{"id":149533,"date":"2025-11-10T02:27:52","date_gmt":"2025-11-10T07:27:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.clnsmedia.com\/?p=149533"},"modified":"2025-11-10T02:28:19","modified_gmt":"2025-11-10T07:28:19","slug":"how-has-jaylen-brown-fared-as-celtics-top-option","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clnsmedia.com\/how-has-jaylen-brown-fared-as-celtics-top-option\/","title":{"rendered":"How Has Jaylen Brown Fared as Celtics Top Option?"},"content":{"rendered":"

The early returns on a team led by Jaylen Brown\u00a0<\/strong>resemble what we could’ve expected from a team led by Jaylen Brown.<\/p>\n

That’s to say Brown’s productivity didn’t change drastically through 11 games without\u00a0Jayson Tatum\u00a0<\/strong>and the departing championship cast. Aside from an uptick in scoring volume, 28.0 points per game, 10th among NBA scorers (third in total), he’s also grabbing 4.9 rebounds and serving 3.9 assists per game, numbers in line with what he produced last year. His turnovers saw a slight bump from 2.6 to 3.6, while his shooting efficiency leaped from 46.3% to 52.2% despite taking nearly three more attempts per game. He’s been Jaylen Brown.<\/p>\n

“I don’t think he would label it a new role or more pressure,”\u00a0Joe Mazzulla\u00a0<\/strong>said earlier this month. “I think that’s what outside people are saying. He’s not saying that. He’s saying I have to play my game and do what the team needs to me to do to win. So that’s just not how he operates. He operates doing what the team needs. Some of the changes that we made have played to his strengths as far as the pace offensively and the defensive activity. You’re seeing him reaping the benefits of that efficiency. He’s getting to his spots, he’s making the right play and he’s competing defensively.”<\/p>\n