For his fifth match since his return to competition, Robert WilliamsIII signed his first double-double and his best performance of the season, with 11 points (4/4 to shoot) and 15 rebounds against the Rockets.
All in just 20 minutes, off the bench. The pivot is still a substitute and he should, logically and once the rhythm is found, return to the five majors, to the place he occupied last season.
Except that it is not necessarily engraved in stone for the current “head coach”.
“Are we going to put him back among the starters? It will depend on what is best for the team at that moment. replies Joe Mazzulla for Mass Live. “What’s best for him?” We changed our five majors a bit during the season, which gives us flexibility. We have found our regularity at the moment. So it will be a question of whether it makes sense or not. Otherwise, we won’t. »
How does the player react to this announcement? Could he agree to no longer be a holder? The subject has already been discussed even before his return.
“If we keep winning. If we win, then no matter what the conditions are, we have to do it,” explains Robert Williams III. “The coach told me about it before I came back, so it was expected. I am a team player. If we have the right formula, I have the feeling that we should continue to use it. »
| Robert Williams | Percentage | Bounces | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Season | Team | GM | Minimum | Shots | 3 points | LF | Off | Def | Early | pd | party | Int | bp | CT | Points |
| 2018-19 | BOS | 32 | 9 | 70.6 | 0.0 | 60.0 | 0.8 | 1.7 | 2.5 | 0.2 | 1.1 | 0.3 | 0.3 | 1.3 | 2.5 |
| 2019-20 | BOS | 29 | 13 | 72.7 | 0.0 | 64.7 | 1.4 | 3.0 | 4.4 | 0.9 | 1.8 | 0.8 | 0.7 | 1.2 | 5.2 |
| 2020-21 | BOS | 52 | 19 | 72.1 | 0.0 | 61.6 | 2.6 | 4.3 | 6.9 | 1.8 | 2.0 | 0.8 | 1.0 | 1.8 | 8.0 |
| 2021-22 | BOS | 61 | 30 | 73.6 | 0.0 | 72.2 | 3.9 | 5.7 | 9.6 | 2.0 | 2.3 | 0.9 | 1.0 | 2.2 | 10.0 |
| 2022-23 | BOS | 4 | 18 | 72.2 | 0.0 | 50.0 | 3.0 | 3.0 | 6.0 | 1.0 | 2.0 | 0.5 | 1.0 | 1.3 | 6.8 |
| Total | 178 | 20 | 72.8 | 0.0 | 66.4 | 2.5 | 4.1 | 6.6 | 1.4 | 1.9 | 0.7 | 0.8 | 1.7 | 7.2 | |
