Boston Celtics guard Jaylen Brown owned as much as his lackluster efficiency within the group’s season-ending loss towards the Miami Heat on Monday in Game 7 of the Eastern Conference finals.
Brown completed with 19 factors and eight rebounds within the second-seeded Celtics’ 103-98 setback to the eighth-seeded Heat in Boston. However, he made simply 8 of 23 photographs from the ground — together with 1 of 9 from 3-point vary — to associate with eight turnovers.
“Just a terrible game. When my team needed me most, like (Jayson Tatum) hurt his ankle, first play of the game, and you could see it like swelling up on him,” Brown stated. “He couldn’t move out there. It was tough for him. My team turned to me to make plays and I came up short, I failed. It’s tough. I give credit to Miami, but just a terrible job.”
All eyes now flip to the summer time for Brown, who’s eligible to signal a supermax contract extension value 295 million USD over 5 years.
Brown, nevertheless, stated he was simply targeted on Game 7 and nothing extra.
“I expected to win today and move on,” he stated. “That’s what my focus was on and that’s my focus has been on. We failed. I failed. It’s hard to think about anything else right now, to be honest. We’ll cross that bridge when we get there.”
Brown, 26, recorded career-best averages in factors (26.6) and rebounds (6.9) to associate with a private best-tying 3.5 assists per sport.
A two-time All-Star and named to the 2023 All-NBA Second Team, Brown averaged 17.9 factors, 5.2 rebounds and a couple of.2 assists in 470 profession video games (363 begins). He was chosen by the Celtics with the third total decide of the 2016 NBA Draft out of California.
