Simmons: we want Bledsoe to try and flip him and Pierce for Josh Smith

[Evantime34]

We would have to hope that our turnover creation is good enough to make up for that. There would be a ton of steals, blocks and forced bad passes. They could potentially be like the Nuggets except even less shooting.

[jambr380]

Rondo, Smith and Jordan on the same team is like tanking the ft% category in fantasy.

and the FG% category

Rondo and Deandre are excellent in fg% and Josh Smith is at 47% for his career even with increased shot volume. I get that they aren't all necessarily the best outside shooters, but in fg% I would fully expect to be near the top of my league with these three on my roster.

[nostar]

I have no idea why we let Doc Rivers go without getting something really valuable for him. He's a great coach and players love him.

KG/Doc for DJ/1st is not enough to give up our coach. It's actually barely enough for KG alone as far as I'm concerned. DJ is a bad contract for his contributions. His playoff #s are horrid. His coach wouldn't play him more than 25 minutes in the playoffs and opted for Odom and Turiaf in place of him. This is actually a pattern from year to year which indicates he's not getting much better.

I hope the C's don't settle.

[hpantazo]

Rondo, Smith and Jordan on the same team is like tanking the ft% category in fantasy.

and the FG% category

Rondo and Deandre are excellent in fg% and Josh Smith is at 47% for his career even with increased shot volume. I get that they aren't all necessarily the best outside shooters, but in fg% I would fully expect to be near the top of my league with these three on my roster.

normally yes, but if these guys are all on the same lineup then teams will pack the paint and force them to shoot jumpers

[Evantime34]

Rondo, Smith and Jordan on the same team is like tanking the ft% category in fantasy.

and the FG% category

Rondo and Deandre are excellent in fg% and Josh Smith is at 47% for his career even with increased shot volume. I get that they aren't all necessarily the best outside shooters, but in fg% I would fully expect to be near the top of my league with these three on my roster.

The question would be can they get the same high% shots on a team bereft of shooters to space the floor?

[hpantazo]

Rondo, Smith and Jordan on the same team is like tanking the ft% category in fantasy.

and the FG% category

Rondo and Deandre are excellent in fg% and Josh Smith is at 47% for his career even with increased shot volume. I get that they aren't all necessarily the best outside shooters, but in fg% I would fully expect to be near the top of my league with these three on my roster.

The question would be can they get the same high% shots on a team bereft of shooters to space the floor?

yep, that's my concern

[ChefEricT]

What if we could alleviate the offensive problems by making another trade as well.
Alter the Smith trade to be Bledsoe, Bass and Lee for Smith
And Pierce and Bradley to NO for Eric Gordon.

Shoot for a big in the draft to pair with Sully as front court depth, and see if we can't recruit a couple of decent bench scorers to pair with Crawford and TWill. 

Jordan, Smith, Green, Gordon, and Rondo is a good starting five that could play good D and put some points on the board.  I'm probably putting too much value on our guys, but that NOs trade was rumored before and the hawks may take what they can get on a sign and trade.  They would be getting their guy, Bledsoe.

All this means nothing, though, if the Clipper deal doesn't happen or doesn't include Bledsoe.

[Evantime34]

Rondo, Smith and Jordan on the same team is like tanking the ft% category in fantasy.

and the FG% category

Rondo and Deandre are excellent in fg% and Josh Smith is at 47% for his career even with increased shot volume. I get that they aren't all necessarily the best outside shooters, but in fg% I would fully expect to be near the top of my league with these three on my roster.

The question would be can they get the same high% shots on a team bereft of shooters to space the floor?

yep, that's my concern

On the bright side THE DUNKS! THE BLOCKS! BASKETS AT THE RIM! OFFENSIVE REBOUNDS!

[jambr380]

Rondo, Smith and Jordan on the same team is like tanking the ft% category in fantasy.

and the FG% category

Rondo and Deandre are excellent in fg% and Josh Smith is at 47% for his career even with increased shot volume. I get that they aren't all necessarily the best outside shooters, but in fg% I would fully expect to be near the top of my league with these three on my roster.

The question would be can they get the same high% shots on a team bereft of shooters to space the floor?

yep, that's my concern

Ughhh, I was simply responding to the claim that having those three on a fantasy team would be punting fg%. In real life, the concern is totally valid, although I don't doubt Rondo's ability to create and get into the paint.

[317]

why does Atlanta want Bledsoe when they already have Teague?

[hpantazo]

Rondo, Smith and Jordan on the same team is like tanking the ft% category in fantasy.

and the FG% category

Rondo and Deandre are excellent in fg% and Josh Smith is at 47% for his career even with increased shot volume. I get that they aren't all necessarily the best outside shooters, but in fg% I would fully expect to be near the top of my league with these three on my roster.

The question would be can they get the same high% shots on a team bereft of shooters to space the floor?

yep, that's my concern

On the bright side THE DUNKS! THE BLOCKS! BASKETS AT THE RIM! OFFENSIVE REBOUNDS!

Rebounds?? I forgot what those look like!

[CelticConcourse]

Yeah, this ain't happening.

another nugget of wisdom from our resident inside source

TP

[CelticConcourse]

why does Atlanta want Bledsoe when they already have Teague?

Yea this is a great point; Teague is a great player, I wish we could have him.

[CFAN38]

Not to fare fetched , I could also see Bledsoe flipped for milsap

[hpantazo]

Not to fare fetched , I could also see Bledsoe flipped for milsap

that's actually a great idea and a very real possibility. The celtics have had interest in Milsap, and the Jazz need a PG and won't keep all of their PFs