Jrue Holiday says Jaylen Brown has grown most in left-hand finishes, mid-range scoring, and three-point shooting. Holiday credits Brown's competitive fire: doubts from opponents fuel his drive to prove them wrong, a mentality Holiday calls having a "dog" in him.
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I've always been a fan of JB. Every year he gets better. It seems like this year he's even taken a bigger jump. Like, what's it been like and seeing the growth up close and personal?
He's just shown that like, when people doubt him, he really take that to heart, bro. Oh, he don't have a left hand. And if y'all really look at JB game this year, he's been finishing crazy with his left hand. Not that good of a shooter. He's shooting the 3 very well this year. One of, like, one of our go-to 3-point shooters. Whenever somebody doubts him, he like, "All right, I'mma prove you wrong." And that's a dog to me. That's a dog to me. Like, he just, he got that bark in him. He got that tough in him that's like, "I really wanna win." And I saw it before, like, playing against him, that he really wanted to win. But it's even more now because JB's mid-range is going crazy. His finishes at the rim are going crazy. His 3-point's going crazy. So JB's a complete player to me.