WATCH: The best of Boston Celtics center Tristan Thompson in 2020-21

Things could have gone better for Tristan Thompson in his first season with his new team. But, with no training camp to learn how the Boston Celtics would use him, an awkward “double big” lineup to operate in after a long layoff from high-level basketball and a whopper of a COVID case mid-season, the Canadian center was playing catch-up from day one.

Even still, he managed to become an important part of the Celtics’ rotation, comfortable in a flexible role that could see him start one day and come off of the bench the next.

While his 7.6 points and 8.1 rebounds per game with Boston are a little below his career averages, the numbers only tell part of the tale.

Watch the video embedded above to see the highlights of Thompson’s first season in green in white in the clip assembled by YouTuber Tomasz Kordylewski.

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