This is not true, people have been beating the drum about Jaylen's turnovers and offensive approach for years. It's also been a part of the national media consensus on him, so it's not like this is something that morphed into existence after Game 7 last year, though certainly that did not help.
His on/off is a bit misleading imo: I'm usually more concerned with whether a player is part of positive lineups. Otherwise, you're penalizing a guy for being part of a really good starting unit.
It would be odd since the NBA narrative is Tatum & Brown's Show
Thanks for posting that, agree more context helps.
Agreed that there is zero evidence of Wyc being cheap or running out of $$$/asset value
Just because you haven’t seen it yet doesn’t mean it isn’t the most probable path two years from now.
I haven’t witnessed this at all and it seems incredibly off the mark. Teams aren’t conceding open 3’s to him nor are they making it a game plan to give open 3’s.
8.4% of his shots are considered tightly contested threes. Just for comparison sake, it’s 15.4% for Tatum.
Championships always put a halt to trade talks. If we won last year I’m pretty certain Smart would still be a Celtic.
I am a huge Smart fan but I like this year’s team so much more than the previous version so I guess I’m finally okay with the Celtics falling short of the championship last year.
I agree, but I wonder whether Brad would go the exact opposite direction. "Ok, Jaylen got paid, got a ring, his value has never been harder.....and we won a title, so I can do whatever I want. I'm Brad Keith Hernandez."
I think he’d try to win two.. one thing he’s done with each trade is try to get better. Perhaps they get a haul trading Jaylen, but would it be worth it with the chemistry of the team being as it is.. seems pretty huge on a basketball roster especially with how few players there are.
54% on fadeaways is ridiculous halfcourt offense, particularly since he has the added equity of driving, stepthroughs, pump fakes, and passes out of it.
He looked pretty fresh dominating the Knicks’s defense at MSG, going 9-12 for 20 first half points in 17 minutes, on his way to a 30-8-3 night without turning the ball over. (3-9 from deep, after hitting two of four in the first half).Hopefully JB got some rest over the break; he looked gassed to me. It would be great if he could get his ATB 3Ps back up in the mid-30%; since January 1, he's 18-65 (27.7%).
And as a statistical quirk I just noticed, JB is 11-29 (37.5%) on both right corner 3Ps and left corner 3Ps thus far this year. Talk about an equal opportunity shooter.
Hart and DiVincenzo were really attacking his dribble on his drives, they almost turned him over once but couldn't quite get it done. He passed out of it a few times when the swipes got too much.
He's shooting 0.495 on all shots between 3 and 16 feet, which is 36.7% of his total shots. Only 40% of his 2 point shots are assisted, which is a career low for him.
Yeah, I have to believe this has become part of the "book" on Jalen: attack his dribble. To the extent that he learns how to deal with this, his game will get that much more complete.
Given the added equity of fouls, passes and stepthroughs on those shots, as well as lowered efficiency in the halfcourt in general, that's quite good imo.
As much as I've rolled my eyes at every single time he's lost the ball by dribbling into traffic, even I have to admit that it's a lot less frequent this year. His overall turnovers per game are down from 2.9 to 2.4, I could do the math on "lost ball" turnovers but either way he's made improvements.
Bref has it easily enough: 1.01 lost ball turnovers per game last year, 0.88 lost ball turnovers this year. Considering his decline in usage this doesn't seem like much, but still.
I don’t think this changes any of the original post? That means he’s driving more on his own. How does that change being better with moves on drives or passing more?
There's a big difference between a "wide open" catch-and-shoot 3 and "stand there for awhile, get set, and put it up." It's like the difference between a hanging slider and batting practice.
NBA.com has those wide open 3s as 6.5% of his 3pt attempts, so that's about 20 attempts total on the season. He's at 39.4% for "open" 3s (closest defender between 4-6 feet away), which are a third of his 3pt attempts. It's possible they saw something in his mechanics or something when he has a ton of time to shoot, but choosing to leave Jaylen Brown wide open based off of a 31 shot sample would be a very bad decision.
Probably a SSS anomaly.
"ok, here's the deal - when you see the second dribble come down off his hand, back up two steps and invite him to shoot it. Two shall be the number of the dribbles, and the number of the dribbles shall be two. Three thou shalt not permit a shot from, nor one, excepting that he then proceeds to the second..."
If thou allowist the third dribble, he shall rise up and lobbest the holy orb at our goal, And thou, being naughty in my sight, shall be benched.
It sucks watching a guy play that well and at the same time be a major factor in pissing the game away.
I wonder whether his foul situation made them hesitant to do it? Although he didn't pick up any down the stretch iirc.
I'd opt for Jaylen/Jrue taking turns fronting & shoving Joker with some Horford/Tillman off the bench. KP has to be parked around the rim to stop the Gordon alley-oops.
Agreed. Would have loved to have seen Tillman get more play last night as I think he’s probably the Cs best defensive option against Jokic. Strength, not height, seems to be the most important factor for guarding him and Tillman has got to be the strongest guy on the team.
I thought they were going to go into a zone that one possession where Pritchard matched up with Jokic, with Pritchard at the top of the. Jokic just blew it up by posting Pritchard up 25 feet away and backed him all the way into the paint.
