BOSTON – Kristaps Porzingis will tell you:
He’s not Kristaps Porzingis yet.
He’s healthy, capable of averaging 31.4 minutes per game after missing all of last season with a knee injury.
He’s productive, scoring 18.3 points, pulling down a career-high 7.9 rebounds, connecting on 37.5% of his three’s. Monday’s four-point stinker in Boston was his first single-digit scoring night.
He’s just not … there.
“Just the feel for the game,” Porzingis told SI.com. “I played a lot of pickup in the off season and I was trying to find my rhythm and then all the little details about the game, the contact, where the contact is going to come and game feel, decision making and the speed is different in the game.