron & KD while playing for a significantly better team, yes he's going to get the nod for All-NBA/MVP conversations over them.

Let's stop with the revisionist history. There was a consensus top four for All-NBA teams last year with Luka, Jokic, SGA & Giannis. The 5th spot was between Tatum & Brunson. KD, LeBron & AD were not even a factor, they were consensus 2nd team. Y'all are trying to retroactively change what the narratives were in real time



According to you the Lakers have two players better than the Celtics best player, so who really has the stacked roster?

You asked for 5 players that were better than Tatum. I gave you 8!

You are just going to ignore players 3 thru 15? You even said the Celtics were a significantly better team. The Celtics roster is so good. Tatum was outperformed by several teammates throughout the playoffs. Dude had a chance to win 2 separate MVP awards and he came away empty twice.

On team USA Tatum is racking up DNPs. Spo, Kerr, Ty Lue. 3 championship coaches who are considered the best in the league. All agree that Tatum aint better than KD or LeBron.

I haven't seen a player benefit from team success as much as Tatum has in a minute. He is one lucky dude.

 

[GoldenGlove]

 

[GunRanger]

 

[SchoolboyC]

You asked for 5 players that were better than Tatum. I gave you 8!

You are just going to ignore players 3 thru 15? You even said the Celtics were a significantly better team. The Celtics roster is so good. Tatum was outperformed by several teammates throughout the playoffs. Dude had a chance to win 2 separate MVP awards and he came away empty twice.

On team USA Tatum is racking up DNPs. Spo, Kerr, Ty Lue. 3 championship coaches who are considered the best in the league. All agree that Tatum aint better than KD or LeBron.

I haven't seen a player benefit from team success as much as Tatum has in a minute. He is one lucky dude.

I never asked for the best in terms of talent & skills. The best version of LeBron & KD are better players than the best version of Tatum, even at their ages.

I asked you name to 5 players who unquestionably had a better regular season than Tatum in 2023-24 and were more deserving of an All-NBA 1st team spot over him and you included Joel Embiid who missed half the season, and three players in LeBron/AD/KD who had comparable numbers on significantly worse performing teams. Those guys weren't even factors.

I'm not ignoring 3 through 15, I just find it a bit ironic that you are simultaneously going on about how stacked the Celtics are but also claiming that the Lakers two best players are better than their best player

Crazy part is I wasn't even in here complaining about Tatum's PT. I was talking to a Paul Pierce stan that's in his feelings because he's worried Tatum will become more beloved than him

 

[Derek Lee]

fukk Tatum. fukk the Celtics

 

[Osmosis]

Both of you fukkers garbage. Garbage ass clowns fukk yo win.

Them soft ass dudes can't play in the 90s.

I saw that shyt, fukk your reply, don't even bother.

Insert DNP Tatum in the 90s and he's arguably the best wing in basketball. The talent was weak af outside of the bigs.

 

[The God Poster]

Screen cap got Trae looking like one of them red pill grifters

 

[IIVI]

"It's because of Tatum's minutes..."

Yeah fukking right, that dude is as racist as it comes but can't admit to it.

These people are weirdos man. That Barstool Sports guys is one of the people going to clown so hard when Kamala wins.

 

[Saysumthinfunnymike]

Luka
Jokic
Embiid
SGA
Giannis

That's clearly the top 5.

Lebron
AD
Durant

I would take those players over him too.

Stop posting. Tatum has sonned Kevin Durant for MULTIPLE seasons now..... he swept the guy right out of the fukking playoffs.... The Suns aren't fukking with the C's at all....

Tatum locked down KD in the series vs. the Nets to the point of embarrassment.

 

[CHICAGO]

ABOUT TIME...

WE NEED TO STOP GETTING OFF
TO SLOW STARTS...

NOW HE CAN GIVE TATUM
SOME MINUTES BACKING UP KD.

MAYBE HE CAN BE MORE
IMPACTFUL PLAYING
WITH THE BOSTON BOYS
IN THE 2ND UNIT.





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[UpAndComing]

Kerr has successfully hoodwinked y’all into believing he has no choice but to play a 10-man rotation featuring 5 guards and 3 centers, god bless

Basically everyone on that 2nd unit besides KD was horrible last night, the idea that the gap between them and Tatum is so big that you can’t even give him a chance is definitely an interesting stance

Having Curry, Booker, and Ant Edwards on the floor at the same exact time against a pick and roll heavy off ball 3 point shooting team in Serbia is straight up coaching malpractice

But yeah let's not put in Tatum who is an elite switchable defender on guards and wings

 

[Omerta]

The idea that the US beat a team of plumbers + Jokic is so stupid.

You mean that same team WITHOUT Jokic who won Silver ahead of the US, Canada, France etc at last years World Cup? Jok was supposed to push them over the line no?

Those same plumbers are all, with the exception of Jovic, battle tested in the Euroleague under FIBA rules and have been playing together for the last 5+ years.

Just say you don’t know shyt about hoops man.

 

[LV Koopa]

Having Curry, Booker, and Ant Edwards on the floor at the same exact time against a pick and roll heavy off ball 3 point shooting team in Serbia is straight up coaching malpractice

But yeah let's not put in Tatum who is an elite switchable defender on guards and wings

We heard Tatum is a great defender for years but apparently in the Olympics he isn't able to guard wing players that would struggle to make it on an NBA bench.

Kerr is a dikk