That’s a terrible comparison. Just go back to the +/- don’t start embarrassing yourself with crossing sports garbage stating that Jaylen Brown = Adalius Thomas. That’s just stupid.
Brown has been a very team oriented player especially this season. He has adjusted to his role perfectly and embraced it.
You’re moving all around here. I was responding to the idea the Celtics are cruising so I should just enjoy the ride, along with absurd stuff like “oh would they be 68-0 without him!?” Same **** as 07 Patriots. The idea that because the team is blazing, everything they’re doing cannot be questioned, or you shouldn’t talk about the team’s weakness.
You know this but are just pretending to misunderstand my point by making it absurd, as if I’m comparing Brown to a football player from 16 years ago.
No team is invincible and postseason is very different from regular season. So it is hard to enjoy this when I think the Celtics are probably going to lose whereas they’re almost guaranteed to to win every game, regardless of opponent, if Brown shot maybe 12-14 fgs per game and was otherwise off the court while White and Holiday lead a nearly unstoppable ball movement offense.
Let me be clear about this: Brown can’t be a team oriented player in the sense I’m talking about. I’m not debating about if he’s selfish. Or if he’s trying to be a better team player.
I’ve already posted the stats how many times? Extraordinarily low amount of passes received to passes made. You guys all claim he’s team oriented despite clear, indisputable evidence that he isn’t. You cannot run a spacing, quick movement offense with a player who shoots 20-25 times, isos frequently, and has no court vision. You can’t. You need five players who make quick decisions and pass as much as they shoot, which is almost everyone (pass/shoot ratio of around 50%) when one guy is like 35/65, it affects everything. You’ve seen how great the offense is at ball movement with Brown off the court…ir maybe you don’t pay attention.
Did you see the way the Celtics got slowed down against Denver and Minnesota? Did you notice both teams built a gameplan around letting Brown get the ball? Did you hear what the Heat admitted to in last year’s playoffs? Same gameplan. Turn the game into a low efficiency iso, midrange proposition for the Celtics which kills ball movement.
There’s a reason for these “advanced stats” and why these net ratings, plus/minus etc always come up negative for Brown, and you see it especially when the margins to win shrink.
The big problem is his absurd usage rate. Way too much ball. On court way too much. And against elite teams the idea that they need him more when they actually need him less. They’re not beating Denver playing him 35 minutes and running an offense through his 1on1 game. Maybe not Minnesota or OKC either.