Hollinger Reviews Summer Moves

by Jeff Clark on Sep 9, 2008 3:55 PM EDT in Boston Celtics News & Links

Quite an extensive breakdown. Here are the Celtics notes:

Bargain pickups
Tony Allen's two-year, $5 million deal with Boston looks like a good value, especially given his ferocity on defense -- but only if he can make any kind of strides in his recovery from a 2007 knee injury.
Eddie House earned his two-year, $5.6 million deal with strong shooting in the Finals, showing he's one of the league's better backup point guards, despite his inability to dribble against pressure.
Draft do-overs
Take Patrick O'Bryant, for instance. He hardly saw the light of day in two years with Golden State, but Boston thought enough of his potential to give him a two-year, $1.65 million deal. I thought this was an extremely clever move with almost no risk and a fairly high upside, as I suspect O'Bryant might be quite a bit better than he showed with the Warriors.
Bottom fishing
Boston took a flier on Darius Miles, some suspect just to sabotage the Blazers' promising cap situation.

He also links to his review of the Posey to New Orleans deal back in July.

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is it just me or should we have offered the vet min to Matt Barnes? or did he just want to play in the Suns system?

by Jeff Clark on Sep 9, 2008 4:01 PM EDT reply actions

Darius Miles is going to be better than Matt Barnes.

by Champzilla on Sep 9, 2008 4:08 PM EDT reply actions

Does that explain O Bryant’s contract once and for all?

Hollinger was very specific on each Celtics contract.

by Who on Sep 9, 2008 5:33 PM EDT reply actions

Yeah thats a really good contract for O’Bryant if he turns out to be some what useful.

by Champzilla on Sep 9, 2008 6:02 PM EDT reply actions

Who, are you saying you concur with Hollinger assessment of the O’Bryant signing? As I recall, you were pretty negative on it. (And you might’ve been right.) But here’s Hollinger saying the signing was “extremely clever.”

by no kidding on Sep 9, 2008 6:32 PM EDT reply actions

No Kidding,

Just talking about the financials …. there were some differing reports over the money involved, Marc Spears had a different number than the Herald.

Wondering does this report end any of that confusion?

Or was it ended before and I just missed it?

by Who on Sep 9, 2008 6:44 PM EDT reply actions

Who, okay, I had misinterpreted your remarks. And frankly, I had never paid close attention to the financial aspects of that signing, other than it was for two years (although I never knew what was guaranteed).

Still, if CoachBo starts talking up the O’Bryant signing, then I’m really going to start scratching my head.

by no kidding on Sep 9, 2008 7:19 PM EDT reply actions

Finally, someone acknowledging that Eddie is one of the league’s best backup Point Guards. I am so sick of people saying he can’t play the one, after excelling there last season.

His only chink came against the league’s best pg defender, Lindsey Hunter. No shame in that.

by D Dub on Sep 9, 2008 7:46 PM EDT reply actions

posey,posey,posey… it still bugs me that we didn’t sign him. Props to danny for fishing around in the bargain bin and maybe finding some value but man I would have felt a lot better about next year with JP on board.

by Red2 on Sep 10, 2008 12:35 PM EDT reply actions