Why Jayson Tatum and Jaylen Brown Will Never Win a Championship
By: Breaking The Glass
Tags: Life, NBA, Celtics, Sports, Basketball

Jayson Tatum and Jaylen Brown need their own team. I believe as long as Jayson Tatum and Jaylen Brown are on the same team that the Celtics’ ceiling is the Eastern Conference Finals.

I love both of these players. I think they both have a very bright future. Tatum and Brown have improved every season, but I just don’t think that their game’s compliment each other well.

Let’s now look into more reasons why I believe that they will never win a championship.

Similar Playing Styles

They both play similar positions and have a similar playing style. When we look at great dynamic duos such as: Shaq and Kobe, LeBron and D Wade, Magic and Kareem, Mike and Scottie, Tony and Tim, what do they all have in common?

They are all players who play 2 different positions, with playing styles that differ but compliment each other.

On the offensive end Tatum and Brown virtually do the same thing. The Celtics offense far too many times looks stagnant.

If it’s not Brown’s turn to go isolation, it’s Tatum’s, if it’s not Tautm’s turn to go isolation, it’s Kemba’s.

When you play iso ball with talented players, your team can go far, but that style does not breed champions.

For the Celtics to take that next step Brown or Tatum has to go.

With the dynamic duos that I mentioned earlier the areas in which one player lacked, the other player picked up.

Tatum and Brown have similar strengths and weaknesses which leads to a lack of flow on offense.

There is no Definitive Number One

With great dynamic duos there is usually one player that is clearly better than the other. Both players are normally very talented, but one usually has a slight edge.

In this case that player is Tatum

On EVERY championship team there is normally one player that is definitively the best player. That has been the consistent formula for winning. Having a player that is 1 while having another player that is 1a.

The Celtics don’t have that. Most times their 1 is Tatum, sometimes their 1 is Brown, and occasionally their 1 is Kemba. That is not a good formula for winning championships.

Every night someone new is their team’s best player. This can be good because team’s don’t know who is going to have that big night, but again this style does not win championships.

In my opinion Tatum has to step up and definitively be that guy in order for the Celtics to have a chance at a championship. I would understand why Brown may take offence to that, knowing that he could be a team’s 1 somewhere else.

Things just work better, move better, and become a lot easier when your team has a well defined 1st option. We’ve seen it time and time again.

The Celtics’ offense would run a lot smoother with Tatum being the 1st option.

Name me a duo that won a championship that didn’t have a definitive number 1.

There is no superstar on the Celtics and there never will be as long as Brown and Tatum are on the same team.

In order for either of them to reach that level of superstardom, they both need their own teams to be able to fully blossom.

Final Thoughts

It’s hard to break up 2 young talents under the age of 25 with so much potential like Brown and Tatum.

While I truly do like both of these players, far too often team’s like to keep good teams together for as long as possible instead of striving for great teams.

If this duo stays together they’ll be in the playoffs consistently but ultimately they will not take that next leap.

When you have 2 stars that should be superstars, there is never enough basketball to go around. So instead of going for superstardom, Tatum and Brown will continue to share the ball and remain stars.

It seems as though the Celtics have no intentions of breaking up this tandem any time soon, so only time will tell whether or not I’m correct… and I will be.