IMO the Celtic are in a tough position.
What makes you think Kyrie Irving will play any differently next year than he did last year? Why will he not be the ISO leader of the 2020 Boston Celtics? Is it because we could maybe have Anthony Davis? Is there anything in his past that indicates he can score when he needs to, and distribute the ball thus keeping the players on the floor engaged?
Kyrie wasn't the problem last year, at least on the court.
The Celtics were fifth in the NBA last year in terms of assists per possession, only 0.2 assists per 100 possessions from third place in the NBA. The ball moved just fine.
Seriously?
In the 4th quarter in tight games... Irving did not let up control of the ball. He got pizzed when Hayward passed it to Tatum
Come on now
Kyrie got upset once because Hayward deviated from the play call. I don't think that was indicative of things over 82 games.
Kyrie did take the most shots in clutch time. That's what star players do. He also led the team in +/- during clutch situations, along with leading the team in assists.
The flipside is nobody else gets to "grow"
If you dont allow Rozier, Brown, Tatum etc be the man late in games/hit the game winning shots.... there wasnt even one game I remember of this happening
How are they going to grow mentally?
When Irving wants help from these guys, late in games or when he is having an off night... how are you expecting them to come through?
Even Jordan let other players make some difficult shots/last shots of the game. Ask Kerr
Kobe the same. Spurs the same. GSW the same.