Boston Celtics 2014-15 season

I think this season couldn't be going better, its just unfortunate that there's 3 teams that are dreadful. Getting the 4th-5th pick could land us Willy Caulie-Stein or Towns if he slips.

I see this offseason as an opportunity to get young impactful players. We have approximately 30 million in cap space, I would do whatever it takes to land Butler and Leonard and try to move Bradley for a pick/young rebounding/defensive presence (R. Gorbert?)
Having Smart, Butler and Leonard would make for some elite wing defense and could be the nucleus of an young, high energy team for years to come.

There is no chance Leonard or Butler switch teams this offseason. They are RFAs and their teams will match a max offer in a heartbeat.

The best youngish free agents who might switch teams this offseason are Goran Dragic, Greg Monroe, DeAndre Jordan, and Roy Hibbert (I omitted Marc Gasol since he's unlikely to sign in a rebuilding situation in Boston). There are also slightly older and lower-ceiling but useful types in Omer Asik, Arron Afflalo, and Paul Millsap. Draymond Green and Reggie Jackson are RFAs who could be available if you overpaid for them.

Dragic and Monroe are intriguing for the right price - they'd both be worth slightly overpays, IMO.

But DeAndre and Hibbert are two guys you stay away from at any cost. Their next contracts will likely turn out to be disasters.

If we are going to overpay I want DeAndre Jordan. He is a perfect fit with Sullinger and Olynyk. His PER has gone up for 5 straight years and he is averaging 9.8 points, 13.4 rebounds, 2.3 blocks and 1 steal a game. I bet it's going to take a max level deal or close to it.

Would you give Jordan a max deal?

Is Jordan a franchise center? Not at all. Is he a game changing player? You better believe it. He owns the paint! Why do you think you need a strong wing scorer to pair with Jordan? Look at the Clippers, they don't have a strong wing scorer. What you need is to pair Jordan with players that can score.

I hope your joking about the Celtics taking on a Gerald Wallace type player for 2 first rounder's(chances are late first rounders). Unless they are high lottery picks that is crazy. Wallace had three years on his deal when we traded for him. Now we did it for three first round picks and the right to swap picks another year. We took picks years away hoping they would be lottery picks by the time he got them. The Wallace deal was a good deal to start a rebuild, not the type of deal you make when your already a couple years into a rebuild. I don't know about you but I don't want to wait till 2018 to compete again.

Not trying to make the Clippers out to be a bad team, but they haven't made the Conference Championship game in the Paul/Griffin era. Their wing production is poor for a team with championship aspirations, which is the reason that they haven't been that close.

On the rebuilding front, unless you get someone to pair with Jordan, there's no use in obtaining him (under the assumption that you could). Yes he's good, but if it's him and Marcus Smart as the core of a playoff-but-not-contending team, I think that it's far from ideal. You just stick yourself in draft purgatory and your only option of getting a "guy" is by trade. Which is certainly still possible, considering Danny's bounty of assets, but as we saw with Kevin Love, assets don't always equal star players, even if they are available. I don't really care how long it takes to rebuild, as long as it is done right (i.e. Multi-Year, legit championship runs). The reality is that it will take time and a lot of luck.

Don't act like we got 3 1/2 firsts for taking Gerald Wallace's contract. The Nets got Pierce and Garnett. They thought that they could contend with the LeBron and the Heat with a veteran core and a young stud in Lopez, so they paid the price. It obviously went terribly wrong, but don't let the present alter the past. (add: The reason why the Celtics got picks in the far future was because a team can't trade all their picks. If you want three firsts from one team, it is going to take years to get them all. Part of the thinking in the trade was the the Nets could be really bad In the future, but it's not like they had the option to get the picks any sooner.)

In the NBA, you never know when teams are going to get desperate. No one knows when superstars are going to decide that they are unhappy, especially if someone goes into their free-agent offseason after getting crushed in the first round of the playoffs. Who will need our help if Lebron opts-out this summer and in what capacity? Love? Gasol? Leonard? Aldridge? The most consistent way to "fit" into these trades (get something out of them) is to be as flexible as possible. The trade exceptions only further the flexibility of the organization.

I don't think Monroe leaves Detroit. I used to think it was a given but they waived Josh Smith to free up that conflict most likely to keep Monroe. They can pay him more and the team needs him so they will keep him IMO. They have played way better as a team.


These last two wins have been z annoying, ha.

The Portland one stings most. Denver is bad enough that I was thinking that could be a W. But the Aldridge injury made that game winnable and they stole it. Bummer.

Maybe with the KO injury and offloading some more vets they'll be able to "steal" some losses that they shouldn't expect to lose.

Terrible was an over exaggeration but below average and like you said not a guy who is want to max out unless he finished the puzzle. I can understand why a team like the Clippers would give him a max deal. They are over cap and have bird rights and he can fit into their plan.

Good article about Smart flashing in Denver:

www.masslive.com/celtics/index.ssf/2015/01/marcus_smart_showcased_pick-an.html