Sheed and Anthony Parker would be nice additions. I wonder what would happen to the young guys and TA/Scal.

it’s subtraction by addition…we keep Sheed from LA,Cleve or Orlando…if he’d retire i’d agree with ya but ????then we sign him

Po, you made me cough up a lung with the poop cage comment. Hilarious!
But I will say, if we had a bench of Sheed and Parker/Hill, you can just hand-deliver that title to us now. And Marbury? Good gosh. What a bench!!!
Sheed’s personality I hate. But he would be awesome for us. He’s a competitor, I’ll give him that.
Three years ago, no way. Now, heck yes, cuz he’s affordable (I hope) and hungry.

Cleveland is after Artest.

whutt upp, you old dog?

Hope all is well . . .

Wow … I didn’t realize so much had happened in the last day or so.

Great comments. I am still holding out hope that DA decides to re-sign Leon in August or at another time before he catches on with another team.

Rasheed Wallace would start for Cleveland, Orlando, San Antonio, Houston, etc.

He would have to come off the bench for Boston. It could be too much to ask.

Signing Rasheed Wallace would fill our greatest need, and would eliminate any re-signing of BBD. Both pluses in my mind.

I highly doubt ‘Sheed will be slacking on this team and in this environment. His talent level and positional fit far exceeds what we’re used to seeing from any bench player who plays significant minutes.

I’m hoping Danny pulls the Theo Epstein, but instead of thanksgiving dinner he shows up with fireworks & a 6-pack to spend the 4th with ’Sheed.

side note – how cool would it be to have the big 3 show up and take you out.. SOLELY to convince you to join them? lol.

Nick Fazekas really the only new addition since last update, but I am very excited. I was a huge fan of his at Nevada, I’d love to see him stick although he probably would never contribute much. But hey, another 7-footer that can stretch the floor, def can do more than Robert Swift in my opinion

http://www.nba.com/celtics/summerleague/2009/roster.html

Does my memory fail me when I think I remember Rasheed doing a dissapearing act against us in last year’s final playoff games against us? Does he have that tendency? Maybe Im totally wrong on this.
With respect to Powe. I’m a total fan of his but maybe Danny is considering: 1. Perk has a recurring bum shoulder than can go bad at any moment of the season. KG’s knee is showing the pains of age, nothing can guarantee this will not happen again. TA has another ailing knee which may betray him at any time. You think we can feel at easy with Powe’s knee, when that dude has a history of knee problems going back to college. I mean, do we keep packing our team with players whose limbs can betray them and us at any time, including when we might need them most?? Then we have Scal’s head problems. Geeeesshhhh. It never ends!!!!!!
Its time to get younger whenever possible. Apparently Danny will not go after Powe before exploring some other options; maybe when Powe is ready to come back, assuming he will get back on his horse, Danny will consider resigning him if he is still available and we need his strong inside game. Its a chance that danny iswilling to take at this stage of the proceedings. Danny has made some bad choices during his tenure; maybe not signing Powe now is one, maybe not. Its a calculated risk. I wont hold this one against him.

not much being said about eddie reupping. he had a stellar season and played his heart out and i am glad he’s back. leon is not gone yet. he is a free agent and will be a cheap one at that. if he can get mote than 7 g’s somewhere else, the c’s did him a favor.

Did you see any of the other 29 GM`s take a chance on Leon…and give him his opportunity of a “life-time”, a couple of years ago? NO!

Do you think we`ll see any of them do it now that Leon is a free man? UNLIKELY.

You mean to tell me the 58th pick in the draft or Gabe Pruitt have earned a spot over him?

It isn’t so much about earning. It is about what a guy can do going forward. Contracts this summer are for 2009, 2010, etc. Not for the last 3 years.

Was actually a really solid offensive player with the Knicks, and decent with Chicago but Skiles never gave him much of a chance.

I was a huge fan of Sweetney when he was a Hoya. I hope he’s young enough to get it back together. A Davis-Sweetney frontcourt would be pretty beefy w/no hops!

right now, not counting lester hudson or Marbury we have 6 guards on the roster. I can’t see us carrying more than 6 espcially since we just lost leon from the front court and will likely lose Mikki Moore as well. If we re sign Davis and add wallace or some other front court player ( Gortat, Pachulia etc) that gets us to 13. I sort of think Danny wants Marbury and Hudson on the roster and maybe swift as well so one or two players from the following group are likely to be let go , traded etc: T Allen, Veal, GIddens, Walker or Pruitt. We need a small forward way more than we need another guard.

if you bring davis, wallace, eddie, Marbury and walker off the bench that might not be a bad second unit. I’d like it better if I knew Walker could shoot but it’s not a bad lineup. Certainly better than what we put on the floor this year. Swift will be this year’s POB. I’d love to get parker and dump tony allen but who wants tony allen? I’m anxious to see if Giddens can actually play basketball. I’m also anxious to see hudson play

obviously rasheed is not the perfect player. he’s not a great rebounder or passer. but i think he is by far the best of the available candidates to fill the ‘long big man off the bench role’. he is a very good interior defender with his length and ability to use his body. he is an elite team defender who communicates on defense. these two aspects are things that nobody was able to give us off the bench last year, and i think if we get rasheed, our team defense, with either him or KG on the court at all times, will be the best it has ever been.

Offensively, what one thing our center MUST be able to do off the bench? Hit the 17 foot jumper. It is a major part of Doc’s offense and it will be there all the time. PJ Brown was huge for us that way and Mikki Moore hurt us by not being able to hit it. Big Baby took enormous strides this year and the main reason was his ability to hit that jumper. And Rasheed is tailor-made for this role. He is very good at knocking down the mid range J. He is also an outstanding pick setter. Mark my words, Eddie and Ray will see more open shots if we get Rasheed, and we know what happens when either of those guys has time to shoot their 3 pointer in rhythm. Money!

So if we get Rasheed, our defense is again the best in the league, our offense off the bench can suddenly flow because the pick and roll is working and the other team has to honor Rasheed’s jumper. And Rasheed, despite his on court outbursts at the refs, has been a great teammate wherever he goes. Honestly, if we can get Rasheed, I think we might be the frontrunner to win the title. The only other thing we need is somebody who can give Pierce a breather off the bench by playing some defense and hitting the open J. Man, it sure would be nice if Billy Walker could grow into that role.