Re: [2024/2025] Summer League e Preseason
Dopo una Summer League coi Celtics che gli ha restituito l'immagine di un giocatore finalmente sano, pare che il lungo tiratore Killian Tillie sia mietendo interesse:
After suffering a back injury that forced him to undergo a medical procedure and miss the final two months of the 2021-22 NBA season, Killian Tillie hadn’t been cleared for a full return when he was waived by the Grizzlies on Oct. 15, 2022, just three days before the team’s regular-season opener. Tillie returned to Spokane, rehabbed, recovered and ramped up for training camp workouts in the late spring/early summer with hopes he’d latch on with another NBA team. The 6-foot-9 forward had a number of feelers, with strong interest coming from the Golden State Warriors and Philadelphia 76ers in particular.
By late spring, Tillie was prepared to resume his professional career, but he took a more cautious and intentional approach this time, only conducting a few workouts before his agent began making phone calls. One of those was to the Celtics, who were in the process of completing a 4-1 NBA Finals series win over the Dallas Mavericks when they agreed to bring Tillie in for summer league. “They’re a great organization to be with so I didn’t think twice,” Tillie said.
Boston encouraged Tillie to shoot freely from the perimeter – something that never required much convincing while he was at Gonzaga – and the Celtics allowed him to guard a variety of positions on defense as a result of their heavy switching schemes. “Boston, they want to shoot 3s, so you know we’ve got the green light,” Tillie said. “They give us confidence to shoot every time and also crash the boards and do a little bit of everything. Also defensively, they like to switch on everything so being able to switch on smaller guards is important to be in the league, be a strength on defense. That’s a good thing to do.”
Come si legge, a Boston chiedono di svicciare e bombardare