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3 reasons why the Boston Celtics could be on the brink of a dynasty

By Cesar Fuentes

The Boston Celtics put up 128 points against the Detroit Pistons last night and their offense looks unstoppable with the offense on a historic pace (Photo by Sean Gardner/Getty Images)
The Boston Celtics put up 128 points against the Detroit Pistons last night and their offense looks unstoppable with the offense on a historic pace (Photo by Sean Gardner/Getty Images) /
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Reason No. 2) The young core keeps improving every year

The 2021-2022 season was a big year for this young team. Not only did they make their first Finals, but they all improved in their own ways.

To start, Jayson Tatum improved in every aspect of his game. This season, Tatum played the best basketball of his career, and, because of that, he was awarded First Team All-NBA alongside four other superstars.

To get to this position, the wing elevated his game in a number of ways which included a career-high in points (26.9), assists (4.4), rebounds (8.0), and his 2-point percentage (.524).

Coming into the season, playmaking for the Jays was the big question mark surrounding the duo of JT and JB. Not only did Tatum have a career-high in assists, but so did Jaylen Brown.

With 3.5 assists per game, Brown notched a new career-high in assists and subsequently silenced his doubters.

During the first half of the season, Jaylen was dealing with a hamstring injury that caused him to miss some time and the media didn’t acknowledge how great a player he was. After the “energy is about the shift” tweet, Brown played out of his mind and finally put some respect on his name.

Now that the world saw him ball out in the Finals (24 points per game on 43 percent shooting), expect to see his name next year come All-Star voting time.

The next player to step his playmaking game up was point-guard, Marcus Smart. During the first half of the season, the narrative was “Boston doesn’t have a point guard”. After coming back from injury in late January, Smart let the world know that Boston had their point guard the whole time, achieving a career-high in assists with 5.9 per game.

Along with the new career-high, he became the first guard to win the illustrious Defensive Player of the Year award since Gary Payton did so back in 1996.

Lastly, the bouncy Robert Williams had the biggest jump of the young core, achieving career highs in points, rebounds, assists, steals, blocks, field goal percentage, and free throw percentage.

Around the end of the season, Williams suffered a knee injury that required surgery and had him out for an extended period of time. Had he kept playing at the level he was with no injury, there is no doubt in my mind he would have joined teammate, Marcus Smart, on the All-Defensive First Team.

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