Jrue Holiday admite que foi ‘estranho’ ver Jayson Tatum no banco nas Olimpíadas

“Foi estranho? Sim – é Jayson Tatum”, admitiu Holiday. “O que você quer dizer? Os cinco melhores jogadores da liga. Acabei de ganhar um campeonato, um dos melhores jogadores dos playoffs e do [NBA Finals’. When it was happening, like, yeah, you feel for him. You could see that, yeah, he’s upset.”

For Holiday, who also won a gold medal alongside Tatum during the 2020 Olympics, it was a bittersweet feeling to see Tatum stuck on the bench during critical games against Nikola Jokic and Serbia.

“This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity or experience where you get to be around some of the greatest athletes in the world,” Holiday said. “On the flip side, like just winning the championship with my boys, and then knowing how good they are, and they are good enough to be on this team, it’s definitely hard to see. Because, I mean, you want the best for your man.”

Even though Tatum was upset about falling out of Kerr’s rotation, Holiday stressed that the Celtics star didn’t let those frustrations bleed into Team USA’s approach during the tournament.

“He wants to play,” Holiday said of Tatum. “What’s going to be best for the team? I don’t want to mess up any chemistry. He wasn’t pouting. I could tell you that. He would get in the gym. It’s not like he stopped working. He was the one seriously trying to be like, ‘All right, well, I’m gonna stay ready whenever my numbers are called.”