Yeah but if we had traded Kedrick Brown instead of Joe Johnson, things might look a lot different. Or maybe if we don't exercise that draft pick in the first place and let it roll over, things might look a little different. We just didn't have a very good GM at the time, that was the problem.
I think mine's point still stands though, this ownership shouldn't trade any of our young talent in an effort to win now just because the rest of the east is so terrible too. They are, hopefully, committed to the rebuild of the team.
But had they swapped Kedrick Brown for Joe Johnson, your point might not exist at all because maybe that team makes the finals multiple times (JJ has been significantly better than Brown every year in the league past that first one). Maybe with PP and JJ, Boston doesn't crater at all and is a consistent contender. The problem with your premise is Boston had a sub-par GM at the time who made terrible decision after terrible decision. A better GM and who knows what happens back then, which is why that trade was made in the first place (he also gave up a first rounder in the deal to compound the injury).
exactly.
At the time of the trade, I couldn't understand why JJ was shipped out instead of Kedrick. JJ showed real potential until he hit the rookie wall. Kedrick didn't show anything, ever. getting Rogers and Delk was a good move for that year but would have been much better if JJ was kept and they resigned Rodney the following year to negate teh 'need' to deal for Vin Baker.
Of course if the C's didn't use the pick on Kedrick and just rolled it over until the mega-draft that was coming up, JJ would have had to have been in that deal anyway but we'd have picked up a much better player in that draft (Wade, Bosh, etc...)