Jaylen Brown

Boston Celtics' Jaylen Brown during the first half of an NBA preseason basketball game, Tuesday, Oct. 4, 2016, in Amherst, Mass.

(AP Photo/Jessica Hill)

Boston Celtics wing Jaylen Brown received impressive reviews when the Sporting News' Sean Deveney tracked down an NBA scout to break down some of this year's rookies.

From Deveney's article:

A few instant reactions:

1. The "3-and-D" label might be a bit premature. Brown has shot well from behind the arc so far (35.3 percent), but has only made 12 triples over his entire NBA career. Especially considering teams close out short on him whenever they remember the scouting report, he has plenty to prove before we can admit his shooting stroke is real.

2. Same goes for Brown's corner shooting. He has hit four 3-pointers from the corner in his NBA life. Four. It's fair to be impressed by his stroke or think he has potential as a shooter (that's fine), but he has not been out there draining one corner 3-pointer after another. It's better that he's 4 for 7 rather than something worse, but that's still a tiny sample size and might mean nothing over the long term.

3. With the third overall pick, you really should land one of the draft's best players. If Brown doesn't become just that, the Celtics screwed up.

4. Most of the 2016 draft class has not performed well so far, but Brown has established himself as a worthy rotation member on one of the Eastern Conference's best teams. He started the season as a teenager, but has still earned minutes from a coach, Brad Stevens, who owns a grudge against undeserved playing time. That's nice.

5. Another important part of the scout's statement is the one about Brown's "pretty high" ceiling. In a bad draft, the Celtics landed a 20-year old who is helpful enough to play now and has enough athleticism and ball skills to (maybe) emerge one day as something substantially greater. Brown's career could still go in a lot of different directions, but he has played like a high-floor, high-ceiling type of guy -- certainly not a bad type of youngster to have.