Pruitt Agrees To Terms

Great news! What an awesome Summer this has been.

They both showed promise in the summer league. Nothing great but some flashes.
Pruitt has a nice stroke, quick release, good range.

Baby should be a solid bench pf. He doesn’t have any holes in his game outside of his physical training and his midrange fades are a lot like Toines.

I’m glad they are getting signed. I expect Pruitt to go to the DLeague, along with Wallace. Davis might be able to win some minutes.

No details on length of contract, money etc. yet?

this has been quite the summer for danny. now if we could just fast foward to the season, everything would be great!

I’ll never for the life of me understand why you draft an obvious 2 guard and try to make him a point. It almost never works, and usually winds up being a wasted pick, ala Joe Forte.

Spears and the Globe have the contract details: http://www.boston.com/sports/basketball/celtics/extras/celtics_blog/2007/08/celtics_update.html

3 year deal, but I wonder if all 3 years are guaranteed

welcome to the celtic nest baby pruitt. we lost a lot of our other babies to get the big dawgs and hopefully we get big baby soon. watch out for doc he favors vets at all times.

I hope Pruitt is as good as a lot of people on this site say. After the summer league, I wasn’t impressed.

Jeff, why did you file this under “humor”? Because the idea of Pruitt getting any minutes on this squad is a joke?

Our available money remains short yet we OVERPAY for an apparent BUST at PG. If Pruit fails alot of experts are going to have red faces. If he succeeds, it will most likely be at SG because he lacks the handles, creativity and passing instincts of a PG….End of story!

Jeff, why did you save the best news for the last sentense?…That Tom Thibodeau was officially signed….of much more importance to the Celtic’s future than the signing of Pruit IMHO.

The next shoe to drop will be the signing of Davis, last year’s projected late lottery pick, who continued to justify his selection at 35 with stellar SL play. It’s become apparent that he’ll have a greater impact with the Celtic’s than will Pruit.

Judging by SL play, Davis justified last year’s hype (projected late lottery) but Pruit (projected this year at 22) did not, perhaps because he’s a natural SG and lacked the versatility to play the point?

There’s a major reason why relatively short college two guards (like Pruitt) seldom develop into adequate pro point guards. It’s the fact that they’re trying to acquire ball-handling skills at the wrong time of their life.

Years ago, someone wrote a research-based book called something like ‘’Why Michael Jordan Can’t Hit a Curveball.‘’ The book’s thesis was that the brain of an athelete is best suited to acquiring certain physical skills at certain ages. But if a player isn’t on the right development track, then he won’t come close to fully learning certain things.

As an example, this was supposedly why Jordan, one of the most gifted of atheletes, couldn’t learn to hit a curve ball in the minor leagues. His commitment to basketball as a kid, caused him to miss a developmental stage as a youth baseball player.

Either your brain gets properly wired up as a kid to be a smooth point guard, or it doesn’t. If you start too late in life, you can do all the ball-handling drills you want, but under pressure you won’t perform automatically like the kid who was dribbling with his off hand since he was seven.

Wow, moskqq, pretty harsh. Like I said, I wasn’t impressed with the guy, but to call him an apparent bust before he even steps on the court to play a real game is a stretch.

Gabe Pruitt is a ‘tweener guard. Nothing wrong with that. DJ was a ’tweener guard, too, and he turned out OK. So was Joe Dumars. I liked what I saw of Pruitt in the SL. No, he didn’t dominate the league, but I didn’t expect him to, either. He played smart basketball. He stayed in his game, didn’t try to do anything outside his current skill level. What’s wrong with that? Moskqq, did you go to college with Pruitt and he stuffed you in a locker or something? I’m joking with you; you just seem very spiteful towards him, and I fail to understand why. The Celtics are not spending millions on the kid. Ainge saw something he likes, and I trust his judgment on NBA talent more than anyone posting on this site. Pruitt is such a minor player compared to everyone else on that roster.