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Joe Mazzulla Talks Jayson Tatum s Injury & Game 4 Loss to the Knicks _ 2025 NBA Playoffs · Bleacher Report

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  Speaker 1: Uh, not not yet.
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  Speaker 2: Uh.
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  Speaker 1: I know it's a lower body injury. It's gonna get
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  Speaker 1: a MRI tomorrow. He's what the doctors.
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  Speaker 2: Now, did they do any tests on the site for
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  Speaker 2: a killers?
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  Speaker 1: Uh? I? I I didn't ask him. I just got
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  Speaker 1: the update from him.
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  Speaker 2: Uh.
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  Speaker 1: I just asked him how he was doing. So I'll
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  Speaker 1: get them my right tomorrow and you know, we'll see
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  Speaker 1: what it is.
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  Speaker 2: How concerned is that you guys right now? Uh?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean obviously always concerned about someone's health. So
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  Speaker 1: you know it's twofold. We're concerned about uh his health,
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  Speaker 1: uh where he's at, and then we're concerned about what
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  Speaker 1: we have to do better. Uh. For Game five, we
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  Speaker 1: gonna get back to Boston.
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  Speaker 2: Do you c show was it the achilles or was
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  Speaker 2: it the angle itself? And was in contact? Cause there
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  Speaker 2: was some contact.
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  Speaker 1: I have no idea.
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  Speaker 2: Uh.
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  Speaker 1: I got back there, talked to the medical staff. They
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  Speaker 1: told me it's a lower body injury, and now they're
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  Speaker 1: gonna get a MRI tomorrow, so you know, we'll see
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  Speaker 1: what it where it goes from there?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah? Roll what mean to see? H he's and hide
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  Speaker 2: he's hurting kids up, He doesn't get up. He stay
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  Speaker 2: in the hill. How does that make you felize it?
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  Speaker 2: How did that a BacT the.
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  Speaker 1: Team that he just he could? Yeah, you know, obviously
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  Speaker 1: you're always worried about, uh someone's help. So the fact
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  Speaker 1: that he had to be carried off, Uh, you know,
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  Speaker 1: like you said, you know, he's the type of guy
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  Speaker 1: that when he gets right up, So he didn't. And
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  Speaker 1: you know, we'll we'll we'll know tomorrow exactly what it is.
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  Speaker 1: But uh, yeah, I mean it's tough to watch, I know,
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  Speaker 1: a guy like him get carried off like that.
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  Speaker 2: You Robin Jack, did you Jo? Did you have a
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  Speaker 2: chance to talk.
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  Speaker 1: To it all? Uh? No, I didn't know. And how
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  Speaker 1: was you know his reaction to Walker, you know, was
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  Speaker 1: like what is the Yeah, I mean, h tonight, Uh,
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  Speaker 1: you know, we just didn't play well defensively, and you
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  Speaker 1: know we're in a hole, and you know, we gotta
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  Speaker 1: get back to Boston and and you know, we gotta
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  Speaker 1: we gotta figure out a way to win. So, uh,
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  Speaker 1: Nick's played great tonight. Uh we had stretches of playing well,
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  Speaker 1: and uh they got the best of us, especially in
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  Speaker 1: that third quarter. Uh with their pace, their offensive execution
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  Speaker 1: and I thought their uh their pressure took us out
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  Speaker 1: of uh you know a lot of our actions and
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  Speaker 1: took away our rhythm and uh, you know, we have
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  Speaker 1: to fix that for next game.
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  Speaker 2: Jack, don't rest stuff, focus in the game or something
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  Speaker 2: like that. That had the end of it.
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  Speaker 1: But he had fourth quarter they were getting they were
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  Speaker 1: in July there being on the they felt like you.
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  Speaker 2: Guys before game on stuff.
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  Speaker 1: Was that something that they were doing. Was it like
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  Speaker 1: a like Justin's like, what does he hoppen?
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  Speaker 2: When they just kept making like what's he like? For compass? Uh?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, uh w w. We went to a couple
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  Speaker 1: of different coverages. I think it was the rebounding and
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  Speaker 1: the transition that got us. Uh you know, obviously, uh
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  Speaker 1: Brunston's a great player, and it know being bridges separated
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  Speaker 1: at uh you know what they're scoring and and you know,
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  Speaker 1: they they beat us on the boards. I think they
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  Speaker 1: won the shot margin tonight. And like I said, in
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  Speaker 1: the third quarter, I thought, uh, they're switching, they're they're uh,
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  Speaker 1: they're pre switches. You know, slowed us down a bit,
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  Speaker 1: and uh, you know, I got the best of our
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  Speaker 1: pace in the third quarter.
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  Speaker 2: Jobood buff wanted Joe just felt like a comedy theme
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  Speaker 2: here Game one two. In this game, you know, if
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  Speaker 2: the league wasn't quite as big, but it just felt
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  Speaker 2: like it makes gods into a rhythm of the count
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  Speaker 2: they ever breaking. Uh what goes into that? And and
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  Speaker 2: why as a team like you were so very defensive.
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  Speaker 2: What what's kind offensive you?
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  Speaker 1: Uh yeah, I mean they're a good offensive team. So
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  Speaker 1: I think a lot of it had to do with, uh,
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  Speaker 1: you know, the rebounding and the transition because of you know,
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  Speaker 1: our offensive execution at times. And uh, you know, the
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  Speaker 1: guys stepped up. They made place today.
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  Speaker 2: The line and the concerns is obvious group. But how
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  Speaker 2: do you get them ready?
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  Speaker 1: I mean they'll be ready. I mean, uh that's that's
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  Speaker 1: just who they are. And it's been that way. You know,
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  Speaker 1: it's the locker room that they have, and they'll be ready.
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  Speaker 1: So uh, you know, you trust the character of the
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  Speaker 1: guys in moments like this, and you take a one
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  Speaker 1: game at a time show you just you didn't uh
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  Speaker 1: uh he was it wasn't in the in the bonus
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  Speaker 1: as much as uh we were at other time. They
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  Speaker 1: did a good job of taking him out right before.
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  Speaker 1: Uh we just didn't have the opportunities didn't present itself
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  Speaker 1: as much as it did the other two games. Question.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks thanks,