Making A List (and Checking It Twice)

Can D up…

I would add Rasheed and Anthony Parker to the Celts Most Wanted.

How about another category

Celts Might Consider

Drew Gooden
Chris Wilcox
Matt Barnes
Hakim Warrick, We migth be able to pry away from Memphis, they don’t want to spend
Ronald Murray
Melvin Ely
Cedric Simmons
Keith Bogans
Rasho Nestorovic
Channing Frye – I can’t see Portland spending money on him and he showed some skills with the Knicks.

Lastly, don’t be surprised in Danny signs Robert Swift. He loved the giuy 5 years ago and he just might sign him a la Sebestian Telfair.

Zaza Pachulia backs up Perkins for the MLE. Re-sign Davis for 3-4 million. Get Matt Barnes to back up Pierce and let Eddie House spell Ray Allen. Backup to Rondo? Ronnie Price or Tyrone Lue. I don’t think Antonio McDyess wants to play for Boston. Anyone could have seen Boston was a better shot for him to get a ring than Detroit and he passed it up, so I don’t think he wants to be a Celtic.

i like kleiza.

Thats what I like to see :)

You’ve got Marbury on the No, thanks list, yet there is no-one ranked higher than him that’s realistically attainable.

Felton and Sessions are the only PGs on the list, and both of them are restricted and likely to be matched at the MLE.

So… quo vadis?

quinton ross is a good defender, 6’6’, 38% from 3, and could be had for the 1.5 mil exception. I really like Rodney Carney and Hakim Warrick but I don’t know if the c’s could make an offer that their respective teams won’t match.

McDyess would be the perfect backup big, Jason Collins would only demand the minimum.

Of course scal, ta, giddens could get us Andris Nocioni, he’s be a great 6th man.

Jeff, you’re next list should be what the c’s should target in a trade with their expiring deals, i believe the scal/ta/jr contracts would equal a player making 8-9 million. could the c’s reaquire posey?

luther head is unrestricted, got cut by the rockets, ended the season with miami

wilcox or jamario moon could be useful, if POB didn’t stink up the joint, I would’ve liked Ike Diogu, but right now there’s no room for projects with little resources to play with

He’s got good size, young, plays multiple positions and has good range.

Is a list of players who would be worth a look for the minimum salary, but not much more than that.

i’d add james singleton to the list, the ex-clipper is a good defender like his ex-teammate quinton ross, only he’s 6’8.

He was quite impressive in the Nuggets playoff games. The timely 3pt shots remind me a bit of Posey.

BBD for a reasonable contract Max 3 yrs, 7-8M

Is wait toolong as what he did last yr when the Posey negotiations dragged a bit so much so that Danny was left with nothing on the table that he would have liked..(he didn’t liked Barnes nor Birdman so he passed on them and took …Gulped POB!!!). I sure hope DA keeps his blackberry busy right from the get go so he ends up with nothing to show as the worst possible thing he can do is stand pat with the line up he’s got right now….fill in your needs DA and bring on banner 18!!!!!

I can’t believe Iverson still has people fooled. What more evidence does anyone need that he’s over-hyped and over the hill? How many more teams have to improve once he vacates? Undersized ball hog and all-around numb skull who sucks the life out of teammates and forces his teams to play an ugly, losing brand of hoops. I didn’t want him 3 years ago, and certainly don’t want him now.

Like lowfatalbob wrote I’d like to see a list of players that you think the Celtics might target in a trade using the expiring contracts that the C’s have (not Ray Allen). Unlike some of the other posters I’m really interested in Allen Iverson as instant offense off the bench. I think Wilcox, Gooden and Parker should be upgraded from the can they still play section

My number 1 favorite is RASHEED WALLACE!!! let baby walk and make the best possible offer to get Rasheed. Some coaxing by Kg and Pierce and Allen couldn’t hurt.

Next I go with Matt Barnes

We are allready an awesome team. We are only one or two good players from a championship. We allready have a chance at the title next year if healthy, but adding Rasheed Wallace and Matt Barnes would put us over the top.

