Sep 29, 2026 · 29 min · 9 segments
Brad Stevens and several Boston Celtics players had a lot to say about the offensive identity of this year’s team without Jaylen Brown. From Sam Hauser to Payton Pritchard to Baylor Scheierman…
Like, how much are you truly going to learn? This is usually a day where people wax poetic about Jimmy Butler's wig and what he's doing.
But there was one clear theme from the Celtics, and it was my biggest takeaway from Monday's media day.
Brad Stevens said, quote, "To be a great offense, you have to be able to score in isolation against certain match-ups.
You have to be able to score in pick and roll," and then this part, "You have to be able to score off movement.
I think at times in the past, in the biggest moments, we've had a tendency to be stagnant.
Baylor Scheierman, quote, "We got a lot of guys that understand how to play, and there's gonna be a lot of freedom of movement, and I think that fits my game really well," unquote.
Hopefully, we play a little bit faster, get a little bit faster, and it's partly on some of us, partly on me to get the ball out, push the pace," and yeah, unquote.
This is the message being sent to the basketball team from Brad Stevens and Joe Mazzulla.
The Celtics clearly, they clearly got tired of what I got tired of a few years ago, and I know that it brought the Celtics a championship, and thank goodness for that.
However, what we have seen way too many times for my liking, even though it worked a few times here and there and during that championship run because you had Jrue Holiday and Derrick White and Kristaps Porziņģis, there were stretches of games, stretches of important games, stretches of recent playoff games where it was dribble, dribble, dribble, dribble, dribble, dribble, shoot.
And it was Jayson Tatum, "I'm gonna dribble for five or six seconds and take a shot." "Oh, that was my turn.
Next possession." Jaylen Brown, "I'm going to dribble for five or six seconds and then take a shot." It was this back and forth, nonstop isolation, slow everything down, dribble the life out of the basketball, and then take a shot.
Like, how much are you truly going to learn? This is usually a day where people wax poetic about Jimmy Butler's wig and what he's doing.
But there was one clear theme from the Celtics, and it was my biggest takeaway from Monday's media day.
Brad Stevens said, quote, "To be a great offense, you have to be able to score in isolation against certain match-ups.
You have to be able to score in pick and roll," and then this part, "You have to be able to score off movement.
I think at times in the past, in the biggest moments, we've had a tendency to be stagnant.
Baylor Scheierman, quote, "We got a lot of guys that understand how to play, and there's gonna be a lot of freedom of movement, and I think that fits my game really well," unquote.
Hopefully, we play a little bit faster, get a little bit faster, and it's partly on some of us, partly on me to get the ball out, push the pace," and yeah, unquote.
This is the message being sent to the basketball team from Brad Stevens and Joe Mazzulla.
The Celtics clearly, they clearly got tired of what I got tired of a few years ago, and I know that it brought the Celtics a championship, and thank goodness for that.
However, what we have seen way too many times for my liking, even though it worked a few times here and there and during that championship run because you had Jrue Holiday and Derrick White and Kristaps Porziņģis, there were stretches of games, stretches of important games, stretches of recent playoff games where it was dribble, dribble, dribble, dribble, dribble, dribble, shoot.
And it was Jayson Tatum, "I'm gonna dribble for five or six seconds and take a shot." "Oh, that was my turn.
Next possession." Jaylen Brown, "I'm going to dribble for five or six seconds and then take a shot." It was this back and forth, nonstop isolation, slow everything down, dribble the life out of the basketball, and then take a shot.
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