« Reply #11 on: February 04, 2013, 11:30:59 PM »
I don't think it's completely implausible. Phoenix wants to trade Gortat. He's got a decent contract, but this means they are limited in the amount of salary they can take back (also, the Phoenix owner is a cheapskate.) Melo's D-league play has not hurt his stock, and Bass's contract isn't atrocious. I think they'd prefer Bradley, but if Bradley were available Gortat would already be a Celtic.
We'd probably have to add some sort of draft compensation unless Bass remembers how to play basketball in the next two weeks, but I don't think such a deal is implausible. Unlikely, yes, because all deals posted on Celticsblog are unlikely, but I've seen (and probably proposed) worse.
That said, I don't do this deal, because I'm I'm favor of blowing it all up, and trading for Gortat doesn't fit that plan too well.
Would you still want to blow it up if we could get Gortat on our team?
PHX needs someone to bill as a star. We have Rondo on a shelf for the season, maybe part of next (while PHX tanks anyway). Rondo for Gortat makes sense for both sides, with possible sweetener (high 2nd/protected 1st rounder).
I don't think our team plus Gortat (or Okafor) should be blown up; they'd have a puncher's chance in the playoffs. Nobody would want to face us for 7 games.
So acquiring that, rather than blowing up, should be the goal right now, IMO.
We're not a championship contender this year without Rondo. And I don't think we were with him, either. If we'd gotten Gortat and Rondo hadn't gotten hurt, maybe. We might be a scary team to
face in the first round, and be able to make it a tough series. Maybe even get to the second round somehow. But we're simply not consistent enough to win 4 consecutive, or even 3 consecutive, 7-game series in a row. Take yesterday. Sure, we won, but not before letting the clippers, without Chris Paul, completely back into the game after having a big lead. It was no different than a lot of our recent losses, except this time Pierce made a last-second shot instead of fumbling the ball out of bounds.
So while I like Gortat a lot, and think we should kick the tires in the offseason if we are not successful at blowing up the roster this year, and if Rondo is healing well, I don't think we should get him now.

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