After reflecting and reading articles and posts for the last day, I am feeling OK about what happened yesterday.
The jump-start to a rebuild has not really played out yet -- even though we all know that PP and KG value is not rising. Bottom line is that we were trading for chips, not stars. And the chips we'd get in the Pierce deal may have proven pretty worthless. Instead of Humphries, Brooks and a late #1 (even later if Brooklyn has Pierce), we have Paul Pierce (who still could be traded for something), Terrance Williams and Jordan Crawford. Honestly, the difference in terms of overall 'chip' value between now and if we made the deal is negligible.
The bigger concern (as most seem to agree) is the possible missed opportunity of Bledsoe and Jordan. Again. thinking about trade chips, it's hard to know for sure, but having KG and Pierce still here does make the C's an interesting landing spot for a FA next year. Without PP and KG, we are a rebuilding waste land. So, in the off-season, perhaps KG trade possibilities won't land 2 good/decent young players, but again -- you never know what a team might part with for a 1-2 year run with KG. And if PP and/or KG were gone, no one would want to come to Boston. So having them here this off-season increases the prospects of a sign and trade or a FA signing that otherwise wouldn't have happened.
Anyway -- long way of saying that I don't think not trading PP and/or KG is going make that big of a differentce in terms of chips down the road. And I guess shreds of hope for 2013-14 are alive with Sully, Rondo and whomever else we can snag in the off-season.