Since the closing years of the Brad Stevens era, Jayson Tatum has been tasked with improving his ability to create for others. The underlying idea is that with Tatum’s significant scoring gravity, teams will often help off others in order to send double-teams toward one of the best scorers in the NBA.
For Tatum, one of the best counters he can have in his toolbox is being able to read the double-team and make a play out of it, be it driving the gap between the two defenders, calling for a screen, or, better still, passing to the open man as the defense shifts over to compensate for the aggressive coverage.