Celtics 2024 Offseason

Giddey just isn’t very good. He can’t shoot and can’t consistently score at the rim, which means he won’t have the ball in his hands often enough to activate his passing. He’s not a good defender on top of that. He’s young and all of that can improve, but no guarantees it will and he just doesn’t contribute enough to winning today for a team with legitimate championship aspirations.

Yeah that's the trade.

Sure their best player is and he like the rest of the team has won one playoff series in his career. Versus Warriors Tatum had been to 3 conference championships, Smart and Brown had been to four and you had Horford. Tatum was young at 23, but Smart was 27, Brown 25, Horford 35, White 27, R. Williams 24 and Pritchard 24. They are years away from having legit playoff experience and having the core be that old. The Celtics for their age was the most battle tested group in Modern Basketball. 

Caruso is also in the last year of his deal and literally just posted his first positive offensive box score of his career. First time playing in 70 games and 2,000 minutes, good for whopping 10 points a game. On a championship team he's coming off the bench, he's not White or Holiday for example.

I love team ball movement Basketball and a player like Giddey can make that happen. It's not his fault the Thunder drafted a PG when they already have a franchise one. Guys going to be a walking triple double for years. Add has improved shooting for 3 straight years at age 21. Heck per 36 minutes he also averaged .9 steals and .9 blocks.

Looking at free agents I see two guys that might have them as favorites to win the West next year and make the finals, LeBron James and Paul George.

Again it wasn't trading him I have a problem with, it's who they traded him for.

You quoted them saying they couldn’t find any criminal activity lmao

But whatever joke about stat rape if you want (what this would be), that is not my bag

People compare him to Wander Franco and I just think that’s ridiculous, the discourse around him isn’t reasonable

Gee it’s almost like the girl had a fake ID to get into a club and didn’t want to talk to the police about something very illegal she did. Pretty sure you get charged with a felony for having a fake depending on the state- edit: just checked, it’s a misdemeanor in CA but it’s punishable by up to 6 months in jail if law enforcement is involved. Maybe would not be charged as a minor but it’s certainly a crime!

There was nothing to charge him for, you conveniently left out the part of their statement where they did a thorough and exhaustive search. Pretty sure he fully cooperated. But again make your statutory rape jokes if you must. Very cool.

I guess I feel for him because this could happen to any college kid at a nightclub and I feel it’s unfair for him to be painted the way he has been painted

That would be a thing for a parent to be concerned about. But also they need be aware that predators -- and I am not attesting this fellow is such -- lurk in many unexpected places (a prominent pastor has been in the news this past week, for instance).

Vigilance is needed, no matter how smart or mature or chaste the child. 

Any chance D White signs an extension for 4/125.888? Wonder if we add player options for years 3 and 4, at least we lock him up for 3 more seasons…

Do people think Springer and Walsh could potentially be useful bench pieces or is that unlikely?

What is wrong with The Athletic? Almost zero draft crap, one mock everything else was from last year. Then days before the draft you drop a book. That should have been out right after the combine! At least the password isn't crazy.

White has to decide if he wants the security of a long-term deal now or wait a year for a bigger deal. NBA stupid 40% raise on extensions, even though you own his full bird rights. It makes zero sense. I'll be glad if he takes it though.

Same with Houser, I see a bunch of talk about an Extension. You can only give him an extension starting at 40% raise, which he'd be stupid to take. His market value is likely 4-5 times that after that finals showing.

Springer and Walsh both can likely help on D right now, both need to work on 3 point shooting. Walsh shot well in the G-League, Springer hasn't. Thing is Springer is like an 80% FT shooter, that usually translates to at minimum a decent 3 point shot. Both need to spend all summer shooting a 1,000 3 pointers a day!

If they do, we'd have defense options besides just Pritchard and Hauser. Which would frankly be unreal.

The other thing is what do they do with JD Davison? Another two way contract or a regular one? Is his late season 3 point shot improvement for real or just a hot streak?

With Hauser they can decline his player option and sign him to a bigger deal if they wanted to go that route.

I honestly have no clue, I’m not comfortable enough with this new CBA to know what even makes sense or where our owners are willing to go. That being said, structure wise, I’ve seen some say a declining salary type deal could make sense for future cap years.

I’m truly at a loss for what can and should be done. It’s a weird feeling. As a fan, I just hope they keep these guys together considering their ages and the window they have. I’ll worry about the 2030s later.