Now Would Be A Great Time For Jaylen Brown To Just Move On From His "Lamb Chop" With Jayson Tatum
Mitchell Leff. Getty Images.There is really no issue at all with Jaylen Brown icing out Jayson Tatum before the opening tipoff last night.
Personally, I liked the move. It's what I would want to see out of Jaylen Brown. I want him to be a psychopath who holds onto a grudge. I don't want him to be all buddy buddy with his former teammates if he felt like he was wronged in any sort of way. If he thinks that being petty and completely icing them out is going to give him some sort of competitive advantage, then I'm all for it.
The only issue is that it had the complete opposite effect. Instead of Jaylen Brown gaining any sort of edge over his former team in the mental warfare department, it ended up with Jayson Tatum putting up 21 points. And while all the talk was surrounding Jaylen Brown trying to get "revenge" over his former team, everybody just completely forgot about the Paul George aspect of this game. Which clearly fired him up, and he hung 36 on the Sixers. Clearly he felt a certain type of way about the move as well.
I didn't hate the move at the time, but after seeing the result? Well maybe it's time to pivot. Maybe it's time to just forgive and move on. Jaylen Brown and the Sixers aren't getting anything out of this lamb chop continuing to go on the rest of the season. Jaylen Brown is a Sixer, and now it's time to just let go of everything that may or may not have happened during his time in Boston. You can't just let Boston keep coming into Philly and knowing they have all the mental real estate bought up. I'm not saying Jaylen Brown needs to go out to dinner with Tatum every time the Celtics are in town. But maybe no more of the "I'm ignoring you to show you how much I don't care about this situation, but clearly I care so much about it that I'm making such an effort to prove that I don't care". It was worth a shot, but that play didn't work.
