Jaylen catches additional scrutiny because he makes the same mistakes over and over and over again. It’s very easy to write off high turnover games by Jrue or Tatum as variance because it very demonstrably is. Browns limitations are very plainly visible and it is hard to watch him once again have a loose dribble turnover while he needlessly handles the ball. Everyone has seen that movie and knows how it ends.
And Jaylen isn’t the reason they lost last night, other guys were far more at fault. I also agree that he shouldn’t be playing after tweaking his groin. But I dislike the “other guys make mistakes and don’t catch grief for it” point that is such an omnipresent whine these days. Tatum caught a lot of grief (rightly so) for consistently costing his team points while he gesticulated at refs pleading for foul calls that weren’t going to come. It’s far more similar to that than people who are just out to get Jaylen which seems to be the implication suggested by the half dozen or so of you who rush to Jaylen’s defense whenever a bad word is said about him.
Weren't you the same guy that made this point in the Raptors game thread?
The same thread where, by my count, Jaylen had 5 nice things said about him over the course of the game, and probably a dozen shitty ones.
The same thread where Tatum had about a dozen posts "TATUM" "OMG TATUM" over and over again, and a few others that said "Tatum just doesn't have it tonight?"
Just a reminder, Brown was 9/14 from the field (3/5 from the line), had 4 rebounds, 3 assists, 1 block, 1 steal, 3 turnovers, 23 points and a +4.
Tatum was 8/22 (1 for fucking 11 from 3), 7 rebounds, 2 assists, 1 steal, 3 turnovers, 17 points and a -4.
The C's won by 3.
Define "same mistakes over and over again." It's a basketball game, not advanced calculus. How many different mistakes can possibly be made? And how is a guy averaging 2.5 TO's a game (2.0 when you remove offensive fouls, or is that a mistake he makes over and over again) committing an egregious amount of loose ball turnovers "over and over and over again?"
The problem isn't that Jaylen is making the same mistakes over and over again. The problem is anytime Jaylen makes a mistake, this narrative ensues. As I type this post, Jaylen Brown has a turnover rate of 11.2%. Jrue is at 14.9, Horford is at 14.1, Tatum is at 12.3, and Jaylen is tied with Derrick White at 11.2%.
But let's talk about those same mistakes over and over and over again, in every thread, but ignore what's actually happening instead because you don't like folks defending Jaylen. Or let's talk about how Jrue and Tatum's turnover rates being higher than Jaylen's are about 'variance?"
Unfortunate because in the games I have watched I think Jaylen has improved a bit as a playmaker/passer - especially with KP. Fatigue can show up in different ways I guess.
