Jaden Springer Reveals Key Difference Between Celtics & Sixers.

Jaden Springer debuted for the Boston Celtics on February 22 against the Chicago Bulls. His first appearance with the team is brief, but after the Celtics acquired him two weeks ago, he’s detecting a difference between them and his previous team, the Philadelphia 76ers.

Before the Celtics and Bulls squared off Springer outlined how the Celtics approach to basketball differed from the Sixers.

“I feel like there’s more read and react,” Springer said, per CLNS Media Boston Sports Network’s YouTube Channel. “You going out there playing based off each other, playing based off your teammates. So you’re just reading what everybody else is doing. It’s not really a set, ‘we have to do this, we have to do that.’ So just going out there and hooping and playing basketball.”

Springer also talked about what it was like to go up against the likes of Luka Doncic and Stephen Curry before the Sixers traded him.

“I mean, yeah, being able to play to play against those guys, that was pretty cool,” Springer said. “Being able to have that matchup. Being able to come here, it was fantastic. That was all fantastic news for me. I’m feeling good.”

Springer likely won’t have much of a role with the Celtics for the rest of the 2023-24 season. However, in the long term, the Celtics will strive to turn him into a regular rotation member.

Daryl Morey Fired Shot at Jaden Springer

After the Sixers dealt Jaden Springer to the Celtics, President of Basketball Operations Daryl Morey had some harsh words for Springer. After the trade deadline passed, Morey addressed why the Sixers traded Springer.

“We had to look at, what are the odds Jaden Springer, who I think has a great future, helps our playoff rotation in the one, two, three-year horizon,” Morey said via Sam DiGiovanni’s X account. “And what are the odds a second-round pick helps us? And we believed the second-round choice helped us more,nd that’s just the reality. It allows us to maybe grab a veteran at next year’s deadline, stuff like that.”

Despite that, Morey underlined that he believes in Springer’s potential.

“We did it. It sucks. Jaden’s going to be extremely excellent, I think. I think his timeframe is a little pushed out, too. Our view was that his timetable to aid a playoff team is longer than what the second-round pick can achieve for us.”

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