How the ‘new’ Derrick White keeps shooting the Celtics to victory
New York TimesBOSTON — As the Celtics wrapped their final practice before the Cavaliers came to town, Derrick White was working on missing. “It’s important because it means usually the shots he takes are because we’re either out in transition, we’ve set really good screens and he has that, or there are two-on-ones and we’re making extra passes,” Celtics coach Joe Mazzulla said after White scored 25 points in Game 1. “So I think when those guys get more and more shots, it means we’re getting to the different layers of our offense which is important against a team like this.” The thing about White is he takes some bad shots now, but somehow usually in the right moments. Even without their center, Mazzulla kept putting White in their go-to action “Octagon” which is the primary conduit to Porziņģis’ role in the offense. “So just stay spaced, stay ready and I think I take a lot of 3s like that, probably made a lot too, so just keep taking good looks and knock them down.” Tatum and Brown inevitably got most of the shots in the past, but they’re better playmakers now and White in turn has become a better scorer.
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