Drew Peterson, Appreciation Thread – (Signs Two-Way w/Hornets, July 15, 2025)

[ConstableGeneva]

Since we're used to overreactions by now, Peterson might be the next Celtics candidate for being promoted from 2-way to regular contract to multi-year deal ala Sam Hauser and Neemias Queta. Brad likely waits til near the end of regular season though, because tax concerns.

[ConstableGeneva]

via Bobby Manning:

Erik Spoelstra said the #Heat liked Drew Peterson last year, but it doesn’t always work out. They love to see their G-League guys called up, “even if it’s Boston.”

via @bostonceltics:

Joe Mazzulla on the relationship between us and @MaineCeltics helping Drew Peterson step in and deliver:

"I trust that the environment is the same (in Maine) and that they're working on the same things that we are," he says. "Carryover and continuity gives people a chance to step right in."

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via Bobby Manning:

Erik Spoelstra said the #Heat liked Drew Peterson last year, but it doesn’t always work out. They love to see their G-League guys called up, “even if it’s Boston.”

via @bostonceltics:

Joe Mazzulla on the relationship between us and @MaineCeltics helping Drew Peterson step in and deliver:

"I trust that the environment is the same (in Maine) and that they're working on the same things that we are," he says. "Carryover and continuity gives people a chance to step right in."

Im back outta my medical fun. The anesthesia is still working, so this post may be incoherent.

Peterson slots into the NBA game better than the G league version. The chaos of the G diminishes his ability to meld into team play. His defense is surprisingly solid in the NBA, which makes him a real candidate for promotion, because he can shoot. He's visibly more relaxed playing with the regulars than any of Walsh, Scheierman, Springer, and Davison. Drew finds ways to contribute, while so far the others play with some paralysis.

In a possible future timeline, Peterson gets promoted late this season to the 15th spot, and long springy Hason Ward moves into the open two way.

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Im back outta my medical fun. The anesthesia is still working, so this post may be incoherent.

Peterson slots into the NBA game better than the G league version. The chaos of the G diminishes his ability to meld into team play. His defense is surprisingly solid in the NBA, which makes him a real candidate for promotion, because he can shoot. He's visibly more relaxed playing with the regulars than any of Walsh, Scheierman, Springer, and Davison. Drew finds ways to contribute, while so far the others play with some paralysis.

In a possible future timline, Peterson get promoted late this season to the 15th spot, and long springy Hason Ward moves into the open two way.

Post is completely coherent, hope you health issue worked out good. As to Peterson, one wonders if the brain trust is starting to imagine a post-Hauser world. If we move Hauser for plus assets, can Baylor and Drew Peterson do the same job at half the cost? Eh, probably too soon to be thinking that way…

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Im back outta my medical fun. The anesthesia is still working, so this post may be incoherent.

Peterson slots into the NBA game better than the G league version. The chaos of the G diminishes his ability to meld into team play. His defense is surprisingly solid in the NBA, which makes him a real candidate for promotion, because he can shoot. He's visibly more relaxed playing with the regulars than any of Walsh, Scheierman, Springer, and Davison. Drew finds ways to contribute, while so far the others play with some paralysis.

In a possible future timline, Peterson get promoted late this season to the 15th spot, and long springy Hason Ward moves into the open two way.

Post is completely coherent, hope you health issue worked out good. As to Peterson, one wonders if the brain trust is starting to imagine a post-Hauser world. If we move Hauser for plus assets, can Baylor and Drew Peterson do the same job at half the cost? Eh, probably too soon to be thinking that way…

One more thing- Ward could take the vacant Brissett role. Be long bouncy, energetic, and break down the other team with motion, but have a limited offensive game. Ward splits the difference between Brissett and Rob Williams.

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Im back outta my medical fun. The anesthesia is still working, so this post may be incoherent.

Peterson slots into the NBA game better than the G league version. The chaos of the G diminishes his ability to meld into team play. His defense is surprisingly solid in the NBA, which makes him a real candidate for promotion, because he can shoot. He's visibly more relaxed playing with the regulars than any of Walsh, Scheierman, Springer, and Davison. Drew finds ways to contribute, while so far the others play with some paralysis.

In a possible future timline, Peterson get promoted late this season to the 15th spot, and long springy Hason Ward moves into the open two way.

Post is completely coherent, hope you health issue worked out good. As to Peterson, one wonders if the brain trust is starting to imagine a post-Hauser world. If we move Hauser for plus assets, can Baylor and Drew Peterson do the same job at half the cost? Eh, probably too soon to be thinking that way…

Well it is certainly encouraging to see Drew playing as well as he has over the last two games. He strikes me as a well rounded player who has potential to fill a role on the Celtics bench, should an opening become available. It wouldn't surprise me if he pulls ahead of Walsh in our depth rankings. Agree that he seems more relaxed playing with the regulars, and his performance should boost his confidence in feeling that he can play at an NBA level. Baylor Scheierman also seemed to be more relaxed on the court. Nice to have depth that we can count on. A little surprised we didn't see more of JD. Perhaps he'll see some time against the Pistons.

[jfs1000d]

Peterson is a good prospect. I like the two way guys better than late first round picks. Less risk. Springer and Scheirman taking up what, $8 million and it is Petersen who contributes.

[phincsfan]

Peterson is a good prospect. I like the two way guys better than late first round picks. Less risk. Springer and Scheirman taking up what, $8 million and it is Petersen who contributes.

