With the way that Terry Rozier has played the last couple of months for the Boston Celtics, he has a right to be confident. He has stepped into the big shoes that Kyrie Irving left to be filled, and although he can't be Irving, he has done a good job of helping fill some of the production lost.
Rozier has always been a confident player, even when he struggled the first couple of years in the NBA, but that didn't stop him from saying he's always been an elite player.
“I’m gonna put it to you like this,” Rozier told Paul Flannery of SB Nation. “I’ve been good, always. I’ve been at an elite level since Hargrave Military Academy. As these years have gone on, getting in college for two years, playing at this level for three years, I feel like I’ve become wiser and smarter. Obviously, I got better as a player, but I was always an elite player. Once the game slowed down for me, I figured, ‘Oh I can play with the best of them.’”
One of the things that Rozier thinks makes him elite is his toughness. He uses his toughness to play good defense, a part of his game that he puts a lot of pride in.
“Toughness is something that you can’t teach,” he says. “You’ve just got to do it. Like a little guard that can go in there and get rebounds, that shows toughness. That’s been my whole life.”
His toughness and defense will really be tested against the Cavaliers, as the Celtics will try and find a way to slow down LeBron James, and the rest of the Cleveland Cavaliers.
If Rozier can keep up his elite play, the Celtics have a good shot.
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