Yep, all of this tells me there was no way we were going to resign him this summer, and I'm betting that got out and made the trade offers less and less.
But if Rondo was worried that another title wouldn't be coming his way if he stayed in Boston, he has to realize that his particular skill set would contribute to that fact. He's not a plug-and-play player, so very exact and precise circumstances and players would have to be involved for him to lead us to #18.
Yes, for Rondo to succeed he needed players that had almost identical offensive games. Kind of like Ray or AB as t your shooting guard, or Perk or Shaq or Bass as one of your starting bigs. It's that exact and precise.
Hey man, how do you feel about Rondo leaving?
Bummed about what it says about the near term future of the Celts. There wasn't really a reason to trade him if you were going to upgrade the talent around him, no reason to keep him if you didn't expect to in any reasonable amount of time. I think this means that we're in for a long rebuild. Hopefully I'm wrong.
Welcome back, Tim.
Yes... we are in for a long rebuild. That's been clear since we traded KG and Pierce. We're in year 2 of a 3-5 year rebuild that may or may not work.
Ainge tried his darndest to get some talent here this summer, but when it was clear our assets had little value, we had to do what has been inevitable for several years... trade Rondo for whatever we could get or watch him leave for nothing.
What exactly is "year 2 of a 3-5 year rebuild that may or may not work" mean? They're in rebuild until they're contending again. I doubt they're putting any time limit on it at the moment. And "Ainge tried his darndest to get some talent here this summer" pretty much means it wasn't cleat we were in for a long rebuild when we traded PP and KG.
He isn't putting a time limit on it. It's a realistic goal of when we'd expect the assets we currently have to mature (either by development or trade) into legitimate players. I'd say year 2 of a 3-5 year rebuilding plan is pretty much exactly where Ainge is at, only it's probably closer to 5 years and "plan" has too much of a structured definition to describe what we're doing.
Agreed. I don't think there's some master blueprint. I think when you blow up a team and decide to build around prospects and picks, the hope is that you'll turn it around in 3-5 years. The Thunder didn't make the playoffs until Durant's 3rd year. Finals in his 5th. Cavs didn't make the playoffs until LeBron's 3rd year... Finals in his 5th.
Of course, seeing as we don't have any transcendent talent on this team, it's more likely that we'll be waiting longer than 5 years for this team to become relevant again. This summer should be crucial. We have a lot of irons in the fire for 2016 as well. We could see this team back to being relevant sooner.
Ainge took over in 2003... about 4 years later he had put together a contender. We are in year 2 of the rebuild... gonna take time. Ainge tried his best to fast-track it this summer, but anyone looking at this roster could tell we didn't yet have the assets to get it done.