Oh god that’s a mistake to think he’s Brunson lmao

Private equity perfection

That’s so fucking stupid

Man I love Fast PP but he is not Jalen Brunson.

  27 ppg with 8 assists 

per 75

Had us in the first half, not gonna lie 

Brother he’s 28

Guarantee no one on the Celtics staff has said he’s their Brunson

Analytics. Have they gone too far?

“We have Brunson at home”

Would y’all call me a racist if I said LMFAOOOOOOOOOOO 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

“The Boston Celtics believe that he (Hugo) is their in-house version of Giannis.”

What’s so funny is that Payton Pritchard has a negative on/off in 4 of his last 5 seasons. Celtics are better without him on the court too lol.

Per 75 what?

“Let’s bet the house on dubious analytics based on a sample size of 10 games”

Bless Redditors and analytic geeks who posture over everyone else as if they have some supreme understanding of basketball.

This whole saga has been my Christmas

The Knicks really did break the league…

Brunson made that jump at 26. Pritchard is turning 29 in January.

He was horrific in the playoffs like he has been his entire career if this is true the entire front office in boston needs to be fired.

Now everybody wants a Brunson?

The Knicks put the entire NBA in a tailspin jesus

He is ready to make the jump, just watch him play. He’s not as good as Brunson but he will definitely surprise a lot of people here. He has great handling, shooting, and good touch around the rim.

So what happens when Pritchard starts getting guarded like a 1b or number 2 option to Tatum. I’m guessing that efficiency is going to go down.

These green fucks are in for a rude awakening lmao

Why is it an “either/or”?

Scientists announce the discovery of Copium.

LMAOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

Meanwhile brown carried them into the playoffs. Smart move. 

Jaylen Brown is Finals MVP Jaylen Brown, but Payton Pritchard could be anything! He could even be Finals MVP Jalen Brunson!

Oh boy

I’m loving this. All of it.

Is Haberstroh reputable or a Howard Eskin hot take kind of guy?

Pritchard is their in house Brunson??? That’s ambitious.

Still not the excuse you trade Jaylen Brown for 36 year old Paul George.

even if this were what they were thinking and even if it does play out well it still doesn’t explain the dogshit return they got

Not sure trading away a guy that lead you to a championship won FMVP & was a mvp candidate last season to unlock the potential of a role player 1 year younger than him is the move

Ok, NOW can we say the Knicks broke the NBA offseason?

New ownership just doesn’t wanna pay what’s needed to win a title. Let’s call a spade a spade.

Jalen Brunson winning a championship is starting to break some people’s minds lmao. Granted, they could become better with him as a second option or whatever, but making wild statements like these does not help.

Thinking production is infinitely scalable feels like a very basic mistake make

If Payton Pritchard becomes Jalen Brunson 2.0 after brown leaves then just nuke the planet

This is literally “we have Jalen Brunson at home”.  Jokes aside, at what point do we find out that Brad Stevens asked chatgpt why boston is better without Jaylen Brown and decided that the 20 paragraph hallucination that it spat out was the smartest thing he’d ever read?

Aren’t these analytics quite reductive? It seems like analytics just seeing something interesting and then failing to pull on more than the thread you hope it confirms.

We have Brunson at home

I’m tired of us being in the limelight, can some other team do something stupid? Kings i hear Ben Simmons is back yall should sign him.

coPium P

Doesn’t he turn 29 this season? Unless he makes a massive jump this is just cope .

So 13.5 points per game per 37.5. Noice.

Per 75 MINUTES?

I like Pritchard but to think he is Brown is ridiculous.

Per 75 is wild

Version of who? 🤣🤣🤣

Great call pairing him with Luka Garza, the KAT of Drew Timme’s

Private equity owners having ChatGPT do all of their thinking 😂

Ok what are you smoking so early in the mourning

He might actually be that good, we just don’t know it yet. This is probably the season Celtics let him try it

Is this satire? Pritchard is great for the player he is - an offensive threat off the bench who can catch fire. He sure as hell ain’t got a bag half as full as Brunson’s and the insinuation he might become a 26 ppg iso weapon now that Brown is gone is ludicrous and completely asinine. I get it, Pritchard has improved every year since he’s been in the league, but banking your hopes on him is not it.

still can’t believe brad stevens gave brown away for a bag of doritos and some second rounders and to a direct conference rival, no less,, wtf was that

As a Celtics fan I absolutely hate hearing this. True or not it opens up so many jokes if/when PP struggles.