True as of right now. Stevens obviously had a crush on him and hopefully he can carve out a role. I'm a big Peterson fan but he had a full year in Maine and Sioux Falls and he was playing for his NBA career. Rico is playing with a good chunk of guaranteed money so lets see how he takes it. The one thing I'll give him is he's an athlete. Now he has to work for a long NBA career.

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One more thing- Ward could take the vacant Brissett role. Be long bouncy, energetic, and break down the other team with motion, but have a limited offensive game. Ward splits the difference between Brissett and Rob Williams.

Eh, idk..

Ward went undrafted..and wasn't even talked about by anyone as a guy who even had a chance of maybe being drafted..

He is 24 yrs old..played 5 seasons of college basketball..and barely even played on his college team..got 8 MPG in his 4th college season and only 15 MPG in his 5th season of college ball.

He only played in 2 summer league games, averaging 2 PPG in just 10 MPG. Didn't make any team's preseason roster (even though all 30 teams can carry 21 guys in preseason so there's plenty of guys on preseason rosters who aren't real NBA players).

I haven't seen much Maine Celtics action this season (their season basically just started) but I figured Ward was just a guy they signed to be a body on their G league team and nothing more..

Also, we already have our Rob-lite in Queta..and our Brissett replacement is Walsh, who is pretty much giving us what Brissett did last season - admittedly he's still kind of raw and not quite polished enough, not quite the NBA guy Brissett was but to be fair, Walsh is like 5 years younger than Brissett was last season. There's definite upside with Walsh if we keep developing him.

I do think Peterson has a chance to get converted from his 2-way later in the season, though..it's good to see him getting a chance out there. A different flavor of player of course - he's better than Walsh at ball handling, shooting and passing. Plus Peterson is about 4 years older so further along in his development and perhaps more NBA ready. It's good to have them both. I'm sure both of them are going hard in practice to try and earn more minutes - iron sharpens iron.

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Peterson is a good prospect. I like the two way guys better than late first round picks. Less risk. Springer and Scheirman taking up what, $8 million and it is Petersen who contributes.

It is interesting how that sometimes works out.

Begarin was 45th pick by us..Hauser was undrafted that same year. But Hauser ends up being the stud, while Begarin is still overseas.

Pritchard drafted like 15 picks after Nesmith, but Nesmith struggled here, got traded while Pritchard was contributing from day 1 and has been awesome.

Grant Williams picked like 7 picks after Langford but ends up being the much better NBA player.

I think what it shows though (especially when thinking about guys like Max Strus and Duncan Robinson who went undrafted) is that with later picks and UDFA guys, the hit rate is very low but often times the ones who hit are guys who can really shoot the ball, while also having good basketball IQ..also helps if you have good size but in Pritchard's case, lacking in size but insane amount of work ethic, fearlessness, determination and also really good handles.

It's often *not* the highly recruited 5 star players, the insane athletes..

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He's a year older than Watson and Scheierman, 3 years older than JD, and 4 1/2 years older than Walsh.

Just fine on the Hauser and Queta schedule--and reason for us to have a little more patience with the younger guys.

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He's a year older than Watson and Scheierman, 3 years older than JD, and 4 1/2 years older than Walsh.

Just fine on the Hauser and Queta schedule--and reason for us to have a little more patience with the younger guys.

Yup Brad has killed it in the 24-26 year old developmental guy category. Hauser, Kornet, Queta, let's see who's next.

Totally agree with all aspects of this, esp. regarding the younger guys. Odds are tough for any young guy to make it but Davison eg is arguably better at a lot of the game in the G-league than Drew P. (if not a better G-leaguer overall), but the polish and knowledge of how to play the team game the Celtics do takes time.

FWIW there were draft guys that liked him a lot as a UDFA so he's not a totally out of left field guy himself.

[phincsfan]

I think Stevens had a good eye with Joe Wieskamp also but there's only so many contracts to give. He's in Australia now, but I wouldn't be surprised if he's invited back next summer.

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[Parliament10]

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Nice to see. He's a 40+% shooter from 3-pt land.

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Doesn’t look super skinny there actually.

And is that Joe feeding him passes?!?

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Doesn’t look super skinny there actually.

And is that Joe feeding him passes?!?

I'm pretty sure it's God Shammgod.

[sam_I_am]

I like that Peterson has PG skills and his length can bother guards even if he is limited defensively. Kind of like Hauser in that regard.

If the team has to jettison Hauser and/or PP(no chance that happens) to cut salary he is a potential next guy up replacement. Especially with the development of Tatum, White and Brown the team can get by with an adequate talent who can shoot and make plays.

[ConstableGeneva]

Drew Peterson is 5th in both True Shooting % and Net Rating among 317 players who have played at least 10 games and 200 possessions, per NBA.com. He currently leads the team in both categories.

(I didn't realize he's listed at 6'9". So as tall as Timelord? Though not as freakish in wingspan.)

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Drew Peterson is 5th in both True Shooting % and Net Rating among 317 players who have played at least 10 games and 200 possessions, per NBA.com. He currently leads the team in both categories.

(I didn't realize he's listed at 6'9". So as tall as Timelord? Though not as freakish in wingspan.)

Also has a .773 3PAr and a .318 FTr - if the Celtics were a verb, this guy Celtics.