Whether or not you believe that training camp for the Boston Celtics is especially tough this season, one thing is for certain — how the Celtics are playing is changing in it, and it is not the typical finesse approach past iterations this ball club has relied on in recent campaigns. And if you ask the reigning NBA Sixth Man of the Year what he thinks about this dynamic, Payton Pritchard does not seem to mind at all. In fact, the University of Oregon alum appears to be embracing a faster, more physical brand of Boston basketball.
“It’s been very physical,” said Pritchard via MassLive reporter Souichi Terada after a recent camp practice. “It’s definitely been a war out there.”
“I am tired, but it’s good to push the body to these limits to get ready for the season,” offered the West Linn, Oregon native. “Definitely pushing ourselves.”
If anything, this version of Boston is more to Pritchard’s tastes as a hyper-intense player on both ends of the court.
“I’d rather play very physical and fast like that, and then if they start making calls, then we have to change through that, rather than not doing it,” he explained. “And then they’re not calling it. Let’s start off with playing physical, and then we can make adjustments off that.”
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