Remember when Jared Sullinger was considered the #1 pick?

[Bimbo Coles]

He's playing like Boris Diaw. Man's game.

[hawksdogsbraves]

He's playing as well as a pure PF with zero athleticism can play. Kudos to him.

[Pushxx]

If the Celtics had better defense he could make a bigger impact.

[Sambacher]

If he can start hitting his 3 pointers at a decent rate then he could start to be a lot more deadly. He's shooting 56% on 2 pointers and only 20% on 3 pointers. I think he'll develop his 3 point game in time though, he shoots it really well for stretches but then has very bad cold stretches as well. He just needs to become more consistent with it.

[Collie]

If he can start hitting his 3 pointers at a decent rate then he could start to be a lot more deadly. He's shooting 56% on 2 pointers and only 20% on 3 pointers. I think he'll develop his 3 point game in time though, he shoots it really well for stretches but then has very bad cold stretches as well. He just needs to become more consistent with it.

You'd think someone who shoots 20% from 3 would attempt a lot less than 2.5 per game. Hope he doesn't get Josh Smith syndrome.

[Sambacher]

You'd think someone who shoots 20% from 3 would attempt a lot less than 2.5 per game. Hope he doesn't get Josh Smith syndrome.
I think he's sort of encouraged by the coaches to shoot it more because they want him to start hitting the three consistently. He shot the three really well in preseason but it has disappeared in the reg season so far.

[JebronLames]

Does he have fatigue issues? He's only getting 31 minutes per game.

[DukeDelonte13]

i don't think he was ever considered a number 1 pick and this is from somebody that watches a lot of OSU basketball.

But i'm very impressed with him. He has far exceeded my expectations.

Good for him and good for the celtics for taking a risk on him and properly developing him.

[MP.Trey]

Dude is balling and I got him on my fantasy team. Gotta love seeing a Buckeye doing his thing.

[hawksdreamfan44]

He should've gone in the Lottery as it is. He just had some injury woes. Still a very solid player.

[Lebowski]

You'd think someone who shoots 20% from 3 would attempt a lot less than 2.5 per game. Hope he doesn't get Josh Smith syndrome.

He accidentally wore jersey #8 and got infected. It is too late so we can only hope he gets that % up.

[RedBlackAttack]

He should've gone in the Lottery as it is. He just had some injury woes. Still a very solid player.
He was medically red flagged prior to the draft and taken off of some teams' boards completely. Aside from his actual injuries, which were well documented, he had a structural issue where one leg was longer than the other. That is an immediate red flag now (same issue that Greg Oden has).

He's a nice player and I think even the GMs that took him off their board recognized that he had an NBA ready game, but when you start getting into stuff like structural problems and a long injury history, the risks begin outweighing the rewards. I remember some analysts saying teams only expected him to play 5-8 years in the league, maximum, before the wear and tear would be too much on his frame.

But yeah... had he, Harrison Barnes and PJ3 come out after their freshmen seasons in the 2011 draft, the top of the board may have looked totally different. They chose to stay an extra year mainly because of the impending lockout. All three of those guys were in contention for the No. 1 pick with Kyrie and Derrick Williams.

The following year, only one was still a lottery pick. Crazy.

[Force]

i don't think he was ever considered a number 1 pick and this is from somebody that watches a lot of OSU basketball.

But i'm very impressed with him. He has far exceeded my expectations.

Good for him and good for the celtics for taking a risk on him and properly developing him.

It's true that Jared was being called the consensus #1 overall pick. I don't believe you watched Jared college if you say he wasn't being called the future #1. They called him last all the time. He would have been chosen higher in the draft if he left a year earlier than he did.

[ballup]

You'd think someone who shoots 20% from 3 would attempt a lot less than 2.5 per game. Hope he doesn't get Josh Smith syndrome.
He made 50% of his threes in the preseason. He took about 3.75 3s a game and played in 8 games. I mean sure it's preseason, but it's not like all of his 3s in the regular season have been heavily contested.

[UK2K]

I complained for weeks on ClutchFans when Houston had a chance to snag him and didn't.

Stupid.

If you had watched him dominate his competition in college, you'd have seen he was a legitimate player. Once his 3 ball starts falling, dude could be an all star.

And for the guy up there, yes, he was considered a top 5 pick for quite a while until news of his back came out.

[CHi1PriDe]

Light skinned version of zbo with potential to be a stretch big

[Sambacher]

Does he have fatigue issues? He's only getting 31 minutes per game.
He's been working on his conditioning but Stevens also has to give playing time to Bass, Olynyk, and Zeller which eats into his time.

[ILLsmak]

i don't think he was ever considered a number 1 pick and this is from somebody that watches a lot of OSU basketball.

But i'm very impressed with him. He has far exceeded my expectations.

Good for him and good for the celtics for taking a risk on him and properly developing him.

Dudes ball. It sucks because you can't really be a star unless you have a certain body type (in like 95% of cases.)

Sully balls. It's like dudes that said Draymond wasn't ready to play in the NBA because of his body. Nah, people who ball, ball.

But yea nobody thought he was a number 1 pick. I heard more about dudes saying he couldn't play. I think he could be a starter on a good team.

-Smak