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Brown was amazing defensively on Luka this series and a well deserved FMVP. Just in general I think he's improved as a defender and a play-maker. Luka faced a lot of great defenders on his trip to the Finals and I'm not sure anyone played him better than Brown.
by SquimJim
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i’ve never seen jaylen so locked in defensively for so long
Was Luka really better than Jaylen brown this series? Cause if Jaylen was locking him up on defense, then abusing him on offense…
Well yeah it’s a forward guarding a point guard what do you expect
People have been saying that Jaylen is one of the weaker Finals MVPs but they should realize how much energy he had to exert on both ends of the court. The impact of his defense is not going to show up so obviously in the box score and that defensive intensity absolutely would cause anyone to put up relatively weaker offensive stats due to fatigue.
The entire Celtics team in general put such a priority on playing defense and not focusing on just scoring which lead them to never really having that one explosive offensive game that you would expect given how strong their offense was in the regular season.
It’s the Celtics system that limits the Mavs offense, it limits his playmaking not really his scoring, JB is a great defender but there isn’t a single defender that makes a difference by himself on Luka outside of prime Ben Simmons.
The refs stopped giving him garbage fouls. Harden 2.0
I still think Tatum deserved ECFMVP and FMVP but Brown really did a great job defensively just from the eye test. I thought he did a better job than McDaniels
Celtics offense was inconsistent in the finals imo, that’s a credit to the Mavs and some of it was Boston being weird. But their defense goddamn, Payton Pritchard and hauser were comfortable on an island nvm the top 6 being top defenders. An all time great defense
0.4? Did he guard him for like 9 seconds of a possession and then switch off? We can let that slide tbh, just choose 154 or 155 possessions.
Comparing team points to partial possessions doesn’t make sense.
How would team points work for partial possessions?
If Jaylen guards Doncic for 5 seconds and then switches off him, Jaylen gets credited with a partial possession guarding him. But do they count the team points if the Mavs score later that possession while someone else is guarding Doncic?
And 12/21 57% when Tatum was defending
So proud of our guy 💚 FCHWPO
The adjustment to making Luka bring the ball up really messed up their rhythm and kept them slow.
Absolutely dominant 1v1 defender when locked in, and he’s been locked in all year and especially in the finals
But I thought it was JT locking down lively and the garage time stats that won the Celtics the series
OP clearly did not see Lou Dort out there playing tackle football
Brown played him great and deserved FMVP. I hate to be that guy but it’s only fair if you’re going to bring up these stats to also mention that Luka wasn’t 100% heath wise.
Nobody would stop Luka, Jaylen is just the perfect defender to atleast make him work. He has the strength and length at the same time that Dort or McDaniels has only one
Dude played great defense and Tatum was getting torched by luka so made sense brown got the MVP
Celtics best player yessir
The Luka Stopper. Shout out to Ruben Patterson.
All Luka’s assignments did an amazing job honestly. This iteration of the Celtics (past few years) is the best I’ve ever seen at gameplanning a specific player and taking them out. Outside of Miami’s scheme for defending guards around 2012.