raises the question of when did Marcus become a scout and when did he have time during the season to scout college players
He prly stayed up to date on the college world, only being one year removed. He prly didn't attend many games maybe a couple I suppose. But C'mon Slam we all can make time for anything, I mean I imagine most of celtics Blog have jobs and yet we are all still on here Yes Marcus played, practice and studied for his job but he still has a life which prly involved watching other sports(college basketball).
I Think its smart to ask the players because you can have the talent but if the chemistry isn't there it's not going to work
must be me Humble, I only watch the C's. don't really pay much attention to other teams or sports.
my point with Smart was that he's been out of the college game a year and a lot of the prospects we're looking at (supposedly) are either freshmen coming out or players from a different conference than the one Marcus played in. if danny was asking for opinions of guys Marcus played against, that would make more sense.
This may be little more than a management tactic to make Marcus feel important, but I would imagine he's still pretty connected with college and high school game (though maybe to a lesser extent there).
There's all these AAU tournaments, National teams, and All-American camps that feature guys from several different classes. Not sure if this applies to Marcus, but once those guys get to college, alot of them become "counselors" at those same All-American camps, exposing them to an additional class of players coming up. Then there's summer workouts, Pro-Ams summer leagues, etc where guys of all different ages might mingle.
When I was 21 years old, I like to think I had a pretty decent amount of information on the 18-19 year olds coming up after me, even if I didn't compete directly against them in high school or college.
Again, Ainge might just be paying Marcus lip service, but Marcus might have some very useful information on some of these guys too.