Reaction to Steve Kerr on not playing Jayson Tatum in Olympics. Will he play?
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00:00We start with Steve Kerr. Here is what Steve Kerr said about not playing Jason Tatum for even a minute in the first Olympic basketball game.
00:09Yeah, it's tough. But Jason handled it really well. I talked to him today before the game that it may play out this way, just with Kevin coming back and the lineups that I wanted to get to.
00:21But that'll change. Jason's going to play. Every game's going to be different based on matchups. He's a total pro. He's first-team All-NBA three years in a row.
00:30I felt like an idiot not playing him. But in a 40-minute game, you can't play more than 10. You really can't.
00:37I think he's an amazing guy, great player, and handled it beautifully. He'll be back out there next game.
00:45Okay, Wiggy. You got an explanation. Do you buy it?
00:48No, I don't buy it, because there's a lot of players that you can sit at the end of the bench and say,
00:52Hey, listen, I'm sorry I didn't get to play Derek White. I'm sorry I didn't get to play Drew Holiday.
00:56So many other players that you could sit there rather than say that about Jason Tatum.
01:02I think that you could start him over Drew Holiday, which absolutely makes no sense whatsoever.
01:08You could start him. And the whole matchup thing, every time they put five guys on the court, they're always going to have the best five.
01:14Whether you have Joel Embiid and Bam Atabayu on the floor at the same time, or Anthony Davis.
01:21They were literally facing Nikoli Jokic and a bunch of plumbers.
01:24Hey, I like plumbers.
01:26So, Shyam, you're saying it's okay. You won that game by 30. Tatum got some rest.
01:32And you wait until you really need him, is what you're saying.
01:35No, all I'm saying is they should have absolutely played him, because they should always play the best five.
01:40And you should just dominate every single game and show the world there's nobody better than us at basketball.
01:45Because now it looks stupid. You can't play him in the second half after he played zero minutes in the first half and you're up by 20-something.
01:52Because now it looks like charity case. You're giving Tatum charity minutes?
01:56Come on, he's not Greg Hill at Coach.
01:58Yeah, at the Shoba Regional.
02:00If we were up by 40, though, Coach Allard would say, Hill, you're in there. Get in there. Two minutes left.
02:08Rebound machine, Hill.
02:09Please do not take a shot. If you could just clog up the lane.
02:13When people started leaving to beat the traffic is when Greg got in.
02:17They're like, if you want to go out there, you can try to take a charge.