Welcome to Boston, Payton Pritchard! – (Re-signed: 4yrs/$30M)

zoyathedestroya · Post #781 » by **zoyathedestroya** » Mon Oct 16, 2023 7:03 pm

Shocking fact: Payton Pritchard is the 3rd longest tenured active Celtic.

zoyathedestroya · Post #782 » by **zoyathedestroya** » Tue Oct 17, 2023 3:50 pm

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Hal14 · Post #783 » by **Hal14** » Fri Oct 20, 2023 5:03 pm

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zoyathedestroya · Post #784 » by **zoyathedestroya** » Sun Oct 22, 2023 5:24 pm

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Hal14 · Post #785 » by **Hal14** » Sun Oct 22, 2023 7:24 pm

Other than a couple plays where he looked kind of bad defensively, he had an awesome preseason, to solidify himself as a top 8 rotation player on this team.

Excited to see him continue that momentum into the reg season. He's clearly a hard worker and plays hard when he's out there on the floor.

bucknersrevenge · Post #786 » by **bucknersrevenge** » Sun Oct 22, 2023 11:27 pm

Hal14 wrote:Other than a couple plays where he looked kind of bad defensively, he had an awesome preseason, to solidify himself as a top 8 rotation player on this team.

Excited to see him continue that momentum into the reg season. He's clearly a hard worker and plays hard when he's out there on the floor.

Long way from our debate re: PP vs Yam Madar

I said then and it's still true now, Pritchard has earned the trust and respect of the Jay's. And with his evolution into a cogent playmaker and his feistiness on the defensive end, he's beginning to earn that trust and respect from the fans as well.

ConstableGeneva · Post #787 » by **ConstableGeneva** » Tue Nov 7, 2023 10:12 am

He doesn't create any advantage with his aimless dribbling. Wish they stopped forcing him to be a PG.

Post #788 » by **165bows** » Tue Nov 7, 2023 1:07 pm

bucknersrevenge wrote:
Hal14 wrote:Other than a couple plays where he looked kind of bad defensively, he had an awesome preseason, to solidify himself as a top 8 rotation player on this team.

Excited to see him continue that momentum into the reg season. He's clearly a hard worker and plays hard when he's out there on the floor.

Long way from our debate re: PP vs Yam Madar

I said then and it's still true now, Pritchard has earned the trust and respect of the Jay's. And with his evolution into a cogent playmaker and his feistiness on the defensive end, he's beginning to earn that trust and respect from the fans as well.

Speaking of, seeing this thread get bumped you got me curious. Looks like Yam's had a pretty strong start this year, though his prior 3PT% hasn't been there at all yet. But pretty much everything else has been on a steady upward trajectory. Assists are up, TOs down, steal rate is great, scoring inside the arc is much improved.

https://basketball.realgm.com/player/Yam-Madar/Summary/133147

bucknersrevenge · Post #789 » by **bucknersrevenge** » Tue Nov 7, 2023 1:38 pm

bucknersrevenge wrote:
Hal14 wrote:Other than a couple plays where he looked kind of bad defensively, he had an awesome preseason, to solidify himself as a top 8 rotation player on this team.

Excited to see him continue that momentum into the reg season. He's clearly a hard worker and plays hard when he's out there on the floor.

Long way from our debate re: PP vs Yam Madar

I said then and it's still true now, Pritchard has earned the trust and respect of the Jay's. And with his evolution into a cogent playmaker and his feistiness on the defensive end, he's beginning to earn that trust and respect from the fans as well.

And yet, I may have spoke too soon. 6 games in people are ready to launch our 7th man into the sun.

Post #790 » by **shackles10** » Tue Nov 7, 2023 2:25 pm

He can't even get a shot off in the lane this season. The aimless dribbling doesn't end well even if he makes his way into the paint if he can't finish. He is taller than this kid right??

BK_2020 · Post #791 » by **BK_2020** » Tue Nov 7, 2023 3:16 pm

shackles10 wrote:He can't even get a shot off in the lane this season. The aimless dribbling doesn't end well even if he makes his way into the paint if he can't finish. He is taller than this kid right??

Defenses are baiting him into dribbling into the lane (and away from passing angles to Tatum). So what looks aimless to us is actually very purposeful from the opposing defenses' perspective.

jfs1000d · Post #792 » by **jfs1000d** » Tue Nov 7, 2023 3:33 pm

He’s pressing. Trying to do too much. Just okay your game PP. His performance early season is underwhelming. Relax. Ya got the money.

