No one is sure because it resulted in multiple players improving and coalescing. I mean it would seem that whatever Udoka is doing and saying clicked at some point this season. Like early season celtics were painful to watch. Not even the below .500 ball part. They played an aggravating and just aesthetically awful style of basketball. They would routinely get leads and blow them. I know that happened tonight, but what was different is they never spiraled after blowing the lead and stayed right in it.

I'd say the trades helped but the improvements started happening before then.

All we know is that Brown told us the energy had shifted.