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Re: Bradley or Sully: Who do you trade?
« Reply #75 on: November 27, 2012, 09:18:00 PM »

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it all comes down to ball pressure and dribble penetration...the way bradley took on the opposing team's guard half-court just took them out of their sets, leaving them 10-15seconds to do anything.

also, his ability to stay in front of his man allowed KG/Bass to stay in the paint and not help as much

our starting lineup is 4/5 the same but we are having trouble with the pick & roll, and last year we had one of the scariest defenses after he began to start...the only difference? bradley. Ray Allen

now, whether his offense returns to form remains to be seen, but his defense Clearly made us a better team last year.

Fixed that for you.

Naw...

It's Garnett playing 30< a game and no 7 footer to back him up on top of the fact that this team has only just been thrown together.

"He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named" hasn't been playing good defense from what I've heard.

Re: Bradley or Sully: Who do you trade?
« Reply #76 on: November 27, 2012, 09:21:24 PM »

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it all comes down to ball pressure and dribble penetration...the way bradley took on the opposing team's guard half-court just took them out of their sets, leaving them 10-15seconds to do anything.

also, his ability to stay in front of his man allowed KG/Bass to stay in the paint and not help as much

our starting lineup is 4/5 the same but we are having trouble with the pick & roll, and last year we had one of the scariest defenses after he began to start...the only difference? bradley. Ray Allen

now, whether his offense returns to form remains to be seen, but his defense Clearly made us a better team last year.

Fixed that for you.


um...this team didnt actually start to improve until Bradley was moved into the starting lineup and KG was moved to center.

Ray allen was decent defensively in the playoffs...but we didnt start to post scary Defensive numbers until Bradley started

and even when Ray came back, Doc clearly thought Bradley's defense was good enough to keep bradley starting

Re: Bradley or Sully: Who do you trade?
« Reply #77 on: November 27, 2012, 09:23:05 PM »

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I think Bradley did change the tone of the team when he played last year.   It was subtle but D picked up when other guys saw him in his stance.  Effort can be contagious, Bradley has that to some degree.  Guys dig in.

Some of the penetration will stop when he gets back because he eats up a lot of shot clock by playing such good man on ball defense.   

Re: Bradley or Sully: Who do you trade?
« Reply #78 on: November 27, 2012, 09:45:57 PM »

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Can we get another poll:  Do you package Bradley, Sullinger, Joseph, Melo, 2014 #1, and Bass for a shot and a near-star?

What contracts might that amount of money add up to?

EDIT:

Shooting the whole wad at once:

Bass for salary and Sullinger, Bradley, Joseph, and Melo for talent (1 for 5) could net us....Al Horford, giving an 8-player rotation of

Rondo
Terry
Pierce
Horford
KG

Barbosa
Green
Wilcox

Collins
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Re: Bradley or Sully: Who do you trade?
« Reply #79 on: November 27, 2012, 09:48:28 PM »

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How are you gonna say false and then say a false claim yourself. I can't take you seriously anymore. We didn't make a playoff run without him. We were under 500 and in danger of missing the playoffs and blowing the whole team up if we didn't turn things around when we did.


  There were a lot of things that led to our turnaround. PP and KG getting into shape, Bradley and Bass replacing Ray and JO, and Doc giving Rondo more control of the offense (and Rondo going on the assist streak). You can't point to any one thing as the reason.

 I give a lot of credit to Bass and Bradley going into the starting lineup but that doesn't make them more than our 4th and 5th most important players. The team with Rondo/Ray/PP/KG/JO was way too old and unathletic to compete, putting in a couple of players like Bradley and Bass brought about a much better mix of players.

Re: Bradley or Sully: Who do you trade?
« Reply #80 on: November 27, 2012, 09:51:04 PM »

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How are you gonna say false and then say a false claim yourself. I can't take you seriously anymore. We didn't make a playoff run without him. We were under 500 and in danger of missing the playoffs and blowing the whole team up if we didn't turn things around when we did.


