Hamburg Towers guard Jaylon Brown has been one of the hottest players in the 7DAYS EuroCup since mid-December.
Who's hot: Jaylon Brown, Hamburg Towers
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Playing in his first EuroCup season, like just his club, Brown has been one of the competition's most prolific scorers over his last four appearances.
Brown had an up-and-down start to the season. In his first six appearances, he netted 18 points in three separate games, but averaged 8.4 in the other three.
However, Brown caught fire in a Round 7 win over Lokomotiv Kuban Krasnodar in which he netted 21 points in 22 minutes, sinking 5 of 7 three-point shots. He followed that up with 20 points on 5-for-8 three-point shooting in a win over Dolomiti Energia Trento.
After missing a pair of games, Brown returned in Round 11 by scoring 10 points in a loss against Group A leader Joventut Badalona but rebounded to have one of the most impressive scoring performances by any Hamburg player the entire season in a road win over MoraBanc Andorra. Brown scored 32 points on 7-for-15 three-point shooting, adding 6 assists, 4 rebounds and 3 steals to his tally. That performance earned him the MVP of the Round honor, too.
Thanks to scoring at least 20 points in three of his last four game, Brown improved his scoring average by more than 7 points, from 13.2 in the first six rounds to 20.8 over his last four games.
He improved in every other main statistical category, too, including rebounds and assists. Brown has almost doubled up on steals, picking up 1.8 per game in the last four games he played, and has averaged a PIR of 17.8, up from 9.7 in the first six rounds of the season.
Where Brown has been particularly hot is from beyond the arc.
After making 11 triples on his first 38 attempts, at an accuracy rate of just 28.9%, Brown has been one of the hottest shooters in the competition.
He has almost as many attempts in the last four games (37) as he did in the first six (38), but he has knocked down more than half of those shots, 19 triples total, or 3.8 per game, on remarkable 51.4% shooting.
Interestingly, it cannot be said that Brown has found a favorite spot, because those long-range shots of his have been falling from just about every spot around the three-point arc.
As Hamburg returns to action this week on the road against Boulogne Metropolitans 92, Brown will try to get back to the scoring ways he has been displaying since Round 7.