{"id":140921,"date":"2024-10-16T15:03:38","date_gmt":"2024-10-16T19:03:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.clnsmedia.com\/?p=140921"},"modified":"2024-10-17T11:48:49","modified_gmt":"2024-10-17T15:48:49","slug":"luke-kornet-talks-free-agency-and-potentially-starting-for-celtics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clnsmedia.com\/luke-kornet-talks-free-agency-and-potentially-starting-for-celtics\/","title":{"rendered":"Luke Kornet Talks Free Agency and Potentially Starting for Celtics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"bGMxNN\">Season 5 of the <strong>Luke Kornet<\/strong> Experience in Boston almost didn\u2019t happen.<\/p>\n<p id=\"Xn2LHi\">\u201cThe free agency stuff, there\u2019s definitely looking around and hearing what other teams said,\u201d\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.clnsmedia.com\/luke-kornet-starts-3rd-straight-preseason-game-as-al-horford-sits\/\">Kornet told\u00a0<em>CLNS Media<\/em><em>\u00a0<\/em>this week<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"Could Luke Kornet START Over Al Horford? | Garden Report After Hours\" width=\"788\" height=\"443\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/LciVn4FrbsY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p id=\"cWdlFs\">Kornet heard from multiple teams interested in adding him when he became an unrestricted free agent in July. With a chance to cash in for the first time in his NBA career after playing an important depth role with a championship team, he instead re-signed with the\u00a0Celtics\u00a0on a one-year, minimum contract (which carries a\u00a0<em>de facto\u00a0<\/em>no trade clause).<strong> Austin Ainge<\/strong> had previously said over the summer that some of Boston\u2019s returning players turned down more money elsewhere to stay, but Kornet was\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/RealianSteele6\/status\/1838640671605088689\">memorably the first signing of free agency<\/a>\u00a0in the entire league.<\/p>\n<p id=\"j8Uk1S\">Now, after receiving three preseason spot starts with<strong> Kristaps Porzi\u0146\u0123is<\/strong> out and <strong>Al Horford<\/strong> ramping up slowly, <strong>Joe Mazzulla<\/strong> didn\u2019t rule out Kornet\u2019s starting role persisting into the regular season. He averaged 9.0 points, 6.5 rebounds and 1.8 assists per game in four preseason appearances, shooting 73.9%.<\/p>\n<p id=\"VzjhB8\">Kornet has remained in Boston through three head coaches, two Finals runs and learned the team\u2019s systems on both ends well enough to become an ultra-reliable option inside \u2014 even into the postseason. Off the court, he\u2019s helped glue together the team\u2019s diverse personalities with a zany sense of humor. It\u2019s hard to imagine these Celtics without Kornet.<\/p>\n<p id=\"U3VdKX\">\u201cI kind of knew the whole time it\u2019d be hard to go anywhere else,\u201d Kornet said. \u201cI knew that Boston, in terms of what was available for us too, was kind of limited, but to be able to play with this team \u2014 and my family\u2019s been here. There were some great options to go other places, but you notice \u2026 is there anywhere else I\u2019d want to play with a different group of people? I feel like the group that feels like you\u2019re making the most out of what you\u2019re trying to accomplish and being able to compete at the highest level. Honestly, the five years that I\u2019ve been here have made it difficult to want anything else, especially with the group having basically everyone back. It\u2019s an honor to be able to play here and play with these guys.\u201d<\/p>\n<p id=\"j7W9T4\">It took fans time, a long time, to see beyond Kornet\u2019s appearance. Some still haven\u2019t gotten there. Tall, skinny, scruffy and a bit lumbering on the floor, he looked like a throw-in to the <strong>Daniel Theis<\/strong> salary dump who\u2019d be out the door quickly in what was fast becoming a lost season. But <strong>Brad Stevens<\/strong>, then coaching the team, said the Celtics had liked Kornet for a long time. He got into games and made plays defensively. On offense, he rained threes in a comeback win over the Thunder. And one of the first things noticeable about Kornet was how well he covered ground defending pick-and-rolls.<\/p>\n<p id=\"rRaEtr\">That following summer did not prove as robust of a free agency experience for Kornet. Not even the Celtics had room for him as Stevens ascended to become president. Horford and Enes Freedom returned while Kornet settled for a Maine Celtics contract. There, he changed his game, moved closer to the basket, honed a screening game that captivated their coaching staff and focused on facilitating more than scoring. Kornet played for Milwaukee and Cleveland while players on those teams missed time with COVID, even starting against the Celtics in 2021-22.