Good luck with that

With Hugo being their Giannis and PP their Brunson, Tatum just became their 3rd best player 🤣

Lolol

If they really thought this. They wouldn’t have taken back a high usage wing player that is making 110M over the next two seasons.

the celtics apparently don’t understand what role players are or small sample sizes

Good luck with that

Yeah i mean at some point they have to start recognizing there are intangibles. Analytics are great and have advanced the game. Pritchard is a beast, but he’s not brunson and never will be. A lot of the value these guys have when you’re talking about brunson level players are what they are because of what’s between their ears not what’s on a stat sheet. the willing your team to victory despite a poor analytical performance, the way in which your teammates and opponents see you etc.

This has to be an audition for him trying to get a job writing at The Onion right?

Even if you believe this, the trade was still horrible.

This just reminds me of that Luka trade excuses. There is no justification for a horrible trade.

People really trying to find ways to make this Jaylen Brown trade not look absolutely horrible 😂😂 this trade isn’t as bad as the Luka trade but it is definitely in the top 5 all time

Always think they’re Jalen Brunson until it’s time to be Jalen Brunson

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This is horrible sloppy. Jaylen brown is a prime jimmy butler level player. Great 2 way guard who improved his 3 drastically.

The disrespect from Boston is crazy. He talks a lot and has a big ego but you never question if hes ready to play hard.

Boston adding Paul George with Tatum has more skill but neither of those guys had ever been a dawg when you needed a stop or bucket

Following analytics! Sports is Gut Feel, intuition, common sense, experience….spitting out all of those numbers don’t mean squat in battle. Analytics can’t determine the reactions and the thoughts of another player….pure poppycock

Sounds like they’re cooking up an analytical championship here

Cool. Let’s see how he does when he’s getting the type of defensive attention that Brunson gets. Celtics on a generational fumble run right now.

Y’all clown but I think Pritchard is going to shock a lot of people this coming season. He’s an absolute dog and definitely has shades of Brunson when he was playing behind Luka.

the celtics were 9-2 last season without brown. it seems like pp was also out for one of those, not sure which.

but who did the celtics play in those 11 games?

losses to knicks and pacers.

beat WAS, TOR, SAC, HOU, PHX, MIL, ATL, CHA, ORL

some decent teams for sure, but no pistons, cavs, knicks, sixers, spurs, thunder, lakers, wolves, nuggets, warriors.

context matters.

At first glance, it looks like a terrible deal for the Celtics. Probably, most likely, could be…Pritchard is that good people. Give him a chance to shine and you’ll see the culture will benefit from this deal. PG is a non-factor at this stage of his career.

Lmfao but I’m supposed to believe that investing in Luka, Reaves, and Kessler is moronic.

The more I hear about this the more I’m sure this whole thing has been because of new owner syndrome.

They’re going to be admitting Bill Simmons to an asylum at this point

Analytically, Payton Pritchard is Jalen Brunson.

Commutatively, Caitlin Clark is Jalen Brunson

The pet that people don’t acknowledge in the Brown on/off debate is how brown soaks up (and wins) the minutes where the Celtics play against the best players on opposing teams. Then their stacked bench can come in and destroy other teams bench players.

Prichard benefits from this heavily. When he plays with brown he gets to be an off ball secondary creator and then when he’s by himself he can go after weak bench bigs and guards.

Why do we have to put labels and name other guys in this scenario?

Pritchard has been playing great. Just say they feel comfortable expanding his role in the offense and be done with it

Yeah so surely this thought process isn’t gonna backfire badly

Trust me bro ass tweet

The spin coming from Boston is pathetic holy shit 🤣

This is a small guard league now, deal with it when Trae wins MVP next year.

Thia is insane cope even if they believe it. Its similar rhetoric to whay nico said about AD solving everything.

Even if the celtics think pritchard solves everything, they still made a shitty trade with jaylen brown

Finding another Brunson is probably not the move.

I’m not shocked the Celtics are going all in on a white boy. It’s been too damn long lol

Not everyone scales up!!! Jaylen Brown carries a much bigger load on offense against the team’s best defender compared to Payton Pritchard. Payton’s stats are great, but they can’t tell us whether he can carry the same load against the same level of defensive attention.

Looking at Knicks: OG Anunoby was way more efficient in the playoffs, but Jalen Brunson got significantly more defensive attention. It’s not like a math problem where giving Jalen’s shots to OG would have made the Knicks win more. More usage comes with diminishing returns.

I want whatever strain the Celtics have

Brad Stevens brother what are you smoking

Is everyone here just treating all this baseless tweets about Jaylen like gospel?