For 48 hours, Jaylen Brown and the Celtics suffered a torrent of criticism. Beyond their distressing level of play in the third set, the “insiders” evoked a fracture within the group, with players who pretend to talk to each other, and executives who never recovered from Ime’s departure Udoka. Others, like Charles Barkley, criticized Jayson Tatum and Jaylen Brown for not putting themselves forward, for not federating…
“Obviously we weren’t good enough in the first three games, and we started hearing all these stories about X, Y and Z.”, regret brown. “Who knows where they come from? But 99% of them are not true at all. »
“We see teams who, with their backs to the wall, are collapsing…”
Brown thus says that the players met to talk about it, and above all to remobilize. It was necessary to “galvanize” to use his expression.
“We stayed together, we talked, because often when you’re down 3-0, you see the locker room fall apart” he recalls. “We wanted to make sure we were sticking together. We wanted to make sure we were looking each other in the eye and giving our best. I’m proud of our group for that, because we see teams who, back to the wall, are collapsing. That’s not what you saw tonight. You’ve seen us stick together, defend, make the right choices, and I think that says a lot about our character. Especially in a game where the season was at stake and everything was going wrong. »
What did the players say during this meeting, or perhaps this dinner, asks a journalist. “We were just all there. I don’t want to go into details. We were just all together yesterday. We were like a team, and tonight we did what we wanted to do. »
| Jaylen Brown | Percentage | Bounces | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Season | Crew | GM | Minimum | Shots | 3 points | LF | Off | Def | Early | pd | party | Int | bp | CT | Points |
| 2016-17 | BOS | 78 | 17 | 45.4 | 34.1 | 68.5 | 0.6 | 2.2 | 2.8 | 0.8 | 1.8 | 0.5 | 0.9 | 0.2 | 6.6 |
| 2017-18 | BOS | 70 | 31 | 46.5 | 39.5 | 64.4 | 0.9 | 4.0 | 4.9 | 1.6 | 2.6 | 1.0 | 1.8 | 0.4 | 14.5 |
| 2018-19 | BOS | 74 | 26 | 46.5 | 34.4 | 65.8 | 0.9 | 3.4 | 4.2 | 1.4 | 2.5 | 0.9 | 1.3 | 0.4 | 13.0 |
| 2019-20 | BOS | 57 | 34 | 48.1 | 38.2 | 72.4 | 1.1 | 5.3 | 6.4 | 2.1 | 2.9 | 1.1 | 2.2 | 0.4 | 20.3 |
| 2020-21 | BOS | 58 | 35 | 48.4 | 39.7 | 76.4 | 1.2 | 4.8 | 6.0 | 3.4 | 2.9 | 1.2 | 2.7 | 0.6 | 24.7 |
| 2021-22 | BOS | 66 | 34 | 47.3 | 35.8 | 75.8 | 0.8 | 5.3 | 6.1 | 3.5 | 2.5 | 1.1 | 2.7 | 0.3 | 23.6 |
| 2022-23 | BOS | 67 | 36 | 49.1 | 33.5 | 76.5 | 1.2 | 5.7 | 6.9 | 3.5 | 2.6 | 1.1 | 2.9 | 0.4 | 26.6 |
| Total | 470 | 30 | 47.7 | 36.5 | 72.3 | 0.9 | 4.3 | 5.2 | 2.2 | 2.5 | 1.0 | 2.0 | 0.4 | 17.9 | |
How to read the stats? MJ = matches played; Min = Minutes; Shots = Shots made / Shots attempted; 3pts = 3-points / 3-points attempted; LF = free throws made / free throws attempted; Off = offensive rebound; Def= defensive rebound; Tot = Total bounces; Pd = assists; Fte: Personal fouls; Int = Intercepts; Bp = Lost bullets; Ct: Counters; Points = Points.