<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"LIVE: Celtics vs. Raptors Preseason Postgame Show | Garden Report\" width=\"788\" height=\"443\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/r4bIE7ZZpFQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p id=\"jBfVdI\">\u201cSome of the stuff (Kornet) did then, is stuff that NBA teams will teach now, but it wasn\u2019t being taught then. He was just doing purely off of IQ and feel for the game and reading different coverages,\u201d\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bostonsportsjournal.com\/2023\/01\/07\/nba-notebook-how-luke-kornet-saved-his-nba-career-with-the-celtics\">former Maine and current Boston assistant Ross McMains said during the 2022-23 season<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p id=\"St2XnC\">\u201c(<strong>Marcin Gortat<\/strong>) used to do all this different stuff where he\u2019d screen a zone, he\u2019d start rolling and then he\u2019d go screen a zone and the Celtics started doing a bunch of it a couple years back with <strong>Daniel Theis<\/strong>. Luke found ways to do it in multiple different coverages, so he did it versus the drop &#8230; where you\u2019d hard roll and then you\u2019d go screen your zone, but he found ways to do it versus switches, where he\u2019d be able to screen his zone, or he\u2019d be able to screen, slip and then come back and set a second screen on both players.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"m-ad m-ad__dynamic_ad_unit m-ad__desktop_article_body dfp_ad-wrapper--is-filled\" data-concert-ads-name=\"desktop_article_body\">\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-desktop_article_body_1\" class=\"dynamic-js-slot dfp_ad--held-area dfp_ad--rendered dfp_ad--is-filled\" data-google-query-id=\"CPyyjJfKk4kDFb2nWgUdgZMZeg\">\n<p id=\"Dr402o\">Many called for an upgrade at depth center when Kornet returned to the active roster in Boston for the 22-23 season.<strong> Robert Williams III<\/strong> had gone down with surgery, Horford\u2019s age concerns existed even then and <strong>Blake Griffin<\/strong> hadn\u2019t signed yet. That\u2019s the first time the team began experimenting with the idea of playing Kornet with the starters, playing him in a rare scrimmage visible to the media at the beginning of that camp. It might\u2019ve never fully come to fruition and Kornet fell with an ankle injury, Griffin arrived and Horford ultimately started. Kornet still flashed, playing 69 games and averaging 11.7 points, 8.8 rebounds, 2.4 assists and 2.1 blocks per 36 minutes while shooting 66.5%.<\/p>\n<p id=\"ouekKS\">Even through those spurts, he didn\u2019t resemble success the way other centers showed. He\u2019s not a post-up guy, or a physically imposing rebounder or shot-rejector. He plays angles, sees the floor, sets all the right screens and takes away space on defense. Last year, he improved his offensive rebounding, finished at a 70% rate and more often ditched the famous<em>\u00a0Kornet Kontest<\/em>\u00a0that drew many laughs in 2023 for a more versatile defensive approach. Boston won all seven games that he started last year before he played solid playoff minutes through the first two rounds with Porzi\u0146\u0123is out.<\/p>\n<p id=\"RvpYuS\">Kornet started both games in Abu Dhabi legitimately drawing multiple bodies to the rim as a roller, competing admirably against the best player in the sport in Nikola Joki\u0107 and grabbing 11 rebounds in the first game. He meshed seamlessly with the starters, and if the Celtics want to naturally scale back Horford\u2019s minutes, play him with Xavier Tillman Sr. in the second unit and court a bigger starting center like they eventually will when Porzi\u0146\u0123is returns, Kornet fits.<\/p>\n<p id=\"oEBb9X\">In true Kornet fashion, he downplayed his individual success against Denver, citing their aggressive defense freeing him up. When he raced out to 11 points in the opening six minutes of Saturday\u2019s exhibition against the\u00a0Sixers, he signaled \u2018<em>10<\/em>\u2019 to the bench before later noting that Philadelphia courted a smaller bench lineup against Boston\u2019s starters.<\/p>\n<p id=\"y08OO4\">\u201cI feel like it\u2019s business as usual for us,\u201d Kornet told\u00a0<em>CLNS<\/em>, adding that he and Mazzulla haven\u2019t discussed him starting in the regular season. \u201cJoe and the staff trust me to know that I\u2019ll fill whatever needs to be done \u2026 that\u2019s the identity we have and I feel like that goes for every person on the team, top to bottom, being ready to step in and help the team win is what the focus always is. Whatever that dictates at different parts of the year. I think we showed it last year, different nights of me or Neemy or Xavier, whatever the lineups are \u2026 we have a mindset of winning the game no matter who\u2019s available.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Season 5 of the Luke Kornet Experience in Boston almost didn\u2019t happen. \u201cThe free agency stuff, there\u2019s definitely looking around and hearing what other teams said,\u201d\u00a0Kornet told\u00a0CLNS Media\u00a0this week. Kornet heard from multiple teams interested in adding him when he became an unrestricted free agent in July. 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