Hollinger on Perkins

As has been said many times before, it takes a full year to rehab from the injury and surgery Perkins had. Even at full strength, Perk has strong points and weak points like any other player, good match ups and bad match ups. I am guessing that Perk’s lateral movement is not yet comfortable or fluid, which would naturally hinder him, especially on defense. Judging by his past, one could expect Perk to keep working on his rehab and keep improving. Understanding that, next year should be a better on for Perkins.

This year, Perk’s contribution seems to have been more in the area of “team” dynamics, judging by comments from his coach on how he has everyone “talking” on the floor on both offense and defense, and also talking during “player” meetings to build a cohesive team effort.

Perk once again would not have helped us against the heat. I can’t stand Hollinger but his stats are correct. Perk needs to develop more of a offensive game to compliment his defensive game.

is a better matchup for real centers not power forwards like Chandler-so what ? Every player has good and bad matchups-look at Bosh right now with Miami. He did nothing against us but is a major player against the Bulls.

If Perkins is healthy, he’s fine for any team. This year, he just isn’t healthy.

If Nenad and Jeff Green get more practice time and more experience with our systems, they’ll be fine for us too.

We needed more big bodies to clog the paint and stop Bron and Wade from getting to the rim. Sure, they both were hitting perimeter shots, which Perk wouldn’t have made a difference on, but, they would have had to make more if they weren’t getting as many easier baskets.

Dallas is a bad matchup at this point. He has limited mobility, further exacerbated by the injury recovery. Dallas doesn’t really have anyone that attacks like Wade/Bron/Rose. Dirk is much more of a midrange and perimeter player who occasionally drives to the hoop on upfakes. Problem for Perk there is, when he helps over to Dirk, who then dishes to Chandler, Perk is too slow to recover.

and Nads and Green were more suited for the Thunder style of play. Hopefully, with a full training camp under everyone’s belt, the players should fit in better.

… and statistically the Celtic ‘D’ never missed a beat in the regular and post seasons. So the Perk trade is nothing more than a red herring for those in need of playing the blame game. With Miami playing small, not having TA hurt more because Perk rarely finished games and perimeter defense was so vital in the series. But equally important was the lack of consistent scoring. Against athletic teams like Miami you can’t rely on high picks and down screens because they close and trap so well. Wade was superb tracking Ray off those curls. So they needed more scoring off the dribble because as long as Rondo continues to brick from the field PP remains the only guy capable of getting his own shot.

it came down to the fact that the Cs made Perk an offer that he rejected. They felt under the circumstances that they weren’t going to over their offer (Money and Duration) and went out and got something for Perk before it was too late. Given Perk’s injury history, the Cs were making a calculated risk in not upping their offer. I think the Cs would have preferred to have kept Perk at their price but when they saw that Perk would not accept the offer, they traded him. Can’t blame Perk or the Cs. Perk already had taken the hometown discount after his rookie deal. And, the Cs were not going to let Perk walk without getting some value back.

Bottomline, with the trade…it didn’t help us win the title.

The guy is slow, never gets a rebound unless it comes directly to him, has mediocre low post moves.Yeah, he sets a good pick and knows how to foul. Wow…. He never played at end of games because he’s a poor player. Kristic was a huge disappointment. But Perk was always a disappointment.

As much as I loved Perk on this team, the biggest loss for the C’s was his knowledge base, not his ability. Kristic & Green didn’t have enough practice or game time to learn Doc’s system. If you’re going to blame Danny for anything, blame him for not making the trade sooner.

The C’s would not have been able to resign Perk on the open market, unless they dumped one of the Big Three. Brandon Haywood, a guy of similar size and ability (but with less success) got 56 mil. What do you think Perk would have pulled in with even a handful of teams bidding for him?

Perk was routinely taken to school by any big man with a decent jumper. Guys like Andrew Bogut & Robin Lopez would have career nights against him.

I hope Perk goes on to have a successful career, but at the end of the day, he’ll be remembered as a crucial role player on a great Celtics team.

No, Perkins hasn’t been good but he’s also not even close to being fully healthy, if he ever will be. When healthy, Perk was always good at denying lobs. Even though he couldn’t jump, he was so damn long with good alertness, plus he kept a body on his man, that it was tough to throw a lob over him. He and Garnett formed I thought the best lob-denying tandem in the NBA. Chandler and Kidd have absolutely been torching him on lobs. He’s also been slow on rotations, slow to contest and just generally lethargic overall. He’s had a couple of good games but not been impressive for the most part. Still a better player than Davis though. The Celtics achilles heel was rebounding and Perkins would have helped them there without providing any less scoring than Davis gave.

The fact that Perk was injured and still turned down the Cs extension is not speculation.

But he’s right about Perkins. He’s not mobile enough to compete with Chandler, Howard or Noah. Maybe it’s his knee or something else, but Perkins has not been looking good lately. His offensive game needs a lot of improvement which is strange because he’s been in the league since 2003.

Perk is a bad matchup against Dallas because they don’t have a low post center, and Perk is playing with another non-scorer in Thabo.

But Perk’s team defense and rebounding would have been much appreciated against Miami (who killed us on the boards and in the paint), and would have been invaluable against the Bulls’ front line.

  Since there is so much speculation going on with both sides of the Perkins debate here is some more to chew on…

  There is almost no chance Boston or AInge regrets this deal going forward because they/he got assets for a guy who was walking this off season anyways.

  Oklahoma City may already be regretting this deal as far as their future out look goes because Perkins isn’t likely to play up to the deal he just signed and his warts are on display for the whole world to see in these playoffs. Sure he is injured but when exactly has he been 100% healthy over the past 5 seasons. His health situation is unlikely to get better going forward.

 It all speculation anyways but this is how I am beginning to look at this deal going forward.

I think we all agree that if Ronod would have the ability to shoot that would open up the offense and make him nearly impossible to guard.

No one ever talks about how many times he is left open and he rarely shoots. I understand the injury, but he ever developed a jump shot that would open the door for a lot of other options.

The difference Perk would have made against the Heat is that with him, we would have been swept in 4 straight instead of going down 4-1. Thats the difference that guy would have made.

Hollinger is, of course, correct. You’re watching the beginning of the end of Perkins’ career in the NBA.

Four years, $36 million. Absolutely stupid money for Perkins.

The trade didn’t work out for the Celtics. But at least we’re not wearing that boat anchor of a contract around our necks.

Now, carry on with the “Perkins is Wilt Chamberlain” comments. Sorry to interrupt.