I think a center like Rasheed is our top priority, because Perk’s shoulder acts up.
Matt Barnes would be nice to fill the Posey roll, but its not as important as a center because Pierce plays forty minutes in the playoffs anyway. The most overrated need is a backup point guard. We won the title with Sam Cassell on the verge of retirement as our back up PG, and we still have House. Rondo does fine playing 48 min during playoffs and im fine with house and or pruitt as back up.

Because this list of available FA`s is strictly CBA quality talent!

My head’s spinning! Who knows who Ainge really likes. Money will be a factor and since he has a veteran team I think he’ll look at guys that can fit in with the core not have to be babysat. Good luck Danny!

They brought him in last summer, met with him and didn’t work him out. My guess is he met with Danny and the Brain Doc and they believed he was a high risk for a relapse.

Diogu plays the same game as Leon. I prefer Leon!

I can’t provide a link for you, but I have many friends in LA who have told me repeatedly that Ariza hates the Celtics and so I can’t conceive of him playing here. He’s UCLA/Lakers thru and thru. While I know PP was a Lakers fan growing up, he has only played for the C’s. I don’t think any comparison is valid there.

Ariza was not only a Lakers fan pre NBA but then he was humiliated by the C’s in last year’s Finals Game 6……..and I loved every minute of it.

Don’t look for him to wear green. Might as well take him off the list cuz if elected, he will not serve.

Gortat is probably now out of the Celtics price-range. But if there’s anyone they should overspend for, it should be him.

Not only is he what they need at center, but he’s young, aggressive, and apparently has a good attitude. Perkin’s questionable shoulder makes a backup big man the number one need. If Gortat came here, not only would he improve the Celtics, but he’d weaken the Magic, who may now be the conference team to beat.

I’d love to have Rasheed Wallace, but he’s getting older and crankier fast. Gortat won’t even have reached his peak when Wallace is long gone.

I’ve gotta believe Danny has Sheed and McDyess on the top of his list. If that falls through, I’d lean towards ZaZa or Chris Wilcox. Gortat seems like 2009 version of Jerome James to me for some reason…

As for swingmen, I’d take a look at Josh Childress. I didn’t realize his Euro deal was up and he could be an ideal 6th man for the next couple years. Then you got guys like Desmond Mason and Matt Barnes who would be solid contributors at SF. However, if Dhantay Jones can be had for the LLE, that needs to get done.

As much as Grant Hill seems like a logical choice, I gotta believe he is over the hill at this point. And it would be nice not to have to have this backup SF search every year until Paul retires.

The celtics might have the most talented roster in the league, young and old, but i think we have the same problem we had pre-KG, our talent is too spread out. Most teams these days have pretty small rotations (7-9). We gotta remember that we can only play 5 players at a time so having all this talent sitting on the bench is a waste. Look at what happened when we traded numerous players for one big one, KG: we took the title. I believe if we did the same thing with our bench, it would greatly increase our chances.
We need to keep the strong defense in our starting 5, but i wouldn’t mind having a couple of good scorers on our bench.
If we sign Rasheed and keep Scalabrine, that’s two shooting big men that will be able to spread the defense very well. Definitely keep Powe for defense off the bench and rebounding. I wouldn’t mind seeing Big Baby go into a trade; his shooting ability isn’t really needed and it would give Powe more time, and us more rebounding. As far as guards go, we have House and now Hudson, two very good scorers. MAYBE keep Tony Allen, because besides Rondo he’s really our only guard with a good defensive game.
Now we would be able to get some quick points from our bench if needed with two 3-point shooting big men, and two sharp shooting guards. And Powe is essential to take pressure off Perk. Now on the block we have Davis, Moore, Walker, Giddens, Pruitt, Marbury, and maybe T Allen. They could be useful in a trade or they could give us more salary room to sign a vet as a 6th man and replace what Posey was because House just can’t seem to handle it. It could be in the form of a back-up SF or another guard to back-up Rondo. Even a good Center would be welcome if we could find one.
In conclusion we would be signing Rasheed and dropping/trading most of our bench to find talent in 1 player rather than 6, so our best back-ups would get more playing and give us many more scoring opportunities.