At Media Day, Jaylen Brown infamously said, “a night we playing — don’t mean to disrespect them, but the Detroit Pistons who have struggled over the last year or two — we going to play through Payton [Pritchard], let him go for 30. Play through Sam [Hauser], let him shoot 10 threes tonight. We going to still win the game.”
Well, those Detroit Pistons were in town Wednesday night. Hauser started and hit 5-of-10 from behind the arc. Pritchard came off the bench for 19. But with no Jayson Tatum and Jrue Holiday, it was Brown that had a near triple-double with 28 points, six rebounds, and nine assists in a 130-120 win at TD Garden.