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Hmmm, sounds to me like BOS, being a switch heavy team, has the opposing guards wanting to go at GWill as opposed to DWhite and company. I could be wrong, but I haven’t seen anything that would suggest he can guard quick players. I think he’s really good guarding bigger/slower ones though.

Edit: The list also doesn’t sound like it ranked the quality in which the players guarded those positions.

Certainly better at guarding up I agree but would also say seeing that we're trying to be a switch heavy team that we saw him as someone who can hold his own against smaller guards if he happens to end up on an island against them.  I've always viewed the idea of a player being able to "guard 1-5" meaning that you aren't completely screwed if they get cross matched and you can scheme a defense where they simply switch on everything, not that they are high level at guarding all positions necessarily.  I think the criteria being as high volume as it is speaks to these 11 players being identified by coaches as players who are not going to burn you defensively no matter how they get matched up and building a scheme that allows them to roam instead of protecting them from specific matchups on the floor.  To your point though it will be interesting to see if those numbers change for Grant Williams in a different system.

Also still blown away that DFS didn't qualify after digging that stat back up.