Last year I would have agreed with you. I’ve been on the overrated train on both of these guys for a while now. Looks like Embiid hate is finally catching up but Tatum still somehow manages to escape the allegations
Somehow Celtics fans through sheer repetition have managed to convince the sun that Butler is an overrated playoff performer while no one seems to remember that Tatum can and does take the bulk of entire series off (2nd round agains the 76ers last year, choked the first three games of ECF too) but has a team who can carry him until he gets hot again and can take the glory.
Averages: 29ppg on 45%. Games that were bad, game 2, game 6, objectively not the bulk of the series.
Tatum points and fg% in the ECF:
G1: 30 on 53%
G2: 34 on 50%
G3: 14 on 33%
G4: 33 on 64%
G5: 21 on 50%
G6: 31 on 38%
G7: 14 on 38% (injured in the first play of the game)
Averages: 25 on 47%, and again, your memory of which games were bad is wrong.
You wanna really see what “team carried you through garbage games, but your reputation makes people think you had a great playoff run” lools like, let’s go play this exact game with Jimmy Butler.
Embiid and Tatum.
Last year I would have agreed with you. I’ve been on the overrated train on both of these guys for a while now. Looks like Embiid hate is finally catching up but Tatum still somehow manages to escape the allegations
Somehow Celtics fans through sheer repetition have managed to convince the sun that Butler is an overrated playoff performer while no one seems to remember that Tatum can and does take the bulk of entire series off (2nd round agains the 76ers last year, choked the first three games of ECF too) but has a team who can carry him until he gets hot again and can take the glory.
Saying Butler = MJ or acting like “playoff Butler” never has any bad games is overrating him, yeah.
That doesn’t mean he’s not still an exceptional player and elite playoff performer. He is.
Tatum is too by the way. And I’d say he was being overrated too if he was getting comments similar to those Butler had been getting at one point.
So Tatum choked the first three games of the ECF and has a team that can carry him still? Interested, what was our record in those first three games?
Tatum points and fg% in the ECSF
G1: 39 on 56%
G2: 7 on 14%
G3: 27 on 50%
G4: 24 on 45%
G5: 36 on 40%
G6: 19 on 24%
67: 51 on 60%
Averages: 29ppg on 45%. Games that were bad, game 2, game 6, objectively not the bulk of the series.
Tatum points and fg% in the ECF:
G1: 30 on 53%
G2: 34 on 50%
G3: 14 on 33%
G4: 33 on 64%
G5: 21 on 50%
G6: 31 on 38%
G7: 14 on 38% (injured in the first play of the game)
Averages: 25 on 47%, and again, your memory of which games were bad is wrong.
You wanna really see what “team carried you through garbage games, but your reputation makes people think you had a great playoff run” lools like, let’s go play this exact game with Jimmy Butler.