I'm sure many of you have listened to this as well, but was listening to the BS Report with Chad Lowe and the conversation was about the choice that aging contenders (like the Mavs and Celtics) are forced to make. Lowe said that the Celtics had effectively made the choice that the Mavs are now making when they signed Terry and Lee last year. They were going to try to stay relevant and stick with the veterans and see if they could catch a few breaks and get back to the ECF again. (I personally would say this was a good choice to make, whereas the Mavs have 0% chance of getting anywhere next year.) Once their best player got hurt, they were no longer in a position of thinking they could progress with that core.
Lowe has been in Vegas for the Summer League games and has been networking like crazy and talking to all the NBA insiders. The main topic of conversation around the league is the trade and "the buzz around Vegas is that the Celtics hit a home run with that trade, people were shocked with how much value they got". Lowe actually argues that the Celtics should have blown it up LAST year and that there is/was no other clear path back to relevancy.
Now that we're over a month from the trade, I'm wondering how people feel about the value we got in the trade. Setting aside the person feelings for Pierce (Simmons agreed that the value that the got was great, but seemed a bit hung up on the idea that Pierce may have deserved the choice to retire as a Celtic).
I, for one, would agree with the above: the haul we got for 3 guys on the decline was pretty incredible and could not be passed up.
What do you guys think?