Still Not Done

said Ainge. “I was a big fan. I appreciated all the little things he did to help his team win.”

Shadows of Scalabrine!

I honestly like the signing, but still…

What causes “Your comment is too short”. If this post goes, it was shorter than my comment

Wouldnt anyone think Powe/Davis/Scalabrine/Perkins/Pollard is enough big men.. they need another wing player in my opinion .. perhaps using 2nd round draft picks / cash considerations to get that guy .
Overall i am not dissapointed in how this is turning out this season , those above mentioned could surprise and then some surrounded by these stars.

With all due respect, i think Ainge is living in the past
with Pollard. over the last 5 yrs pollard has averaged 1rpg
that might wow some into saying its a good signing. i liked
his game myself (6 yrs ago) but i feel he is washed up. i hope
im wrong but still i think we could have done better and i dont
mean with scals sister or anything just plain ole better

Last season there was a great example of the Spurs being able to rest their starters so they had strength come playoff time. I am sorry but this bench is not going to get it done throughout the season. KG,PP,RA are going to be very tired toward the end of the season, and Danny needs to think what will have when the injury bug hits??????

I’m so bloody sick of Ainge’s endless BS.

Ainge could put a positive spin on 9/11.

My good friend C55…you were down on Cash a few weeks ago and now we’re only 5 back..let it play out and see the roster come april…BS is all part of his deal,we started late to the FA party and got scraps…next summer???be ready

What’s wrong with us fans? Why are we so cynical? We are never happy are we?

We want our cake and eat it too!

Okay Jefferson, Green, Gomes, Telfair, Delonte, Sczcerbiak, J Green are gone.

In return we have Garnett, Allen, Davis

This was a win win for all parties and hopefully we’ll win a championship and Minnesota will continue to develop and someday win in the west. I don’t get it, everyone I’ve talked to outside of this BLOG loves the trade, yet we continue to hammer Danny and Doc in here.

We just have to wait till the season starts to find out the out come of all this. On paper it looks as if we gave away too many players for Garnett, Allen, and Davis; however talent wise we rasied our chances tremendously. Already the odd’s makers have us at 5-1 versus 90-1. Thats a huge difference.

Our problem is, and I’m included in all this, we fall in love with our players and assume they are better then what’s out there at times.

Looking back to last year, everyone wanted to trade Jefferson & company to Philly for Iverson. Yes Iverson.

Now would you rather have Garnett on your team or Iverson?

We have to be careful sometimes in our evaluation of players and how they fit on certain teams.

I’m more ecstatic about having Garnett, Allen, and Pierce working together than I would have had if it was Pierce and Iverson teaming up.

It was only a few months back when we were all out on the ledge ready to jump because the Celtics didn’t get any of the top 3 draft picks. Now the Celtics have KG and Ray Allen, yet people are still out on the ledge because the bench isn’t what they think it should be. Think about it.

A team is allowed one headcase (never two), so I’m surprised Ruben Patterson is still on the market. He’s not a pg for us, but he’s not a bad player off the bench if we still wanted another swing guy.

I think Ruben Paterson is still on the market because he is a sex offender who has a penchant for baby sitters.

Now that the team’s in the going-for-it-all mode, it’s better if the bench is more experienced and defensive oriented. We need to steer clear of any Ricky Davis type, who’d spend his time looking for points, playing poor defense, and whining about his limited role on the team.

Yeah… I would take this line-up and gamble it, just to get out of that miserable roster of 2 years ago.

My good friend Mr. Mo: just remember this: you are the gentleman who has made me rich—on paper! Cheers

Scalabrine will save they day!

scott pollard will maybe, hopefully, keep Scal on the bench… but to effectively bury him we need another SF, otherwise Doc will find a way to play him like 10 a game, first off the bench behind PP. Until Scal doesn’t see the court at all, I am not satisfied with our bench.

Right now their two best bench players are Tony Allen and Glenn Davis.

vet pg- vet pg- vet pg. even tho it will be a cheapo. if not then during the season, when the price will go up.

