Jaylen Brown has shown a vast array of improvement across multiple facets of his game this season, from his improved jump shooting to his tighter handle. For stretches of the early season, you could make a case for him being the best player on the roster for both his offensive and defensive efficiency.
As the season has worn on, those improvements have become par for the course. He isn’t the new and improved Jaylen Brown anymore; instead, he’s just Jaylen Brown. Over the last month or so, talk of Brown has taken a back seat to the meteoric rise of his young counterpart, Jayson Tatum.