The NBA is a bit like Broadway,
all it takes is a few bad reviews, and you're out of the league.
Gerald Green has a tremendous amount of athleticism and offensive skill set. It amazes me how the media creates an expectation that for the most part is unreachable, for the young players (did you really think that Gerald Green would know team defense and have the complete package at the age he was drafted)
I'd be curious WWRD (what would Red do) with an athlete like Gerald Green or Bill Walker. The Celtics continue to struggle with developing young talent the past few years. They either can't get off the bench or are traded. It would be interesting to see if there are any current stats on
MPG (minutes per game) per player drafted by a team in the first 3 years and see how things add up. And while clearly, draft order would impact this. Teams with worse records usually get better picks and those players are bound to get more minutes. It would still be interesting on seeing how things fared for each NBA team. My bet would be the Celtics are in the bottom half of that stat.
Gerald Green. Wouldn't be the first kid to blossom late.
sorry, but i dont see gg's game this way. he could dunk, yes. he could take jump shots, sometimes.
but could he rebound consistently? play defense? stay within the offensive game plan? pass? make his team mates better players?
gg was one dimensional and it had nothing to do with the media spinning his image and the rest of the the nba and gm's believing such spin. a number of teams had his rights, but he failed to impress any of them.
he could score in the right situation but not much else. on top of that, he really is not an overly intelligent basketball player nor a hard worker by nba standards.
if gg had been drafted by any else than the celtics, no one on this board would think twice about him.
now all that is left is for someone to bring "you know who" into the thread.