Prior to this season, playmaking was not a significant component of All-NBA Boston Celtics forward Jaylen Brown’s game, but the Cal alum has been embracing his role as a secondary floor general with the Celtics to begin the NBA’s 2023-24 season.

Brown had eight made assists in the Celtics’ 119-116 triumph over the Milwaukee Bucks at TD Garden on Wednesday night.

When asked about the new wrinkle after the game, the Georgia native told The Athletic’s Jay King that it was “definitely just another part of my game that I’ve been working on.” This is a new year, a new season, and I’m playing some of my best basketball yet.”

“(It’s) just how I’m seeing the floor,” he said, “and as I get into the flow and the rhythm of things I feel like I’ll be able to continue to do that.”

“I think when I get going, more guys playing off me, trusting that I’m going to make the right read, I think we should go to that a lot more,” he said.

With this and his growing chemistry with Kristaps Porzingis in the pick and roll, Brown’s role in this incarnation of the Celtics is becoming obvious.

And just in time, given that the bull-in-a-china-shop aspect of Brown’s game has resurfaced in previous seasons when he struggles to find his place on the floor.