On May 2, Beijing time, the NBA playoffs continued, and the Celtics lost 89-101 at home to the Bucks in the first leg of the Eastern Conference semifinals, falling behind 0-1 on aggregate. In this game, the Celtics' second-in-command Jaylen Brown was extremely sluggish, shooting only 4 of 13 from the field and making as many as 7 turnovers, giving the opponent a large number of opportunities to score on the counter-attack. After the game, there were also many people who criticized Jaylen Brown's performance.
But Jaylen Brown's sluggish performance is actually understandable, after all, at the time of the first game, Jaylen Brown was fasting and needed to stop eating and drinking between sunrise and sunset every day. Diet can not be guaranteed, the competitive state will inevitably be affected.
However, for the Celtics, the good news after the first game loss is that Ramadan has officially ended, and Jaylen Brown can also return to normal diet, but does this mean that Jaylen Brown can be revived with full blood? I'm afraid the situation is not so simple. In addition to recovering as soon as possible in the diet and replenishing nutrition in time, Jaylen Brown also needs to adjust his playing style appropriately to make himself play more efficiently.
Jaylen Brown's athleticism is excellent, and his three-point shooting is relatively stable, but his offensive ability to hold the ball has always been difficult to call top-notch. Belonging to players with average defensive ability, such as the group of small guards facing the Nets in the first round, he can hold the ball and play a punch, rush. When encountering Bucks players with strong physical confrontation ability, Jaylen Brown's ability to control the game is easy to expose, if a large number of balls are attacked, not only is it difficult to guarantee efficiency, but also prone to mistakes, bringing great harm to the team.
So in the next series, Uduka should consider letting Jaylen Brown hold the ball less and attack more by running without the ball to catch the ball, and at the same time let him increase the number of fast attack counterattacks, so as to give full play to the advantages of his fixed point projection and good athleticism. On the defensive end, he also needs to give Alphabet Brother and Holliday more confrontation to consume the physical strength of the Bucks' two star players.
If you want to be resurrected with full blood, the right strategy and good physical condition are indispensable. And if Jaylen Brown just recovers his diet, but does not make effective adjustments in his playing style, then in the next series, he may still run into a wall, when only Tatum alone to support, the Celtics are still fierce.