Jaylen Brown

-          Putting stamps on MVP candidacy that he will never get

o   39 min 41 pts 10 – 20 FG 2- 5 3pt, 10-21 FT – 7 Reb, 6 asst, 1 stl, 1 blcok

-          Has his campaign against the officials worked?

o   Is he good for the league? Does the league think so

MVP odds

-          SGA - -1000

-          Jokic - -1000

-          Wembanyama - +1900

-          Cunningham - +8000

-          Doncic - +8000

-          Brown - +20,000

Jaylen Brown on hearing MVP chants from the home crowd: "It's pretty cool, I'm not gonna lie. It's pretty awesome to be at this point in my career and get that love from the fans...I got some MVP chants in Southie. I think that might've been a little cooler."

Jaylen Brown by the numbers

Points 6th 28.4 – behind Doncic, SGA, Jokic.

FG ATT – 3rd most 21.6. Only Doncic shoots more 22.4

FG % - 47.7% Behind – Wemby, SGA, Jokic,

FT attempted – 10th 7.3 – behind Doncic 1st – 10.1, SGA 9.1, Jokic 7.8, Wembanya 11th – 7.0

Reb – 30th – 7.1, Behind Jokic #1 12.7 and Wembanyama 5th 11.2. Doncic 22nd – 7.9

Asst – 32nd – 5.1, (3rd on his own team) – behind Jokic #1 10.5, Cunningham #2 10.1, Doncic #3 – 8.5, SGA 6.7,

Steals – Brown not top 50.  Behind SGA, Doncic, Cunningham, Jokic,

Blocks – Brown not top 50. Behind Wemby, Cunningham, SGA

Advanced stats

Offensive rating

Brown 43rd – behind Pritchard and white and hauser, and walsh. Top 10 -  #1 Jokic, SGA, Wemby

Def rating

Brown 339. 113.7– Top 10 -  Wemby, SGA (#1 Chet Holmgren 103.1) Meemias Queta 105.6, Hugo Gonzalez 105.5

Net Rating –

Brown 108 – top 10  #1 SGA, Wemby, Jokic

Usage percentage

#1 Doncic, #2 Brown, SGA, Wemby, Cunningham

Jaylen Brown is producing via volume and beating up a bad East.

Celtics strength of Schedule – 24th - .495 winning %

Teams behind them. Charlotte, Dallas, Washington, Minnesota, Memphis.

Teams ahead – Houston, Indiana, Detroit, Chicago, Atlanta, Utah New Orlean, Philly, Milwaukee #16th

Per ESPN – expected Winning % .747 – 3rd best record in the NBA behind Detroit and OKC.

Currently Celtics are 45-23 .662 winning %.  Sitting behind Detroit and OKC and Spurs.  Slight underachieving but no Tatum for ¾ of the year.

Team ranks –

ORTG – 2nd

DFTG – 5th

NETRTG – 2nd

3pt% - 10th

Exactly where they should be.

Re-setting the “Talent they lost”

Porzingus – Has only played in 23 games.  

$30.7 million

Horford – 25/26 – 21 minutes – coming off the bench – 8 pts, 5reb, 2.6 asst

Replaced by Queta - inside presence 25 min 10 pts, 8 reb, 1.5 ass. 64 FG %. Top 10 def rating

Vucevic – outside presence, 21 min, ` 10 pts, 7 reb, 1.8 asst

$5.6 million – Horford fucked up

Jrue Holiday – 29 min – 16pts, 4.6 reb, 6.2 asst, 46% FG% 38% 3pt

You can second guess this. Trade got you Simons which got Vucevic. This was a money move.

With Celtics - 24/25 – 30 min – 11 pts, 4 reb, 4 asst, 44% FG, 35% 3pt

$32.4 million

Exactly where they should be. Credit to Mazzula for getting young kids and scrubs to play hard. Lets see the playoffs.

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