Grantland "job interview" Burke/McCollum

[The Penguin]

I'm a really high on Shabazz, so take this with a grain of salt. But Jalen and Bill were stroking the ego of all the other prospects and go in on Shabazz's issues for the first 8 minutes. Kind of unbalanced. He answered the questions correctly (except for who's going to be living with you/crazy purchase). The issue was the interview never became a conversation and was just a cookie cutter interview, but I attribute that to the negative beginning.

After reading Simmons for years I wouldn't be surprised if he tried to make Shabazz look bad to drive his value into Celtics range.

[ImHeisenberg]

I'm a really high on Shabazz, so take this with a grain of salt. But Jalen and Bill were stroking the ego of all the other prospects and go in on Shabazz's issues for the first 8 minutes. Kind of unbalanced. He answered the questions correctly (except for who's going to be living with you/crazy purchase). The issue was the interview never became a conversation and was just a cookie cutter interview, but I attribute that to the negative beginning.

After reading Simmons for years I wouldn't be surprised if he tried to make Shabazz look bad to drive his value into Celtics range.

Haha. No, I wouldn't put it past him. He's an entertaining writer, but the biggest Celtics homer out there. He dedicates entire columns and podcasts to the C's.