Bulpett: Maybe The Lottery Wouldn't Be So Bad

blowing it up but keeping Rondo or his traded-for equivalent could get you to the lottery, whende the C’s could emerge with four critical star pieces:

1) Rondo or equivalent
2 & 3) room for two max salary FAs
4) a young stud from the draft

Hanging in for a run would take away #4 and without that it may be less likely that you could lure #2 and/or #3—leaving you with Rondo and the Should-Be Retirees—an ugly situation indeed.

Get a big man and add another one like Beasley. Give it a shot. They are doing well now and don’t ever think of the lottery – that is a step back. I still think they have something left in the tank for another run this year.

between give it one more shot and blowing it up.

I’m rarely on the fence on how good I think this team is but over the past 4 games with KG at center and Bass starting, this team has looked much better. If Danny can turn our end of bench trash (dooling, sasha, daniels) into something of value to help with the run, I’d like to see what they can do in the playoffs. If they somehow win the division, which was unthinkable a few weeks ago, I think they have a remote shot at this. I still think they can beat the Bulls in a series. I don’t know about the Heat in 7 games but let’s take our best shot at them.

I’m confused on the blowing it up..

They have major contracts expiring at the end of the year.. if a team wanted to "blow it up, they would get expiring contracts. You can’t trade kg, he is the anchor of the team. Rondo is the QB, so it makes it tough to move him. Pierce has to big of a contract for his age. Ray has a friendly team deal. No one wants just an injured JO. Bradley, Moore, JJ are on rookie deals, and won’t get you an impact player. Pietrus is getting the minimum – so why trade him. If any wants daniels or sasha I’m sure a bag of balls is enough.. Leaving you bass & dooling, not sure they will get you an impact franchise changer

Is what Ainge should do. Sometimes moving closer to a championship takes the form of a worse record. This present team is not a legit contender. If Ainge can parlay guys that are expiring for anything of value, he simply jump-starts the rebuild by a couple of months, so that going into the draft, we have an extra pick or two, or going into next season, he has an extra young player with potential.

Now, it’s already been gone over a million times that the only teams that would have any interest in Ray, PP, or Garnett are teams on the cusp of a championship, and with their salaries, and the fact that they could likely be really short term rentals for their new teams, few teams have both the desire, and the right assets (expiring huge contracts and promising young players and/or picks) to get anything done. The possibility of getting anything done by moving KG or Ray is remote in the extreme (less so with Ray).

Rondo is a great player on a very reasonable contract. Danny would have to get a monster return to move him, in my view. I think Rondo will be here for a very long time.

Of course Danny is kicking tires, as he should and must, but at the end of the day, he’s not going to do anything to marginally improve a team that can’t get by the Heat or Bulls anyway, at the expense of the future (rebuild), which begins in earnest as soon as this season ends. But if by some miracle, someone is willing to give up something of value (young player or pick), and make it work financially (throwing in huge expiring contract to make it work), which includes not bogging us down with a long contract for marginal talent, then Danny will do it.

Almost certainly, this is a what you see is what you’re going to continue to see til the end of the season scenario, unless DA does something at the margins, like trading Dooling, or some such piddling deal, that really won’t effect how the season ends.

We’re just watching what we all knew we’d be watching when we traded for KG and Ray 4 years ago, i.e. year 4 of a 3 year window. A bridge year to the rebuild, with no real expectations. A victory lap, if you will, with occasional flashblacks of greatness. Fun to watch, but by and large, mediocre basketball. I’m okay with it. We got a championship and another trip to the finals.

this season, and everyone stays healthy, the Cs will be a difficult out for any EC team, including Miami — especially if Rondo plays triple-doubley, like he did against the Bulls a few seasons ago in their epic 7 gamer.

Add a bought out Chris Kamen to this roster, and the dynamic changes entirely. I feel he would sign with his buddy Dirk and Dallas if he gets his freedom from the Hornets, but let’s dream anyways. He’s a low post scoring big who can add at least some paint presence to this team, something they haven’t had since Shaq shredded his leg and Ainge gave away his 25 year old center for a bag of beans.

Just that if they did not make the playoffs that it wouldn’t be so bad. Chicago won Rose in the lottery with about a 3% chance a couple of years ago and Cleveland won Irving with a small percentage of chance I believe so stranger things can happen. That said Doc, of course, is not going to tank, neither are warriors such as KG, Pierce and Allen. That, then falls into Ainge’s lap as to who he would move and for what. Removing pieces from this team could obviously push them towards the lottery. I could see him moving Ray and even Bass and then depending on who we got back, the lottery could be inevitable. If we want to make a push for the playoffs this year and hope to legitimately challenge Miami and Chicago we would need another legit big man. Not sure if Ainge can get his hands on that guy. The upcoming road trip will probably tell us a lot one way or the other.

Have some pride people, go out like Champs, not chumps!

doesn’t it say “assuming that the Celtics CAN’T beat the Bulls or the Heat”…..based on that premise, we can’t get out of the East, let alone have even a chance at a championship………………..assuming we beat out the 6’ers and win the Atlantic, since when have we hung DIVISION BANNERS up above?