Sully was getting blocked right and left. Poor shot selection.
Yeah, but Sully has always been that way. All of last season his shot selection was incredibly questionable. There were many, many times where I saw him locked down on defense 8 - 10 feet from the basket, with an open man on the three point line...and rather than pass to the open man, he forced a horrible looking turn-around jump-shot-hook-think that never had a hope of going in. He did things like that so often last year it almost made me cringe every time he caught the ball with a defender on him. That's not even getting started on the number of contested threes he chucked up (that's another story for another day).
I'm just stunned the way so many Boston fans absolutely ignored all the bad things Sully did last year, and only raved about all the good things he did. Yet guys like AB, Jeff Green and Olynyk got the complete opposite treatment, constantly attacked with criticism by many while their strong points were completely ignored.
For some reason Boston fans are just unnaturally biased towards Sully, and I have no idea why. He's undoubtedly a skilled player who has the potential to be something nice in the league, but if you had never seen him play and just went off Celtics fan feedback you would think he's the second coming of Karl Malone.
Thornton surprised me....he and Turner seem to be legitimate scoring threats.
Why are people surprised by this?
Over his 9 NBA seasons so far Marcus Thornton has a CAREER average of 18.5 points per 36 minutes, to go with 43% FG, 36% 3PT and 83% FT. The guy has been a 'legitimate scoring threat' throughout his entire career!
Likewise, Turner has averaged 14 points, 6.5 rebounds and 4 assists per 36 minutes over his career.
These guys may not be Carmello or KD, but they have both been pretty productive guys over their whole careers. Turner is just unlucky that his last 27 games were spent in a place / role that just didn't fit him, and people look at him almost every body judges him based on how he played in Indiana, where he averaged a (perfectly respectable) 12 points, 5.5 rebounds and 4 assists per 36 minutes. People judge him on his production but ignore the fact that he only played 20 minutes a game. Basically Turner has never once averaged under 11 points, 5 rebounds or 3 assists per 36 minutes at any point in his career. That he'll be a productive player is almost a given.
