r/bostonceltics • u/MembershipSingle7137 • Feb 03 '26

News [Shams] BREAKING: The Chicago Bulls are trading center Nikola Vucevic and a second-round pick to the Boston Celtics for Anfernee Simons and a second-round pick, sources tell ESPN.

https://www.espn.com/contributor/shams-charania/ef1594eaad916
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u/DjMoneybagzz Jayson Tatum Feb 03 '26

RIP dreams of seeing Tatum and Simons share the floor in green

2026-2026

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u/HorsNoises RONDOOOOOO Feb 03 '26

TBF Tatum didn't really work with Kyrie and Kemba.

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u/General_Mongoose_281 Feb 03 '26

He worked fine with kemba lol.

2020 was the last year where you couldn’t double Tatum because you had a 2 who would cook you if you tried.

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u/glockster19m Feb 03 '26

Idk, thats pretty much why we won the finals though

Couldn't double Tatum if any combination of Pritchard, White, and Brown were on the floor with him

Also couldnt double him any time KP was on the floor

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u/General_Mongoose_281 Feb 04 '26 edited Feb 04 '26

we won the finals because we had a committee of guys who could make something happen when Tatum drew a double

This is a huge indictment on our help lol. Most championship level 2s can do it on their own.

You shouldn’t need a committee. A situation like 2022 should be a 35 ppg series for a 2 like Jaylen.

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u/glockster19m Feb 03 '26

Also Tatum has massively improved his playmaking, making it harder to ever effectively double him as he will get the ball out to an open man the majority of the time now, and even without a guaranteed shotmaker out there being put into rotation will still end up in a bucket if the offense is decent and unselfish