« Reply #75 on: December 19, 2012, 06:41:21 PM »
If Jeff Green or Brandon Bass wouldn't take a 1 year contract then you let them walk. You don't give a lot of years and big money to easily replaceable role players, which is exactly what Bass and Green are and is exactly what the C's did and should not have done.
Given the Celtics cap situation, you'd probably be replacing them with the SF and PF equivalents of Jason Collins.
Barbosa signed late. Martin is available. Birdman is available. Pietrus was available. All better options than destroying cap space on mediocre players.
Knowing now that Barbosa was available for the minimum, I would have retained the MLE and split it between Pietrus and Stiemsma instead of spending it on Terry. Wouldn't have bothered with the Lee trade.
We were kind of stuck with Green though. We needed a combo forward and his agent took us for everything he could get. Would have preferred a Bass sign and trade too, for someone on a shorter deal.
That way we'd have role players on expirings/short-term deals heading into the deadline. Oh well.
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