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Team: Boston Celtics
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Position: C
Age: 31
2017-18 Per-Game Stats: 14.7 points, 9.0 rebounds, 4.3 assists, 0.8 steals, 0.8 blocks
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As Greg Cassoli explained for CelticsBlog, the Boston Celtics accept frequently asked Al Horford to ample aloof about every role beneath the sun. They've approved to accomplish him animation amid attention the rim, switching assimilate abate opponents and actuality in assorted places at once.
Now, with an beverage of angular athletes advancing into their own, they accept the manpower all-important for him to advance in this role:
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"In 2016-17, the Celtics artlessly did not accept the appropriate cadre to advantage what it is that makes Horford a appropriate defender—switching, helping, and acclimation the troops to avert the aces and roll. Boston overburdened him with duties, and attempted to assemble a arrangement that leveraged the strengths of its adamant on-ball defenders.
"Now, in 2017-18, that arrangement has been rebuilt about aggregate length, acceptance for added switching, accretion the amount of a rangy, able big like Horford, and abbreviating the cardinal of breach additional decisions he’s affected into making. The aftereffect has been, and will abide to be, a added adamant and able arresting unit."
According to NBA Math's arresting credibility saved, alone three players accept added added amount on the preventing end at this aboriginal date of the latest campaign. And abaft Horford's all-around excellence, the Celtics accept become the Association's most airless unit. Trust me. He is the catalyst abaft that point-stopping dominance.
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Without Horford, the Celtics' arresting appraisement declines by 7.3 credibility per 100 possessions. Among the six Boston players who accept logged at atomic 200 minutes, Kyrie Irving and Terry Rozier are the next-most impactful presences by this measure, blockage in with dips of 2.7 and 1.3 credibility over the aforementioned boilerplate span, respectively.
Horford charcoal an able scorer with three-point ambit and the adeptness to action as a distributing hub from the elbows. He aloof additionally happens to be an aboriginal adversary for Arresting Player of the Year.
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