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The biggest move of the offseason was Kyrie Irving making the switch from the Cleveland Cavaliers to the Boston Celtics. There was a lot of speculation regarding just how that would work out, and it didn't take long to realize that the fit was pretty perfect.
Irving, already a great player with the Cavs, may have taken his game to an even greater level in Boston.
Rival point guard of the Washington Wizards, John Wall, had this to offer about the change in Irving's game.
“He moves a lot more without the ball in the kind of plays they run,” Wall told Jay King of MassLive.com. “Kind of like what they did with Isaiah. He still can score the ball any way you want him to possible.”
Irving was more dependent on isolation play with the Cavs, operating in kind of a your turn, my turn offense alongside LeBron James. Celtics head coach Brad Stevens has instilled a more fluid offense that is utilizing Irving in slightly different ways. Irving still gets his chances in isolation, but he is moving off the ball more as Wall says and getting different opportunities.
This season, Irving is putting up averages of 24.7 points and 4.9 assists per game, both down from last season with the Cavs but he's shooting more efficiently at 49.1 percent from the field and 41.0 percent from three.
