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Jayson Tatum isn't even old enough to drink yet, and he has taken the NBA world by storm.
Blessed to see 20🙏🏽
— Jayson Tatum (@jaytatum0) March 3, 2018
He celebrated his 20th birthday on Saturday night and although the Boston Celtics ended up losing to the Houston Rockets, head coach Brad Stevens has still been impressed by what he has seen out of his budding superstar.
“It’s kind of incredible to realize how young he is relative to the competition he faces each night.”
Against the Rockets on Saturday Jayson Tatum put up 12 points, four rebounds, and three assists in 28 minutes of game time.
Last year at this time Tatum was getting ready for the NCAA Tournament with the Duke Blue Devils. In 29 games with the Blue Devils, he averaged 16.8 points and 7.3 rebounds per game. After his freshman season, he declared for the NBA Draft where he was selected with the third overall pick by the Boston Celtics.
Early this season for the Celtics it took a little while to settle in, but he is playing some really good basketball against the best players in the world night in and night out.
In 64 games so far this year for the Celtics he has put up 13.2 points, five rebounds and 1.4 assists per game. The one thing he really improved from Duke to the pros has been his 3-point shooting.
With the Blue Devils he was only shooting 34.2 percent from deep, but with the Celtics this year he is shooting almost 44 percent from behind the arc.
The most amazing part about Tatum is how much room he has to improve. He is only 20 years old and is just scratching the surface of what he will be as a pro.