  There were a lot of things that led to our turnaround. PP and KG getting into shape, Bradley and Bass replacing Ray and JO, and Doc giving Rondo more control of the offense (and Rondo going on the assist streak). You can't point to any one thing as the reason.

 I give a lot of credit to Bass and Bradley going into the starting lineup but that doesn't make them more than our 4th and 5th most important players. The team with Rondo/Ray/PP/KG/JO was way too old and unathletic to compete, putting in a couple of players like Bradley and Bass brought about a much better mix of players.

Never once claimed bradley was the sole reason. He was certainly one of the biggest tho along with KG.

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« Reply #81 on: November 27, 2012, 10:34:24 PM »

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Props to Ainge for getting these guys so low in the draft. He does really well with these picks outside the lottery that aren't at the end of the first round.


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Re: Bradley or Sully: Who do you trade?
« Reply #82 on: November 27, 2012, 10:43:35 PM »

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Re: Bradley or Sully: Who do you trade?
« Reply #83 on: November 27, 2012, 10:54:42 PM »

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Sullinger, you go for the ceiling, not the basement when dealing with prospects.

I'm actually not sure which player has the higher ceiling.  Would you argue that Sullinger's ceiling is not a Zach Randolph?  I think Avery Bradley's too unique of a player to pin down a comparison, but I'm not sure if there was it would be a player of too much higher caliber than Z-Bo.  I absolutely love Bradley, but I don't see a multiple all-star appearance ceiling from Bradley, which is what I think it would take to have a higher ceiling than Sullinger.

That said, I would also rather trade Sullinger because I think we're in a much better situation to contend now then we will be down the road and Bradley can help us in the now more than Sullinger can.
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Re: Bradley or Sully: Who do you trade?
« Reply #84 on: November 27, 2012, 11:01:37 PM »

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Sullinger, you go for the ceiling, not the basement when dealing with prospects.

I'm actually not sure which player has the higher ceiling.  Would you argue that Sullinger's ceiling is not a Zach Randolph?  I think Avery Bradley's too unique of a player to pin down a comparison, but I'm not sure if there was it would be a player of too much higher caliber than Z-Bo.  I absolutely love Bradley, but I don't see a multiple all-star appearance ceiling from Bradley, which is what I think it would take to have a higher ceiling than Sullinger.

That said, I would also rather trade Sullinger because I think we're in a much better situation to contend now then we will be down the road and Bradley can help us in the now more than Sullinger can.

I'd think the ceiling is more Boozer than Z-Bo. I think Bradley's ceiling is a bit higher.

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Re: Bradley or Sully: Who do you trade?
« Reply #85 on: November 27, 2012, 11:46:22 PM »

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Yep, you just ignored all the points I made about these celtics teams not giving a full effort for large parts of the regular season the last few years. Bradley helped for sure, but he in no way turned our season around, KG, Paul, Rondo, and Ray finally decided to turn the switch on and play hard, as they did the year before when we went to game 7 of the NBA Finals after everyone wrote us off and booed the celtics off the floor in midseason for sucking badly against poor teams. Bradley had nothing at all to do with our success that year.

Wait a second - you just completely contradicted yourself.  First you say "Bradley helped for sure", and then you followed that with "Bradley had nothing at all to do with our success that year". 

Either way this entire quote is just plain garbage. Firstly most of our Celtics teams since 2008 actually started seasons strong:

* 2008 - strong start, won title
* 2009 - strong start, then lost KG to injury & defeated by Orlando in ECF
* 2010 - strong start, then lost Perk & defeated by Lakers in Finals
* 2011 - strong start, then lost Shaq due to injury, lost Perk in trade, defeated by Miami in ECSF

In 2012 we had a poor start.  We lost Ray, Jermaine and Wilcox to early health issues and after the All-Star break we had pretty much no choice but to start Avery at SG, start Bass at PF and moved KG over to center as a temporary fix to all of our injury issues.  From this moment on our team almost instantly transformed from mediocre to one of the most dominant teams in the NBA.

