Romeo Langford

The Boston Celtics select Romeo Langford with the 14th pick.

Final predictions for tonight?

To SAS : Romeo Langford, Josh Richardson, 1st-Round Pick

To BOS : Derrick White

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Both of our old boys having solid nights and helping get their teams a W. Both solid players I hope have success. Just not against us. Edit: Apologies for the horrible formatting. Both were guys I had high hopes for in Boston I just got excited they both showed out on the same night.

This guy was considered by many the best scorer in the country coming out of high school. At IU he was ok given the huge expectations. Injuries derailed him.

And in the NBA I just don’t see it. Was he incorrectly evaluated during high school? He just seems like a fringe NBA player who probably won’t be in a roster soon.

I was watching my beloved Celtics last night, and this is something I've noticed for a while but it only continues to become more and more true. When Romeo Langford was drafted, his game was described as combo scorer who could really finish around the rim and beat guys off the dribble, but his issues were that he couldn't shoot and he didn't defend.

Fast forward to his third season, and Romeo is basically the polar opposite player of what he was supposed to be. He barely ever dribbles, and has struggled scoring around the rim throughout his entire career thus far. However, he's been downright awesome defensively this year, he rebounds, and he's shooting 42.3% from 3.

This to me is totally bizarre. If you watch his college highlights, which was only the 2018-2019 season, he looks nothing like the player he is today, but he's a pretty solid player today. Are there any other examples of players who were drafted as one prototype, who evolved into totally different players than anyone expected them to be?

Don’t crucify me, but I need some help being sold on Romeo. I’m not so sure how much he contributes (when healthy) from what I’ve seen him do. Is he worth keeping? Is he worth trying to fit into the rotation? Or would we get another Hayward-year-2 situation where he’s eating other players’ valuable minutes with little payoff, or something like it?

On , Jake Fisher of Bleacher Report talked about the Celtics struggles.

"I would say the early returns so far from what I’ve heard from around the league, there is not much interest in this former first-round picks that Boston has. From Payton Pritchard to Romeo Langford to Grant Williams. I think Aaron Nesmith probably has the highest value of that group. It’s difficult. That’s kind of why they’re in the situation that they’re in right now. They had draft pick after draft pick after draft pick, that hasn’t netted them anything more than back of the rotation type players. They haven’t really developed anybody outside of that besides Robert Williams, and they are where they are."

"So I think this is definitely the beginning of the end of the Jayson Tatum-Jaylen Brown pairing. I don’t know if that will get broken up this season. But I think sometime in the next 12 to 18 months we’re really going to start to hear conversations about the future of Boston with Jaylen Brown heading out the door."

I didn't know that lol I mean I knew he was lengthy, the guy was amazing on defense last year

but his wingspan is 6 foot 11. maybe 7 feet by now he was 19 when the combined happened iirc. thats data from 2019 combine for the draft

I have such high hopes for him. if I had to rank based on potential of our draft picks in last like 5 years, or even a few more than that. he would be 3rd behind Tatum and Jaylen