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lon3lytoaster wrote:He_Got_Game wrote:I'm wondering just how strong is Jaylen? Guys are bouncing off him like they're not even there.
Rumor has it he can deadlift 600 lbs.
Idk if that’s true but he’s really played an excellent series as someone who’s not a Jaylen guy. If he doesn’t win ECF MVP, I’m mad for him.
La Flame wrote:This type of driving / cutting is what we've always needed! Just imagine how good he will be in 2-3 years, when his ballhandling is even better. Just gonna be ramming his way to the rim like Lebron Jr
“The main thing about J.B. is every year he’s gotten so much better,” White said. “He’s just reading the game better. I think maybe before he got sped up and wasn’t really reading it, but now you can’t really speed him up. And he’s just making the right reads time and time again. That’s big time for us.
“He has an innate ability to just get better and to work hard, motivation, he has unreal confidence, but he’s also not afraid to work on things that he knows he has to get better at,” coach Joe Mazzulla said. “So you see him every day at shoot around or practice, he’s out there with six or seven coaches working on every possession, every spacing imaginable so that he sees his reads. He just cares about the right stuff.”
Fierce1 wrote:Watching JB at the Slam Dunk contest, he looked really big.
He's listed at around 220 lbs, but I think he's around 230.
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Jaylen Brown: “I’m 240 lbs chasing around Steph Curry. That’s a different level of shape you have to be in. But when you’re playing the best, you have to take on that challenge.”
Said Steph is a top 10 player ever.
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sam_I_am wrote:Fierce1 wrote:Watching JB at the Slam Dunk contest, he looked really big.
He's listed at around 220 lbs, but I think he's around 230.
I recall him tweeting he was 240 - ie. Paul Pierce sized.
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Jaylen Brown: “I’m 240 lbs chasing around Steph Curry. That’s a different level of shape you have to be in. But when you’re playing the best, you have to take on that challenge.”
Said Steph is a top 10 player ever.
6:59 PM · Mar 3, 2024
Fencer reregistered wrote:“The main thing about J.B. is every year he’s gotten so much better,” White said. “He’s just reading the game better. I think maybe before he got sped up and wasn’t really reading it, but now you can’t really speed him up. And he’s just making the right reads time and time again. That’s big time for us.“He has an innate ability to just get better and to work hard, motivation, he has unreal confidence, but he’s also not afraid to work on things that he knows he has to get better at,” coach Joe Mazzulla said. “So you see him every day at shoot around or practice, he’s out there with six or seven coaches working on every possession, every spacing imaginable so that he sees his reads. He just cares about the right stuff.”
https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/5517246/2024/05/24/celtics-jaylen-brown-all-nba-snub/
The Situation: Jaylen Brown's 40-point outburst on Thursday gave the Celtics their first Game 2 victory of the postseason and a 2-0 lead heading into tonight's Game 3 (8:30 ET, ABC).
The Significance: Brown didn't just tie his Playoff career-high and match the third-most points in C's history in an East Finals game — he marked the culmination of a season that's seen him take his game to new heights.
The Road: After falling in the 2023 East Finals, Brown returned this season and talked about his desire to improve as a playmaker.
Brown In November 2023: "That's the role that I want. That's the role that I want to improve in. Teams are going to continue to try to take away certain things from me... so it's a balance."
Four months later, he was seeing the results — using the entire floor to attack while distributing and scoring more efficiently.
Left Is Right: This season, 57.3% of Brown's drives are to his left — versus 46.5% last season
One Result: JB’s more balanced attack has helped increase his scoring frequency on isolations from 42.1% last season to 59.8% this season
Assists/Turnovers: Brown posted career-highs in assists (3.6 apg) and assist/turnover ratio (1.5) this season
Shooting: Despite taking his fewest shots per game (17.9) since 2020 and his fewest 3s per game (5.9) since 2019-20, Brown averaged 23.0 ppg this season on a career-high 49.9% field goal percentage
Brown In March 2024: "I feel like I improved on a lot of the stuff I needed to work on... Improve my mentality and attack my weaknesses. Some of the stuff that you could say about me last year, you can't say this year."
The Return: Brown, averaging a Playoff career-high in points (24.8) and FG% (54.4%), has seen his individual numbers balloon, but says the root of his motivation comes from last year's Game 7 ECF loss to the Heat.
Brown's Motivation: "The loss. When you come up short on your home floor... We've had embarrassments, we've had mistakes. And I've used it all to improve."
Birdon wrote:JT should be working out with JB, what a freaking tank he is.
Drop your cheerios trainer JT.
JB’s bosom friend KP will definitely join for the leg torture sessions next pre-season.
Take it easy on the Unicorn JB.
Indeed, it takes some time.Fencer reregistered wrote:Birdon wrote:JT should be working out with JB, what a freaking tank he is.
Drop your cheerios trainer JT.
JB’s bosom friend KP will definitely join for the leg torture sessions next pre-season.
Take it easy on the Unicorn JB.
Tatum has plenty of muscles. Now he just need to build muslce memory in them so that he can shoot at least as well as he did before he grew them out.