Our offense sucked royally - we couldn't score to save our lives.  We couldn't rebound to save our lives.  We were at or near the bottom of the league in both categories.  We were still an elite team after the break because of our defense. 

I will not by any means say that this improvement was ALL on Avery Bradley.  KG's move to center seemed to revitalise him, and Bass found a niche' starting for us at PF.  A LOT of our improvement however came from the impact Avery Bradley had on defense.

From the very first game AB started he immediately made an impact on the defensive end of the floor.  He struggled offensively at the start (with his shooting, ball handling and decision making) but his defense was so good from the get-go that it keept him in the starting lineup, and it kept us winning games.  Initially this was a temporary solution until Ray Allen returned, but once he started to gain confidence his offensive game improved dramatically and at this point his overall impact on the team became so significant that Ray never got his starting job back.     

Look at his numbers.  Look at the our performance with him on vs off the court.  Look at the Net efficiency of our starting lineup with Bradley at SG and compare that to the efficiency of the same lineup with Ray Allen at SG.

You say he had no impact on the playoffs because he was out.  Really? Let me quote a few passages for you.

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With Avery Bradley on the floor last season the Boston Celtics defensive rating 92.9, the team’s best mark among their regular contributors.  Additionally, Boston also fared worse defensively when Bradley was on the bench more than any other player, registering a defensive rating of 97.5.

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Beginning with a March 25th win in Philadelphia that saw Bradley play a career-high 40 minutes, the Celtics registered an incredible defensive rating of 92.1 over the final 19 games of the season.  Not coincidentally, Bradley played 25 or more minutes in all of them and Boston went 14-5, storming back from a disappointing 26-22 record to win the Atlantic Division.

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in the 10 playoff games Bradley took part in before injuring his shoulder, he took things to a whole ‘nother level.  His on-court defensive rating in the postseason? A team-low 87.9.  Boston’s defensive rating when their dynamo defender was on the bench? 100.4, second higher on the team behind Kevin Garnett’s mind-boggling number of 116.5.  Opponents shot a team-low (among regular) 38.2% when Bradley was on the floor, compared to 44.3% when he was riding the pine.  Again, only Garnett’s trumps Bradley’s latter number, truly indicative of KG’s absurd worth to Boston’s playoff success.  But aside from him, the statistics show that no player had as much of a positive impact in the postseason for the Celtics as Bradley.

The intersting part?

Last year our pace was 90.6, last in the league.  This year it's 94.6 which is 19th in the league, so we are playing at a significantly faster pace.  Faster pace means more, possessions and more possessions means more points scored by both teams - keep that in mind. 

When Bradley was our starting SG in the playoffs our defensive rating was 87.9 when he was on the court.  Our defensive rating was 100.4 when he was NOT the court.

This year our defensive rating as a team (without Bradley) is 103.9, and the 4 other starters are the same.  If you consider the faster pace we play at, that's roughly equivalent to what we were allowing in the playoffs last season without Bradley on the court. 

Now this number isn't foolproof because it also factors in our entire team (rather than just the starting linup), but it's something to think about when you consider that our starting linup is playing roughly 70% of our total minutes. 

When AB is back in the roster and back in shape (say 10 games in) it's very possible (actually probable) that our Def Rating will drop by about 12 points per 100 possession when he is on the court.  Our overall team's defensive rating could very easily drop from about 7 points, down from from 103.9 to about 96.9, which would rank us as the second best defense in the NBA behind Atlanta (95.6).

Looking at AB's general statistics, there is no evidence at all to suggest a change like that not possible - in fact it's highly likely.

Take look at guys like Paul Pierce, Ray Allen, Kevin Garnett.  Even the greatest shooters have nights when they are hot, and nights when they are cold.  Look at rebounds - even if you get great position, sometimes the ball just doesn't bounce your way.  Defense is the one single aspect of the game that you ALWAYS have control over.  This is why an elite defensive player can impact a game more then even the most insanely good offensive player over an 82 game season.  This is why KG still has more impact on us as a team than Rondo does.  This is why AB is a MASSIVELY critical piece for this team, and why his extra minutes on the court were a huge contributer to the Celtic's improvement after the All-star break last year.

