Tatum had 3 made shots and had 11 misses and 6 turnovers. But the turnovers don't tell the whole story on paper because most of them were unforced horrible passes. He looked like he drank a bottle of LSD before the game. There's no way an NBA team can win when their superstar player is the very worst player on the court. When he came out, the Celtics got the lead way down, and I was yelling for them to keep him on the bench with a few minutes left. Sure enough he promptly went in and ruined the momentum with another moronic turnover.
@Tunescribe I don't know how you can fault Smart for going to the locker room after that injury. Did you see the replay? He probably thought he broke it, as he completely rolled his ankle. I've done that to my ankle and actually broken it. I've also done that to my ankle quite a few times and it turned out to be sprained, or sometimes it was was even fine after walking it off for ten minutes.
Anyway, Smart is so important to that team. Not only his defense but he makes the offense run so much better, too. Without him, they have no one who moves the ball around well and creates shots for others. I think he's a better version of Draymond Green or Bruce Bowen, a guy a championship team absolutely needs even though he doesn't show up in the box score so much. But the superstars need to get the job done too. Tatum was just other worldly bad last night, and there's no sense blaming coaching or any other player for the loss. They would have won even if he'd play like a relatively bad game for him, and I think they would have won if he hadn't played at all.
