Obviously elite scoring but he really needs to improve his playmaking and also defense, his 2nd worst assists per game since his rookie year and an awful AST/TO ratio

In a year where Timberwolves desperately need a point guard and playmaking too, he needs to be way better at it and take the next step

It’s weird cause i thought he was going to, he looked way better as a playmaker a couple of years ago

Ant deserves more love but I think he himself said he likes to go unnoticed as he dosent like the media crowning him like they used to

Wow I didn’t realize how much Reddit hates Ant 80% of the comments are extremely negative in an appreciation post look.

I believe that is playing making will get back on track come playoff time, I think he’s scoring so well that it’s distracting him in a sense. Idk if the numbers support it but I do feel that he’s got his mid range game more in tact now and becoming a fully dominant offensive scorer has made it so he doesn’t really need to pass to destroy teams in the regular season

I think Gobert and Randle deserve a lot of credit as well this isn’t a carry job he as a solid supporting cast with him not to mention McDaniels and Donte is solid as well

Nobody gets more love than him lol especially from the media

People talk about advanced stats, but if you look at just basic ass counting stats (Points + rebounds + assists + blocks + steals… subtracted missed shots and turnovers) the current top 15 rankings are:

Jokic - 41.47

Shai - 32.84

Luka - 32.80

Giannis - 32.73

Johnson - 30.06

Wemby - 29.71

Maxey - 28.05

Cade - 27.90

Kawhi - 27.82

Embiid - 26.42

Mitchell - 26.05

Edwards - 25.80

Murray - 25.78

Brown - 25.60

Sengun - 25.53

Most MVP/1st Team All-NBA rankings right now have Shai (-250), Jokic (+400), Cade (+700), Wemby (+1800) and then either Brown (+3000) or Luka (+6600) taking that 5th spot followed by a pretty big gap of Mitchell (+12500), Edwards (+25000), and Brunson (+50000) - side note, Brunson is 35th on that above counting stat ranking.

It becomes interesting when you start talking about guys at risk to miss 65 games. Jokic, Shai, Wemby can fall out and now some would argue it’s down to Cade and Brown.

I’m a Celtic fan, but I’ve been trying to look at it objectively. Brown’s numbers have dipped over the past 20 games. During that stretch he’s averaged 27.5 points on just 43.3%/29.9% shooting and his overall efficiency has dropped. The Celtics are playing great, but that perception he’s carrying them is also fading a bit as they’ve gone 5-1 in games he sat and absolutely smoked their opponents by 16-45 points in those wins.

So all this to say, any idea that this is just a 6 player race (with potentially 43 win Cade and 38 win Brown being the last two standing) doesn’t track with reality when you consider guys like Maxey (33 wins), Mitchell (37 wins) and Edwards (37 wins) are all playing high level ball and could absolutely creep higher up into that 1st Team All-NBA/MVP discussion over these last 24 games. You can already argue Edwards and Mitchell are having a better season than Brown, but right now his team is 2 games ahead so he’s getting the buzz. I think it could play out similar to an Oscar campaign where maybe Brown shot his shot too early and a month from now we’ll see these other guys ramp up their PR and steal away the media votes. A lot of my fellow Celtic fans have said that Brown is a “lock” for 1st team All-NBA, but I wouldn’t say that’s set in stone.

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He gets plenty of love, especially here, where you can’t say anything remotely critical about him without getting downvoted to hell.

He’s one of the worst passers of any elite creator in the NBA. Maybe thee worst. There was an advanced stat floating around the other week talking about it. I’d find it, but this post is just going to get downvoted and the only responses will be disingenuous troll responses, not any attempts at actual discussion, so why bother, right?