Halftime Hot Takes: Is Kerr vs. Tatum… a flop????

We’re midway via the one and solely Golden State Warriors look at TD Backyard this season and issues are UGLY. Each groups have mixed to attain simply 91 factors the Boston Celtics are down 51-40.

Now, prepare for some Halftime Scorching Takes, buddy.

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Wow, Derrick White seems comfy as THE No. 2 possibility

With Jaylen Brown lacking his third-straight recreation with a hip pressure, there are just a few further photographs going round for the taking. To this point tonight, Derrick White (good rhyme, proper?) seems greater than comfy taking up these extra seems.

Earlier than the primary TV timeout alone, he had already poured in 12 factors for the Cs.

Now, White has appeared comfy scoring the ball as an entire this season. He’s at the moment averaging 19.1 factors per recreation on 48% from the sector and 41% from past the arc. The Colorado native has proven a capability to be a artistic scorer on drives, on high of being a deadly shooter from lengthy vary.

He’s grown a lot, that Joe Mazzulla trusted him (and Jrue Vacation) to run the offense whereas Jayson Tatum was getting some relaxation.

So long as he’s wholesome, then Brown can take his time getting back from that hip challenge and the Cs will probably be high quality.

Jaylen, buddy, learn your texts. Will ya?

Talking of the primary TV timeout. In the course of the break, the Cs performed a clip on the jumbotron of every participant revealing what number of unread textual content messages they’ve of their telephone. A number of members of the staff had zero.

Not Jaylen Brown.

Brown, who actually everybody predicted to have essentially the most texts, admitted to having over 2,000 unread messages.

Shoutout to the Celtics for this enjoyable section, although.

The Steve Kerr/Jayson Tatum ‘rivalry’ felt actual

Let me begin off by saying, that Steve Kerr wouldn’t let on that he was apprehensive in regards to the Tatum/Crew USA storyline heading into this one. Within the pregame press convention, he was completely satisfied that the group received Gold in France and that’s all that issues.

Kerr’s defensive directions to his staff might point out in any other case. It felt like Tatum was seeing double groups nearly each time he touched the ball. For what it’s value, it does make fairly a little bit of sense to defend that method with out Brown on the market for Boston.

Tatum additionally appeared a bit wrapped up within the second. Boston’s star ahead appeared like he was urgent a bit within the first half. He wasn’t terrible by any means, however there have been just a few occasions that you can inform he was a bit sped up. There was a fastbreak the place he elected to tackle the lone Warriors defender, relatively than hitting a wide-open Neemias Queta for an alley-oop slam.

It took him a while to get rolling, particularly contemplating the precedent that he’s set for himself in first quarters, however he wound up with 12 factors, 4 rebounds, and two assists on the half.