Jaylen Brown: More than enough in Year 8.
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I just heard his "don't give a fuck" retort. ESPN didn't bleep it . Love his ice cold no BS demeanor
This is his best playoffs ever, by far. It's too bad that the play he made at the end of regulation in game 1 was a forced turnover instead of a steal because it would have fit in the "----- steals the ball!!!" litanty with Bird, Henderson, and Havlicek. Not that that matters in terms of outcome. He's found a new level just when the team needed it.
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Jaylen Brown: “I watch guys get praised and anointed who I feel like are half as talented as me on either side of the ball. But at this point in my life I just embrace it. It comes with being who I am and what I stand for and I ain’t really changing that.”
Wonder if he's referring to Ant or possibly Booker
Jaylen Brown: “I watch guys get praised and anointed who I feel like are half as talented as me on either side of the ball. But at this point in my life I just embrace it. It comes with being who I am and what I stand for and I ain’t really changing that.”
Wonder if he's referring to Ant or possibly Booker
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The play really does belong in that pantheon though. Especially given what he followed it up with. He got the ball back for us when all looked lost, on a hustle / desire / physicality play to end all hustle plays. Easily the play of the season, of course, and in the last decade or so, perhaps second only to D White's putback. You can argue higher degree of difficulty and just as clutch, frankly. The ultimate Tommy Point.
Edit: the extent to which he has not rested on his laurels after getting the supermax is really extraordinary, and we've brought it up here before, but I keep thinking back to it. That contract was a signal to him of "keep doing what you're doing", and he has acted accordingly.
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I don't care if Jaylen thinks he is the best player in the world and is being overlooked. I just want him to keep thinking it.
Tatum’s layup against Brooklyn was a good one but Brown’s shot was a level of difficulty higher.
Jaylen's game log these playoffs:
G1 vs Mia: 17 points, 8 reb, 3 ast
G2 vs Mia: 33 points, 8 reb, 1 ast
G3 vs Mia: 22 points, 8 reb, 2 ast
G4 vs Mia: 17 points, 5 reb, 2 ast
G5 vs Mia: 25 points, 6 reb, 2 ast
G1 vs Cle: 32 points, 6 reb, 2 ast
G2 vs Cle: 19 points, 4 reb, 1 ast
G3 vs Cle: 28 points, 9 reb, 3 ast
G4 vs Cle: 27 points, 8 reb, 1 ast
G5 vs Cle: 11 points, 4 reb, 7 ast
G1 vs Ind: 26 points, 7 reb, 5 ast
G2 vs Ind: 40 points, 5 reb, 2 ast
Avg: 24.7 points, 6.4 reb, 2.6 ast, shooting 54.4% from the floor (36.5% from three).
Tatum, meanwhile, is averaging: 25.2 points, 10.2 reb, 5.6 ast, shooting 43.6% from the floor (26.6% from three).
G1 vs Mia: 17 points, 8 reb, 3 ast
G2 vs Mia: 33 points, 8 reb, 1 ast
G3 vs Mia: 22 points, 8 reb, 2 ast
G4 vs Mia: 17 points, 5 reb, 2 ast
G5 vs Mia: 25 points, 6 reb, 2 ast
G1 vs Cle: 32 points, 6 reb, 2 ast
G2 vs Cle: 19 points, 4 reb, 1 ast
G3 vs Cle: 28 points, 9 reb, 3 ast
G4 vs Cle: 27 points, 8 reb, 1 ast
G5 vs Cle: 11 points, 4 reb, 7 ast
G1 vs Ind: 26 points, 7 reb, 5 ast
G2 vs Ind: 40 points, 5 reb, 2 ast
Avg: 24.7 points, 6.4 reb, 2.6 ast, shooting 54.4% from the floor (36.5% from three).
Tatum, meanwhile, is averaging: 25.2 points, 10.2 reb, 5.6 ast, shooting 43.6% from the floor (26.6% from three).
If BOS ends up playing DAL in the playoffs, JB on Luka will be a sight to behold methinks.
Tatum's layup was a great play, of course, but it felt like an ordinary play that didn't really have a lot of desperation attached. Horford got the rebound and we had 12 seconds to make a play. Us scoring on a possession with 12 seconds to work with feels moderately high-percentage, even if it was for-the-game and thus dramatic. We probably had a 50% shot of something like that happening on that possession, even if most of the time it wasn't going to be a buzzer-beater too.
