"There isn't a single guy on this team who's not like, 'I'm so happy to be a part of this.'"
"How did they stumble into the perfect 'nobody believes in us,' overachieving NBA blueprint that we've seen from time to time?"
"This isn't happening unless you have one really good player, and they have one of the best 12-15 guys in the league in Jaylen [Brown], having his best season ever,"
"They have an absolute lunatic as a coach, but the biggest thing to me as I watch them game-to-game; if you go through their top 11, every single guy has something to prove,"
"Every single guy has some sort of hunger for something."
Boston overhauled parts of its roster in the offseason and is navigating the 2025-26 campaign while Jayson Tatum rehabs a ruptured Achilles. The team currently holds the third seed in the Eastern Conference and has compiled a five-game winning streak. The roster is driven by Jaylen Brown playing at an elite level and a coaching staff with intense energy. Multiple rotation players possess strong personal motivation to prove themselves, creating collective hunger. The combination of individual motivation, Brown's production, and coaching intensity fuels unexpected early-season competitiveness.
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