View previous topic :: View next topic |
Author |
Message |
Basketball Fan Franchise Player
Joined: 03 Feb 2004 Posts: 24741
|
Posted: Tue Jul 22, 2014 8:21 am Post subject: Evan Turner joins the Boston Celtics |
|
|
http://probasketballtalk.nbcsports.com/2014/07/21/reports-boston-celtics-finalizing-deal-for-evan-turner/
Quote: | Reports: Boston Celtics finalizing deal for Evan Turner
Some team was going to give Evan Turner another shot, and some fan base was going to ask “why?”
Boston Celtics fans, you are on the clock. And it’s a fair question to ask.
Turner and the Celtics are nearing a deal, something first reported by Steve Bulpett of the Boston Herald.
Jeff Zillgett of the USA Today confirms it.
Turner put up raw numbers in the up-tempo offense in Philly to start last season — someone had to take the shots and Turner did, putting up 17.4 a game, but not efficiently (.504 true shooting percentage). His stock plummeted after how he played in Indiana — when asked to blend into the Pacers team concept he could not. By the meaningful parts of the playoffs he was barely getting minutes for an Indy team struggling to find any offense it could. Not a good sign.
Now he will try to find minutes behind Avery Bradley and Jeff Green (and Marcus Thornton and Gerald Wallace and maybe James Young). Brad Stevens will get a chance to develop him, but Celtics fans are smart enough to know better than to expect much but a body on the roster here | . |
|
Back to top |
|
|
22 Franchise Player
Joined: 05 Apr 2013 Posts: 17063
|
Posted: Tue Jul 22, 2014 9:39 am Post subject: |
|
|
Good thing he went to them and not us. Don't like his game at all |
|
Back to top |
|
|
AllorNothing Franchise Player
Joined: 08 Oct 2001 Posts: 18448
|
Posted: Tue Jul 22, 2014 11:27 am Post subject: |
|
|
Wasn't this guy hyped to be the next kobe Bryant coming out of the draft? |
|
Back to top |
|
|
angrypuppy Retired Number
Joined: 13 Apr 2001 Posts: 32730
|
Posted: Wed Jul 23, 2014 4:37 am Post subject: |
|
|
He's skilled but has poor awareness of how to adapt his game to the NBA. He isn't an efficient scorer and isn't a distributor, and yet he needs the ball in his hands. |
|
Back to top |
|
|
LakersMDGurl Franchise Player
Joined: 24 Jun 2005 Posts: 18015
|
Posted: Wed Jul 23, 2014 4:53 am Post subject: |
|
|
To think that the Pacers messed up their team chemistry to get Turner by dealing Granger!!!! SMH.... _________________ New Beginings |
|
Back to top |
|
|
|