{"id":219224,"date":"2025-08-08T08:41:25","date_gmt":"2025-08-08T08:41:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/219224\/"},"modified":"2025-08-08T08:41:25","modified_gmt":"2025-08-08T08:41:25","slug":"is-jaylen-brown-set-for-a-breakout-season-with-the-boston-celtics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/219224\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Jaylen Brown set for a breakout season with the Boston Celtics?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With Jayson Tatum likely ruled out for the entirety of the 2025-26 NBA season, Jaylen Brown will be afforded the opportunity to step into a leading role for the <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/basketball\/nba\/teams\/boston-celtics\/2\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Boston Celtics;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Boston Celtics<\/a>. In recent years, Brown has been Boston&#8217;s second option on offense, playing off of Tatum and the gravity he brings to the court. Now, though, he will be tasked with unlocking the Celtics&#8217; offense, which will likely mean a shift in how Joe Mazzulla approaches games.<\/p>\n<p>Unlike Tatum, Brown is at his best when pressuring the rim or working out of the mid-range. He&#8217;s not a perimeter-based scorer, although he&#8217;s more than capable of knocking down deep bombs. Brown will likely look to create for others on the drive, punishing a rotating or collapsing defense with kickouts to open shooters or secondary cutters. On defense, Brown will likely assume the role as the primary point-of-attack defender following the departure of Jrue Holiday earlier this summer.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>With such a wide-ranging and key role, Brown could be due for a breakout season. In a recent video by the &#8220;Backyard Buckets&#8221; YouTube channel, the host broke down why Brown is being positioned for success and how he can thrive in his new, but likely temporary, role within the Celtics&#8217; offensive and defensive system.<\/p>\n<p>You can watch the full YouTube video an analysis by clicking on the embedded link above.<\/p>\n<p>Watch or listen to the &#8220;Taylor Talks Celtics&#8221; podcast on:<\/p>\n<p>YouTube:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/3QnlPcS\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:https:\/\/bit.ly\/3QnlPcS;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">https:\/\/bit.ly\/3QnlPcS<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Spotify:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/40JRevf\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:https:\/\/bit.ly\/40JRevf;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">https:\/\/bit.ly\/40JRevf<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Apple:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/apple.co\/45sAUBG\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:https:\/\/apple.co\/45sAUBG;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">https:\/\/apple.co\/45sAUBG<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Substack:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/3WoA0Cf\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:https:\/\/bit.ly\/3WoA0Cf;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">https:\/\/bit.ly\/3WoA0Cf<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This article originally appeared on Celtics Wire: <a href=\"https:\/\/celticswire.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/nba\/celtics\/2025\/08\/07\/is-jaylen-brown-set-for-a-breakout-season-with-the-celtics\/85560202007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Is Jaylen Brown set for a breakout season with the Celtics?;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Is Jaylen Brown set for a breakout season with the Celtics?<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With Jayson Tatum likely ruled out for the entirety of the 2025-26 NBA season, Jaylen Brown will be&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":219225,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3766],"tags":[7,45,75,3798,17570,52,46,78,77,2038,38195,6,2840],"class_list":{"0":"post-219224","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boston-celtics","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-boston","10":"tag-boston-celtics","11":"tag-bostonceltics","12":"tag-breakout-season","13":"tag-brown","14":"tag-celtics","15":"tag-jaylen-brown","16":"tag-jayson-tatum","17":"tag-jrue-holiday","18":"tag-leading-role","19":"tag-nba","20":"tag-nba-season"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/114992256787417974","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=219224"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219224\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/219225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}