With the usual process of the NBA Draft Combine disrupted due to the pandemic, it’s been harder than usual to divine which teams have interest in which players, but little by little we are learning from players themselves which prospects have spoken to which clubs.
Fortune Sport’s Chris Grenham has been pounding the virtual pavement to get the goods on who the Celtics have been speaking to ahead of the 2020 NBA Draft — currently slated to take place on November 18th — among prospects as varied as Michigan State’s Xavier Tillman and TCU’s Desmond Bane.
On Monday evening Grenham relayed Boston has interviewed Charleston product Grant Riller.
The Celtics have met with College of Charleston guard Grant Riller, per source.
Riller is seeing a lot of interest in the 20-38 range. Boston currently owns picks 14, 26, 30 and 47.
— Chris Grenham (@chrisgrenham) October 12, 2020
Riller is a high-floor if older point guard with good upper-body strength and defense to use it with when he puts in the effort, shoots from deep well and often (36.2% on 4.2 attempts per game) with solid distribution skills and rebounding for his position.
He needs to limit turnovers and foul less as his game matures, and could do better at finding teammates open, but that may have been in part a product of playing at a mid-major program with few elite options to pass to.
Riller might not be too far from his ceiling already, but if Boston wants to find a prospect able to contribute immediately with a low bust factor late in the first round, Riller might be their guy.
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