I don't think Stevens would say something like that just to make them feel good, he probably really meant it. DA would just to grease the wheels of the agent, but Stevens doesn't seem to play head games.
I could see why he'd fit in good. If he could get a jump shot like Crowder, he'd be a very good two way player. In a couple work outs it was said his jump shot looked better than expected. And in videos it doesn't look broken, so there is hope.
Brown/Murry/Heild/Dunn/Bender a the next 3-7 picks. Any of them could be a good player in the league. Heild might be the one who is most NBA ready, Murry has the best shot of being an elite scorer, Bender, who knows, and Brown can be a Smart type wing defender, and if he gets a jump shot could be dangerous.
But I'm more trusting of Stevens scouting of players, and if Stevens said he'd fit in, I'm intrigued. by Brown now.
I disagree. It's a job interview. In all but the very very very worst of job interviews, everyone is polite. You tell the interviewee nice things. Even if from the workout the Celtics have no intention of drafting Brown, maybe one day he will come over in a trade. There's no reason to be anything other than complimentary to a 19 year-old in these circumstances.
I'm not saying Stevens wasn't genuine, but it would have been rude of him to say anything different. Stevens isn't a rude person, so I'm going to take it as a polite cordialness.
There is a difference in being polite and genuinly liking him. Polite would have been, we like what your bring, we like your attitude, we like.... That keeps you in their fav for a possible future but doesn't hurt you if you don't pick them.
Genuine liking him is telling him he fits in here.
Telling him that you like him that much for a POSSIBLE future trade is reaching. And telling him that and not drafting him doesn't look good. Now if Ingram falls to threw, Brown couldn't blame the Celtics for taking him. But he got passed over for Bender, he might be a little upset.
Now if this was coming from DA I get the chess match he would be playing with agents and other GM's, and it would make more sense if there was an other guy he wanted and we were in the 6th+ spot and maybe a GM bites on Brown and DA gets who he wants, but picking 3rd DA doesn't have to many moves to use, and that wouldn't be one of them.
Unless he's trying to get LA to go after Brown so he can pick up Ingram, but thats going to be a tough move.
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