Brown said<\/a>. \u201cHe just used to never stop moving. And I used to have to chase him around (in) the system we had. I used to chase Marco Belinelli around all these different screens. And like, he\u2019s not even getting the ball \u2026 (but) you never know when he\u2019s about to take off full speed, and start running and catch the ball.\u201d<\/p>\nBelinelli last played in the NBA in 2020 for the San Antonio Spurs, possibly much to Brown\u2019s delight. Belinelli has played with Italian club Virtus Bologna since then.<\/p>\n
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Brown has been known as one of the most naturally gifted defenders in the world since entering the NBA. Many people forget that he finished No. 10 in Defensive Player of the Year voting in just his second season at age 21.<\/p>\n
As Brown has improved as an offensive player through the years and emerged as a superstar, his defensive effort hasn\u2019t remained elite on a night-to-night basis as it was during his first couple of seasons. This isn\u2019t necessarily a knock on Brown, but rather an indication that his role on the team has changed as he\u2019s become a top offensive option.\u00a0<\/p>\n
There\u2019s also the fact that Brown has shown an ability to \u201cflip the switch\u201d defensively during the postseason and return to looking like one of the game\u2019s most menacing on-ball defenders \u2014 Brown\u2019s 2024 NBA Finals performance guarding Luka Don\u010di\u0107 being the most shining example.<\/p>\n
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With Brown expected to take on the heaviest offensive load of his career in 2025-26, don\u2019t expect him to supply the fiercest defense during the regular season. But as long as Belinelli isn\u2019t planning an NBA comeback, there still aren\u2019t any players in the league that Brown fears when they\u2019re coming at him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Boston Celtics star Jaylen Brown has guarded the modern game\u2019s greatest wing players, but there\u2019s one guy Brown…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":56718,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[49,48,21091,459,82],"class_list":["post-56717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-jaylen-brown","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56717","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56717"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56717\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}