Jaylen Brown, Boston’s $300 million man, assumes a leadership position for the team’s overhauled roster.

According to Jaylen Brown, the Celtics need a playmaker and leader to maximise their present championship window, and he is prepared to do just that.

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Jaylen Brown, Boston’s $300 million man, assumes a leadership position for the team’s overhauled roster.
According to Jaylen Brown, the Celtics need a playmaker and leader to maximise their present championship window, and he is prepared and willing to do just that.

Author: Kyle Hightower, Assoc. Press
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Boston, MA In the early years of his NBA career, Jaylen Brown was more or less seen as a player who would contribute to the Boston Celtics’ long-term success than as a key member of the team.

Brown was frequently seen as a possible trade piece when big-name players might become available during free agency.

The story had to be revised because of his play, which he is getting ready for in its eighth season.

Season before was seminal.

I feel fantastic. I have poise. I think I’m ready for an amazing year,” Brown remarked. “I work very hard to try to get guys open and make plays. Setting up our offensive. Observing and interpreting the game. Basically, just improving as a basketball player. I’m eager to display it this year.

Apart from securing Brown’s long-term contract, Boston completely revamped its core this offseason by trading Marcus Smart, Malcolm Brogdon, Robert Williams III, and former Defensive Player of the Year Marcus Smart in exchange for 7-footer Kristaps Porzingis and defensive mainstay Jrue Holiday.

All of this occurred as Head Coach Joe Mazzulla reorganised his coaching team, adding Assistants Charles

NBA’s past. It catapulted him right away onto a level exclusive to the biggest names in the league.

J even as teammates with four-time All-Star Jayson Tatum. Nonetheless, Brown asserts that he is prepared and eager to be the playmaker and leader the Celtics need to maximise their present championship window on a revamped team that has lost some of its loudest locker room voices.It has required a reset of the locker room culture and called for new voices to step up. For most of their careers Brown and Tatum have been mostly content to let their play speak for them. But Brown acknowledges that this new group will need their voices to be louder than ever.
Still, his approach to this new team dynamic will be straightforward.
“Just stepping into it,” Brown said. “I think we have a lot of voices that don’t exist anymore – Blake (Griffin), Grant (Williams), Smart. All the guys are very vocal. So I think, definitely, hearing my voice, JT’s voice is a little bit more this season.This is what will help turn a collection of talent into a great team.
“We can’t just throw a few people out and expect everything to be fine.” Our habits create our future and our success,” Brown said. “I’m very excited about the trip.”
Last season, Brown set career highs in points (26.6), rebounds (6.9) and assists (3.5). The same goes for Tatum (30.1 points, 8.8 rebounds and 4.6 assists).
Yet both should benefit from the defensive length and ability to stretch provided by Porzingis and the defense and floor command Holiday brings.

Neither Brown nor Tatum will also have to facilitate as much on offense with Holiday’s proven ability to create for his teammates.
Still, there will likely be an odd man out at times with a top six featuring Brown, Tatum, Porzingis, Holiday, Derrick White and veteran Al Horford who are all used to garnering a certain amount of playing time.Tatum insists it’s a good problem to have.
“Basically, we could have six starters and we could only play five. Only five people can complete a game,” Tatum said. “So out of those six, on any given night, someone can come off the bench. Someone may not finish. And we all have to understand that no matter the night, it’s what’s best for the team. And we really need to embrace that. It’s not easy to make sacrifices, but at some point we all have to.
This is a view shared by Mazzulla.
“We’re all going to have to give up little parts of ourselves until we get to where we want to be,” he said.