The players who continuously play the block and remove the ball are strong, and the block and remove force the singles to cast three points after relieve a garrison. Fans who don’t know the old version of Bruce Brown will sigh with emotion “where is this brown”, but Nuggets coach Michael Malone only smiled. He had been hurt by such Brown as early as February 2020.

In the fourth game of the finals, the Nuggets won the Heat 108-95 away, and the big score was 3-1 ahead of the Championship. Brown became the odd soldier’s substitute for the 30-minute 11-shot 8, of which three points, five shots, three shots, three penalty, two scored 21 points, four rebounds, and two assists.

From combo guard in the piston era to Nash’s transformation into an inner line in the basketable Nets era, and now he has returned to the role of the ball holder wearing a nugget shirt, Brown has experienced great ups and downs in his life. Now, he is only one victory away from winning the first championship of his career.

In February 2020, Malone looked at the technical statistics sheet in his hand and shook his head with a wry smile. In a game of 39 points and three pairs under Jokic’s boom, the Nuggets lost. The Nuggets lost to Brown, who played 38 minutes on the bench. Brown shot 19 points, 10 rebounds and 8 assists.

As the No. 42 show in 2018, Brown, who is 1.93 meters tall, mainly plays the role of combo guard in the piston. During the 2019-20 season, the piston plans to train Brown in the direction of guard control, this season, Brown’s hundred rounds of block and tear attacks were 4.9 times, and 53 percent of the time served as the point guard.

At the beginning of his career, Brown’s attacking efficiency was not high, and his biggest selling point was defense. In the 2018-19 rookie season, Brown attracted Kevin Durant’s attention with a tough defense against the ball in the match with “cosmic courage.

“Who is that child?” Durant asked. During the offseason in 2020, Durant invited a group of people to play with him, including not only Owen and other stars, but also the little-known Brown.

A few months later, Brown became basketable Nets player. After Brown joined basketable nets through trading, his position was very embarrassing. As a 3D guard, his three-point shooting frequency, output and efficiency are far less than Ding Weidi, Lewell and Joe Harris, so he played only 13 minutes in the first seven games of the 2020-21 season. Ding Weidi’s reimbursement made Brown enter the rotation lineup, while James Harden’s transaction completely changed Brown’s fate.

With Harden, the master of blocking and dismantling, holding the ball, Brown’s holding play was greatly reduced. Mike d’Antony and manager Nash, who were teaching assistants in basketable nets, noticed Brown’s unique value. D’Antoni said: “Brown is not an excellent outside shooter, so it is difficult to open space for him to be present. At any time, when you perform the block removal, the opponent will definitely release Brown to bag clip players. At this time, if Brown is in charge of covering, he can take the pass and drive the follow-up attack, or throw and attack rim himself.”

In this way, Brown was transformed into a small ball inside line. After the guard set the cover, the proportion of the following attack RIM was only 15.7%, and the center was only 55.7%, but Brown reached 67.2%. Before Harden’s transaction, Brown only set two covers for the ball holder. However, after Harden’s arrival, Brown set cover as a conventional play. As a shield, he attacked more than receive the ball times in the piston era, moreover, his efficiency in acting as a shield was more than that of Jordan and Clarkston.

“I don’t think a player of my height has done this in the past,” Brown boasted, who was called “Swiss Army knife” by his teammates “.

Nash’s basketable nets coaching career has a lot of slots, but the transformation of Brown is not dark. In the basketable nets configuration, the inside line of the ball is the most suitable role for Brown, the mentor of Brown University also praised the basketable nets coaching staff for finding a way to maximize Brown’s advantages.

Moreover, the case of the successful transformation of Brown in basketable nets also attracted the Warriors to follow suit, and Peyton became the champion of the Warriors in 2022. ESPN data expert Kevin Pelton praised Brown and Peyton as creating new positions.

Brown accepted the transformation, but it did not mean that he was willing to play the inside line of the ball all the time. Brown said: “You have to understand that the defender still wants to play the defender. They don’t want to play inside. It is very difficult to tell a defender to play inside without hurting the player’s self-esteem, some players can’t accept it. And I just want to have a chance to play and win, so if the team needs me to play inside, I can accept it.”

During the off-season in 2022, Brown was not offered an offer contract basketable nets. The Nuggets were surprised by this result, and the management quickly chased Brown. During the negotiation, Brown put forward a request that he did not want to continue playing the inside line of the small ball. He hoped to go back to the outside line and attack more with the ball and the outside line. He shot 3-4 times and 3 points per game. Brown has his own reasons. He thinks that the inner line of the 1-meter 93-meter ball cannot survive in the league for many years. Not every team has a master of defection like Harden, but every team needs a substitute defender.

The Nuggets, who are not short of manpower, are willing to meet Brown’s requirements. The two sides signed a two-year contract worth 13 million dollars, including the 2023-24 season with player options. When talking about choosing to dig gold, Brown admitted that it was what he expected to play a different role from the basketable Nets era.

This season, Brown played a high cost performance. After the position changed from forward to combo guard, Brown raised the average three-point shot to a new career high of 3.2 times. He averaged 11.5 points, 4.1 rebounds, 3.4 assists and 1.1 steals have become reliable substitutes for the Nuggets. Brown’s hundred rounds of block removal increased to the second highest record of 3.9 times in his career. He got more freedom to carry out attacks and reduced Murray’s pressure of holding the ball.

In the first round of the playoff, Brown scored 11.4 points in the first round, which was very stable. The second round played against the sun. The Nuggets won two games first and then lost two games in a row. In the fourth round, Brown only got 5 points. The day before the Battle of Mount Tianwang, the Nuggets coaching team watched the fourth game between the Lakers and Warriors. At that time, Lonnie Walker won 15 points to help the Lakers win.

“We need our own Lonnie Walker.” Malone said. Brown is the most suitable person to play this role. Interestingly, Brown and Walker worked as teammates at the University of Miami in the 2017-18 season. They led the team into the NCAA championship together. In 2018, they participated in the draft together. Walker was selected in the 18th place, brown was selected in the 42nd order.

“Walker is my buddy. After watching his performance, I made up my mind to play an explosive game. In the fourth game, I only got 5 points without aggression.”

Brown fulfilled his promise. In the Battle of Mount Tianwang, Brown made 10 free throws, a new high in the season. He scored 25 points to help the Nuggets get the match point. After the series with the Lakers, facing former teammate Walker, Brown averaged 12.3 points in the game. It is worth mentioning that Brown also completed the double blow to DeAngelo Russell from the psychological to the technical level.

After 4 games in the finals, Brown scored 11.8 points, up to 53.1% in field goal percentage. These data are not surprising, surprisingly, he shot 1.8 three points with an average of 50% of the quasi-star field.

“Do you remember? When I first entered the league, I didn’t shoot well. I didn’t have confidence in my shooting at all. They would let me go, “Brown admitted generously.

“However, I practice hard every year during the offseason. Now, the results of hard practice are shown on the biggest stage.”

As the inner line of the small ball, Brown is already a past tense, and Brown returning to the guard mode is now in progress. His evolution, Nuggets, including all teams that lack backup defenders during this year’s off-season, have been seen. If Brown jumped out of the contract and became a free agent, the three-year 26 million-dollar contract that little Peyton got last year might be Brown’s starting price.

Don’t forget, Peyton, a late bloomer, is 30 years old, while Brown is less than 27 years old.