At the same time, White has appeared in only 13 games and is still working his way through a new experience. There are nights when he’s too passive on offense and makes mistakes on defense. “You come to a new place and you have guys like Jaylen Brown and Jayson Tatum, Marcus Smart on your team, that have been here for a long time, the human instinct is—defer is maybe too strong of a word—but to sort of look to them,” Hardy says. “And those guys have been great at empowering Derrick, like, ‘Hey man you don’t have to look for us every time. Go score! Play!’”