Boston Celtics: 2 underrated players that must be accounted for in Game 4

Player Boston Celtics must account for No. 2) Kyle Lowry

Some people are seriously forgetting that, when healthy, Kyle Lowry is still a highly impactful point guard who, during his time in the league, has led his respective teams on numerous deep playoff runs.

We at HH are certainly not one of those people.

A high-impact contributor with a nose for winning basketball, Lowry is certainly not someone a team down 1-2 in a best-of-seven series should roll back their attention on, no matter what stage of his career he’s in.

Boasting a resume that consists of six All-Star nods, an All-NBA selection, an NBA Championship, and averages of 14.8 points, 6.3 assists, 4.4 rebounds, and 1.3 steals on 37 percent shooting from deep, the 36-year-old has had quite an eventful career and we’ve already seen him tap back into his prime-days on several occasions throughout this year’s campaign when unattended to or, simply, when dared to take over.

While he may not have had a great first game of the Eastern Conference Finals on Saturday night from an offensive perspective (11 points and six assists on just 36 percent shooting from the floor), defensively the vet was a true pest, swiping four steals and playing some sound coverage throughout.

Now, with him one game removed from a four-game absence after nursing a hamstring injury, he very well may have gotten the rest and rust removal needed to get back to being the player who, over the last two months of action, was boasting some truly impressive overall numbers of 13.3 points, 6.4 assists, 4.5 boards, and 1.1 steals per game on 48.7 percent shooting from the floor and 46.6 percent shooting from deep.

If he can play up to these standards, things could wind up getting out of hand rather fast.