Boston Celtics: 3 players who can save or sink C’s season

Boston Celtics player No. 2) Evan Fournier

The Boston Celtics came into this year’s trade deadline with an unbelievable amount of buzz surrounding them, with many in the media finding themselves believing Danny Ainge and co. would swing for the fences and strike on a big deal.

Now, with March 25th in the rearview, we find that the team, once again, played it safe by shipping off minimal assets and, in return, brought back three role players, headlined by the likes of Evan Fournier.

Now, using the term “role player” is by no means denigrating these specific talents, especially when referring to the French marksman. However, in comparison to the many other players that were linked to the franchise including John Collins and even Fournier’s own Orlando Magic teammates in Nikola Vucevic and Aaron Gordon, the acquisitions were a bit of a letdown.

Still, the 28-year-old wing could wind up proving to be of great service to this Celtics team moving forward, especially if he can tap into his early-season level of play.

Through 26 games played with the Magic this year, Fournier was finding himself posting arguably his best season as a pro, averaging 19.7 points, 3.7 assists, and 2.9 rebounds per game on 46 percent shooting from the floor and 39 percent shooting from deep.

In actuality, adding this kind of production to a rotation seriously struggling to find consistent scoring outside of Tatum and Brown seems to be a fantastic move.

That said, to date we have yet to see such production on a regular basis, be it due to him being absent from the team whilst abiding by COVID-19 Health and Saftey protocols — which is currently the case –or simply because of his inconsistent play when on the court, which was kicked off right from day one with an 0-10 shooting performance during his debut in Beantown.

The concept of bringing on a nearly 20 points per game scorer to the Cs as a tertiary option would be a great addition and could help sure up their struggles on the more glamorous side of the ball.

However, if he can’t tap into his pre-deadline self, it will all but prove his acquisition to be the lowly move many already believe it to be.