Sully 2013-2014 predictions.

[Celtics18]

8.0 PPG, 9.0 RPG

Plays close to half his minutes at center, plays like a beast, and we all continue to fall in love with him. 

[manl_lui]

with KG gone, and if he gets consistent playing time over Bass, I would assume nothing shy of 15 and 10 or 15 and 9

kid is a very good rebounder already last season. Correct me if I'm wrong but when he was healthy last season, wasn't he our best rebounder?

[2short]

steady 10 10, if not more

[Tr1boy]

12 and 10 plus 2 assists avg. He is going to get more min, more touches. His best work will be the stats we cant see like boxing out his guy consistently, setting beast picks, and playing a solid team game

[Chris]

If he is healthy, I would go with 12 and 9.

[fitzhickey]

12.5 and 9-10
With 2-3 assists a game

[PhoSita]

72 games

28 mpg

10.89 pts, 8.95 reb, 1.36 ast, .78 blk, .78 stl

.480 fg% / .310 3p% / .750 ft%

[LatterDayCelticsfan]

I stick my tongue firmly in my cheek and suggest he leads the league in games fouled out of.

[slamtheking]

as mentioned in the similar thread for KO, until the PF logjam is cleared, I don't see any of the PFs getting big minutes where they'll be able to put up big numbers.

figure Sully by year end to average 10pt, 7rb, 1.5ast, 1 stl

[LatterDayCelticsfan]

Plays all 82 games with his newly fixed back, starts Rookies v. Sophomore game on all star weekend, Charles Barkley names him his successor. 

[manl_lui]

Plays all 82 games with his newly fixed back, starts Rookies v. Sophomore game on all star weekend, Charles Barkley names him his successor.

I would LOVE that...given, Sully is taller than Barkley when he played, but if he can be Charles Barkley 2.0, I will take that any day of the week with Rondo and Green...

[Boris Badenov]

ScoobyDoo in another thread asked me to benchmark Sully's rookie season against other recent players. I hunted around and it looks like these are the guys who posted seasons that were pretty similar in terms of per-36 averages. (Sully had, roughly, 11/11 with 1bpg and 1spg.)

Greg Monroe
Al Horford
Ed Davis
Nik Vucevic
Ty Thomas
Sean Williams
Enes Kanter
Mike Sweetney
Andris Biedrins
Thomas Robinson

This seems pretty encouraging to me. If Sully is healthy, the higher end of this range includes some very good players. Of course some guys have flamed out, but in Williams' and Sweetney's case I think you could say it was more mental than physical. Everyone else on the list ranges from legit NBA bench player to possible future star. (I think it's to early to tell with T-Rob, so I'm not including him in that statement).

You can view the full search here:

http://bkref.com/tiny/ynF2U

In the list I've typed above, I did not include guys who were significantly better in one of the categories - like Al Jefferson who scored 16pp36 and others.

[PhoSita]

ScoobyDoo in another thread asked me to benchmark Sully's rookie season against other recent players. I hunted around and it looks like these are the guys who posted seasons that were pretty similar in terms of per-36 averages. (Sully had, roughly, 11/11 with 1bpg and 1spg.)

Greg Monroe
Al Horford
Ed Davis
Nik Vucevic
Ty Thomas
Sean Williams
Enes Kanter
Mike Sweetney
Andris Biedrins
Thomas Robinson

This seems pretty encouraging to me. If Sully is healthy, the higher end of this range includes some very good players. Of course some guys have flamed out, but in Williams' and Sweetney's case I think you could say it was more mental than physical. Everyone else on the list ranges from legit NBA bench player to possible future star. (I think it's to early to tell with T-Rob, so I'm not including him in that statement).

You can view the full search here:

http://bkref.com/tiny/ynF2U

In the list I've typed above, I did not include guys who were significantly better in one of the categories - like Al Jefferson who scored 16pp36 and others.

The biggest room for growth I see with Sullinger, in terms of his per-minute production, is in his points.

Last year Sully was an after-thought offensively; he took only the shots that were completely 100% available, or he attempted put-backs from offensive boards.

I feel like his points-per-36 could easily rise by 3 to 5 points this year once he's a more significant part of the offensive game plan.  Not that he's gonna have a bunch of plays run for him, but he won't have Pierce or Garnett to defer to anymore.