Re: Bradley or Sully: Who do you trade?
« Reply #86 on: November 27, 2012, 11:46:30 PM »

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I absolutely love Bradley, but I don't see a multiple all-star appearance ceiling from Bradley, which is what I think it would take to have a higher ceiling than Sullinger.

I like the Joe Dumars comparison as an idea of Bradley's ceiling.  Joe D was a six-time NBA All-Star.
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« Reply #87 on: November 27, 2012, 11:49:31 PM »

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How are you gonna say false and then say a false claim yourself. I can't take you seriously anymore. We didn't make a playoff run without him. We were under 500 and in danger of missing the playoffs and blowing the whole team up if we didn't turn things around when we did.


  There were a lot of things that led to our turnaround. PP and KG getting into shape, Bradley and Bass replacing Ray and JO, and Doc giving Rondo more control of the offense (and Rondo going on the assist streak). You can't point to any one thing as the reason.

 I give a lot of credit to Bass and Bradley going into the starting lineup but that doesn't make them more than our 4th and 5th most important players. The team with Rondo/Ray/PP/KG/JO was way too old and unathletic to compete, putting in a couple of players like Bradley and Bass brought about a much better mix of players.

Never once claimed bradley was the sole reason. He was certainly one of the biggest tho along with KG.

  I don't disagree, but Bradley's contribution was as much keeping Ray off the court as what Avery actually did when he played.

Re: Bradley or Sully: Who do you trade?
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How are you gonna say false and then say a false claim yourself. I can't take you seriously anymore. We didn't make a playoff run without him. We were under 500 and in danger of missing the playoffs and blowing the whole team up if we didn't turn things around when we did.


  There were a lot of things that led to our turnaround. PP and KG getting into shape, Bradley and Bass replacing Ray and JO, and Doc giving Rondo more control of the offense (and Rondo going on the assist streak). You can't point to any one thing as the reason.

 I give a lot of credit to Bass and Bradley going into the starting lineup but that doesn't make them more than our 4th and 5th most important players. The team with Rondo/Ray/PP/KG/JO was way too old and unathletic to compete, putting in a couple of players like Bradley and Bass brought about a much better mix of players.

Never once claimed bradley was the sole reason. He was certainly one of the biggest tho along with KG.

  I don't disagree, but Bradley's contribution was as much keeping Ray off the court as what Avery actually did when he played.

I think putting Ray off the floor as equal contribution sells both Ray and Bradley considerably short. It implies that another person, almost any other capable person (say Pietrus) could've done half as much. I don't think that to be the case.

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Re: Bradley or Sully: Who do you trade?
« Reply #89 on: November 28, 2012, 01:07:03 AM »

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I absolutely love Bradley, but I don't see a multiple all-star appearance ceiling from Bradley, which is what I think it would take to have a higher ceiling than Sullinger.

I like the Joe Dumars comparison as an idea of Bradley's ceiling.  Joe D was a six-time NBA All-Star.

Agreed. 

Plus I don't see Sullinger getting multiple all star appearances.  Honestly, I don't think he'll ever be quite All-Star level.

Look at Carlos Boozer, Zach Randolf - how many All Star appearances?  How about Tyson Chandler?    Monta Ellis?  Latrell Sprewell?  Al Jefferson?  Al Harrington? Joakim Noah?

There have been a lot of very good players who have rarely (if ever) made the All Star game.  I don't see Sullinger getting much better than any of those guys mentioned above.  That said, I wouldn't complain about having any one of those guys on my ream in their prime.

I think sully has little chance if making it because he is a very good all rounder, but isn't elite at any one thing.

I think Bradley has a better shot because he has an elite talent in his defense.  If he ever becomes a consistently solid offensive player combined with his defense and athleticism he could very easily have All-Star potential.  He reminds me of small guard version of Iggy, who has been a borderline All-Star for years on end.