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CelticsBlog Player(s) of the Week #3 and #4: Sam Hauser and Grant Williams

CelticsBlog Player(s) of the Week #3 and #4: Sam Hauser and Grant Williams

Better late than never: the CelticsBlog Player of the Week is back. After circumstances required a week off last week, weโ€™ve now got two full weeks of Boston Celtics basketball to catch up on. That entails a total of seven games: the November 2 overtime loss to the Cleveland Cavaliers, and six subsequent wins against Chicago, New York, Memphis, Detroit (twice) and Denver. Weโ€™ll be lumping these weeks together as one, because I think that offers some more fun options for us to discuss here.

Letโ€™s not waste any time and jump right into it. This is a fun one.

Honorable Mentions:

Itโ€™s finally time for Jayson Tatum to sit this one out, but thatโ€™s not in any way due to his performance on the court. The Celticsโ€™ superstar forward continued his torrid start to the season, averaging 31.6 points per game during the 6-1 stretch. Heโ€™s the rising tide that lifts all ships on this roster, and itโ€™s all but certain that his name is going to pop up in here each week if this is the level of play weโ€™re going to continue to see from him.

Elsewhere, it feels like a good time to give Al Horford his first shout-out in this space. He sat out two games for rest purposes (the New York and Detroit wins), but averaged 14.6 points per game on blistering 63% shooting from the field in his five appearances, while remaining his customarily steady self defensively. Marcus Smart also warrants a mention, as the owner of four(!) games with double-digit assists in his past five outings.

That said, I think we can all agree that itโ€™s time to give the role players some shine. And for that reason…

CelticsBlog (Co-)Player(s) of the Week(s) #3 and #4: Sam Hauser and Grant Williams

Hauser: 7 GP, 19 MPG, 9.1 PPG, 49% FG, 41% 3PT, +43

Williams: 7 GP, 30 MPG, 9.4 PPG, 56% FG, 40% 3PT, 5 REB, 2 AST, +58

Thatโ€™s right, itโ€™s a flat-out pair of flamethrowers for us this week. Two of the teamโ€™s best three-point shooters, percentage-wise (Horford being the third), will be sharing the award this time out. The two-week window benefits both players here; Iโ€™m not sure either completely stand out within the context of either individual week, but as a whole, I think itโ€™s hard to tell the story of this win streak without spending quite a bit of time discussing their play.

We can start with Hauser, because the summary is pretty simple: the guy can just flat-out shoot. After missing out on the Max Struses of the world for years now, the Celtics finally found their…

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