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It's Grant btw:
"It feels like Grant Williams has been around forever, perhaps because he's survived many different iterations of the Boston Celtics both on and off the court through his first few seasons. In actuality, he has yet to wrap up Year 3, and this is the first time he's on track to clear 20 minutes per game.
Initial projections had him developing into Baby Al Horford. That clearly isn't happening. But he has turned himself into an endlessly scalable player, someone who opens all sorts of lineup combinations thanks to his low usage, floor spacing and capacity to soak up reps alongside other bigs.
Since we're all friends here, I'll be honest: It is hard for me to pinpoint what, exactly, Williams should become on defense. But he has some real portability. Bigs who don't wield obscene amounts of explosion cannot typically recover as well when caught off-balance, in space, versus slippery ball-handlers. Williams every so often makes a stop that hearkens to his extreme shiftiness—like when he blocked Ja Morant while backpedaling in Boston's March 3 win over Memphis.
Williams has entrenched himself as almost a pure accessory at the other end, in the best imaginable way. He can decision-make around the basket and has traces of a floor game, but he now cuts his teeth as an outside marksman. Nearly two-thirds of his attempts come from beyond the arc, where he's burying 44 percent of his shots, including a whopping 51 percent from the corners."
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It's Grant btw:
"It feels like Grant Williams has been around forever, perhaps because he's survived many different iterations of the Boston Celtics both on and off the court through his first few seasons. In actuality, he has yet to wrap up Year 3, and this is the first time he's on track to clear 20 minutes per game.
Initial projections had him developing into Baby Al Horford. That clearly isn't happening. But he has turned himself into an endlessly scalable player, someone who opens all sorts of lineup combinations thanks to his low usage, floor spacing and capacity to soak up reps alongside other bigs.
Since we're all friends here, I'll be honest: It is hard for me to pinpoint what, exactly, Williams should become on defense. But he has some real portability. Bigs who don't wield obscene amounts of explosion cannot typically recover as well when caught off-balance, in space, versus slippery ball-handlers. Williams every so often makes a stop that hearkens to his extreme shiftiness—like when he blocked Ja Morant while backpedaling in Boston's March 3 win over Memphis.
Williams has entrenched himself as almost a pure accessory at the other end, in the best imaginable way. He can decision-make around the basket and has traces of a floor game, but he now cuts his teeth as an outside marksman. Nearly two-thirds of his attempts come from beyond the arc, where he's burying 44 percent of his shots, including a whopping 51 percent from the corners."
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