Nate Duncan, a premier voice in the national NBA zeitgeist, describes Trae Young as an offensive technician. He’s a maestro conducting the offense, manipulating the defense to his will. Well, if Trae is the technician coming to your house to fix the internet, the Celtics defense is your 70-year-old mom asking “what’s a modem again?” for the 23rd time. Both are disrupting the process significantly.
Unlike the mother in the example above, the Celtics’ disruption is one of intention, a clinical deployment of their strategy. They’ve identified what makes Trae Young click, and the Hawks’ offense as a whole, and deployed the defense to take that away.