Summer School

Between Telfair’s mis-steps and trading DWest, Allan Ray has been given a golden opportunity to prove his worth in this league.

Hmmm. Miralles doesn’t appear on the summer league roster for the team:

http://www.boston.com/sports/basketball/celtics/extras/celtics_blog/

“If the C’s are smart”…now that is funny…. ;D

does anyone know yet if we’re signing any undrafted FAs or bringing any in for Summer League?

here’s the roster:

57 Lance Allred C 6-11 270 Weber State
46 Pat Carroll G/F 6-5 190 St. Joseph’s
11 Glen Davis F 6-9 289 Louisiana State
59 Torin Francis F 6-11 252 Notre Dame
58 Andreas Glyniadakis C 7-1 280 Greece
5 Gerald Green G-F 6-8 200 Gulf Shores Academy
0 Leon Powe F 6-8 240 California
13 Gabe Pruitt G 6-4 170 Southern California
12 Allan Ray G 6-2 190 Villanova
9 Rajon Rondo G 6-1 171 Kentucky
36 Sergio Sanchez G 6-3 207 Spain
49 Brandon Wallace F 6-9 203 South Carolina

off all the new faces Wallace seems to have the most potential…

but in looking at Wallace’s game or should i say potential game, it makes me think again… sign Amir Johnson!

I’d like to see the Celtics salvage something from the Telfair fiasco. It would be in their best interest to have Bassy be part of the team in Las Vegas to either help resurrect his career in Boston or increase his value around the league.

At this point, after Wyc had to open his BIG MOUTH, his value is virtually nil , so with D West gone….why not give Bassy another shot ?

To invest time in Allan Ray and blow off Telfair is simply foolish. Telfair, is 22 yrs old, yes, he made a mistake , but give the guy another chance.

Amir Johnson, alas, is the property of the Pistons.

Glyniadakis isn’t a bad player. He was with Virtus Bologna last year, the team on which Ginobili played before coming to the NBA. Travis Best was also on that team.

Glyniadakis also played in the D-League and did reasonably well. He’s older though: 25 or 26.

Lance Allred is another one of those basketball vagabonds who has played in Turkey, France and Italy, and last year with the Idaho Stampede. Can score. Mormon kid (I think) from Salt Lake City who transfered from Utah to Weber State for his last two years. He’s legally deaf, so he’d probably do fine under Doc Rivers.

Thanks again FSN, now just transfer Tanguay overseas!

Let me add that if this Celtics summer league team loses a game, I’ll be severely disappointed. If Rajon Rondo can’t dominate in Las Vegas, then Mike Conley was even a greater loss than I thought.

I always thought that we brought guys here to play in Summer League to gauge their NBA potential. Now I’m more inclined to believe that they are primarily brought here to provide practice players for our own roster guys. These practice players are anxious to come nonetheless because for them it’s another opportunity to possibly impress and get noticed.

I’ve never seen statistics but I wonder how many of these practice players ever get signed to an NBA contract? Some are invited to training camp but I doubt if they ever make the team. The incidence of a practice player making an NBA roster must be so rare so we should not get excited by the “add-on” players brought to Vegas.

How could we not root for Torin Francis, he’s a home town kid.

Francis played in an Italian League (Serie A) last season, for Orlandino (Capo d’Orlando, Sicily).

http://195.56.77.208/player/?id=FRA-TOR-83&year=2006&team=1135

Yeah, and in Sicily Francis averged 7.1 ppg playing 20 mpg. He’s not an NBA prospect. Yeah, he’s a kid from Roslindale who played at Boston Latin and then transferred to Tabor Academy to showcase his basketball skills. He should have stayed at Latin and gone to a place like Williams or Fairfield where he could have been a star. He’d be in law school right now instead of wandering around southern Italy tring to make a living playing basketball.

Torin Francis’s bio says…“Off the court he’s a very intelligent player”…Huh? That’s a nonsense statement or a clever slur. How can you be a PLAYER “off the court”? One can be a PLAYER on-the-court, but off-the-court? Perhaps it’s a typo and should have read…Off the court he’s a very intelligent “person”.

In either case he SOUNDS like “practice fodder”.

Well, Boston Latin is an exam school so if he got in there he’s no dummy. He just doesn’t play basketball that well.

Brick why are you even following the Celtics? You said you’d follow the Raptors if the Celtics extended Rivers. I think you’re still invested in the team given you saying you’d be disappointed if the Celtics lost a summer league game.

Oh and also summer league games mean 0. They’re mostly a time to try out the rookies and undrafted players. We won’t be playing Rondo 35 mins/game to get wins.

The big greek guy is a stiff, he played 13 games for seattle and averaged 1.3 points, .6 rebounds, and 0 blocks.

I’m following the Raptors too. With the pickups of Delfino and Kapono, they just keep improving incrementally, getting better and better at a fraction of what the Celtics will be paying.

The Raps don’t need to make the big PR splash. It’s about basketball with them.

They’re only looking at two crappy centers????
Please let this mean they have a “plan” to trade/sign a center. :(

Brick, asking for no losses in summer league (assuming wins actually matter which they don’t) is too much, did you see Portland’s roster:

1. Taurean Green
2. Josh McRoberts
3. Stefano Mancinelli
4. Martell Webster
5. Sergio Rodriguez
6. LaMarcus Aldridge
7. Rick Apodaca
8. Zendon Hamilton
9. Joel Freeland
10. Mo Charlo
11. Greg Oden

I guess Kevinn Pickney’s dui ended his chances of a second stint with the C’s

What? Rudy Fernandez isn’t playing? Piece of cake. Who is that Oden guy, anyway? Andreas Glyniadakis will own him.

Stephano Mancinelli is a nice player, BTW. He’s about 6-7, has an all-around game.

Oden doesn’t want any part of Lance Alldred either :-\

allan ray seems to be superfluous. he is not a point and was outmanned at the 2.

I expect Alan Ray to play very well. He’s playing for a contract.

Another offseason, another Gerald Green appearance in the summer league. Bust.