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NBA: Phoenix Suns at Boston Celtics#1 - Jaylen Brown’s efficiency

This has been talked about often enough, so there’s no need to dig too much into it, but Jaylen Brown’s efficiency hasn’t met expectations this season. For context: among the 50 players averaging more than 20 points per game, he ranks 45th in True Shooting percentage, trailing RJ Barrett and Paolo Banchero.

Yet last night, Jaylen Brown scored 31 points on impressive efficiency. Let’s have a look at how that was possible and what it means.

One of his first buckets came from a backdoor cut. Brown’s cutting game has kinda disappeared since he became an All-Star, but that was a big part of his game when he was younger. In his first…