There are qualifiers for sure--it’s the first preseason game and everybody’s a little rusty--but Payton Pritchard can play. After being anointed the “young guy that’s come into training camp and impressed early” by Marcus Smart and confirmed by Brad Stevens, the #26 pick was a bright spot in the Celtics 108-99 loss in their first preseason game in Philadelphia.
Pritchard was nursing a recently dislocated finger, but neither that nor the 76ers defense could stop him from scoring 16 points on 6-for-10 shooting and dishing out two assists.
“Trying to get into the flow of things.