Because the Celtics march in direction of the playoffs, Jaylen Brown is discovering his groove.
It’s been a combined bag for Brown in his eighth NBA season. He’s made strides as a choice maker and passer. He has improved as a put up scorer. Then again, Jaylen’s protection regressed from the heights of the 2024 NBA Finals, and up till just lately, was having one of many least environment friendly scoring seasons of his profession. However as he sometimes does, Jaylen Brown has began to show it on as he prepares himself for the playoffs.
Over Jaylen’s final 12 video games, he’s averaging 23.8 factors, 6 rebounds, and 4.6 assists on 60.5% true taking pictures. In different phrases, Jaylen Brown is cooking. The 60.5% true taking pictures could be a profession excessive for Jaylen if he may preserve that mark for a full season. That is in stark distinction to his first 39 video games, the place he was placing up 23.0 factors on 54.3% true taking pictures, which might be the bottom mark since his rookie season.
What has modified for Jaylen Brown amidst this extra environment friendly scoring stretch? Numerous it has to do along with his three-point shot coming again. Brown is taking pictures 35.5% from three over his previous 12 video games. Sadly, I’m unsure we’ll ever return to the heights of the 2020-2021 seasons the place Jaylen shot 39.7% from three. However that’s okay, we don’t want Jaylen to be a long-range sniper. We’d like him to be round league common (36%), so defenses proceed to respect him from exterior the three-point line.
The Boston Celtics don’t want Jaylen Brown to be an extended vary sniper as a result of he has became the group’s battering ram. In a system that depends closely on three-point taking pictures, Jaylen is now relied upon to be a two-point metronome. Typically you simply want a big, highly effective Jaylen Brown to bully somebody for 2 factors. That’s what we’ve seen so much over the previous couple seasons. That’s what we’ve seen in latest weeks. And that’s what we noticed in opposition to the Denver Nuggets.
Jaylen Brown has turned himself into an amazing bodily pressure. We regularly see this within the type of looking mismatches which we noticed yesterday in Jaylen’s relentless assault on Jamal Murray.
Whereas we are able to level to Jaylen lacking a few clutch alternatives down the stretch, I believed the method on these misses was nice.
I’ll take these pictures from Jaylen Brown day-after-day of the week.
I believe Jaylen Brown’s improvement as a playmaker has flown considerably beneath the radar this season as a result of underwhelming scoring effectivity and defensive regression. However contemplating how Jaylen’s choice making was thought of a deadly flaw simply two seasons in the past, the event in that space continues to impress me.
Jaylen is as much as 4.7 assists per recreation on the season, a big leap from his earlier profession excessive (final season) of three.6 assists. Jaylen can be presently having his greatest season from an assist-to-turnover ratio perspective. His help to turnover ratio for this season is sitting at 1.75. This implies Jaylen is racking up 1.75 assists for each turnover he commits, which is up from the profession excessive he set final season of 1.50. Very spectacular for a man who had a unfavourable help to turnover ratio (0.94) within the 2019-2020 season. This playmaking improvement was on show in opposition to the Nuggets.
It didn’t appear conceivable that the 2019 model of Jaylen Brown could be making these performs persistently. It’s an enormous credit score to Jaylen for frequently engaged on his weaknesses, not one thing that may be stated for lots of gamers within the NBA.
Numerous this isn’t a shock to me. I used to be by no means overly involved that Jaylen had forgotten the way to successfully put the orange ball into the basket. My solely concern with Jaylen proper now could be that he has talked about a sore knee a few instances.
“My knee been bothering me a bit bit, however any time I get two toes within the inexperienced, I can simply stand up,” Brown stated yesterday. “I believe I’m the most effective within the recreation at that.”
Maintain that knee and let’s prepare for one more monster playoff run for Jaylen Brown.
