If Walker does not develop as we hope, we will have a 36-yr old Hill backing up a 33-yr old Pierce.

1. The Celtics can do better than the proposed trade with the Wizards. Jamison is too expensive, and Thomas is damaged goods. He’s not the frontcourt backup that we need.

2. The reasonable predictions are reasonable, except that Anthony Parker isn’t going to play for the minimum. He’s a good player and can easily get more from another team or in Europe.

Problem is, your “reasonable” scenario is unlikely to produce a championship. The Lakers are going to be better. Their young players like Bynum and Farmar have another year of playoff experience, and the team as a whole will have the swagger and confidence that comes from winning a championship.

Cleveland and Orlando won’t stand pat either. Cleveland knows it needs to add more useful size, and has the pieces to make a move, plus developing bigs like JJ Hickson who may play a larger role next year. Orlando will have Jameer Nelson back, plus a maturing Dwight Howard. If they can keep Turkoglu (which they will) they will be tougher next year. Both Cleveland and Orlando also have first round draft choices; the Celtics do not.

So signing McDyess and then treading water for the rest of the offseason isn’t going to get it done.

I’m thinking we need someone who’s either taller or a lot quicker than McDyess.

Anyone read the 1 on 1 article about Jackson vs. Red. Boiled me to no end that Charley is a Celtic hater and really displaces Red’s achievements Even if he tries to down play Jackson’s stature, he more or less rips Red in my opinion…..

I urge many to rebutt this to Charlie

Maybe he fills the Sam Cassell 15th man/coach role. I predict he fills the Sam Cassell 15th man/assistant coach role. Ya that would be the dream situation, put that one in the SWAG’s, lol.

about our future. In my opinion the window is obviously open, but we can’t take this season to comfort ourselves considering Garnett’s injury. Remember: we lost both matches with Lakers in regular season and struggled against Cleveland and Orlando. Next season LA could be stronger IF they resign Ariza and Odom, Cleveland has a good cap space to do good operations and all of them will have a 1st round draft pick. I’m a little worry about Pierce and Allen, they struggled too much in PO, maybe we should think they are not as good as last year (odd another season on their shoulder). Garnett come back from a serious injury and, except Rondo e Perkins, we have a very old team.

I’m consideing Wyc recently quotes and i appreciate them beacause i’m scared about the possibility to come back in time at 90’s o difficult 2000’s years. We need to do a first step into the future, maybe with sacrifices, but we need. If we pick McDyess, Hill etc we can be a contender, but wich is the cost? I hope Danny is going to do one, and only ONE, major move: i love Ray more than you may think, but we need to change underskin and take Spurs exemple. We need younger players, we need to build the core of the future Celtics team. This is why i’m a little worry “win now and then we will see” idea.

it’s a small move, but i think getting quinton ross to back up pp could go a long way.

Reading the “Reasonable Predictions” was even worse!

I like the idea of Ross. The article on him a few days ago was encouraging. It seems like we may have to do something significant in regards to our bench and if so that probably means moving Ray Allen. If we can compete with LA, Cleve and Orlando with just smaller bench pickups (Ross, GHill, etc.) then I’d say Ray stays. I agree we need a bigger backup center (Pachulia, Gortat). It should be interesting…..

… at some point this year. Could be any time between now and the trade deadline. It’s just a hunch. I don’t see us shoring up our needs without doing so.

Why, oh why, did Danny make that daft draft decision last year to choose JR Giddens over Mario Chalmers? Chalmers starts at PG for the Heat and delivered a solid rookie season performance. The Cs would have had a quality backup PG already in the house and could have focused attention on other areas of need . Does Giddens have that much more upside? Let’s hope that he delivers at SG this year.

So you want to know how you did? If you said something like that to me I would automatically make sure there was a replacement so I could fire you!!! That’s how I feel about your SWAG’s.

I agree there will be no trades for the starters. Now for the bench Quinton Ross cannot back up Pierce because only weight’s 193lb. LeBron weighs 270lbs. and would crush him in a 7 game series. Grant Hill is 6’8" scores 8 pts a game an 3 or 4 rebounds and a couple of ass. a game. He’s not young but he only makes 1.9mil.
 None of us knows how good our youth are, because Doc would not play them. You can not make me beleive Mikki Moore was better than Walker or Stephon was better than Pruitt. Pruitt will never be the player that Stephon was but, he’s was better suited for the team down the strech. What counts is Pruitt knows the plays better and play’s defense better.

We need McDycee at 4 mil he’s 6’9" and plays in the paint and can score. Big Baby is 6’ 7 “1/2 not 6’9”. Did a good job and he deserves some money. But what I dont like is the way he said what he said about the money. Team players dont have that attitude. Some
times you have to take one for the team. I feel that’s not him. P. Perice is a great player but one of the things we love about him is he will take one for the team. That’s what Red was talking about player’s with the team first mind set. Please understand there is not a lot of players around like that….. but everyone can’t be a Celtic.

Pachulia, McDyess, Grant Hill and/or Matt Barnes. Tyrone Lue. Give me some good bench guys and we got a shot.