Guard Derrick White certainly aided in Boston's regular-season success. He had himself a year to remember on the defensive end of the court, which earned him his first-career NBA All-Defensive First Team nod with 58 votes, the NBA announced Friday. White, who stands at 6-foot-4, recorded a career-high 98 blocks and 88 steals. He was the fourth Celtic in franchise history to record those numbers and the first to record 75-plus blocks and 75-plus steals since Kevin Garnett.
Even the games we haven't scored a lot of points, like at Chicago and then Houston, our defense has gotten better. We had five guys on a string. They shut down Houston in the fourth quarter a week ago in a dramatic comeback and gave up just 99 points to Chicago on the road before losing decisively to Cleveland.