If u can go back in time and make 1 change to Danny's summer, what do u change?

[drogbagarnett]

I am so happy and excited to see this great team start kicking asses around the league and given my despair at the end of last year, I can't thank Danny enough for reviving us with his amazing summer moves!
That being said, Let's say you are Danny Ainge and can go back in time to early summer and make one and only one change to the roster we currently have, which player or what change would you make knowing what we know after a mere 2 preseason games..??
You can be creative but please stay within reasonable possibilities...

[drogbagarnett]

So here is my take.

I personally don't think the back up point guard situation needs to be changed much... Dooling playing time would have been close to zero anyways in my opionion! Terry and Lee will be playing their minutes! Rondo and bradley as well!!  Terry and Bradley can bring up the ball and pass it to Jeff or Pierce or KG to initiate the offense if they dont do it themselves... I wouldn't change anything there...

With Sully, wilcox, bass, darko, collins I dont think we have much issues as far as bigs are concerned... I wouldn't change anything there either...

My only concern is not having a very good defending Small forward... Lee is too small to go against the Lebrons, Melos, Dengs, etc...

My change would have been using the 22nd draft pick to bring in a SF that is NBA ready defensively and can knock down the 3 point shoots enough to be used to spread the floor... And then use that 51st pick to go after a 7 foot defensive center that is not ready and we can develop and bring along...

It's not a knock on Kris Joseph and Fab Melo... I think both are good players that should be able to get an opportunity in this league. But I just think there were better defenders at the SF position still available that could have been more useful for us. I'm thinking of guys like Jeff taylor or Jae Crowder would have been useful for our defensive weakest link: the SF position!
Pierce and Green will be doing fine there! But in every other position we do have a defensive specialist except for SF...
What do you guys think..?

[Who]

Re-sign Ray Allen instead of signing Courtney Lee

Smaller changes would be replacing Keyon Dooling + dumping Kris Joseph for a proven veteran wing behind Pierce/Green.

[Interceptor]

S&T Judas to try to get something out of his exit. I don't think that the Heat could have done a whole lot with their mini-MLE anyway, considering how people decided to play for the vet min on that team. This might have made it possible to keep E'Twaun, who I really liked.

[indeedproceed]

Wouldn't have signed Jason Collins. Would have attempted to purchase another 1st round pick, would've targeted Tony Wroten Jr. Or, would've kept Collins, and taken Wroten over Melo.

[FatjohnReturns]

I am so happy and excited to see this great team start kicking asses around the league and given my despair at the end of last year, I can't thank Danny enough for reviving us with his amazing summer moves!
That being said, Let's say you are Danny Ainge and can go back in time to early summer and make one and only one change to the roster we currently have, which player or what change would you make knowing what we know after a mere 2 preseason games..??
You can be creative but please stay within reasonable possibilities...

"I can't thank Danny enough for reviving us with his amazing summer moves!"

This sums it up for me. Given the circumstances Danny had last summer he hit a homerun. If we are healthy this team can compete for a title. I think thats all we can really ask for.

[BudweiserCeltic]

Danny had Flawless Victory as far as I'm concerned.

[Chris]

If he could have found a way to sign and trade Ray for Terry, while also doing the sign and trade for Lee, it would have been great, because then they wouldn't have the hard cap from using the MLE.

Otherwise, I am very happy with the summer.

[FatjohnReturns]

Wouldn't have signed Jason Collins. Would have attempted to purchase another 1st round pick, would've targeted Tony Wroten Jr. Or, would've kept Collins, and taken Wroten over Melo.

Collins and his 6 fouls are a contingency. If Kg/Wilcox/Darko are in foul trouble or worse injured and not available you need Collins. You wont need him against most teams but vs Dwight/Bynum/Hibbert/Chandler he may be invaluable. Thats why Danny signed him.

[indeedproceed]

Wouldn't have signed Jason Collins. Would have attempted to purchase another 1st round pick, would've targeted Tony Wroten Jr. Or, would've kept Collins, and taken Wroten over Melo.

Collins and his 6 fouls are a contingency. If Kg/Wilcox/Darko are in foul trouble or worse injured and not available you need Collins. You wont need him against most teams but vs Dwight/Bynum/Hibbert/Chandler he may be invaluable. Thats why Danny signed him.

I get it, but I'd rather have Wroten over Melo or Collins, and we could've had him. But I see the logic behind the Collins signing.

[kg is king]

I would not offer Jeff Green 9 million dollars per year, his value is not that high.

[Chris]

I would not offer Jeff Green 9 million dollars per year, his value is not that high.

I came close to putting something similar to this.  But I hate saying things like that, because I honestly don't know what the market really was.  I would like to think that Danny could have played hardball and gotten a better deal, but I am not sure.  If he was cleared physically, then he really does revert to his value a couple years ago...and I think that is basically what he got paid at.

I also am cautiously optimistic from what I have seen so far that he will be worth more than what he is being paid.

The other thing I would take back though, would be the Melo draft pick.  Not sure who I would have taken over him, but I just am not high on him at all.

[sofutomygaha]

With the luxury of hindsight, I would have drafted Perry Jones instead of Fab Melo.

There must be information out there about Chris Anderson that we don't have, so it's hard to say this unreservedly, but based on what I know I'd have prioritized signing him to signing Jason Collins or drafting Fab Melo.

[Interceptor]

I came close to putting something similar to this.  But I hate saying things like that, because I honestly don't know what the market really was.  I would like to think that Danny could have played hardball and gotten a better deal, but I am not sure.  If he was cleared physically, then he really does revert to his value a couple years ago...and I think that is basically what he got paid at.

I feel like Danny has been stingy enough in the past (Perk, Tony Allen, etc) that he deserves the benefit of the doubt for this one. If he goes on some mad spending spree of bad contracts and ruins his credibility, that's something else entirely.

[sofutomygaha]

as an adendum, I join the others who have suggested that they would have been just as happy with a 2nd round project big like Robert Sacre, Greg Smith, or Henry Sims as they were with Melo late in the 1st round.