Dean on Draft was not a fan of the Cs draft. (I haven't really followed drafting gurus since Tatum's draft but IIRC, he was cited here a bit during the run-up to JB and perhaps even JT).
2) Celtics Aaron Nesmith at #14 and Payton Pritchard at #26 are hands down two of the worst picks in the draft. Ainge has historically been a good GM but these are bad blunders while the rest of the league gets smarter
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Here is Dean's write-up on Nesmith (
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Aaron Nesmith
Nesmith is projected to go mid-1st right now, but he seems like an incredibly risky guy to take anywhere in round 1. He is an undersized, unathletic wing who is probably going to be bad on defense and is limited as a creator.
His only real strength is that he is a good shooter, but it’s not even clear that he’s elite at his one dimenson. He made 82.5% FT in his NCAA career which is good but not great, and he only shot 33.7% from 3 as a freshman. His breakout as a sophomore entailed 52.2% 3P shooting for half a season until getting hurt, although it came for an incredibly weak portion of Vanderbilt’s schedule.
This is significant as Nesmith has a somewhat slow release for such a vaunted shooting prospect, and if he really is a merely good shooter he is going to be a dud.