Revisiting The Gabe Pruitt Question

at 711k you keep Gabe. he’s shown he can shoot and defend. he’s also a good ball handler.

i’m sure other folks have been paying attention to who else is on the PG market (read: no one).

50-50. there it is.

It’s cheap money, and if he had ever had consistent minutes I think he’d be a much better player in this league. Not a starter, but maybe a serviceable backup. He’s never had a chance to get his groove at this level.

I think you have to pickup the option. Of course, wait till the last second and see who it’s out there. But, if the plan is to add a short backup PG, then I’d rather have Pruitt even if he’s the inferior player. Having House playing SG with his size is a liability for us, so a short PG would not be in our best interests.

He showed me enough in the Summer League to stick around. He’s body is getting stronger, he’s quite quick with the ball, he started becoming aggressive attacking the paint, is finishing well, and was practicing the pull-up jumper (which would be quite a good asset if he starts knocking them down). Since his rookie year he has shown he can defend at the NBA level, so that’s not really a concern. His weakness would still be that he’s not good at running an offense, but I think his skillset we can use.

His passiveness is his worst enemy, and I think he has been improving that bit by bit. We’ll see.

Gabe looks good when he plays, but so doesn’t Heidi Klum. He looks good doing things but doesn’t produce. He looks good dribbling the ball upcourt but can’t run a team, his shot looks good but doesn’t go in the basket. He bends his knees and defends but can’t stop his man. He makes 1 nice play and then you don’t know he’s on the court for 10 mins, except on the defensive end where he gets beat..

Right now his biggest value to us is as an expiring contract. He can be traded this month and the acquiring team can cut him and save his salary. However, that ends on 1 Aug, so unless Danny can put him in a deal by then I think he’ll be released..

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I can work with that unit. Spread the floor, see if Pruitt finally has the balls to penetrate in the NBA or post up Giddens and let him do some work around the basket. We’ll see what else we can find in FA, but I have no problem rolling out this unit.

Why not? It’s very short money by NBA standards, even considering the luxury tax. In the worst case, if he doesn’t work out or you need the roster spot, you waive him. Besides, that 825K could be useful as cap fodder in a trade.

And the first thing I would do after exercising the option is find a doctor to prescribe testosterone suplements. Pruitt needs those more than he needs coaching.

If Pruitt can defend the shorter 2s which I think he can he and House might be able to play together. I didn’t see too much of the summer league but of what I’ve seen before he really needs to get better at driving to the hoop.

It all depends on whether Danny intends to sign another point guard or not.

If he doesn’t, then the C’s should definitely pick up Pruitt’s option. If Danny does intend to sign another point guard, then there’s no need for a third string point guard like Pruitt when you also have Eddie House on the roster.

He’s got to be able to bring the ball up against pressure and make an entry pass without turning it over. He’s got to fit into the team defense. A nice bonus would be an ability to to hit an open 20-footer and dish out a few assists, but that’s not as important..

We really can’t expect to find someone starter-quality in this slot. It’d be great, no question, but it’d really be a windfall.

Based on what I’ve seen and heard, Pruitt might fit the bill, but I’m not sure we know. I wouldn’t be upset to see the staff keep him half a year to give him a real shot, then pull the trigger on a serviceable castoff if necessary.

And assuming Pruitt plays D, his height makes him a nice complement to House.

time is not on our side, everyday a main competitor is adding someone. i say trade
Pruitt, Jr, TA, Scal, BW to the clippers for Camby. the price may be steep for Camby for the upcoming year but at the end it will be cheaper than BBD if he get the full MLE. camby is on a final year of a 9m contract n i dont see him making a lot next year n we got his right. Defensively we’ll on top n we know we can score

C- Perk / Camby/ Robert Swift
PF- KG / Sheed
Sf- PP / hopefully we can get Barnes if Orlando messed up or moon for the LLE
sg- allen / House
Pg- Rondo / Lester /convince marbury for the Veteran n minimum

The bottom line is that the C’s need to go get a backup for Pierce before they can even begin to worry about a PG. And once we get a 3 for what will most likely be the full LLE, what exactly are we going to use to get another PG? We need to keep Pruitt around because right now we can’t get anyone better. Pay the man his 800K, and then go find a PG in next year’s free agent heaven.

Because of that he is valuable in trades…so make a deal Danny…

Marbury didn’t do a great job while he was here, but he was way more effective than Pruitt who knows the system. I just don’t think Pruitt has it and we might as well stop it here. I think House is okay at backup pg, but it takes away from his true effectiveness at the 2 postition. We really need to find someone else. And I don’t think it needs to be a true point. Neither DJ nor Danny were true points, but those teams did pretty good. They were both intelligent players and both could do what they had to to make it work. It also didn’t hurt to have a guy named Larry. And maybe that is where the answer is. Get a backup pg who can at least get it up the floor and have some ability to function and find someone else to run the offense from another position.

With the Heat trying hard to get Odam AND Boozer, we need to further upgrade. Getting Sheed is a big step forward, but we can’t stop at here. We need solid help now. We don’t have time to experiment and wait for someone to develop.

Pruitt may turn out to be a brilliant PG down the road, but that may be too far away. I say we package Pruitt in a trade to bring in someone proven.

That’s about the level of my enthusiasm.

I’m not against picking up his option, but only if Ainge is comfortable to get him into a trade later on. Pruitt won’t be part of the rotation and he didn’t impress me as a talent that could break it somewhen in the future. I voted “no”, but I’m fine with picking him up if he is sent off via trade.

sign him. he is an important chip, either for trade or backup purposes. 1. he is a good athlete with height and skills. 2. he has been mostly garbage time and has not had the on the floor experience to live and learn. 3. yes, he has a passivity to him, but too often i hear, it’s kg’s team and kg will get someone to perform. it’s doc’s and the coahes’ job to get something out of pruitt. doc is the ex-point guard and i would like to say that doc has put a lotof time into the pruitt project, but i doubt it. doc would rather have a tyrone lue whom he thinks knows what he is doing and will take over. just like mikki moore took over—hah!

When Celtic draft picks of this year come in and we hear “well of course he’s playing better than Gabe Pruitt, he’s a true PG while Pruitt is not,” then you know Pruitt is never going to amount to much at the PG slot. To say that I wasn’t impressed by Pruitts play is an understatement. I wish he’d have wiped that grin off his face during games and instead gotten downright mean & aggressive.

how can you make a decision based only on the garbage minutes he gets you cant i say keep him and let him play back up to rondo if he deserves more playing time increase his minutes its not rocket science guys give me a break .

The way people are talking, I feel like even if we sign Pruitt, no one else will take him in a trade. That’s all I ever see right now; people wanting to trade our worst players in exchange for one player that’s better than all of the lower players we have combined. I’m not sure if that’s really realistic or not.

If the Celtics want him, let him backup Rondo and see what he can do. If he does well, but we still feel for some reason we can get someone better than him, then Pruitt may actually have trade value then. I WOULD like to know who to take in place of Pruitt, who we’d actually be able to get in a trade. I feel like that market won’t be out there. : \

He has the size and skills to make a seam like he could be a good NBA backup PG, but he totally lacks that something special which would make him actually effective. He just doesn’t have it. Everyone here knows what I am talking about. BBD is the exact oppisite, he has that something special, but lacks in all the other ways.

I liked what I saw with Hudson. He was a ferocious defender. Absolutely tenacious. And, from what I have read and seen of him, he can seriously light it up if he gets going. I have a strong “gut” feeling (ha) that he beats out Pruit.

If he is ready,