Welcome to Boston Carsen Edwards

[DaTruth34]

To me he is explosive. I saw many T dunk from him

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[claycarver]

I look up his stats, his three point percentage was 35 percent last year and his overall FG percentage was under 40 percent. Thats pretty bad. We only hope he can become a decent role player.

Watch him play. Stats don’t tell the whole story. Stats don’t measure desire, heart, energy, carrying a team on your back, the difficulty in shots made, ability to get off your shot, etc.

If you watch his play, you will walk away loving his game.

I literally fell in love with his game watching him in the tournament. It’s rare for him to say that about too many players. It was funny hearing Chauncey Billups last night, but he said the exact same thing. That he fell in love with Carsen Edward’s game last season.

I’m not here to hype up Carsen, I don’t want to jinx the kid. But I walked away happy from the draft knowing we drafted him.

Ok I'll check it out, I just want to have real expectations for a second round pick. We should learn something from summer league (hopefully).

His Junior year, he's chucking up 20 shots a game. His sophomore year he was taking 6 fewer shots and had significantly better efficiency...458. I'd guess that's the better indication of his ability under normal usage.

[SuperDeluxe]

This was on OK little read:
https://section215.com/2019/06/22/philadelphia-76ers-carsen-edwards-boston/

Hard to take too seriously a post-draft article predicting that we'll have Kyrie and Terry as our starting and backup PGs next year.

It's more about that Suxers' fan knowledge about Edwards than about his knowledge of the Celtics' situation.

[zoyathedestroya]

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[greenpierce]

I loved when I saw photos of Carsen next to the other draftees and I saw how thick/powerful he was. (In a suit!) A kid who will be able to take hits down in the paint. And then there's this Grant Williams quote,

“With Carsen, our whole thing was try and not let him catch it, just like Romeo (Langford) said.” Williams said. “We know he can light it up from range. He’s a guy who’s physical enough to guard… He can switch to a four-man in the league and hold his own. I call him a little bullet, because of how stocky and strong he is. Little linebacker or something like that."

I expect a really fun player.

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I loved when I saw photos of Carsen next to the other draftees and I saw how thick/powerful he was. (In a suit!) A kid who will be able to take hits down in the paint. And then there's this Grant Williams quote,

“With Carsen, our whole thing was try and not let him catch it, just like Romeo (Langford) said.” Williams said. “We know he can light it up from range. He’s a guy who’s physical enough to guard… He can switch to a four-man in the league and hold his own. I call him a little bullet, because of how stocky and strong he is. Little linebacker or something like that."

I expect a really fun player.

Guards guarding larger opponents? Where have we seen that before?

[Wes-J]

Carson is going to be a star. There I said it.

[cloverleaf]

The lowest bust potential of the C's four picks.

[cloverleaf]

I loved when I saw photos of Carsen next to the other draftees and I saw how thick/powerful he was. (In a suit!) A kid who will be able to take hits down in the paint. And then there's this Grant Williams quote,

“With Carsen, our whole thing was try and not let him catch it, just like Romeo (Langford) said.” Williams said. “We know he can light it up from range. He’s a guy who’s physical enough to guard… He can switch to a four-man in the league and hold his own. I call him a little bullet, because of how stocky and strong he is. Little linebacker or something like that."

I expect a really fun player.

Even tiny Waters with award-winning D in college. Langford the only pick with that, plus consistent hard play, as a question mark.

But yeah, Carsen and Williams were the physically strongest backcourt and frontcourt players at the draft combine, respectively.

[Pacercoltboiler]

Purdue guy here. Two quick things. One, his point skills are better than he had a chance to show. Painter saw his unreal scoring ability, and used it to the max. Painter asked Carson to fill that role, and he was wise to do so. I think the most amazing thing about Edwards is his ability to finish. He is Extremely effective at taking it to the basket. Besides his natural strength, he has a feel for getting it to the rim. If you try to stop his shooting, he will go right past you and score. As for his defense, I wouldn't worry. He is absurdly athletic and very competitive. Have fun guys.

[TheMartian]

"Little Bullet" i like that. Hopefully he lives up to the nickname.

[oldshoolballer]

I like Carsen He's always in attack mode reminds me of a more explosive JJ Barea with hops I can't wait to see him in summer league

[bigfoot_cryptozoology]

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"Little Bullet" i like that. Hopefully he lives up to the nickname.

It's a good one, but would be quickly frowned upon in the NBA, where the term owner is banned. Mini Microwave is not offensive to anyone, hopefully and works well...

[zoyathedestroya]

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1. Seems likable. Also, seems smart enough to make bland platitudes sound fresh. (That was the best version of "My role is to do whatever the coaches want me to do" I've heard in a while.)

2. His response to the story of how his old friend and teammate Robert Williams earned the "Time Lord" nickname was: "Sounds like Rob." LOL

3. His football position was slot receiver? OK. Now I want to push the "Microwave" analogy all the way to Vinnie Johnson's offensive rebounding.

[Slartibartfast]

After watching a bit more Purdue, I think he will be a better passer in the pros. And I think he'll be great when he gets his shooting hand free out of PNR.

But worried about his game inside the arc.

[Half-Full]

I found this interesting article about Carsen. It provides additional insight into his character (all positive). The article has a 76ers angle as it is from a Philly news station. It turned out sweet for us that we traded picks with Philly so that they could get Thybulle. They had two early picks in the second round, #s 33 and 34. We got #33, and selected Carsen. The Sixers were planning to choose Carsen with pick #34. Oh well.

https://www.nbcsports.com/philadelphia/76ers/nba-draft-prospect-carsen-edwards-well-and-mild-mannered-court-will-try-tear-your-throat-out

[Half-Full]

More stuff on Edwards. The article (a Purdue publication) starts on page 10.

https://issuu.com/purduesports/docs/forge-02

[claycarver]

https://www.nbcsports.com/philadelphia/76ers/nba-draft-prospect-carsen-edwards-well-and-mild-mannered-court-will-try-tear-your-throat-out

from the article:

After winning a tournament in Neosho, Missouri, Edwards and his teammates were waiting for their bus to arrive to go home. While Martinez was speaking with a reporter, he looked up into the bleachers and something caught his eye.

Edwards was in the stands helping the custodian pick up trash. After a while, his teammates began to join Edwards in helping with the cleanup. Nobody asked Edwards to do it. His coach wasn’t around. The janitor didn’t solicit his help.

He just did it.

"You treat everybody the same,” Edwards said about why he did it. “You treat everybody with the same respect. Everyone else was busy, we’re just waiting on the bus to leave. It’s not even like I had nothing else better to do, but I just saw the guy, he’s doing it by himself and felt like he could use a hand so I was just up there helping. What separates me from him to help clean up? So I just kind of knocked it out and some guys followed me."

Damn I want this kid to make it.

[rzzzzz]

I. The Sixers were planning to choose Carsen with pick #34. Oh well.

unfortunately, the Sixers' plan was to toss away almost all of our 2nd round picks, saving a few bucks for ownership. Edwards looks like a great get for you guys.