The Celtics rallied to beat the Hornets 89-84 at the Las Vegas Summer League on Wednesday, improving to 2-1 in their Summer League slate.
Here are some takeaways.
1. Of all the Celtics’ prospects, Anton Watson has felt the most like a future rotation piece so far, and Wednesday’s win was the first game that backed that up statistically. Watson scored a team-high 15 points on 6-for-12 shooting, and he launched nine 3-pointers, knocking down three of them. He added five rebounds, two assists, two steals and a block.
The 3-pointers were an encouraging sign – Watson came into the league with decent small-sample-size numbers, but the Celtics are not a small-sample-size 3-point shooting team.