Lets not use appeal to authority fallacy. I am none too confident, just a nagging doubt.Reggie's concerns are noteworthy because the poster has significant experience coaching young players. If anyone should understand how teenage and early 20s athletes think about hoops, its someone who deals with them in that precise context. My experience with people around this age is that they often have adult skills and physicality but are immature enough to get frustrated more easily than someone with experience.
As a scorer Tatum reminds me of Bird, in a good way. He is just so big and such a good shooter, that he hits shots that are for anyone else are terrible shots, like 17 foot fades. He catches it transition (one reason I would like him to guve it up earelier) and though the entire team has had three walkthrus of " we stop Tatum we win" and knifes all the way to the rim anyway. I will make young people's brains explode with this, but even Lebron does not pass as well as Bird, so there is not the quick pass for the easy score.
I mean if he just makes it easier on himself by getting others involved, we may be hanging a banner.
He has also played with 2 shoot first point guards, one of whom may have been completely bonkers, so the expectation to facilitate has fallen to him.
He may be this for entirely positive parts of his personality, that he believes it is his responsibility to win the game.