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I guess we'll keep all things related to Gabe Priutt in this thread...

"Newly reassigned Boston Celtics rookie Gabe Pruitt picked up 16 points on 6-of-9 shooting from the field, including a perfect four-of-four from beyond the arc, in his first game back with the Flash."

min. fgm-a 3gm-a ftm-a rebs ast. pf stl to bs pts

37:23 6-9 4-4 0-1 1 6 1 3 4 0 16.

http://www.nba.com/dleague/games/200803 ... score.html

Datruth345 wrote:I guess we'll keep all things related to Gabe Priutt in this thread...

"Newly reassigned Boston Celtics rookie Gabe Pruitt picked up 16 points on 6-of-9 shooting from the field, including a perfect four-of-four from beyond the arc, in his first game back with the Flash."

min. fgm-a 3gm-a ftm-a rebs ast. pf stl to bs pts

37:23 6-9 4-4 0-1 1 6 1 3 4 0 16.

http://www.nba.com/dleague/games/200803 ... score.html

Gabe's a player. The team is in win now mode, so it's understandable that they would put him on the back burner, but it's great to have him. He's gonna help quite a bit in coming years.

Can he play a role? It;s obvious he can score. But, he needs to fit into an nba teams needs. He isn't a primary player, yet I fear he can only play as a primary option. He has to learn to be the 4th and 5th option.

I think he might develop into a good sixth man type. The other possibility is point- Making the transition to point is hard to do but not impossible.

He's got a good foundation of talent and skills to build out from.

Yes, this could be the Pruitt NBDL tracker...

I really like Gabe. Love his game! He look so smooth on the court. My brother says his style reminds him of a young Penny Hardaway.

I definitely see him on this team in the future. He has great stroke, is very solid defensively, we just need to see if he can lead a team as a PG in this league...

And the way he plays makes him a perfect fit for this team. A tall PG with great stroke is exactly what we need as a backup to Rondo...

I don't think saying Gabe can't play anything but the main role is a fair assessment

for one we haven't seen any meaningful NBA minutes for the kid so any conclusions can;t be properly made, and he is playing on the d-league team with Morris Almond who is clearly the #1 option on that team

i'm hoping he'll be ready to take cassell/house's role soon, maybe next season but if not def the season after.

There are two bright spots in his line, and I'm not sure which is more important.

First, 1 Turnover in 37 minutes is an improvement for a guy who did not play point guard in college. Nice improvement.

Second, by shooting 6-9 in 37 minutes, the Celtics leading FGA per minute player has slowed down a bit, and perhaps may be picking his opportunities better. Perhaps when he returns from Utah he'll slow down enough so that guys like Garnett, Pierce, Ray Allen and even Eddie House (5th on the Celtics) surpass him in firing rate. But right now, Gabe is the quickest draw of all the Celtics. Of course with mostly blanks (err, I mean bricks), that caused Doc to say, when a reporter asked Doc "What do you think of Gabe Pruitt?", Doc replied "He shoots too much."

Second game:
http://www.nba.com/dleague/games/200803 ... score.html

Poor shooting night by Gabe...

thebirdman wrote:Second game:
http://www.nba.com/dleague/games/200803 ... score.html

Poor shooting night by Gabe...

Great to see they're allowing him to play a ton of minutes. He seems to be assisting well this time around. Sure he didn't shoot well, but he still ended up with 22 pts and 8 asts.

8 D-League Games.

14-23 Free Throws. 60.8%. Yikes !!! Free Throws.

i like gabe, and i think he has a role here, if we keep him around long enough.

i dont foresee the same level of success, but i see him as a scoring-quasi point guard in the mold of an arenas/ellis type of player

22-8-4-4

not a bad night aside from the shooting

Datruth345 wrote:22-8-4-4

not a bad night aside from the shooting

Yes, but,

this 7-21 shooting night seems to be more typical than an aberation.

In 8 D-League Games 49-118 = 0.415 FG %

Celtics 11-29 = 0.379 FG %

Decent NBA Players are supposed to torch D-League.

His 14-23 Free Throws in D-League are another alarm bell.

Yes...and thats exactly why he is in the d-league

and again i'm not drawing any conclusions based on the nba and d-league sample size

and i'm supposed to be worried because he isn't "torching the d-league"? nonsense

I don't mind the shooting percentage as much as I mind the number of shots. If he is going to play any PG for us, 21 shots is just not acceptable.

I'm actually pretty frustrated with him on the Utah Flash, because I think he's in a terrible place to learn. The D-League is such a 1 on 1 chucker league-its even worse basketball than the NBA in terms of passing and doing the right things. But pretty much, its Gabe, Morris Almond, and a bunch of guys who don't want to shoot the ball.

Kevin Kruger is a true 1 which means Gabe will never get his time, and Kruger doesn't like to shoot. So as the #2 option on a team with a bunch of role players, Gabe probably feels like chucking is what will make that team win...and he could be right...but that isn't what we have in mind for him up here.

I think they should institute a rule for him that if he shoots more than 12 times, he rides the pine the rest of the game.

you really think Gabe Pruitt doesn't know he can't take 21 shots when he is on the celtics? he has a completley diffrent role on the Utah Flash than he will ever have on the celtics

i think people are looking a bit too far into the numbers...

Datruth345 wrote:you really think Gabe Pruitt doesn't know he can't take 21 shots when he is on the celtics? he has a completley diffrent role on the Utah Flash than he will ever have on the celtics

i think people are looking a bit too far into the numbers...

If you want to take Gabe Pruitt in your NBDL fantasy league, I have no arguments for you.

But let me try an analogy here.

Say you are a young accountant. You don't really know what you are doing, and in this busy season, your firm has enough accountants to do the work. So they send you down to school...not any old school, but Harvard Business School. Only one problem...Harvard Business School only has a spot in their entrepreneur major. Now sure, you are going to get a taste of accounting, there, too. But your spending an awful lot of time doing stuff that will either be considered a negative at your future job, or at the very least, useless.

Why is Gabe Pruitt being trained as a scorer when we want him to be a passer?

Again, my complaint here is not so much with Pruitt, but with the position that he's in. It sucks.

Right now the Utah Flash are affiliated with the Utah Jazz and the Boston Celtics. However, they have their own, private owner.

Obviously the coach and team try to win games.

Except for one game of 12 and another of 24 minutes, Gabe has played 35 or more minutes in the other 6 games.

However, as has been pointed out already, he seems to be playing a lot of shooting guard, where he is not the primary ball handler, and where he does not necessarily have to play on ball defense on the primary ballhandler. Not exactly an ideal situation.

Perhaps if the Celtics get their own affiliate, whether in Maine or New Hampshire, they will have a little more say in how someone is used positionally.

Brandon Wallace got 35 mpg also, but I don't know if he got all of that as a small forward, as Danny would have liked.

But I can't help think that Danny requested that Gabe be used as a point guard. Morris Almond is a natural shooting guard, so there's no reason not to let Gabe do it. Why they play that Kevin Kruger 35 mpg with Gabe and Almond out there (who both played 35 mpg also) beats the hell out of me.

Jammer, I'll admit, it baffles me a bit too. Kevin Kruger is probably a better PG than Gabe at this point in his career, but Kevin kruger is going to be lucky to ever get a 10 day contract in the league. He can certainly be knocked down to 25 minutes or something to give Gabe a little burn at PG...