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Celtics Basketball => Celtics Talk => Topic started by: BleedGreen1989 on December 05, 2012, 11:03:57 AM
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Martin is one of many veterans — including Mike Bibby, Gilbert Arenas, Erick Dampier, and Troy Murphy — waiting for another NBA chance. According to an NBA source, the Celtics have considered bringing in Dampier for a look. Boston Globe
BOSTON CELTICS, FREE AGENCY, ERICK DAMPIER
Martin is one of many veterans — including Mike Bibby, Gilbert Arenas, Erick Dampier, and Troy Murphy — waiting for another NBA chance. According to an NBA source, the Celtics have considered bringing in Dampier for a look. Boston Globe
BOSTON CELTICS, FREE AGENCY, ERICK DAMPIER
Yes a 37 year old washes up center!
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If Dampier is our only option I would prefer him over Collins. Damp played some good minutes against us (even if it was little time) in the playoffs. If he could give us 5 to 10 a game for the vet min I could dig it until we make a trade.
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Work him out, fine. But that would be very disappointing if they sign him.
I am hoping the C's can hold it together with what they have until at least 10 day contracts are allowed in January, and guys start being bought out.
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No point in Dampier. Already have Jason Collins. Too similar.
Need a different type of big man (like C.Andersen or Kenyon Martin).
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Good Lord, no.
I'd rather have Kyrylo Fesenko.
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Work him out, fine. But that would be very disappointing if they sign him.
I am hoping the C's can hold it together with what they have until at least 10 day contracts are allowed in January, and guys start being bought out.
That's kind of my train of thought exactly..I'm not sure what he provides that Collins doesn't. Plus, there are guys bought out every year
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I think its also important to note that the rumor is just saying they are considering working him out. That is a long way from actually signing him. I actually wouldnt be surprised if these workouts happen all the time under the radar. This one just happened to leak.
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Uh really....just no
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I wanted him 3 or 4 years ago. Not now.
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yikes. if they're serious about winning they need someone who's actually halfway decent - not just a dredged up carcass.
so obvious they need a trade - lots of guards, "smalls" no bigs - none of the scrap heap guys is gonna make much of a difference overall i think.
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Almost no chance he's a better player than Collins at this point. Maybe a better rebounder, but at the expense of being much worse at getting down the court and being a larger injury risk.
I'd honestly rather have Troy Murphy (although KMart and Birdman are head and shoulders above all 3).
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Yuck that's just terrible even embarrassing
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i really don't understand how Darko got no minutes on this team. Dampier ? REALLY ! ? we had darko who is better. dampier is slow and old. we need production not more washed up big men like collins
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Does anyone have any real news on Chris Andersen? He is hardly mentioned. I know he had the legal issues but if that's aside or out of the way enough he is far more attractive then Dampier or K Mart.
My Birdman love is known though.
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Does anyone have any real news on Chris Andersen? He is hardly mentioned. I know he had the legal issues but if that's aside or out of the way enough he is far more attractive then Dampier or K Mart.
My Birdman love is known though.
Last I heard he still has no charges and was never arrested, but that was months ago. I doubt anything will ever come from the investigation, it sounded like a pretty classic case of extortion. He denied the advances of a girl with a fake ID who sent him pictures and told him she was 21, so she threatened him if he didn't give her thousands of dollars as consolation.
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At one point in his career, Dampier was a very useful player. That time has passed, though.
The best option available at center (other than Chris Andersen, at least) was Darko. For whatever reason, the Celts decided not to play him.
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At one point in his career, Dampier was a very useful player. That time has passed, though.
May as well give Artis Gilmore a call.
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At one point in his career, Dampier was a very useful player. That time has passed, though.
May as well give Artis Gilmore a call.
I heard Dino Radja was smoking a cigarette outside the Garden, he's probably looking for a gig.
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I still don't understand why people were so high on Darko. Yeah, he looked not terrible during pre-season, but we are talking about a player who was literally never worth his contract/minutes at any point in his career. His absolute best season he was mediocre.
Dampier has historically been a pretty good player. He didn't get many minutes last season, but was serviceable during that time. He was also pretty good the season before, in Miami (better, in fact, than Darko was at any point during his career). I think Dampier is worth a try-out, at least.
Kenyon Martin is a better choice than Darko, but not as good (at this point) as Dampier. It has been several years since K-Mart has produced meaningful minutes, while Dampier has only had one off season.
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i really don't understand how Darko got no minutes on this team. Dampier ? REALLY ! ? we had darko who is better. dampier is slow and old. we need production not more washed up big men like collins
Darko has never played as well in his career as Dampier did during his worst season. Not sure where this Darko love and Dampier hate is coming from. It really sounds like people just looking for excuses.
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Darko has never panned out. I don't get it either.
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Dampier has historically been a pretty good player. He didn't get many minutes last season, but was serviceable during that time.
He had a couple of okay playoff games. In the regular season, he scored a grand total of 2 points over 15 games. 0.1 points on 12.5% shooting.
He was also pretty good the season before, in Miami (better, in fact, than Darko was at any point during his career).
2.5 points and 3.5 rebounds in the regular season, and zero minutes in the playoffs, is better than anything Darko has done?
Darko has never played as well in his career as Dampier did during his worst season.
There's no factual basis for this statement, but I guess you're entitled to keep repeating it.
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I would rather have K-mart...I guess i'm of the opinion that we dont really need a true "center" to backup KG...heck Wilcox is doing a good job in that role
just someone who can play solid defense and protect the rim when KG is out...I think Kmart would be able to do that.
there are no "true" centers in the nba anymore...the only true one is d.howard and if you hack/man him up he seems to crumble
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yikes. if they're serious about winning they need someone who's actually halfway decent - not just a dredged up carcass.
so obvious they need a trade - lots of guards, "smalls" no bigs - none of the scrap heap guys is gonna make much of a difference overall i think.
Honesty I think a dredged up carcass is better than Collins
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Depressing news. We had Darko.
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No interest in Dump here.
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No point in Dampier. Already have Jason Collins. Too similar.
Need a different type of big man (like C.Andersen or Kenyon Martin).
I so hope we don't sign Erica! >:(
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If this is true, it's probably a smoke screen.
Dampier could replace Darko as the last big on the bench but he's just minimum salary security in case Collins goes down.
I'm surprised more rumors aren't swirling and Ainge is keeping all his calls under wraps very well.