Paul Pierce believes Jayson Tatum is on trajectory to surpass all-time great forward

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Your thread title made it seem like PP was talking about Tatum surpassing him. I was about to say no shyt. He's better than PP on every statistics except for maybe clutch shots. But talking about better than KD. Hell no. KD got hurt and started becoming a bytch by moving around too much to chase his ring. The issue here is that anyone who watched the league the last 15 years will agree that KDs peak is unmatched it's up there with LeBron. He was good immediately and never looked back until his achilles injury. He also made big waves at the Olympics looking like the alpha sitting neck and neck with Bron and Kobe. KD was also a great defender when healthy. Also I don't think Tatum will ever win an NBA MVP.
 

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Nah. I still think Tatum has work to do to pass Kawhi, KD is wreckless talk. I don't see it, at all. Like KD was giving folks 35 a game in the finals.
 

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Your thread title made it seem like PP was talking about Tatum surpassing him. I was about to say no shyt. He's better than PP on every statistics except for maybe clutch shots. But talking about better than KD. Hell no. KD got hurt and started becoming a bytch by moving around too much to chase his ring. The issue here is that anyone who watched the league the last 15 years will agree that KDs peak is unmatched it's up there with LeBron. He was good immediately and never looked back until his achilles injury. He also made big waves at the Olympics looking like the alpha sitting neck and neck with Bron and Kobe. KD was also a great defender when healthy. Also I don't think Tatum will ever win an NBA MVP.

Tatum isnt a better player than Pierce. Pierce is more skilled than Tatum. Tatum has more accolades. Put prime Pierce on these stacked Celtics teams, in this 3PT friendly and spacing era, and he’d have more accolades too. Tatum averages 10 3s a game. Foh if you think he was a better player than Pierce.

Tatum this season 26.8 PPG on 10.1 3PA
Pierce 05-06 26.8 on 4 3PA

Like hell Tatum was better :mjlol:
 

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KD really did himself a disservice leaving gsw

Hasn't been relevant since


Tatum put kd.
out to pasture to the glue factory tho.

In a forward defensive manner clinic. The same way tony parker put gary payton.
out to pasture at a different skillset in a pg clinic.



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Peak KD with this type of spacing not doing this type of shyt man I’m sorry.

Tatum is Paul George with better PR, great player but he’s not in the best in the world tier like people want him to be.

With that being said Boston can still come back in this series
 

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Peak KD with this type of spacing not doing this type of shyt man I’m sorry.

Tatum is Paul George with better PR, great player but he’s not in the best in the world tier like people want him to be.

With that being said Boston can still come back in this series

:mjlol:IMAGINE TATUM ON THE COURT
WITH WESTBROOK, ADAMS, ROBERSON
AND IBAKA AT THE SAME TIME.

OKC HAD WOAT SPACING
AND THATS WHY THEY BLEW
THE 3-1 LEAD
:devil:
:evil:
 

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Threads like these always come prematurely. He still has at least 2 more games…but it ain’t looking good

Btw so far playoff avg for their career Tatum is 24 on 43% . Durant is 29 on 48%. If Tatum averaged what Durant did they’d easily sweep this series , he’d have won finals mvp last season uncontested and would be the clear favorites for another title this year. He’s not on his level.
 
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