Tatum +8 in 41 minutes
Brown -20 in 37 minutes
Pretty much sums up the last 7 years.
for gawds sake are you even watching the game. Brown has played well. plus minus doesnt tell the whole story so stupid
We've seen this for 7 years. When Brown has these great shooting games, he is generally playing selfish ball and doesn't work as hard defensively. It is years and years of the same thing. Tatum played 41 minutes and Boston outscored the Heat by 6 points. Tatum sits on the bench and Brown has to step up and Boston gets outscored by 16 points in the 7 minutes Tatum rested. In game 1, Brown took just 12 shots, he had 3 assists, and just 1 turnover. He was +17 in the 34 minutes. He played much better team ball. That is the Brown we need. Not the Brown from tonight when he took more shots than Tatum and had nearly double the shots of the 3rd person. Gunner mode Brown is not good for the team, even when he is hitting shots because he doesn't play team ball. He had just 1 assist, he turned it over 3 times, and his defense wasn't very good.
While I generally agree with the advanced stats and impact of JT versus JB, I don't think this is the issue tonight.
Rather, the issue was that when Tatum was out it was largely with Joe going with the double big lineup that was an awful decision and choice all night long with them killing us from three off the high PnR. That's the more relevant aspect of the on-off numbers with Tatum, at least. In this case at least, JB being part of that lineup seems more coincidence than a cause of its futility.