Poll: Did drafting Young and his bad work ethic effect are draft this year.

[KG Living Legend]

 Rozier first pick. Tough. Defensive beast. Strong. Hard nosed. Two years experience.

 Hunter three years experience. High BBIQ. Coaches son. Great passer and ball handler.

 Mickey Defensive first mentality. Athletic. Two
 years experience.

 Young. One year experience. Stupid. Slow. Lazy. Didn't take direction or instruction well. Excuse me but I can't stand the guy. I hope we dump him for Perry Jones, and I don't like Jones that much lol.

[Eja117]

I kinda doubt it. Ainge had tons of experience drafting hard workers like Avery Bradley and Perk, and Marcus Smart was in the same draft

[loco_91]

Lol. I agree with you re: Young, but I don't think it had anything to do with this year's picks. It was a bad and out-of-character but forgivable pick from Ainge... would've way rather had KJ McDaniels or especially Clint Capela, but there wasn't an obvious BPA.

This year's picks seem way more solid, and certainly more in-character for Ainge, but the jury is out.

[KG Living Legend]

Agree with you loco, Tp. I'm not mad at the young pick. Just mad how it's looking right now. It did seem like an upside pick. But then again so wasn't Bradley, Gerald green, and Kedrick Brown. At least Avery worked out.

[PhoSita]

We actually have zero evidence that Young has a poor work ethic.

Young was drafted as a multi-year project.  He was the youngest player in his draft class and only played one year for a college that is notorious for getting its players drafted but not really teaching them the game.

Nobody should be surprised at all, or view Young as a bad pick, just because he did not crack the rotation last year and still looks like he needs time to develop.  He's younger than all of the players we drafted this year.

[SHAQATTACK]

LoL 

TP .....for say n it ....yup....LOL

 I get it  tho,   ....sorta brutal .about it .....but some truth in his words .

[Denis998]

first off, Young is still at least one year younger then our current rookies. I don't think Young has a bad work ethic; I feel that Grampa Wally was having a bad day and spouted some nonsense about his work ethic. Never liked that guy, soo glad he is now on Philly.

[Celtics4ever]

Rozier first pick. Tough. Defensive beast. Strong. Hard nosed. Two years experience.

Ainge seems to like defensive guards more than anything.  He must think if you can guard your man, you do not need rim protection.   But then again, he did go out and get David Lee, too.   But Ainge has never put a premium on rim protection.    I wish we had good defensive players at every position, period. 

 

Hunter three years experience. High BBIQ. Coaches son. Great passer and ball handler.

These things always are a good thing.  Big knock on him is his lateral movement, not exactly a rebuke on Young.   Hunter is a shooter though.

Mickey Defensive first mentality. Athletic. Two  years experience.

I think it is more an indictment of Olynyk and Sully being so porous at the rim, than James Young.

Young. One year experience. Stupid. Slow. Lazy. Didn't take direction or instruction well. Excuse me but I can't stand the guy. I hope we dump him for Perry Jones, and I don't like Jones that much lol.

Way too early, and this kid worked hard on his body in off season. 

[KG Living Legend]

 We do have evidence he sucks. Avery took some time to develop, but as soon as he was getting time on the Court he was playing defense, Young is just so bad on defense its incredible.
 Oh and he's a shooter that can't shoot.

[hwangjini_1]

We actually have zero evidence that Young has a poor work ethic.

Young was drafted as a multi-year project.  He was the youngest player in his draft class and only played one year for a college that is notorious for getting its players drafted but not really teaching them the game.

Nobody should be surprised at all, or view Young as a bad pick, just because he did not crack the rotation last year and still looks like he needs time to develop.  He's younger than all of the players we drafted this year.

good points. indeed, the only quotes i have seen concerning young and his willingness to learn and work have been positive. people have indicated that he does work hard.

not everyone can have the manical - dare i say near psychotic - motor of KG and smart. but that does not mark them as lazy.

young is young. how many times do we need to come back to the point that patience is needed in evaluating young as an nba player?

patience, patience, patience...let's not all rush to get egg on our collective faces as many posters did during bradley's first year in the nba. we need to evaluate young based upon the improvements he makes this year. so let's wait and see.

[SHAQATTACK]

 We do have evidence he sucks. Avery took some time to develop, but as soon as he was getting time on the Court he was playing defense, Young is just so bad on defense its incredible.
 Oh and he's a shooter that can't shoot.

I agree...in principle

The evidence is the " eye test " ......he look as bad as Hunter looked good..

 


That said ......I d love for him to be the next MJ .....like sir Charles say......I might be wrong .....but I doubt it ...

[ImShakHeIsShaq]

If one person makes you change the way you draft then you weren't sure about your process in the first place. If you are like that, chances are extremely high that you aren't in a position to make this type of decision! DA has the job, I'd bet good money, he didn't think like that!

[Monkhouse]

So easy for someone to judge Young even though they don't know what their talking about at all.

Young may suck, but even Ainge has quoted himself that Young would take a few years to develop.

I like how people criticize Ainge, but put yourself in their shoes, and you wouldn't even last a single day.

Also there is as people stated, no absolute evidence Young has had no work ethic... Young has admitted he's dominated the competition that he's been playing at, so the necessary extra hours in the gym didn't seem to serve him useful. That is a bad mentality, but it doesn't mean hes lazy... He clearly hustled more in SL, and definitely bulked up.

If one person makes you change the way you draft then you weren't sure about your process in the first place. If you are like that, chances are extremely high that you aren't in a position to make this type of decision! DA has the job, I'd bet good money, he didn't think like that!

Yup agreed.

[GzUP617]

Cool,  what else can we blame Young for ?

[KG Living Legend]

We actually have zero evidence that Young has a poor work ethic.

Young was drafted as a multi-year project.  He was the youngest player in his draft class and only played one year for a college that is notorious for getting its players drafted but not really teaching them the game.

Nobody should be surprised at all, or view Young as a bad pick, just because he did not crack the rotation last year and still looks like he needs time to develop.  He's younger than all of the players we drafted this year.

good points. indeed, the only quotes i have seen concerning young and his willingness to learn and work have been positive. people have indicated that he does work hard.

not everyone can have the manical - dare i say near psychotic - motor of KG and smart. but that does not mark them as lazy.

young is young. how many times do we need to come back to the point that patience is needed in evaluating young as an nba player?

patience, patience, patience...let's not all rush to get egg on our collective faces as many posters did during bradley's first year in the nba. we need to evaluate young based upon the improvements he makes this year. so let's wait and see.

 Ok hwang, you twisted my arm, I'll give him half of another season, but if he doesn't start diving for balls and breaking his fingers on the floor he's fired.