But Jaylen's forced-turnover - not even the shot, just the turnover - is a play you make like a couple times a season, tops. Amusingly, the comparable play that comes fastest to mind was the one where we stole a game against I believe these very Indiana Pacers
For Jaylen's play, there was no scheme about it, it was sheer will and determination to be right up in Siakam's armpits reaching for the ball and forcing him to panic a bit and fumble the reception. That's a play where you see it at the end of close games all the time, where the defense is at maximum effort trying to deny the inbounds and get a quick turnover, and they get it very, very rarely. And when they do, it's usually either through misreading the defense, like that play above, or being a bonehead and just putting your pass in the wrong spot, or maybe players aren't cutting right and there's nothing open. But this was an entirely different category: a pass to a player who should've been open, the pass was on-target, and Jaylen just cranked it up to 11 and somehow made a play. And the odds of that are probably <5%, maybe even like 1%, given the context.
I really think it's an amazing play that we'll appreciate more and more as time goes on, which for that night was overshadowed by his 3-pointer moments later. But that 3-pointer, from the corner, despite a decent contest, was probably a 20-30% play. You wouldn't call it "routine", given the context, but it's the kind of play that star players make sometimes. The inbounds turnover, though - that's like the Whale beating Vancouver, happens once, maybe twice in a lifetime.
edit: CsBlog had a nice article on the heroics.
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I think JB's shot is discounted since everyone thinks we're going to beat IND.
Which is too bad.
Which is too bad.
Lol, I was kidding.
JB is better than Booker, Sabonis and Hali. Wouldn’t consider a straight up deal for any of them.
It's gonna get lost in the shuffle because of how Tatum/Holiday/Horford played, but JB had a couple of huge buckets in the closing push, including this beauty:
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One of the best things about you as a poster, is that you know what you don’t know.
People keep wondering about roles for the last few years, but my sense has been and is even more so now that Brown sees it as Tatum’s team, so he operates to take what load it makes sense for him to take when he’s able to take some of it.
He’s the hero we need when we need him to be.
As per other discussion, there is the sense that he made All-NBA last year because the voters understand how the contracts work and made sure he got the super-max. Irving flat Earth shit aside, Jalen’s a smart guy, and I get the sense that he wants to fulfill his side of that contract.
Make everyone proud, JB.
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Jaylen is definitely online lol.
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I think other teams are hoping that Jaylen and Tatum hate each other..or that Brown thinks he's getting disrespected, but there's a reason Brown is getting wide open shots at times. If he's the alpha on another team he's getting doubled or triple teamed. I think they both realize how important they are for one another... and from what I can tell they really like playing with one another..
Is Jaylen's new thing swearing in press conferences? He's been really going for it the past couple games.
Did I miss SAS slandering Jaylen?
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SAS read a text from a “source” that allegedly said JB is not marketable because he has a superiority thing.
https://sports.yahoo.com/jaylen-brown-attitude-could-hurting-100038472.html#:~:text=It's%20that%20he%20just%20not,NBA%20source%20just%20sent%20me.”
This is a close cousin to the "he's too smart to play in the NBA" take that was floating around right before he was drafted.
Probably a shoe company exec who is upset JB won’t sign a traditional shoe deal.
“It’s hard to market an athlete with a bit of a superiority complex” is uh, not the takeaway I would have from the last 40 years of the National Basketball Association.
He's helping amplify a distraction and keep his own name out there. We don't need any distractions right now.
I’d call it distraction adjacent at most. I think they’re legitimately close, IIRC.
We have no context so its a fools errand to read to much into the whole silly discourse. That said, given what we know about Jaylen Brown's personality, him not playing NBA politics feels like it tracks. Brown feels like he marches to the beat of his own drummer and folks who do that can rub others the wrong way. I can't really see Jaylen being interested in selling soda, fast food or insurance anyway - it just doesn't align with his public brand. But maybe he also really wants to sell Starry and Jersey Mikes but is getting frozen out.
That's not a new story, they've been close for awhile.
https://heavy.com/sports/nba/boston-celtics/isiah-thomas-jaylen-brown-pistons/
Same. But a lot of my Isiah opinion was formed from him destroying the Knicks and the CBA, and now that we know more about both (especially the moron who owns the Knicks), perhaps that was unfair to Isiah.
I'm in risk mitigation mode. Anything that could be a distraction gives me twitchy eye. Folks know SAS hot take nonsense and generally know not to get caught up in it. It bothers me to see OG IT stoke the flames, but whatever.