Milwaukee Bucks Game 7 Preview: April 28 at Boston Celtics
By Adam McGee
Celtic to watch
As the Celtics look for the player who may just be able to carry them home with offense, there’s a very good chance their attention will turn toward Jaylen Brown.
Brown, after all, is averaging 20.5 points per game in the series and has had two games of 30 points or more over the previous six contests with Milwaukee.
What goes unspoken in that is just how much Brown has slowed down. Brown has managed to score just 14 points in each of the last two games, while shooting a combined 11-of-28 (39.2 percent) from the field.
As Brown went just 1-of-6 from deep in Game 6, part of that could be his three-point shooting regressing toward the mean. Or even simpler, that kind of scoring load may have just started to prove a little too much for a young player who’s unaccustomed to that role to bear.
Without a really strong scoring effort from Brown on Saturday, the Celtics will be hard pushed to survive, though, so there’s no doubt Brown will be out to prove those narratives wrong.