Fred Katz

At the same time,

Like there has got to be some way to where Isaiah Stewart can play the way that he plays, keep the mentality that he has,

And not do stuff like this anymore.

He's costing his team.

He's too good of a player for this now.

He's too good.

They had another one, too, where they had a large lead against Denver this week, and Denver comes back, and they hold on there.

That was Jokic.

Jokic had a bunch of turnovers in that game.

I understand where it's coming from.

I think if we listed the players in Tatum's tier and above, even if you name a player who's significantly better than Tatum, Jokic, best player in the league, Jokic coming back would disrupt your ecosystem because just stylistically, you're going to have to run things through Jokic because he can do things nobody else can do.

I think amongst like top 10 players, top 12 players, I think there's an argument to be made that Tatum is like the least disruptive superstar from a skill set perspective of any of those guys.

First of all, to his credit, and sometimes words are just words, but right now words are all we have.

And the few times he's spoken publicly, he seems very self-aware of this, which is the first step.

You know, the first step is being able to say, Jalen Brown has been awesome.

This team has a clear identity and something that's working.

And I need to find a way to fit into that instead of hijacking that.

So the self-awareness being there, at least for a public consumption, that I think would be incredibly encouraging from the Celtics perspective.

And secondly, I've never thought, even though Jason Tatum is a guy who's going to handle the ball a lot, he's going to run his pick and rolls, he's going to take a ton of step back threes, all that kind of stuff.

He's always someone to me who's done that kind of stuff, not because I think he needs to.