During his time with the Butler Bulldogs, Brad Stevens was known as one of the brightest up and coming coaches in basketball. He was always praised for his out of bounds plays that always seemed to work and his strategies were second to none.

It was a big reason why he was able to make the jump from a mid-major college program to the head coach of the Boston Celtics. Now that he is with the Celtics, he has only seemed to improve on his coaching, and with each passing game, he seems to be more and more of a genius.

During Saturday's win against the Philadephia 76ers, Stevens called two out of bounds plays during crunch time that worked to perfection, and afterward, Al Horford praised his coach.

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“Brad is a genius, man. Unbelievable,” Horford said during an on-court interview with ESPN immediately after Boston's win to take a 3-0 series lead.

“Sometimes he draws stuff up, and I look at it, I'm like [confused],” Horford said while playfully scrunching his face. “But Marcus delivered it, great pass, I missed some shots that I normally make there, but I made that one, so it was good.”

For Jaylen Brown, he doubled down on the comments about Stevens and said he tips his hat to him.

“We got two game-winning, game-tying buckets — layups. That says it all,” Brown said. “We played hard, we fought, it was a tough environment, but when it came to an ATO [after-timeout play] to draw up, a big basket that we needed, we were getting layups. I tip my hat off to Brad Stevens.”