Celts Interested in Michael Finley

That’s a lot of minutes for a guy to play that you are going to cut. I think he could give us a solid 5 minutes per game if that.

Which would put him ahead of every other swingman on the roster…

or even PJ Brown

…maybe he can give us 10 minutes every now and then. I would rather watch him at SF than Scal that is for sure…

38%/31%/66%. Go for it, Danny!

Reggie Miller or Micheal Jordan… David Robinson maybe? Bill Russell actually still looks pretty good? Tommy?

…Hughes can`t shoot and replicates TA and Daniels. We need a SF who can shoot the ball. Finley is no spring chicken but there just isn`t anyone available who is better…

Juat what we need to rebuild,

Battie, however, is only 34, which might be a little young for this club - :)

Good fit for spot minutes and end of quarters. Free throws.

Finally, a “youth movement”….the team`s average age will go down!!

for a bit while PP gets some rest ,

Well, I wouldn’t mind him coming in an replacing TA, if TA goes back into his,“somehow-i-forgot-how-to-play-basketball-im-just-out-here-running-around-at-1000mph-modes” at points in a game.

I mean I actually would prefer to see Michael Finley out there as “TA”, at least it would make sense as to why he is turning the ball over, and missing shots, and making bonehead mistakes"….because Michael Finley is Old…I would expect that, TA is 26-27 making those mistakes……OFTEN!

He’s a guy that we could put out there and trust that he’s not going to make stupid mistakes. You can’t teach a guy to be a winner, Finley knows how to play in the playoffs. He may not play a lot but if we need a shot to win a game i feel better about Finley then all the other 2/3’s who aren’t named Ray or Paul.

We get Finley, we buy back Eddie House, and we can play a second team of House, Nate, Rasheed, Finley, and either PP, Allen and Rondo and his newly discovered 3 point shot as efficient backups and we will ALL play behind the 3 point land. We wont get tired as quick and we will all have fresh legs all the time . Im assuming, of course, that Finley is not yet too old to reach the basket from 3 point land. Thats his favorite shot. We then resign Toine and Mcfarty and nobody, and I mean nobody will be able to match us.nobody can match up against those 9 (3) point shooters. My idea is as good as any Ive read so far.

We are going to solve our problems with old guys that whose own team is letting go for free? No comprende.

I could understand picking him up if he was playing like he was a few years ago but his biggest asset was his scoring which he doesn’t do particularly well anymore.

I missed Lohaus; another 6:11 who only shot treis when he was with us. Worse than Rasheed. He cant be 40 yet.

I am one who always would have wanted to have Finley play for us. He was one hell of a good shooter – dont get me wrong. I prayed we could get him. Now???We have too many serious problems before we tack on another trei shooter who is not wanted any more by his own team.

Finley has shot 31% from three point range but he’s only taken a grand total of 41 attempts from behind the arc this season. He makes three more of those shots and he’s hitting 39%.

The sample sizes are too small to read anything into those stats.

of that “young nucleus that can be competitive for a long time to come.”

For those asking why San Antonio let him go, they do have George Hill, Roger Mason, a healthy Ginobli ahead of him on the depth chart. Blair can play SF too. I think he could help and is better than Tony Allen on offense and BBall IQ, maybe not on D anymore.

I thought getting a strong rebounder and paint defender was and is a bigger need for this team, even before getting nate or any other G/F.

Aren’t we supposed to get younger? What will be the average age of the Celtics with Finley on board? I think the Celtics already have too many players who want to take 3s (and not making many of them), but not enough post players.

wow his stats are way down. he’s shooting 3’s like sheed

How about Sweetney? At least he would go down on the box, unlike Sheed. And is either one of them really in shape? :)

Scott Pollard anyone?

He’s a good big, and more importantly, he’d bring great chemistry to the locker room. he did in fact save Pierce’s life once, so we sorta owe him a ring, or at least a roster spot

when compared to the shooting specialist Danny Ainge was trying to woo here at the beginning of rht KG era, Reggie Miller, who was 42 at the time.

Cassell was 38 when he came here. PJ Brown was 38 too. It would be a low risk signing, and Finley is the kind of guy that a team would want in the locker room and could go to war with, assuming his game hasn’t slipped too much. I haven’t seen him enough to say for sure, but his stats are ghastly. Considering that Doc Rivers’ first big off the bench has similarly horrible stats, Finley might fit in quite nicely.

If signing Finley could assure me that I wouldn’t have to ever again see Tony Allen in a Celtics uniform follow up a good play with a bonehead one every game, sign me up.