Fred Katz

Sure.

The other part of it, too, is...

You talk about the Celtics taking a lot of long twos and a lot of threes.

They never get to the rim.

And like you said, that's by design.

But what you want in a playoff series and maybe in four playoff series is a little more dimensionality.

And what Tatum gives you, even if he's not 100% of what he was, is that.

Where Jalen Brown is the guy who's going to drive to the rim if anyone's going to do it.

And if not, it's Peyton Pritchard.

And Brown is like the one guy with size who will actually drive to the rim and try to finish at the rim.

And what Tatum gives you at the very least, even if he's not in a condition to where he's just going to square a guy up and just drive to the hoop or even run a pick and roll and drive to the hoop, is one thing the Celtics can be very good at with the way their offense is set up.

is just catch and goes.

So somebody gets to the middle, they kick out for a three, and a lot of the times that three goes up.

But Tatum also has the option of driving in those scenarios.

And with his size and his skill level and his strength,

he gives them a different element in those scenarios that they don't have with anybody there.

It gives them a little more, an extra dimension to their offense.

It doesn't change anything with how their system has to go.

It just changes what the proper read is within that system.

And the more proper reads you can have within that system, then the better off you can be in a situation in the playoffs against a good defense where they're going to try to cut off as many options that are viable for you.