When exactly did Scott Pollard become one of the best offensive rebounders in the game? I say when the reporter asked Ainge to comment on Pollard and that was the first thing that popped into his head.

Though not much has been said of this possibility yet, Ainge and coach Doc Rivers also consider Garnett to be part of their center rotation.

Right ON. This makes a lot of sense. For my money, the starting five is Rondo, Allen, Pierce, POWE, and Garnett. Put Powe at the power forward spot and let him do all the important stuff everyone else won’t do: gutsy rebounds, diving for balls on the floor, taking charges, etc… Then your next five (in terms of position) are House, Allen, maybe Scabs (hey, he’s got to do something), Big Baby, and Perkins.

Funny, someone earlier asked when Pollard became one of the best offensive rebounders in the game…and my first thought was when did he become one of the better post defenders in the game. His defense has been terrible for the last three years. He was the fifth best post defender on the Cavs last year, right ahead of Dwayne Jones…ouch.

The bench wouldn’t be as big of an issue if our stars were each five years younger. Heck if two of the three were younger it wouldn’t be much of an issue, but they’re not and thus it is.

I’d feel better about our bench if we had a head coach.

But with KG’s height, we can keep him at the PF, and play Powe or Davis as a short center. Think of it as “not quite” small ball. Sure you’ll have trouble guarding Shaq that way, well unless you let the 6 fouls do the work, but most teams don’t run centers like that at you; especially for longer than you can keep Perkins and Pollard out there.

I think the folks complaining about the bench are forgetting how much better players can be when they’re playing alongside superstars like KG, RA and PP. Look at San Antonio. How many of the players after their top 3 would any team really be that excited about?

Unless Doc is actually stupid enough to think he can play a lineup of House, Manuel, Wallace, Pollard and Powe for extended minutes every game, the Cs bench will be fine.

Mike

Um, did Danny and Doc ask KG about him playing center? Since he’s spent his entire career, to this point, not playing center, I hope they might mention it to him before they put him out there.

Point guard anyone?

hoopshype headline: Jaske a Celtic?

Article quote “We hope he can go to the Celtics.” Sarunas Jasikivicius’ agent Mario Balducci.

  I think the center position all comes down to Perk’s health. Looking not at last year, when he was injured, but at the year before, when almost everyone (but the eternal doom-sayers here) liked him!. If he’s healthy, the bench problem won’t exist. He can rebound and muscle most of the other centers in the league and his shooting range of 2’ (Grins) is adequate with two of the three shooters on the floor. And it’s not just Perk, on any team, your stars have to stay healthy. BTW I seriously doubt Tony Allen will be a factor during the season due to his injury. Perhaps he might be effective by play-off time.

If Glen Davis isn’t the 2nd best Bench player, who is? This isn’t exactly a testimonial of Davis, as much as a state of affairs. Pollard couldn’t get court time for Cleveland, who was desperate for a big man. Ainge maybe should have gotten rookie Chris Richards from Minnesota. He’s big and strong, and been on 2 national championship teams.

It’s not a terrible signing. Vet minimum with the league paying for half of it? Settle down.

I think the main point, soap07, is that it’s indicative of the caliber of player we can afford. And unless Ainge somehow miraculous lands a better player (using what, Monopoly money?), we’re only getting vet-minimum-level talent. Ainge can “sell it” all he wants. But to paraphrase Bill Parcells, they are what they are: bottom of the barrel available talent. Maybe good chemistry guys, I won’t dispute that. But not very good talents.

Apparently Ainge still wants to add a point guard as well he should. Remember back when House was signed and numerous people proclaimed the back-up point guard problem as solved? I said at the time that House was definitely not a point guard, he is a one-trick pony who can’t defend his position. Of course, thinking Sarunas is the next answer is wrong-headed as well. I’d have rather offered the 2 years and $4 million Brevin Knight got from the Clippers, but perhaps Knight saw more opportunity for PT in LA. Maybe Ainge didn’t like Knight. I don’t know for sure. What I do believe is the Celtics can’t win anything with Rondo and maybe Pruitt as point guards.