Zach Lowe

Shooting percentages are pro-Kawhi.

Jalen, 48% overall.

52% on twos, 34% on threes.

Kawhi, 50% overall, 57% on twos, 38% on threes.

Kawhi's a better defensive player.

Jalen Brown has the edge in assists by a non-insignificant margin.

Now the downside is that he's got more turnovers than all of these guys, which is, and he has, I think, you know, he has a penchant for live ball in the paint turnovers, which are particularly damaging.

And that may be one reason the advanced stats are a little bit lower on him.

than the others.

But I just think I, I just, I was so dead wrong about the Celtics.

I took the under on 41 and a half.

I eat shit for it every day.

All of their staff and coaches know that I was down on them.

I just can't believe how good they are.

And a number of things happen.

Number one, Jalen Brown leveled way up, like way up.

It didn't just like go up a notch.

You went up like four notches in one year.

The other thing that I sort of factored into my Celtics pessimism, other than the lack of depth on the front line, the inexperience, all the questions that people like Nimi Keita and Baylor Shireman and Hugo Gonzalez and on and on have answered was just in the typical run of a season, Derek White almost 15 games or Peyton Pritchard or miss 20 games.

And that just hasn't happened.