This trade proposal aside, I just realized I'd trade our roster for the Bucks roster in a heartbeat.
Ugh.
Me too a little. Although if if it includes Kidd I'm out Milwaukee has been worse longer than we have. If we bottom out this year we'd look about as good. Think about:
Rondo
AB
Green
Sully
Okafor
Smart/KO/Zeller/Turner off the bench.
Probably close if you consider Jabari hasn't played a game and Giannis isn't even a starting caliber NBA player yet. If Jabari turns in to Melo 2.0 then they probably have the edge
Yeah, I intentionally left our picks out of the discussion - those are really valuable. And I think we have a big edge in the front office too.
Reading these forums, you would think the Celtics are the worst team in the NBA with their prospects viewed nothing more than garbage.
I said nothing like that - but do you think we could realistically trade for Jabari Parker right now, using only the players on our current roster? If we offered our entire roster for Parker, Giannis, et al. you think the Bucks would jump at the offer?
So because of those players, the Bucks have a much brighter the Celtics right? The only person I want is Jabari, everyone else I prefer the Celtics players over. I'm just tired of people on this forum continue to downplay the Celtics players while upholding other teams. I'm not pointing at specifically, though if you say something like you would trade the entire roster for a roster that has just as many question marks it's pretty much the same as saying my prospects suck! Like the poster said above me the grass always greener on the other side.
I think the C's have a brighter future overall because of the picks, coaching and Danny.
But in terms of the players alone - I don't think it's controversial to say that Parker is a huge asset right now, and trumps anything we have. Giannis is also a pretty hot prospect - more so than any of our young guys other than Smart, I'd say.
I say this as a guy who likes Rondo as much as anyone on this board not named Tim. I'm also a big fan of Smart and Sullinger. But I think the Bucks roster - mostly because of Parker - is significantly more valuable than ours right now.