This is what I think we are going to see from Al Horford as worst case too for the next 4 years. A guy that shows up 50 games a season and sometimes in the playoffs. We aren't going to see the warrior guy who shows up every night and really guts it out with this team every night. Dude got paid.
I really hope that isn't the horford we get. Some of these guys get paid and do that. Horford will be alright but that is really worst case.
Lol
The weather isn't that great in boston. Only way we can get them to come here is if we let them slack off a bit as long as they show up when it matters which I don't like. Boston in general has very bad luck with free agents that way too. Not just not coming here but the ones that do in other sports slack off at times. I'm serious too. Al will be great when he plays and will have stretches where he guts it out I hope.
He's a hired gun. He's not trying to make his money any more.
so, each and every free agent signed by a boston sports team has slacked off upon arrival here? does the weather make such free agents slack off in chicago? new york? detroit? toronto?
and are players acquired in trades also guilty of slacking off? i mean, the weather is the same for them as for free agents, no?
i cant imagine how any pro team there ever have winning records. 
Quite a few do slack off once they come here yes. And it does seem to be free agents not trades. Al is the first big free agent the celtics have had so hard to compare but in the red sox case yes that is correct.
I'm not saying Horford is this. I think Horford will do quite well when he plays. But I wouldn't be surprised if he doesn't play close to 82 games in a season once in the 4 years he is here.
I also would not be surprised to see him be a 4 years and done player here either.
I am a big fan of Al and being a bit whatever because I'd like to see him do more than that in his time here, but I would not be surprised by that at all.
I think if there is one knock on Al Horford it is that that he doesn't show up every night. Consistant player though. I think in his case here we may try to more maximize him on nights he does play vs having him out tehre when he takes the night off.
He isn't like pierce that way where he toughs it out and is a workhorse that way. He could be. KG also had spurts where he didnt play and wasn't his usual self and would turn it on.
I think vs having Al going through the motions the celtics may just let him take his time here and give his A game when he plays.
I'd like more from him though. He could do more that way and be a real warrior and be out there every night.
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