Jones & Keefe: Is Jaylen Brown ready to take over the reins?

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00:00I would expect him to come out, and his mission is to get Towns, Brunson, or both in early foul trouble.

00:07That's the mission tonight.

00:08Hunt the matchup, take him to the basket, bowl him over, bully ball.

00:13And I do think Jalen is better at doing that consistently than Tatum.

00:17Tatum has the frame for it.

00:18I don't think Tatum always wants to do it.

00:20If that's Jalen's mission tonight, I think the Celtics can come out.

00:24I expect them to come out and win the game.

00:25I just wonder, you know, his overall mentality.

00:27Is he going to try to do too much, and is he capable of doing that?

00:31And so I know he had a great game, too, without Tatum, but it's a much different atmosphere when you are playing Orlando,

00:36and you are already up 1-0, than when you're facing elimination against the Knicks.

00:40And there's no real downside against Orlando, because even if you miss, they're not going to score at the other end.

00:44The Knicks will make you pay.

00:46Yeah, the Knicks will score.

00:47We've seen it.

00:47And so I just wonder, and we know over the years, even when he's on his way to winning finals MVP,

00:53there are times maybe not the best ball handler, maybe not the best passer out there.

00:56And so does he just try to do too much?

01:00And is that where some of the turnovers come in or things like that?

01:02Because he has had some unbelievable games in his career.

01:06A lot of them have been with Tatum on the floor as well.

01:09So because he can't just say, like, I have to do it.

01:13Like, Tatum's gone, I have to do it.

01:14Because that's also not giving enough credit to the other guys that they have.

01:18Like, they have other guys.

01:19Like, Derek White can score, you know, really only on threes.

01:22But he can do that.

01:23Peyton Pritchard can.

01:24I don't know about the Holiday-Horford-Portzingus trio.

01:29Like, you're going to need at least one of those guys to get going.

01:31But, yeah, Jalen Brown, someone who has spoke about, you know, giving up for team success

01:37and how Tatum's the guy and all this stuff.

01:40Like, all right, here's an opportunity to really have everybody looking at you.

01:45And if you pull out even just this game, he's going to get a tremendous amount of credit.