I especially enjoyed the two possesions he worked really well with White (when White assisted him into a good cut and when he asisted White for the open 3) beside his rebounding. Here is the text from the article, videos are in the link above:

"And while Holiday will be an important piece of the half-court puzzle, he is showing glimpses of how he can make the Celtics the transition offense team Mazzulla wants. This is a good example of some scheme principles the Celtics are building in their transition offense and how it needs to improve.

Jaylen Brown does the classic loop where he runs to the rim on the break to drag his defender down there, then pops back out to the 3-point line while Holiday works his way into the paint. Holiday is able to attract enough attention to get Brown wide open but gets the pass out to Brown a little late.

It gives Duncan Robinson enough time to stop worrying about helping onto Holiday’s drive and get ready to close out to Brown. While Holiday did a nice job pivoting through traffic and faking a play toward Sam Hauser to keep Robinson guessing until the last second, there was some wasted time that took away some of Boston’s advantage. Of course, Brown could have made the pass to Hauser the second the ball touched his hands, and that could’ve given Hauser the wide-open look they wanted.

Holiday didn’t do anything necessarily wrong on this play — and arguably Brown did — but it just exemplified how Holiday’s style is a little different, and everyone will need to adjust to it to keep the offense crisp. The irony is at the very end of this play, Holiday blew by Bam Adebayo in isolation and barely missed a gorgeous lefty finger roll.

Then there are the ways Holiday is learning to impact off the ball. Boston’s transition offense has been reliant on Tatum and Brown as finishers over the years. The team hasn’t had many starting-caliber players who have the size and athleticism to finish on the break. Holiday isn’t a high-flier who can posterize defenders in a one-on-one scenario, but the team is finding ways to carve out lanes for him to attack on the move.

It starts with the principle of pushing the ball through the paint in transition. A lot of the time, especially with Marcus Smart, the team would stop a break if it didn’t have the numbers advantage it wanted. Trailing teammates mainly were used as spot-up 3-point shooters if they were unguarded.

But watch how White keeps pushing into the paint when he gets a cross-match on Adebayo — who really isn’t a cross-match for anyone in the league anyway — and how that distracts Tyler Herro and opens up a free cut for Holiday.

The Celtics struggled to generate paint touches last year, even though the founding principle of the offense was to drive and kick. A lot of the time they didn’t get the ball into the paint for purposes other than kicking it out to a shooter. They needed more cutters or even more compact spacing to get the defense where they wanted before they started moving the ball around.

It’s easier to have the defense turned in the wrong direction when you do something it doesn’t expect. That’s part of why Mazzulla emphasizes staying in a constant flow of transition play and why the Celtics have been inbounding the ball as fast as they can off made baskets."

They want to create cross-matches then keep playing through them. Coaches emphasized last year how they loved that Hauser had the league’s best defensive rating because teams would push pause on their offensive system to target him. They wanted to take the offense out of its rhythm and bet that Hauser could hold up half the time. But the Celtics fell into that habit as well too often.

Holiday and White will be responsible for making sure that when they identify a cross-match, the offense keeps rolling on schedule and the team doesn’t fixate on attacking that weak link defender. If you want to break a chain, you don’t have to hammer the spot that’s broken. Tugging on the strong end can still pull it apart. White attacking one of the best defenders in the NBA made Herro fall asleep for a second, which gave Holiday his opening.

“I thought Derrick did a great job of not only making plays when he had the ball, but setting the table and putting guys where they were supposed to go and making sure we were attacking the right matchup with the right set and the right coverage,” Mazzulla said. “That’s kind of what he, Jrue, and really all of our guys need to have an awareness of what we’re trying to accomplish on these possessions. Who do we need to get involved and how do we do it together?”

Holiday’s ability to find these matchups on the move is impressive. Just watch how he snags a rebound in crunchtime from Adebayo, gives the ball up to Tatum, then sees something brewing down the court.

As soon as he outlets the ball, he sees Kristaps Porziņģis and White setting up a two-on-one advantage on the weak side. With Adebayo behind the play, Holiday knows he can push the ball hard up the middle to force Kyle Lowry to take on Porziņģis in the post and leave White open for 3.

These are the types of simple but early reads that make Holiday the ideal point guard for this team. They don’t need someone who can carve up the defense. The Celtics wanted a playmaker who could tilt the court in their favor and let all the other star talent on the roster capitalize on a small advantage. Boston’s top six players don’t need someone to create a lane for them, but just to make sure timing and pace are their advantage.

Holiday still has a lot to figure out about the rhythm of this team, and everyone else needs to get used to how he works the court and when and where he looks for teammates. That the Celtics keep winning early on even though their opponents are shooting lights out from deep and their offense still is a bit messy says a lot about this team’s potential. Porziņģis was brought in to lift the Celtics’ offensive ceiling, but Holiday sets their baseline. In due time, he’ll be able to elevate that too."