him to adjust to not only is it a new thing for him to adjust to but he's not even adjusting to a good offensive scheme it's like putting in the effort to adjust to something that's not even worth adjusting to so that i think has thrown him off the off ball movement being a lot more prevalent and just also the new ball which mark cuban has been saying i'm sure there's some validity to that but at a certain point you cannot continue to use that as an excuse and i think we're starting to reach that certain point now luka doncic has been better as of late so i'm really confident that he's going to figure it out and turn it around but uh i don't think he can just blame it on the ball i think it's just an actual slump and then jason kidd is a terrible coach and the offense is not great and he struggled to adjust to a little bit different of a role damian lillard has played injured for a majority of the year with an injury in his rib he did go on a nine game stretch where he looked like he was back to normal then he started playing bad again and then he got an injury that actually sidelined him that he could not play through so hopefully with that time off there will be enough room for him to heal that rib injury and the blazers can go back to being a first round exit again jayson tatum is another person who i've made an entire video on except unlike the james harden video my mind hasn't changed on this topic so i'm not going to elaborate too much because these are all things that i made a whole like NUMBER_TOKEN minute video on so if you really want to see the in depth of it go watch that video but in short the problem with jason tatum's game is problems that have kind of always been there they have just been amplified this year not being aggressive enough on the drive settling for contested jumpers too much doesn't get enough easy offense off ball part of that is him part of that is the celtic scheme which has been even worse under udoka doesn't get to the line a ton and falls asleep at the wheel during games these have all been problems with jason tatum that have existed before the thing is they would just exist in a couple game stretches or in moments of a game but this season it's been really just all the negatives of his game and very few of the positives and it's getting to the point where because those negatives are so prevalent this year that i fear for his ability to eventually remove those negatives from his game so when it comes to the fear of these issues sticking around in the long term i think that's about as high with jason tatum as it is with anybody else the only player who i'd say it's worse with but i actually kind of wouldn't is julius randle what i mean by that is julius randle is having a down year statistically speaking but i actually don't know if that's actually a down year or really just more him coming back down to reality julius randle is averaging five less points per game this year on four percent worse true
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