Kyrie Irving may have changed teams over the offseason but his handles remain just as deadly. And on Monday night, Irving wowed everyone watching the Boston Celtics take on the Atlanta Hawks, as Uncle Drew executed a series of dribbling maneuvers that left four Atlanta defenders looking like helpless bystanders.

The Hawks simply couldn’t stop Irving, but then again, who can?

Dennis Schroder and Dewayne Dedmon tried at first to trap Kyrie Irving but the Celtics guard split their defense before embarrassing the Hawks’ secondary defenders in Kent Bazemore and Taurean Prince.

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The Hawks were starting to feel good about themselves after beating the Cleveland Cavaliers last night. Why do you have to deflate their egos again like that, Kyrie?

The task of beating the Hawks doesn’t seem as easy for the Celtics as Kyrie Irving trying to flatten his defenders, however. The Celtics are in a dogfight with Atlanta with the game still within reach of the home team as of this writing.