Hayward would probably cost Boston Jeff Green.
Your right. But jeff green of so far and not the monster version late last year.
I dont know why but one way or another, either we trade for him or he comes here via fa in a few years, as long as stevens is still coach i think he will be a celtic.
This season if by trade deadline we are about 8th, 9th, place should we risk it and send our 1st as the main piece for hayward?
Imagine lineup of
Sullinger, olynyk, green, hayward, rondo. Suddenly there is a little less on defense without bradley but alot more offense with hayward. That ability to shoot the three is key. Isnt hayward and klay thompson comparable players?
I imagine years and years of mediocrity with that lineup.
I disagree. Let me ask you, out of sully, oly, green, hayward who do you consider starting material?
got to go with Moranis on this one. that line-up at its optimistic best is a lower-level playoff seed.
Miami, Nets (for a couple of years), Pacers, Knicks are all better.
Cavs, Detroit and Atlanta and possibly Washington would all be better if they're players played at their optimistic best levels.
Not seeing how this lineup gets higher than a 6 seed even if everything came together perfectly
The thing i dont like about some ppls thinking is how you have to have a top 3 pick or super athletic players to have a chance to be a good team.
You dont always have to have these things to be a top team in the nba
You don't, but you have to have all time great players to win and really compete for titles and none of those players are all time great players and never will be. Rondo is a top 5 PG right now, but he isn't an all time great and he isn't a scorer.
Generally in the NBA you need the following 3 things to win a title:
1. Good all around big man
2. Go to scorer/slasher on the wing
3. Excellent shooters
The current Boston lineup (even adding Hayward) has none of those things. Sullinger could possibly someday become the good all around big, but that isn't likely and won't be soon. Green will never be a Pierce level scorer/slasher and certainly won't ever get to the Jordan/Lebron/Kobe level. Hell he will be lucky to ever get to Ginobli's level. Rondo just isn't that type of player. He can really elevate a team that has those components (even if they aren't all timers), but he isn't the type of guy you can build a title team around, because title teams are never built around a player with his skill set. They just don't work.