I don’t know how information Ainge is/will be sharing with Doc. How much influence does Doc have in personnel matters? If all our starters return and stay healthy, we will still be playing at this time next year

The failure to mention the glaring need for a backup 3 with length stands out like a sore thumb in those comments.

No help for Pierce=trouble in the playoffs.

Doc used to mention the need for a backup 3. Maybe he didn’t mention it in this interview because they’ve got the solution to that problem already lined up.

Any chance at all we can snag Ariza? He would be PERFECT!

1. I love our team. 2. It would be nice to add a big, but otherwise we are ok. 3. I look at bringing back BBD, Powe, and Eddie House as making three big free-agent additions. 4. We’ll look to add a big sometime during the regular season.

Looks like we are 2/4 of the way to earning ourselves another “F” this offseason. A couple of other things to keep in mind, one positive, one negative.

First the positive. I believe Wyc and Danny really don’t like the Lakers and really want to win another title before the KG Era ends. They understand the whole title race thing. I believe they hope to be able to make a couple of major acquisitions to stay ahead of the purple (this, of course, belies my earlier point).

Now for the negative. I’m no doctor, but does anyone else find it medically (not politically) puzzling that the bone spur/bone chip whatever is now declared the cause of KG’s earlier knee problem? How exactly does rest heal a bone spur/chip? It’s not like the chip/spur will round itself out and become less sharp on its own, right? Anyway, my dark suspicion is that the “KG is all right after all” talk is to sell tickets, and then next august or sept, we will hear, ooops, I guess he isn’t all right and he’ll miss training camp, then the first month, then the whole season.

I’m not down on this team, at least not totally yet. But danny and wyc really need to step up to the plate and make something happen. We can’t bank on a mid-season acquisition. We need to do something this summer.

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KG had tendonitis aggravated by a bone spur. MAYBE rest calms it down enough so that we can get 1,2,3,6 games out of him in playoffs, but there’s no knowing whether KG wakes up sore or not. So you wait on the surgery but his knee doesn’t calm down. No conspiracy theory. I have already paid for next year’s season tickets, not because I’m a sucker, but because they can charge it and we have to pay it. Except for the ending, this season was as much fun as the last one and if KG was healthy, then Ray and Paul are less gassed, the bench has Big Baby, Leon and Scal to choose from and not Scal and Mikki and we’re playing the Lakers.
And as long as they don’t do anything stupid this summer, like Rasheed Wallace 2yrs/$10 mil per yr, or outbid the NBA for Trevor Ariza (this year’s James Posey) I’ll get my money’s worth next year.
How about taking Doc at his word. We need a backup 5 with muscle. Mikki isn’t it even with another year to learn the system.
KG and Ray don’t worry me health-wise as much as Pierce. Pierce has been an injury-free freak for his career and if you believe that it all evens out in the end, then he’s due. We need to see in summer league if Walker or Giddens can project into those backup minutes and if not I trust the guys I’ve given next year’s money to will figure it out.

if doc is so happy with his team, why didn’t he play walker, giddens and gabe?

You’re a regular on this blog. Doc doesn’t play young guys. He’ll tell you he likes them and he means it but he just is a vet-oriented coach. And his results are hard to argue with. I’m with the blogger crowd that says we have to find out what these guys got and real PT is the test of that. But It happens in little steps with Doc and summer league will be another baby step. I do think he’s lost enthusiasm for Pruitt but is too nice a human being to be public about it. Giddens I’m not sure, but I think Walker has potential at the 3 spot.

Roy,

He may be too expensive but if the plan is to cheaply fill in the holes on the bench it sounds a lot like lat summer. And that ain’t good. Plus he may hate the C’s but money talks and players walk.

I don’t expect the team to make a blockbuster trade.

If they do manage to pull one off, I think it’ll be based around Ray Allen and his expiring deal. I don’t think any of the other starters will be involved.

just the old adage “you get what you pay for”. The significant available players may be able to hold out for the full MLE and the question is do we pay that rate for that kind of bench value or do we dice and slice it up for 2 or 3 guys with the risk of not getting the kind of bench players who can make a difference. just saying….