For those of us who have been watching every game for the whole JB/JT run, one of the most consistently maddening things about them has been the inconsistency of the offensive gameplan especially wrt hunting mismatches.As I've said a lot now, Mazzulla's combination of scheme, buy-in and player implementation is really underrated. It's not just Xs and Os: it's more like running a company well.
They’d often find a thing that worked, then never go back to it. Run screens to get Tatum or Brown switched onto better defenders. Or, otoh, force mismatches to the point that they don’t play within the offense anymore.
To finally be the team that was dictating the state of play nearly every night and leaving everyone in the dust thinking “what can we possibly do?” was simply amazing. The JB/JT maturation coincided perfectly with CJM coming into his own and POBOBS putting the perfect cast around them.
Finally, it’ll never not be funny that the discourse simply hated this.
“Why doesn’t Jayson Tatum dominate big games?”
Jayson Tatum dominates big game.
“No, not like that!!!”