Jaylen Brown at the half: 22/2/2 on 8⁄13, 3⁄5 from 3
Source: https://www.espn.com/nba/boxscore/_/gameId/401914101
Not bad
Is this the seventh best player on shanghai shark’s roster?
stats say he shouldn’t be in the nba at all
Analytically
But the smartest player in the NBA. That’s Asian parenting for you.
JB? Why not JA?
I get this
According to Boston media, bro wouldn’t even make that team
?
Every Boston media member has skewered brad Stevens for the trade
Tons of Boston fans have injected enough copium to think it’s a good trade now
I think you need to get off the internet and meet real people. Almost no fan believes that, and certainly the Boston media does not
He’s gonna do a lot of heavy lifting in the regular season. Gotta keep Bron and Embiid fresh for the playoffs.
You see the vision!
Dude is an ironman he and Maxey will keep them afloat
Imagine missing 20% of your team’s games over the past 7 years and being called an ironman
Edit: Mikal Bridges is an actual ironman. Putting a guy that plays 20% less often in the same category makes the term meaningless. This sub has reached the bottom of the barrel for any sort of rational thinking and it seems people want to get shovels to find out what’s even lower
So he played 80% of the team’s games over the past 7 years? That is absolutely an Ironman lmao. Pretty sure he leads in playoff wins since coming into the league too.
That’s not really an Ironman at all
He’s literally top 3 in the whole league for games played (regular season and playoffs) over the last 10 seasons
And 5-10% of that was load management and just games that didn’t matter like maybe the last few games before the end of the season
VJ/Maxey/JB is already a pretty great core for a team to build around, it’s wild that they have LeBron and Embiid as well.
yeah but he has only the 4th best plus minus, so really he’s at best only the 4th best player on the team today, and then lebron embiid maxey aren’t playing, so really he’s only the 7th best player
Mathketball !
r/hedidthemath
You literally fucked up counting to SEVEN
Not bad for a guy who makes the team he’s on worse.
He still had a positive +/-, it’s just that he had a negative on/off. Not sure how that’s the case with guys like Walsh and Scheierman subbing in for him, but that’s what the stats said. I’m sure he’ll have a good year, though. He always does
Because the Celtics bench was consistently excellent, primarily because they played a style of basketball that was a bit different than the one the Cs played with Jaylen on the floor. The guy was a bit of a black hole last year, he scored a lot but he was using a lot of possessions and not really getting crazy value out of them like your standard superstar.
hes had a negative on off for 4 straight seasons
Uhh no, because the defense would collapse on just him. So of course the looks others would get would be good thus his plus minus would be bad.
Celtics had the 2nd best bench Net Rating last season, a hair below the Spurs and confortably above OKC.
It’s such a trip seeing the Sixers fans out in force to defend JB. I’m with them but it’s a weird feeling
He was never not my guy. You can’t prove it
nary an ill will has been spoken about said gentleman, forsooth.
or something I dunno I’m illiterate dude can ball. fuck the Celtics and go birds.
Damn if he is only the 7th best player on the Celtics do we think the Celtics could win 75 games?
8⁄13? Inefficient chucker
Yeah but what’s his adjusted RAPTOR ON OFF Plus minus controlled for the phase of the moon?
42.0 which is 6th best on the team
69th percentile in the league, surely.
Oh about 31 % left?
Today, we’re gonna talk about crossover and the intersection of heliocentrism, plus-minus and OFF rating, in combination with raising win-loss, leveraging your shot-making and gravity, and investing in a sustainable 42 year old
How does this impact his advanced statistics?
The five games our starting five play together is gonna be FUN
Honeymoon phase
Lots of overhyping in this thread lmao.
It’s the first basketball people have watched in months, happens every preseason.
They’re gonna be proved so wrong when he puts up 25/5/5 in the regular season while Boston is hardly in the play-in.
Hardly in the play in lol my guy we won 56 with Brown as the #1 and no PG and Robinson.
We’re essentially swapping brown with Tatum who is better and 2 extra pieces. We will be just fine in the regular season
If anything this may be Tatum’s best shot at MVP as his usage will increase. Don’t be surprised is you see him average 29/10/7 or 28/9/8
Pick any Celtics season in the last ten years and it’s the greatest season in Pelicans history
genuinely why would you think the celtics would be in the play-in besides thinking Tatum’s achilles will explode again
Celtics will 100% have a better regular season record than the Sixers barring major injuries.
You can’t put barring injuries in there for one team and not the other
Obviously for both teams.
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Removing the muscle memory for downvoting seeing that name is gonna take some time getting used to.
the ol’ Embiiditis
This is the only time you’ll ever see me type these words
Thank you Celtics
Can’t wait to read the nightly overreactions about this guy for an entire season.
I’m so sad I miss him so much already
Pain…
What wad the actual reason Boston traded JB?
And for Paul George of all players?
70m/year pricetag.. and already have that with tatum
Owner wanted save money?
Isn’t PG like 60 mil though?
PG has shorter term and won’t demand another large contract.
