https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5FnZrEmorIw I think this is a nice breakdown of his strengths and his weaknesses. He seems to have a bunch of potential, and some of his advanced numbers are very encouraging. Hopefully the mental/effort side of him will continue to improve with time on an NBA team.
The weakness section was really concerning. Not a read and react player, poor passing vision/skills, spaces out on D, often fails to put up a fight.
The fact that the strengths section had a bunch of excuses didn't bode well. I actually thought, oh its all one discussion strength and weakness. Then the screen for weakness did popped up.
Langford was a huge reach.
He isn't a reach for me. He's just not a fit. If last season taught us anything is that we need less ball dominate players and more catch and shoot guys. If we lose Brown in a trade drafting Langford at 14 would be a homerun.
Well after this season I’ll know if DA is just a bad drafter or not. At this point I think he is a horrible drafter. I didn’t like any of his picks as I fell they didn’t fit what we already have and didn’t fill any of our needs. Unless Rozier is walking drafting 2 guards just don’t make sense to me. We have a gaping whole at center and have a plethora of Power Forwards and we draft an undersized PF? It was just a senseless draft to me and Langford doesn’t seem like he’s all that talented (to me). Just look like nothing more than an average player.
Couldn’t have said it better. Terrible draft. What is the obsession with undersized players. You win in this league with dominate big men. We have none.
This draft was absolute terrible for the Celtics. Washington picking Hachimura at #9 is bad as well, but Boston had the worst draft of all the teams.
You have 3 first round picks and you end up with Romeo Langford, Grant Williams and Carsen Edwards.
I think Langford is the worst one, I wouldn't even be surprised if he's out of the league in 5 years. Williams isn't terrible at #22, in the best case scenario you have a Draymond Green type of player, but Williams being undersized will limit him regardless. Edwards is fine at #33, he can be micro-wave scorer, I'm kind of excited to watch him (is he getting playing time though?).
But I'm not going to justify this by pointing out some bright spots. It's been a total failure. There were capable starting centers on the board (the thing we lack you know) with Bitadze and Fernando, we didn't gamble on someone with high upside (Little, Bazley, Bol) which you can afford when you have 3 picks at your disposal.
It looks like the Celtics had NO idea what to do with their picks. It's ridiculous.
If I had known the draft would work out like this I'd rather have been as crazy as the Lakers and have given New Orleans 4 draft picks for one year of Davis.
This off-season is a complete disaster. I have no words for it. From a likely perennial contender we went to one of the worst run teams in the league.
The only teams that are in a worse position than us are probably: Charlotte, Detroit, Washington, Orlando, Miami and Cleveland. Luckily they're all in the East, so we have a chance to keep making the playoffs