Jaylen Brown improved his shooting efficiency
Coming into the league Jaylen Brown was unable to produce the same jumper two times in a row. His shot mechanics were off, it was almost painful to watch him shoot, especially because in college over 50% of his shots were 3 pointers.
At UC Berkeley, he shot 29% from beyond the arc, with virtually no shot creation skill off the dribble. However, he improved in his first years in the league, shooting 36% on over 3 attempts per game from the perimeter.
The real improvement came in year four–the same year his stats blew up–when he posted an all-star worthy season. In his fourth season in the league, he shot a career-high 38% from triple, on a career-high 6 attempts per game.
Now in Year 5, Brown is an efficiency guru, being one of the most efficient players league-wide, shooting 52% from the field, 42% from 3, and a whopping 53% from midrange, and 75% at the rim.
Brown has been the embodiment of productivity and has shown no signs of turning back.
Jaylen’s improvement has been in all areas shooting, up by size-able margins at every spot on the floor.
However there is a running idea that Brown is only as good as he has been because of the team around him, raising the question: if the spacing on Boston is so great, that has to be the reason, right?
Wrong.