It’s not really about spending, it’s about whether you can build a championship supporting cast around JB + JT using only 30% of the cap
76ers doing it with JB and Embiid taking the whole cap
I can only assume it’s because they’ll have a max contract space next year to partner someone with Tatum
Command no, demand yes
Second apron
“Stats” 🤣
Stats ?
Didn’t Brown do good with Tatum out?
Analytically speaking he’s the 7th best player on the team
On his last team
Well according to NBA media his team is better when he’s off the court
Don’t think many people said otherwise. Teams just decided he is paid more than his value added to a team. Hence why he went for PG and a bag of chips. If he was making $35M instead Celtics probably get a couple first rounders and a player better than PG.
If we had Jaylen brown making Derrick White’s money he wouldn’t have been moved to begin with lol
The issue was always not wanting to give him the eligible $70mil a year extension
Agreed, a multiple time executive of the year literally laid out why they traded him. It’s not feasible to compete year in and out with 2 guys taking 70% of your cap. They think Tatum is better which I along with most fans and GMs agree with so they really had one option unless you want to do the same thing over and over again which is insanity. The aprons have and will break up many teams that otherwise would’ve stayed together.
I never understood this line of reasoning. He’s got 3 years left on his current contract!
If you don’t extend him when he’s eligible you’re going to create an even bigger rift especially after the Giannis trade failed.
You see what’s happening to KAT and the Knicks? Would’ve been even worse
You see the situation that happening with KAT. I don’t think Brown would be a locker room cancer, but I also would want that security if I was him.
Many people said the Celtics were better with him off the court
I saw more people saying there wasn’t a big team drop off when he isn’t playing, which was true. He adds value to a team, GMs just didn’t think he added $60-70M+ worth of value. Theres no arguing a fringe top 15 player is great.
Well I wouldn’t say bag of chips. Clippers first rounder isn’t nothing but even so yes the trade was brutal for the Celtics.
I mean, he is really good at basketball but a preseason game isn’t the proof.
Neither is finals mvp
GIVE ME IGUODALA
Best I can do is Podcast P
Is a finals MVP
I’m not saying he’s not good. I’m saying that you don’t judge anyone off of preseason games.
I mean, of course you do. Otherwise there’s little point in those games at all.
You just judge it for what it is. But if I see Bronny playing better than Luka in a preseason match, yeah I’m gonna raise an eyebrow, maybe even two.
common knowledge to everyone except brad steven’s, that locker room situation must’ve gotten really bad
yeah, brad stevens is a noted idiot and terrible GM
agreed but why did i get downvoted??😭😭
Stevens was trading him at all costs this offseason - even before the Giannis thing fell through. I think people generally know he is an all-star level player. Not really surprising he’s putting up points in a preseason game
Didn’t watch, did they call any push off fouls on him
Preseason….
Dude won finals MVP on a stacked Celtics squad while locking up Luka Doncic and you got clowns saying he’s the 7th best player on that team. Casuals don’t learn
When the hell did he lock up Luka?
Luka being battered and injured is what did him in during that series
Yeah, it’s weird how Brown never once locked down Luka before or since that series
lol Luka averaged nearly a 30ppg triple double. He did better than the others though.
They run with BS narratives and ANALytics
only luka took more shots a game than brown and maxey last season, 21.7 and 21.4. with embiid and lebron on the same roster, 13 in a half probably stays a preseason thing
Now do this with maxey/bron/embiid cones back.
preseason….snore
I will never emotionally recover from this bro
He’s going to make a lot of people look stupid lol
Massively
Til the first round of the playoffs
Put some respect on a Finals MVP
I prefer our finals MVP JB
He pass the ball at all?
At least twice!
Fumbled it twice probably
scored 22 in 17 min who gaf
There was actually a really nice no look baseline pass that I didn’t think he had in his bag, shame Jabari Walker missed the dunk.
Mind you Celtics fans think that it was a master GM move to trade him for Paul George
Low effort bait
They do not.
https://youtu.be/dEBSZKNM84Q?si=jwhLTcZ3k-i5fHl_
You don’t even have a flair nor indicator what team you’re supporting so no one cares what you think
Okay but you getting your panties twisted in a knot over my flair doesnt change the fact that most celtics fans did not like the trade.
Yes.
Lol no they don’t. There’s a few others on hopium or copium and everyone else is depressed
I could see him getting MVP this year
His best shot was last year . Too many mouths to feed on the sixers. Even with LeBron and Embiid sitting some games .
Maxey still gonna get his and VJ too
He’ll have the most FGA I could see him getting it this year especially with the record sixers will have
I just don’t see it . I hate using advanced analytics but his playmaking and efficiency just isn’t on that level compared to actual superstars.
guys who have won MVP this decade had at least a 60% TS and a great WS/48 and had at least a 2:1 AST:TO ratio . Brown has done neither
In no universe lol.
Sixers will have the minimum a top 2 record in the east while he’s getting the most shots on the team I could see him being a top 2 MVP candidate
He has to split shot attempts with Embiid, Maxey and Lebron. There’s also a superteam tax which voters will hit him with
not that impressive. 7th best player on his team.
Stevens lied to us
About??
Darkhorse top 3 MVP candidate. Reserving space now.
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