The doom and gloom outlook in this thread is unhealthy. With this ownership groups dedication to winning, the ability of Danny Ainge and the coaching staff along with the acquisition to of KG, the Celtics are in a better position now "for the future" than 2 years and 5 days ago.
Amen to that.
double Amen and TP's. It always amazes me how people contend we "gave up our future" to win now.
To them i ask, what future? to many people were sold on how great all our young players were by managment (luckly, so was minnosota)
lets just take a quick look at what we had on that team, had we held onto it.
Potential all star players: al jefferson, rajon rondo, paul pierce (though unlikely to be on the team, as he would have demanded a trade)
good bench player/ can be a solid starter: D-west, ryan gomes, perk
trash/ end of the bench: telfair, GG, wally
In my view, had we kept the 2006-07 team together, we would be a mediocre team centered around two good players in big al and rondo. Im not sure how much of a future that is.
yet people look back at that era like we were loaded with top talent that was just about to break out around al.
I would trade that uncertainty for a championship and the experience perk and rondo are getting going forward 100% of the time.
First of all, Perk isn't a good bench player, he's a good and consistent STARTER, probably the second best center in the east and still young. Powe would be the 'could be solid starter' you were thinking of.
Two other things you've forgotten, we had the number 5 pick in the draft (and another first round i think), and trading an all star would have yielded us an all star.
Also, if we had decided to keep a young team, we wouldn't have traded for Wally (Telfair was dumb). We also had decent young reserves in Tony Allen and Scal. As for Gerald Gomes, don't count out the dunk champ yet. So we probably would have kept Perk, Al, Rondo and 1-2 reserves, and been left with about 5-7 young potential all stars (perfect for teams looking to clear cap space), a number 5 pick, and two past all star vets (6 times for Pierce). That would have given us a more than decent SG and SF and room to sign a couple of older vets (like Brown and Cassel).
Do i agree with giving that up for only 1 championship? 100 percent like you. But don't say those kids weren't talented and didn't have a future together. Of course we would've had much less of a chance to win in these seasons, but if those kids became something great we would've been set to win for many years to come. But now when the big 3 are gone we're gonna end up in a serious rebuilding era, maybe for a while. I honestly don't see how our future (3-5 years from now) is better. Think about all the free agents coming up. With a young very low salary team we would basically have our pick.
Topic: How did our team get so screwed up? (Read 21099 times)