{"id":323544,"date":"2025-10-05T21:42:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-05T21:42:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/323544\/"},"modified":"2025-10-05T21:42:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-05T21:42:08","slug":"payton-pritchard-approves-of-faster-more-aggressive-celtics-play-style","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/323544\/","title":{"rendered":"Payton Pritchard approves of faster, more aggressive Celtics play style"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Whether or not you believe that training camp for the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/basketball\/nba\/teams\/boston-celtics\/2\/\" data-autotag=\"593bbaa3-06f5-4574-8d4d-eda805c7dc23\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Boston Celtics<\/a> is especially tough this season, one thing is for certain &#8212; 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.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It\u2019s been very physical,&#8221; said Pritchard via MassLive reporter <a href=\"https:\/\/www.masslive.com\/celtics\/2025\/10\/payton-pritchard-calls-boston-celtics-practices-war-of-physicality.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Souichi Terada<\/a> after a recent camp practice. &#8220;It\u2019s definitely been a war out there.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I am tired, but it\u2019s good to push the body to these limits to get ready for the season,&#8221; offered the West Linn, Oregon native. &#8220;Definitely pushing ourselves.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>If anything, this version of Boston is more to Pritchard&#8217;s tastes as a hyper-intense player on both ends of the court.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I\u2019d 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,&#8221; he explained. &#8220;And then they\u2019re not calling it. Let\u2019s start off with playing physical, and then we can make adjustments off that.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Listen to &#8220;Havlicek Stole the Pod&#8221; on:<\/p>\n<p>Spotify: <a href=\"https:\/\/tiny.ee\/CdKp\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/tiny.ee\/CdKp<\/a><\/p>\n<p>iTunes: <a href=\"https:\/\/tiny.ee\/RK47\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/tiny.ee\/RK47<\/a><\/p>\n<p>YouTube:<a href=\"https:\/\/tiny.ee\/cOW3\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> https:\/\/tiny.ee\/cOW3<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Whether or not you believe that training camp for the Boston Celtics is especially tough this season, one&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":323545,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3766],"tags":[7,45,75,3798,46,6,626,67,169,2470,61,628,2702,405,2703,66,83,2196,10357],"class_list":{"0":"post-323544","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-celtics","13":"tag-nba","14":"tag-negative","15":"tag-news","16":"tag-of","17":"tag-oregon","18":"tag-overall","19":"tag-overall-negative","20":"tag-payton","21":"tag-payton-pritchard","22":"tag-pritchard","23":"tag-sports","24":"tag-sports-news","25":"tag-university","26":"tag-university-of-oregon"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/115323741370303638","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323544","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=323544"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323544\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/323545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=323544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=323544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=323544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}