I am not in favor of a long contract. The thing about Turner is he needs the ball and with the ball in a good system he can be productive but your team has a certain ceiling there. We need to get more talent, that will need the ball to be effective, and then Turner is expendable.
I really grew to appreciate Turner and thought he got a lot better over the course of the year. Early on he seemed way too wild but he became much better with the turnovers and his passing is legitimately quite good. So I would recommend signing him to other teams who need a guy to handle the ball, probably off the bench. It's just ideally you want a better, All Star type player in that role if you can.
It would depend on that, but that's my thinking. If we bring him back on a good deal I will not complain because I trust Ainge's plan and Turner won me over as the year went along over all. He just can't play his regular season role in the big moments that will be needed to be a real contender. Maybe he can work in and accept a lesser role too more off ball. If anyone could manage that, it's Stevens. He would need to work on his three. I just hope Smart starts taking over more and more ball handling starting next year.
Another thing about Turner: his skill is one thing the team lacks from almost all other players, which is creating your own shot off the dribble. Thomas can do that too now, but otherwise he was basically the only one so was very necessary and essential in his role. Lets remember that we had Jordan Crawford playing this role and he actually looked quite good doing the same thing too. And apparently can't get on a team (for what it's worth, I really do like Crawford, more than Turner because he can shoot). Just saying that Stevens and the fit with our team can make a guy look awful good and lets just keep that in mind. On other teams and systems your mileage may vary.
On the Pacers for example, there wasn't that fit for Turner to handle the ball and he looked terrible.