Yeah the Celtics picked up his 4th year team option back in November. Unless that somehow didn't transfer over with the rest of his contract, he's not a free agent.
Literally no one is having this discussion. People are talking about maybe acquiring him for a minimal price if the opportunity arose.
In his 3 seasons, the Romeo discussion pretty much topped out at good defender/rotational bench player when healthy. Great NBA player and Romeo Langford never really crossed paths around here.
I’m already tired of hearing about his injuries with another team. Dude is just so soft. Also glad the Spurs didn’t elect to take Nesmith who we can still dream on a little bit.
I know you're not being totally serious but Langford was included for the $. My guess is that if Romeo wasn't involved, the draft picks would have been worse not better.
You would have seen him be proficient at that skill at most a couple times a week; the remaining games during that week he'd be in street clothes due to this or that malady. Part of being a pro is being able to be out there when not in perfect condition; he's simply not willing or able to do that.
He's a good defender still, but I think he's a guy who maybe needed to go to a bad team where he would actually get the opportunity to utilize his best skill coming out of college—pick and roll ballhandling. Instead in Boston he had to become a good shooter, and fast, if he had any hope of staying on the floor. Injuries of course derailed a lot of his opportunity as well, but he was always going to have a hard time developing as a relevant offensive piece here because of the players in front of him that he had no chance of taking ballhandling duties from.
That would have to be a really bad team to give him ballhandling duties. Like supernaturally bad.
Go watch some Rockets, Thunder or early season Pistons games.... plenty of the worst teams will let young guys run and fail at hundreds of PnR situations to see if they develop, it's what tanking teams do.
Is he even really a bust? I don't think he's close to being out of the league. He can play defense and in the era of bloated rosters (15+2), he'll find his way to the back end of a roster.
The Spurs had no interest in Romeo the player and as you said the deal was all about the financials to get the deal done. I’m sure they will move him somewhere in the summer,,,,,Pistons, Thunder, Rockets, Kings, etc. These could be bad spots for his skillset.
May I introduce you to my other team, the Houston Rockets. They’re supernaturally bad.
yeah, when I listed them the exact thing I was thinking was watching them just say "sure Jalen, go out there and see what happens"
Bingo. White is just solid, at both ends of the floor. Him thriving in the 6th man role has helped solidify the team’s rotation, which has aided Pritchard and Theis into their roles. Grant had been a contributor before the trade, but he also has a stabilized role now, with he and DW checking in at the six minute mark of the first and third quarters.
I don't think one needs to be out of the league in order to be a bust. He has the 4th fewest minutes played of every first round pick in 2019. He can't shoot and can't stay healthy. Compared to the median outcome for a mid first round pick, he is a bust up to this point.
It's not an obsession, it's just a discussion.
He is a 64% free throw shooter and 30% three point shooter. He may be a 35% wide open corner three guy bit overall, yes he can't shoot.
Of all the players from the 2019 draft who played at least 40 NBA games so far, (49 players) Boston managed to draft three of the 11 worst shooter by career FG%
The jury is still very much out on that (at best), and when that's the case after three years, there's not much else to say.
I couldn't disagree more. White is a really solid player. Totally get that his outside shooting has been an achilles heel, but he mostly has been very good despite that and is an excellent fit on the defensive end.
It's an overpay given how PP has developed, and imho will develop further. If PP was a zero, it was a fair price. I wish they played PP more at the 1, not exclusively at the 2. He's got the handle imho, especially when you play Tatum at point forward.
The value of that pick swap is tiny, even if its the worst case scenario. More to the point, they don't get here without White, even if he isn't putting up good numbers. At the very least, he gives Udoka another player who can credibly switch on to most players they face, another decent distributor and a veteran who knows where to be on the court.
Unless Pritchard were to grow four inches taller and add some wingspan, he’s always going to be a limited player. He’s well suited to his current role where Ime’s rotations can avoid matchups where he’s likely to be torched by elite NBA scorers. You don’t have to worry about Derrick White in crunch time if you want to go smaller.
I won't disagree White had a fairly disappointing series against Brooklyn, but he has been anything but underwhelming since joining the team, IMO. He isn't an all-star, but Brad replaced a rotation player in Richardson who was a slight negative on both ends of the floor (RAPTOR -0.4 offense, -0.7 defense) with White who has been a positive on offense (+0.7) and a plus defender (+3.0). As an added bonus, White is younger and comes with two more years on his contract. The team went 19-6 in the regular season after his arrival. The price wasn't cheap, but a late-20s first and Romeo (who played all of 43 minutes the rest of the season) isn't exactly a haul. 2028 is a long way away, but unless you think Tatum and/or Brown are going to leave, a team with the Jays in their age 30 and 31 seasons shouldn't be picking high in the lottery.
I'm with you here. I like the trade a lot. His handle, AST/TO ratio, decision making and defense are all high level for a ball handler. Brad does this trade again in a heartbeat.
White gives you a level of Smart/Brown insurance that PP doesn't offer, and considering both have had some injury issues that's a valuable thing. Not to mention, it's hardly terrible to have a rotation that goes 9 deep and offers Ime flexibility to play small or big depending on the matchup. And if White can pull a Grant and learn to shoot corner 3s over the summer...
Team had won 6 straight prior to the DW trade. It's possible the trade was unncessary and Ime figured out how to use DS and the bench. If the team wins a title this year, who cares.
