Another thing is everyone in here including me and even the Boston fans were saying that defensively the Celtics will be alright cause they are replacing the worst defensive guard with another almost as bad and since overall they were a good defensive team with IT, they will be good with Kyrie too.
But now we are seeing that Kyrie went from a terrible defender to average and maybe even a bit slightly above average defender in Brads system. He has the 14th best defensive rating of any guard so far this season. If the player who is supposed to be your defensive liability has the 14th best defensive rating for guards, you dont have anything to worry about.
If Kyrie keeps this up all season, it would mean Boston won that trade by miles. If yall remember we were all saying that Kyrie will match ITs offensive output and they would be a wash defensively and the trade was good for the Celtics because they got the younger guard. But now we are seeing that Kyrie in Brads system is a way better overall player than IT was.
Also, kind of the scary to think if Brads system boosted Kyries defensive rating from the 65th best guard last season to the 14th this season, how bad is IT gonna be defensively now that he is not in Brads system?