Low expectations are often a blessing and a curse. On the one hand, it’s easy to impress when people expect so little, but on the other hand, if there’s no expectation, there’s no motivation and it becomes easy to coast by.
Not for Grant Williams, who for most of last season was the whipping boy for Celtics fans and media alike. Often branded too small to play the center position and too big and slow for a perimeter role, it looked like Williams was standing on the brink of irrelevance.
However, Williams spent the off-season re-inventing himself and has become a core member of the Boston Celtics rotation. A 50% conversion rate on corner threes has gone a long way to changing the narrative around his fit on the team and long-term potential in the league. Of course, Williams is more than just a spot-up shooter from the corners, or at least, that’s the message he’s trying to send this year.
We’ve seen a vast improvement when defending the perimeter, a high IQ when…
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