Jaylen Brown is a really good defensive player, I don't know if PER has enough defensive metrics (? ) and all defensive stats/rating aren't as good as watching games to gauge defense. That said he's not an all-star. Yet he did help render all-star Pascal Siakem less than useless. Brown has all-star potential, just needs to add consistency and a little more control to his offensive game.
I thought Grant Williams minutes were really positive last night, maybe not as much as the national announcers were gushing over him - but he plays smart good team ball, has quick feet, rotates back and forth (hedges/recovers) and uses both size & strength when needed.
It'll be interesting to see what adjustments the Heat make to the Celtics increased aggressiveness taking the ball to the basket. When Bam isn't in there I don't know that there's much that they can do as Kemba, Smart, Jaylen and Jason are almost always quicker than whoever defends them. I loved their policy of driving on anyone that Duncan Robinson was covering.
In theory the Celtics driving and corresponding adjustments by Heat will open up more 3's for the Celtics, but I'd expect the Heat to think two steps ahead of that and encourage the wrong Celtics (Theis, GWill, BWann, sometimes Smart) to take 3's. So many days between games, series likely looks a lot different come Wednesday.
