Carmelo Anthony says he didn’t like how Staff USA dealt with the Jayson Tatum scenario on the Olympics.
Kerr infamously handed Tatum DNPs in two Olympic video games and performed him simply 11 minutes within the gold medal match towards France.
“I perceive why Jayson Tatum could haven’t performed,” Anthony stated on the 7PM in Brooklyn podcast. “I don’t agree with how they went about it.
“… They wished him to do what Devin Booker did. Be a stretch 4, area the court docket, play some protection, and that’s it. However should you’re not instructed what’s your function and also you simply instructed to determine it out, proper now if I get within the sport I’m overthinking. We’re people, too. Basketball gamers are human, athletes are human.”
Anthony additionally praised Tatum for the way he dealt with himself.
“I would like these younger athletes out right here to know s–t is actual out right here,” Anthony stated. “… This man has top-of-the-line resumes over the 4 or 5 years out of any participant in any sport. What he went by way of, I would like all people to see that s–t, like that s–t harm to undergo… on nationwide tv around the globe… He was resilient. He stood there and the world is aware of that he’s f–king pissed.”
Tatum completed the Olympics with averages of 5.3 factors, 5.3 rebounds and 1.5 assists per sport. He shot 38.1 p.c from the sector and missed all 4 of his three-point makes an attempt. His 71 minutes performed have been the second-fewest on the staff.
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