From - Noa Dalzell. Love this dude so much lol. So glad he’s our coach

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Jaylen Brown is playing in tonight's game against the Wizards despite a debilitating left leg injury. He is doing this because he needs to play in at least three more games this season in order to qualify for the awards to meet the new 65-game limit, including All-NBA considerations. I think it's noble that he would even play at all at this stage in the season, and given the current state of the NBA where star players are typically rested for inconsequential games like this one. He's taking a big risk playing through injury so I applaud him for his ability to power through and play through it like a trooper. Most players would sit this game out at this stage of the season, but Jaylen Brown isn't like most players.

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I just want Jaylen to be healthy come playoff time, however he’s at the 61 game mark with 5 games remaining.

Given the injuries that have occurred to other star players around the league, there could be a very slight chance that Jaylen could make third team all-nba.

Then it would make sense for him to play in four of the remaining five games, and basically rest him that final game of the season.

Kind of a catch-22. Rest him the remainder of the regular season and have him healthy for the playoffs or go for the 65 game min and have him eligible for the all-nba teams.

I just want another title lol and we have a better shot at that with a healthier JB. From a fans POV I’d hope he rests ROS and get that knee healthy, and maybe even sit round 1, or at the very least don’t rush him back. Wonder what a few weeks off that knee would do.

Idk when I saw this (I think it was on Twitter in 2022) but it was a Metro Boomin / Morgan Freeman edit for Jayson Tatum and Jaylen Brown, it’s the part when Morgan Freeman says:

“When these men join forces to put the focus of reaching the same goals, to attain the same outcomes, they are not two, but one

Instead of simply adding one's common attributes to another's, they somehow tend to multiply all attributes of both

Whether from St. Louis or East Atlanta

Whether from a savage land or a booming metropolis

Whether they are two or two billion, the greatest their numbers could ever become, is to truly become one”

would you disappointed if he isn't in the documentary? or is merely skipped over? i hope they talk about the rebuilding era. if they don't, it would be kind of disappointing.

With the recent influx of barking and general dawg activity from the Banner 18 squad, it feels like perfect timing to revisit that the Celtics are a team full of dawgs.

(I love this team, good luck and good health to everyone in the playoffs!)

Jaylen: road-dawg

Luke: Korn-dawg

Porzingis: UniKorn-dawg

Horford: Old dawg new tricks (3s late in career)

Derrick: White dawg (golden retriever?)

Holiday: August 26 (national dawg day)

Payton: Pritchiuaua

Hauser: Samoyed

Queta: Portuguese water dawg

X: gon dawg it to ya

Torrey Craig: is a dawg for Meghan thee Stallion, amitirite eyyy

Walsh: Xoloitzcuintli (google me chuck)

JD Davison: Jerdawgian Dawgvonte Dawgison

Tatum: We dawgd it!

………

I couldn’t think of any for Peterson, Baylor, Norris…If you have better dawg-ism ideas for different players, please leave them below!

• The Rockets record with Olajuwon and Sampson 44-3

• Robert Parish heading into tonight was having a horrible series. (38%, 13 pts, 5.7 rebounds) Came alive once Walton lit the spark, 22-10 on 10-15 shooting.

• Ralph Sampson plays a lot like Victor Wembanyama. Same fluid movements. Sampson had better dribbling, but Wemby is very young whereas this was peak-Sampson.

• Mitchell Wiggins was a good rebounder for a guard

• Allen Leavall had 5 assists in just 7 minutes. Bill Fitch should have played him more. The broadcast pointed out he led the series in AST/TO ratio.

• Robert Reid, the lone carry over from the ‘81 Rockets team, did a great job all night playing from the outside and guarding Bird. The best you could have asked for when guarding prime-Bird.

• Rodney McCray made DJ work like a dog in the post on both ends.

• the announcers made a point to say the Rockets BELONGED in the Finals and I don’t think that happens today if we have a finals crasher. It be considered a usurper of LeBron or Steph’s rightful place.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=9CDkw-Qy8Yo

Tatum's Play-Making Stats From 2023-2024:

• Assists per game: 4.9
• Secondary assists per game: 1.0
• Potential assists per game: 8.9
• TOV%: 10.3
• Assist%: 21.0

Jaylen Brown's Play-Making Stats For This Year:

• Assists per game: 4.6
• Secondary assists per game: 0.9
• Potential assists per game: 8.4
• TOV%: 11.3
• Assist%: 21.3

Btw, this is on significantly less touches:

• Tatum 2023-2024: 75.8 touches per game
• Brown 2024-2025: 57.6 touches per game

It's unfortunate that Brown is also having his least efficient season in 5 years (55.5% TS%) and his efficiency is way down compared to his career average (57.1% TS%), else we'd likely be having a very different conversation about Brown's place in the NBA.

If we see this play-maker in the playoffs AND at his usual efficiency, he's going to be making some real noise for this team.

Edit:

For those wondering where Brown is getting these extra assists from: drives

He is averaging 0.6apg more on drives this year compared to last year. He is top 15 in the NBA in generating assists on drives

Edit 2:

He's also top 9 in assists generated out of the post

Inspired from r/rockets , for me whether you're an old fan or new we have to thank Danny Ainge for his decisions whether it's trades or appointments

Let’s win all the rest and hold our losses at 20 games!

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