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Re: Waive Young
« Reply #90 on: July 06, 2016, 03:16:30 PM »

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Sell now!  He just made a few threes!  :)

No kidding!! He hits a few 3's in a summer league game and all of a sudden people want him to stay and say he has a sweet stroke. Barf. He is awful. Into his 3rd season and he hit a few 3's in a summer league game. Wow!

If that's the case, let him drop 25/game in summer league, and hopefully build up enough value in his 'potential' that Danny can fleece some other GM out of a 2nd round pick or something for him, rather than just cutting him now and getting nothing in return.  Roster doesn't need to be set until the season starts... if someone goes down between now and then with an injury, he might have a role to play.  Worst that happens is that he gets cut before the season. 

Re: Waive Young
« Reply #91 on: July 06, 2016, 03:21:13 PM »

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Kid (he is a kid) is one of our best 3 point shooters. 

Not a great defender. Not nearly as bad as his detractors claim.

Struggles finishing, tries to get too cute by flicking the ball up, and it gets swatted. But is pretty decent at drawing contact.  Is a good foul shooter too, from what I see.

Really good 3 point shooter, able to draw contact, and good free throw shooter = very efficient scorer. That is what is a premium in this league write now. Brad Stevens used that exact term last night during his interview.

I think the kid's problem is that he wants to be liked. You see it on the bench with his antics. He seems just happy to be there, not p---ed that he isn't getting more burn.  That will probably be his downfall. 

Re: Waive Young
« Reply #92 on: July 06, 2016, 09:52:21 PM »

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With the premium on shooting league-wide and due to his age...can't see cutting him yet.

Re: Waive Young
« Reply #93 on: July 06, 2016, 11:29:44 PM »

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I don't see where GP II makes any sense.  A limited pg when we already have 12.  We have marcus and bradley and rozier who are the same kind of defensive guards but way better.  We need anther one?

Young's D may suck but at least he plays another position and is supposed to be a wing shooter scorer of sorts.

I don't see where passing up talent ever makes sense, and rosters are hardly static under Danny Ainge, anyway.  It was a really deep draft this year, imo, even into the undrafted pool, lol, so we should have taken as much talent as possible and worked out the rest later, in my view.  I'd rather have that problem as opposed to later regretting not taking a player simply because they didn't 'fit', but we are where we are :-\. Sigh.

And the key word in regards to James Young being that kind of player is supposed, haha ;D. Ugh.

If DA went into every draft just drafting the best talent he could this roster would be a cluster f of young players though that we can't all play or sign when they are up for contract.  They would all play similar positions and do similar things too.  Most GM's don't draft this way.  Mark Cuban might lol, and look how he ends up with a lot of overpaid roleplayers.  I just think it's funny he's the one who jumped at barnes and bogut.  A team like miami might hit on whiteside or whatever late. We even did that with Rondo but most of the time Ainge is trying to manage the roster.

But aren't we already in that position in terms of how many guards we have, lol?  Ainge has always said that he takes the bpa, regardless of fit, so what's wrong with taking as much of the best talent available as he can?  It's not like teams ever have 8 picks, anyway.  As you undoubtedly know, usually, teams just have two, but because of Danny's wheeling and dealing, the picks are the yield of all of those trades and were included as at least some sort of compensation, so by not using them, or not using them wisely, haha, we're not giving ourselves any chance of offsetting the loss of Rondo, Pierce, Garnett, Green, etc., nor improving the talent on our club.  That just makes absolutely no sense to me.  If you don't go into any and every draft trying to get the best talent available at your respective spot(s), why are you a gm in the first place?

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Plus scouting this draft, ainge knows who's good and I can guarantee there aren't any players we are going to overly regret. Some maybe that might turn out good but there are no paul george's later this draft.

I really hope that you're right.

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We could go into this draft and take Lavert later and Lawawu down teh line but I don't know.  I think Ainge did alright. What are those players going to do for us?

Umm, make us better, lol? ;D
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Re: Waive Young
« Reply #94 on: July 06, 2016, 11:44:01 PM »

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Re: Waive Young
« Reply #95 on: July 06, 2016, 11:52:52 PM »

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A fluff piece, but interesting nonetheless.

http://www.nba.com/celtics/news/sidebar/summer-post-070516-youthful-young-is-shooting-the-lights-out-in-utah/

TP for the article :).  The first two sentences are hilarious, imo.

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Very rarely is a first-round draft pick asked to participate in a third straight offseason of summer league ball.

Even rarer is a first-round draft pick only 20 years old while entering his third summer in the NBA.

Ugh, lol ;D.

Re: Waive Young
« Reply #96 on: July 07, 2016, 12:12:27 AM »

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hwangjini_1, this 'article' is pure gold ;D.

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Young can also build off of the steps that he has taken at the defensive end of the court. Shrewsberry said that in many of the instances in which it appears that Young is in the wrong place, it is because he is overcompensating for his teammates’ defensive lapses. Young is in correct position more often than not, and he has shown the ability to defend at a high level when the ball is in his man’s hands.


Re: Waive Young
« Reply #97 on: July 09, 2016, 08:01:14 PM »

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Another bad game for Young, it's his third year yet he still can't put a decent performance in SL...

Re: Waive Young
« Reply #98 on: July 09, 2016, 08:06:52 PM »

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Young is a disaster.

The best part of his game is shooting and that's mediocre at best.

Waive him/trade him for doritos.

Re: Waive Young
« Reply #99 on: July 09, 2016, 08:07:23 PM »

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Young is still, well, young.  As lost as he's looked doing anything but shooting, I still think he's a better bet to ever have a role in the league than Hunter, Jackson, or Bentil.  Those guys are older than James and have more skill, but don't look like they have the physical tools to carve out a role at the next level.
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Re: Waive Young
« Reply #100 on: July 09, 2016, 08:25:30 PM »

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Young is still, well, young.  As lost as he's looked doing anything but shooting, I still think he's a better bet to ever have a role in the league than Hunter, Jackson, or Bentil.  Those guys are older than James and have more skill, but don't look like they have the physical tools to carve out a role at the next level.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ekQ_Ja02gTY

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Re: Waive Young
« Reply #101 on: July 09, 2016, 08:34:17 PM »

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You have to make major improvements b=y year 3. Young haven't shown anything at all.

Re: Waive Young
« Reply #102 on: July 09, 2016, 09:02:04 PM »

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Young is still, well, young.  As lost as he's looked doing anything but shooting, I still think he's a better bet to ever have a role in the league than Hunter, Jackson, or Bentil.  Those guys are older than James and have more skill, but don't look like they have the physical tools to carve out a role at the next level.

:o

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ekQ_Ja02gTY

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LOL, TP. 

PHO, you've given yourself 1-3 odds against you to show that you are wrong. Let's rejoin this debate after this upcoming season.  ;)

Re: Waive Young
« Reply #103 on: July 09, 2016, 09:05:21 PM »

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Of the three guys I mentioned, I could see hunter getting some run this year on his theoretical shooting ability, but I'm not sure he will ever reliably hit shots in an NBA game. At least with young you can hope his youth means by the time he's Hunters age he will have figured some things out.

But don't get me wrong, I don't think young or any of the other names mentioned is a great bet to nail down a rotation spot in the NBA.
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Re: Waive Young
« Reply #104 on: July 09, 2016, 09:22:16 PM »

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Young ..... honestly I am not sure the Celtics can give this kid more time? He just does not seem to have what it takes.