Boston Celtics: B/R excited about one specific player in 2020-21

Of all the players found on the roster for the Boston Celtics, B/R sees one talent as an under-the-radar choice for fans to be excited about.

With the preseason now in the rearview, Boston Celtics fans look ahead to the regular season and the wonders of what could be.

Excited is a term that could be used to describe how the Houdini feels about this Cs team heading into 2020-21, as we want to see how they will fair with injuries to start the year while playing through a reletively difficult first-half schedule.

With the second-best wing duo in the league, Jayson Tatum and Jaylen Brown in tow, an All-Star that will eventually return in Kemba Walker, and the heart and soul of Celtics basketball, Marcus Smart, the team’s roster is also something fans should be enamored with this year.

However, in the eyes of Bleacher Report writer Andy Bailey, there is an under-the-radar player that should warrant ample attention as well. That man: Aaron Nesmith.

Selected 14th overall in this past draft, the former Vanderbilt star comes in as a potential answer to Boston’s second-unit scoring woes, as he is viewed as arguably the best shooter to be selected in the 2020 draft.

Bailey went on to state that less pressure for Nesmith to perform right away could lead to big things during his first season in the league, as he states:

"First-year players are rarely ready to contribute right away, but on a team with Tatum and Brown, Nesmith may not be asked to do much more than catch-and-shoot. And his abbreviated sophomore season at Vanderbilt suggests that’s well within his capabilities.Nesmith only played in 14 games in 2019-20, but that was enough time to get 115 three-point attempts up. He hit a whopping 60 of those (52.2 percent)."

If he performs anywhere close to how he did during his final season in college where he averaged 23 points, 4.9 rebounds, 1.4 steals, and just under a block per game while shooting 51 percent from the field and a whopping 52 percent from deep, the Boston Celtics could have landed themselves an absolute steal of a pick at the end of the lottery.