I'm sorry, but this can't be said more here.
Neismith literally didn't even looked like he belonged on the court against the Knicks in garbage time.
Not sure who stuck their neck out for this guy, but time to hit the road jack. Seriously embarrassing scouting.
He’s barely seen the court. Not ready to quit on him yet. He gets a pass this year but he shoulda stepped up today. You have a chance to show out you do it. That’s mental and may end up being his demise. If he gets through it he could be a player. The entire team looked liked they didn’t belong on the court today including the starters.
Yeah, Nesmith is a rookie who also had virtually no training camp and he doesn't have the 4 years of college that Pritchard has.
the other rookies playing well around the league...did they have a secret training camp that they kept from Nesmith?
Did they have a stress fracture in their foot that’s kept them from playing and training for ages?
So training camp would not have helped him, would it? Next.
Bonus point: Maybe your GM should stop drafting injured players.
Maybe fans shouldn't have unreasonable expectations for rookies to contribute on a contending team. Especially rookies that were not picked in the lottery.
Well
1. He was drafted in the lottery.
2. Having a player mix in and produce just in small stints off the bench (literally just hitting 1-2 3s a game and giving effort defensively) isn't unrealistic. He's a basketball player and supposed to be a dead-eye shooter. He literally can't get onto the court because he's so bad. And when he does he proves that he is in fact not good lol.
Side note:
I think it's funny how everyone was all," Where's Neismith??! Brad you're terrible!" and then he gets on the court and is god awful (Not an exaggeration his statistics are literally horrific). Now the narrative isn't about Brad at all and more about the whole give him time deal.
Another reason we shouldn't act like we know more than Brad as a 20+ year highly successful head coach.
Here's a reference for how bad Neismith is doing:
Jaylen Brown came into the NBA shooting only 29% from 3 in college and was not known as a shooter despite drastically improving even over his rookie year.
Even Marcus Smart shot roughly 30% in his first couple years and he was not a good shooter in college.
Neismith who was only expected to bring even below average shooting (30%) and is so far only shooting 20% from 3 lol. Some of these are wide open looks too.
If he continues this pace (I'm not going to say this will continue because maybe he improves over the season) he will be a completely worthless player to this team.
He's a bad defender, he can't handle the basketball, and he's not a good athlete. I'm not mad at the kid and he still may develop into a serviceable bench player, but it was a terrible pick by Danny Ainge and crew because he's a one dimensional player that really doesn't bring anything else to the table.