Post#380 » by jrob23 » Wed Jan 11, 2017 6:23 am
What's up with Brown's development? Shouldn't he stop biting on fakes and playing over aggressive defense? Shouldn't he have learned by now not to try and lead fast breaks? Shouldn't he know by now that unless he has a legit mismatch he shouldn't be trying to ISO guys? These are basketball basics. I thought he was supposed to smart. Is Brad telling him to stop this crap and benching him because he doesn't? I have to assume he is. But how hard is that to impress upon a young player? "Hey Jaylen, unless I tell you to, do not lead fastbreaks. Under no circumstances! If you find that you have the ball as you cross half court and more than 1 defender is in your vision..do not proceed. You've done this several times now to poor results. Stop it or you are Maine bound" or "if I specifically call a play for you on a mismatch, don't try and break your guy down...k?" "And if you get a wide open three..shoot it. I'm obviously fine with every player on this team shooting open threes. So don't get cute" How hard is that? I don't know what scares me more, that Brad IS coaching him up like that or he ISN'T. Because if he is and Jaylen isn't getting it, he was way overdrafted. If he ISN'T than we really have got the wrong coach to try and rebuild around young players and need to trade all our young assets for a superstar pronto because all these young players and future picks won't make a difference for years if at all.
Can you get in the rhythm of a game if you know you are getting yanked for making mistakes that vets around you get away with? Is that why he looks like he's pressing and overthinking? He's now made mistakes that you should learn not to make in high school and gets benched for the remainder of the game whether it's 6 minutes or 8 minutes in. Would playing 16-20 mpg with a longer leash be better for him like I think? Obviously Brad doesn't believe so. It's not so much a vote of confidence in Brown at this point. It's about finding out what we have in Brown. Is he good enough for us to pass on drafting Jackson or Tatum? Should we maybe package him with AB and other assets to try and land Butler? Wanting more minutes for him is also an indictment on Jae Crowder. Would Jaylen be sloppier out there? Yeah, but I don't think at this point he'd produce any less than Jae. Jae is a backup and it's pointless to keep Brown sitting while Jae is stinking up the joint. He doesn't even contribute to our wins much but he's a large reason we lose games because he's not defending or scoring enough for a starting SF in this league.
Why not just give SOME (not 30..not starting in place) of his minutes to Jaylen. Just do it for a few games. Give the kid 20 mpg no matter what stupid mistakes he makes then reassess after that. Did he hold his own? Did he outproduce Jae? Did he stop making dumb mistakes? Did teammates feed off his energy? 3 games, that's all I'm asking. Just do it before the trade deadline in case we get offers with him or Jae involved so we're better informed.
