Team USA Analysis: Jayson Tatum's Role and Steve Kerr's Choices
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00:00If we are looking at this game overall, we did have a little bit of controversy here
00:08in the past game.
00:09Jason Tatum did not play, whether it was communication issues, whether he wasn't in the game plan,
00:14we don't know.
00:15But he is going to play today, as they've said.
00:18What's the outlook for Jason Tatum heading into this basketball game?
00:21And certainly, how many minutes is he going to get here?
00:23Listen, this is more about Steve Kerr to me than it is Jason Tatum.
00:27If Steve Kerr, you make a decision as a head coach, stand in that decision.
00:31Yes, you have 12 of the greatest players in the NBA on one team.
00:35Not everyone can get into a game, right?
00:37It's a 40-minute game, Kevin Durant bowling.
00:40I think Steve Kerr should have came out after the game and said, hey, Kevin Durant didn't
00:43miss.
00:44What do you guys want me to do?
00:45Pull a guy that is on fire?
00:46It doesn't make sense, right?
00:47So Jason Tatum should have sat on the bench, clapped his hands, waved his towel, and got
00:51the A-plus for the group effort, right?
00:54That result.
00:55I think Steve Kerr right here is playing with fire, because now you're trying to manage
00:59egos more so than manage the game itself.
01:02And that's where you get into trouble.
01:03It's not going to show up now, right now, right now, guys, right?
01:05Like South Sudan's not going to beat Team USA, Puerto Rico's not going to beat Team
01:08USA.
01:09But once you get to the knockout stage, all those teams that you can walk through in the
01:13group stage, they're gone.
01:15And that's where you have to really hone in X's and O's, Y's, and work on someone's ego,
01:20not getting into a game.
01:21Yes, I know he's an all-star, all-NBA player.
01:23That has to go to the side, and you have to get out there and win the basketball game.
01:28So I am actually disappointed in Steve Kerr for making the declarative statement ahead
01:32of time, saying, hey, Jason Tatum's going to play.
01:35Let the game dictate that.
01:36You don't go out and say that, because now that ruins the rotation, and that's very important
01:40when you have a small amount of time to build that chemistry.