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ConstableGeneva · Post #793 » by **ConstableGeneva** » Tue Nov 14, 2023 8:15 am

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Post #794 » by **shackles10** » Tue Nov 14, 2023 2:52 pm

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If Jrue is right in his analogy this will now be my reaction whenever Pritchard gets into the paint...

hugepatsfan · Post #795 » by **hugepatsfan** » Wed Nov 15, 2023 11:32 am

The players seem to see something in Pritchard. The front office does. Sorry but I just don’t. He’s such a meh player for me. I just can’t identify anything he does particularly well. I guess he can handle the ball well enough as a second or third guy, but he’s no playmaker or anything. Can’t finish inside. Solid shooter over long sample size but being short and somewhat slow release prevents him from really being a true floor spacer. Defensively I think he does the press well and in size-appropriate matchups he holds his own but guys that are size-appropriate for him defensively is a pretty small subset of NBA players overall.

He’s an absolute menace on the offensive boards sometimes, that’s probably the best trait I’ve seen out of him.

I’m not saying he doesn’t belong in the NBA, but I don’t see anything that elevates him beyond a minimum salary guy at the very end of a regular season rotation or just outside of it. And I don’t see playoff rotation caliber at all.

Parasite · Post #796 » by **Parasite** » Wed Nov 15, 2023 4:01 pm

I’m going to trust Brad. He got rid of both Grant and Smart which were the correct moves. He brought in KP and Jrue which were the correct moves. Not at all thrilled with supermaxing Jaylen but I at least understand why he did it. I think PP is a fine backup pg. He doesn’t really do any one thing great, but I think he’s solid in just about everything.

Fierce1 · Post #797 » by **Fierce1** » Wed Nov 15, 2023 4:06 pm

Parasite wrote:I’m going to trust Brad. He got rid of both Grant and Smart which were the correct moves. He brought in KP and Jrue which were the correct moves. Not at all thrilled with supermaxing Jaylen but I at least understand why he did it. I think PP is a fine backup pg. He doesn’t really do any one thing great, but I think he’s solid in just about everything.

One thing PP does well is shoot the ball.

PP just started slow this season.
But I think he'll get better as the season progresses.

BK_2020 · Post #798 » by **BK_2020** » Wed Nov 15, 2023 6:19 pm

Fierce1 wrote:
Parasite wrote:I’m going to trust Brad. He got rid of both Grant and Smart which were the correct moves. He brought in KP and Jrue which were the correct moves. Not at all thrilled with supermaxing Jaylen but I at least understand why he did it. I think PP is a fine backup pg. He doesn’t really do any one thing great, but I think he’s solid in just about everything.

One thing PP does well is shoot the ball.

PP just started slow this season. b
But I think he'll get better as the season progresses.

He hasn't shot the ball well since the end of the 2021-22 regular season. He's never shot well in the playoffs.

Patsfan1081 · Post #799 » by **Patsfan1081** » Wed Nov 15, 2023 9:11 pm

BK_2020 wrote:
Fierce1 wrote:
Parasite wrote:I’m going to trust Brad. He got rid of both Grant and Smart which were the correct moves. He brought in KP and Jrue which were the correct moves. Not at all thrilled with supermaxing Jaylen but I at least understand why he did it. I think PP is a fine backup pg. He doesn’t really do any one thing great, but I think he’s solid in just about everything.

One thing PP does well is shoot the ball.

PP just started slow this season. b
But I think he'll get better as the season progresses.

He hasn't shot the ball well since the end of the 2021-22 regular season. He's never shot well in the playoffs.

Not really surprising when you play sparingly. Not surprising that he shot the ball well last year when he played more then ten minutes. He also didn’t see real minutes until the Miami series. PP is the last of my worries when we’re considering the bench.

BK_2020 · Post #800 » by **BK_2020** » Wed Nov 15, 2023 9:11 pm

Patsfan1081 wrote:
BK_2020 wrote:
Fierce1 wrote:One thing PP does well is shoot the ball.

PP just started slow this season. b
But I think he'll get better as the season progresses.

He hasn't shot the ball well since the end of the 2021-22 regular season. He's never shot well in the playoffs.

Not really surprising when you play sparingly. Not surprising that he shot the ball well last year when he played more then ten minutes. He also didn’t see real minutes until the Miami series. PP is the last of my worries when we’re considering the bench.

He's not splaying sparingly now.