That was a fairly effective stretch of ball there for Brown. Only two points but 2 steals, big block, 2 assists nice defense.
I guess for some people that = trash
I mean, the dude was getting constantly scored on, blew a wide open fastbreak due to poor ballhandling, and had two TOs that made up for his two steals.
Not sure why some people on here are so overprotective of Brown and get butthurt when he gets rightly criticized. Just because he's played less bad than he has the past two games doesn't mean he's still not playing like trash.
Brown wasn't constantly getting scored on. No one is getting butt hurt, but your post just wasn't accurate.
That was a fairly effective stretch of ball there for Brown. Only two points but 2 steals, big block, 2 assists nice defense.
I guess for some people that = trash
I mean, the dude was getting constantly scored on, blew a wide open fastbreak due to poor ballhandling, and had two TOs that made up for his two steals.
Not sure why some people on here are so overprotective of Brown and get butthurt when he gets rightly criticized. Just because he's played less bad than he has the past two games doesn't mean he's still not playing like trash.
He was not consistently scored on, I dont think he was scored on more than once or twice on a man he was guarding. One of those turnovers was a bad traveling call. And not for nothing but judging by the fact he was out there at the end of the half I'd say Brad would agree he played well.
I mean, it *literally* is true. Went back and rewatched (with the help of fast forward) all of the first half possessions with Brown in them. Below are all the possessions Brown was scored on either as the man's primary defender in the halfcourt set or through bad fastbreak defense, leading to 13 points of Detroit's 57 in the first half, or 1/5 of Detroit's points. Some were worse than others, but most of them were due to Brown biting on fakes, not staying engaged with off-the-ball defense, or poor fastbreak defense not recognizing the need to pick up the lead man.
2:38 of 1st quarter (bad fastbreak defense)
1:24 of 1st quarter
34.0 of 1st quarter (bad fastbreak defense)
10:24 of 2nd quarter
8:11 of 2nd quarter
6:04 of 2nd quarter
So, yeah, he wasn't very good out there defensively for us, and most of it goes back to his poor BBIQ and propensity to bite on every ball/shot fake.
And while his one traveling call was definitely a bad call, both of his steals were him happening to be in the right place at the right time with someone else actually forcing the turnover.
That is just crap when you start out by saying Brown was scored on, then you go back to plays where he wasn't the primary defender. That means nothing. There were other guys on the team that could have helped on those other plays as well.
What in the hell are you talking about? As I
clearly stated above, the only two that Brown wasn't the "primary defender" on were the two fastbreak ones, which I don't really count as having "primary defenders" in that same way. Those two were still bad defensive possessions by Brown, as he failed to recognize who to appropriately pick up in transition, which led to a score.
So it appears we have transitioned from Brad apologism on this board to Brown apologism
Look, I give Brown all the props in the world when he plays well and smart, but the fact of the matter is that he just has not played that way very much at all this year. The fact that many on this board simply refuse to put any blame on Brown for both (a) hardly, if at all, improving his several weak areas over the summer, and (b) failing to adjust to a new role is just astonishing.
Topic: Celtics (18-10) at Pistons (13-13) Game #29 12/15/18 (Read 17699 times)