I have seen some really great posts on here over the years highlighting some players that looked absolutely dominant for the Celtics in summer league and turned out to be awful players that never made an impact (or even played) in the NBA. Do people forget Jonathan Holmes was our third leading scorer in the Utah summer league last year (and 3rd leading rebounder). Heck James young averaged 12.5 and 5 in vegas. I think it might be good for the collective sanity of the board to have one of our posters do a refresher course on some guys that looked awful in summer league and turned out to be pretty good players (and vise versa)
I would also add that if we are truly Celtics fans we should maybe put a little more thought into what we are writing about these 19 year old kids after literally a game and a half of a summer league game. Like it or not, Brown is now a Celtics and he should be given a chance to get acclimated to the NBA. Saying he shoots poorly or looks lost on defense, seems harmless, albeit not much more useful than commenting on how a team plays zone defense in a YCMA game. However, calling him a bust or saying he sucks right now makes us look like an ill-informed and unpleasant fan base to attach these kinds of labels to a player without even have him go through a traininig camp. Believe me, if he doesn't work out there will be plenty of time for those kinds of comments. In the meantime lets try and step it up a little bit and not have these crazy reactions and insults from glorified pick up games.
Topic: The ghosts of summer league past (Read 722 times)