When it comes to scoring in the playoffs, Jayson Tatum, the standout player for the Boston Celtics, hasn’t quite looked like himself. He’s only scoring 21.7 points per game on 40.7% field goal and 26.7% three-point shooting in postseason.

When compared to his career playoff numbers, those figures seem a little out of the ordinary. Tatum has averaged 23.6 points per game on 44.1%/35.3% splits across his seven postseason runs. Eliminating his first two seasons, when he wasn’t quite “the guy,” makes his averages even more impressive.

Some have started to conjecture that the 26-year-old may be ill as a result of his decline in output.

The guy himself emerged from his 25-point outburst in Game 2 against the Cleveland Cavaliers and denied having any kind of physical problem.

Not at all. It’s just that you don’t always shoot the ball as good as you would like to,” Tatum explained to reporters (source: CLNS Media). “If you play enough hoops, the law of averages will take care of itself. Finding a method to win or influence the game in other ways is more important in the interim; scoring is really the least of my concerns.

Tatum feels he’s not having any trouble getting his shot off, despite the fact that he’s struggled to find the net in this second-round series. He brushed off the notion that producing looks would present him with any sort of difficulty.

The difficulty? It wasn’t really a challenge, in my opinion,” he remarked. “It goes without saying that I wish I had made more shots; in the league, you just don’t always make them. All you need to do is keep making the correct shots, and everything will work out. I don’t really pay attention to that. I am capable of scoring a point.

When JT and the Celtics play the Cavaliers in Game 3 on Saturday night in Cleveland, they will have an opportunity to go back on the winning track.